HP and Avaya tie up for advanced communication solutions

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 12 July 2010, 16:57 IST
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Bangalore: Technology major HP and enterprise communications solution provider Avaya has collaborated to provide solutions that enable clients to extend advanced business communications into their networks and system. As part of a three-year contract, the companies will add elements of Avaya's Unified Communications and Contact Center products to the HP Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) services portfolio for enterprises. This solution set will be delivered by HP. With HP and Avaya, clients can increase the agility of their existing communication architectures and realize the aspiration of unified communications for multivendor interoperability and ultimately save organizational costs, said the company statement. "Organizations face constant change and the decisions they make must be flexible enough to meet future needs - such as unification of real-time communication with Web 2.0 and social media applications," said Gary M. Budzinski, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Services, HP. "HP and Avaya have highly complementary portfolios that deliver extraordinary benefits to customers, especially when combined with HP's consulting and IT outsourcing expertise," said Joel Hackney, Senior Vice President and President, Global Field Operations, Avaya. "The HP and Avaya relationship enables customers to take out costs and transform their business via the strategic application of communications tools and services in the procurement and management model that best suits a company's objectives," said Hackney.