OREANDA-NEWS. Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM), is announcing the winners of its 2015 Circle of Excellence Awards at TEAM Polycom 2016, the company’s annual partner conference held in Nashville, Tennessee. During a special awards ceremony, Polycom recognized partner companies that excel at incorporating value-added solutions and services which create lasting value for customers. These partners also demonstrate the highest level of expertise in implementing Polycom’s solutions, while delivering best-in-class performance and exceptional sales results.

“The modern workspace is constantly evolving and our partners play a pivotal role in building integrated solutions that meet the needs of these changing environments,” said Chris Jones, Polycom Americas, Sales and Worldwide Partner Worldwide Partner Organization. “With our valued partners, we are helping organizations of all sizes and industries leverage the power of collaboration, and build the workplace of the future. Together, we can help our customers drive critical business outcomes and transformation. We are proud to recognize our top-performing partners that help change the face of collaboration.”

Honorees are part of the Polycom Partner Network, a global ecosystem of partners. Members embrace and extend Polycom's open standards-based video collaboration solutions to deliver comprehensive collaboration solutions for the enterprise and across vertical industries such as healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, financial services, media and entertainment and across business functions such as human resources, facilities, engineering and sales.

Polycom Circle of Excellence Awards, Global

  • Alliance Partner of the Year: Microsoft
  • Distribution Partner of the Year – Americas: ScanSource Communications
  • Distribution Partner of the Year – Asia Pacific: Nanjing Southern Telecom Co., Ltd.
  • Distribution Partner of the Year – EMEA: Imago ScanSource
  • Service Provider of the Year: 8x8, Inc.
  • Systems Integrator of the Year: Dimension Data
  • Service Partner of the Year: Visual Systems Group, Inc.
  • Partner of the Year – Americas: CDW
  • Partner of the Year – Asia Pacific: Otsuka Corporation
  • Partner of the Year – EMEA: Gamma

Polycom Circle of Excellence Awards for Asia Pacific

  • Distributor of the Year: Digital China (China) Limited
  • Growth Partner of the Year: AGC Networks, Ltd.
  • Asia Pacific Partner of the Year: Progility Technologies Private Limited
  • Circle of Excellence Partner of the Year Achievers by Country/Region
    • Australia & New Zealand: Optus Business
    • Greater China: Jiangsu Qunli Modern Science Technology Develop Co., Ltd.
    • Greater China: Ingram Micro (China) Limited
    • India: Cadensworth India Ltd.
    • Japan: Otsuka Corporation
    • Korea: SBCK Corp.
    • South East Asia: Sun Ivy International Inc.
  • Polycom APAC Excellence in Industry Awards
    • Australia & New Zealand: Smartpresence Limited
    • Greater China: Beijing Zhizhen Communication Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd.
    • India: Inspira Enterprise India Pvt., Ltd.
    • Japan: Princeton, Ltd.
    • Korea: TechData Co., Ltd.
    • South East Asia: Planet Communications Asia Public Company Limited
  • Polycom APAC Excellence in Innovation Awards
    • Australia & New Zealand: Communicloud Pty., Ltd.
    • Greater China: Beijing Transtrue Technology Inc.
    • India: Beetel Teletech Ltd.
    • Japan: UNIADEX, Ltd.
    • Korea: V2C Co., Ltd.
    • South East Asia: ADEMAX Joint Stock Company
  • Polycom Excellence in Marketing Awards
    • Asia Pacific Japan: Cross Point Telecom Pte. Ltd.
    • Greater China: Beijing Xinliwenhao Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    • EMEA: Videocall

Polycom, Circle of Excellence Awards for Central and Latin America

  • Circle of Excellence Partner of the Year Achievers by Country/Region
    • Argentina: Nytec
    • Brazil: DigitalNet Brasil
    • Central America and Caribbean: ECSSA
    • Chile: Adaptor
    • Columbia: Axede
    • Mexico: Advance Networks

Polycom, Circle of Excellence Awards for Europe, Middle East and Africa

  • Circle of Excellence Partner of the Year Achievers by Country/Region
    • Central: ALSO DACH
    • Central: COMULUS
    • Nordics: SEC Datacom
    • Nordics: NetNordic
    • Russia / CIS: UTTC
    • Russia / CIS: Avicon
    • South: Itancia
    • South: Exaprobe-Econocom
    • Turkey, Middle East and Africa: Nextel
    • Turkey, Middle East and Africa: Zahra Technology
    • West: SIPHON
    • West: Proximus

Polycom Circle of Excellence Awards for North America

  • Circle of Excellence Partner of the Year by Country
    • United States: Whitlock
    • Canada: Bell Canada
  • Excellence in Hosted Voice: RingCentral, Inc.
  • Excellence in Industry Vertical: Jive Communications
  • Excellence in Service Delivery: Visual Systems Group, Inc.
  • Excellence in Workflow Integration: Keyser Consulting Group, LLC
  • Excellence in Marketing: GBH Communications

Polycom Technology Partner Innovation Awards

  • Grand Prize: Deltapath for Deltapath® Video Mobility Controller (VMC) integration with Polycom video solutions
  • Finalist: Event Zero for UC Commander Polycom Device Provisioning
  • Finalist: Shure for Shure Microflex™ Wireless Microphones integration with Polycom conference room solutions

Award nominations were reviewed by a panel of Polycom executives from around the world to select 2015 Polycom Circle of Excellence honorees.

About Polycom

Polycom helps organizations unleash the power of human collaboration. More than 415,000 companies and institutions worldwide defy distance with secure video, voice and content solutions from Polycom to increase productivity, speed time to market, provide better customer service, expand education and save lives. Polycom and its global partner ecosystem provide flexible collaboration solutions for any environment that deliver the best user experience, the broadest multi-vendor interoperability and unmatched investment protection.