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Intermedia Unite™ Empowers SMBs to Embrace Unified CommunicationsMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Intermedia, a leading cloud communications and collaboration provider, today announced the availability of Intermedia Unite™ – an easy-to-use Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform designed for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and the partners that serve them. The new platform delivers a next-generation phone system, plus integrated screen sharing, video collaboration, and backup and file sharing – all backed by Intermedia's J.D. Power-certified 24/7 support experts and a 99.999% uptime service level agreement. Vast expertise in the large and fast-growing UCaaS market Michael Gold, CEO of Intermedia, explained: "Voice and UCaaS are the fastest growing areas of our company, now accounting for nearly half of our total new business. Through our recent AnyMeeting acquisition, we've joined video collaboration and screen sharing with our leading Cloud PBX and workplace collaboration offerings in one extremely secure, reliable, and robust product. The result is Intermedia Unite, a truly integrated, highly mobile UCaaS platform that enables businesses to realize greater productivity and collaboration, while being even easier for partners to sell, set up, manage, and support." Industry analysts agree that the high-growth UCaaS market represents a tremendous opportunity for Intermedia Unite. "We expect the North American Hosted Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony and UCaaS market to experience double digit growth, expanding from $3.75 billion in 2016 to $14.83 billion in 20231," said Elka Popova, VP of Digital Transformation at Frost & Sullivan. "The market is relatively untapped and can support a large number of providers, each with its own diverse background and skill set. Intermedia is positioned for long-term success within this space, as it builds upon an already successful voice business, a partner-friendly model, and a cloud leadership position, combined with a strong focus on enabling SMBs' digital transformation." New intuitive partner tools shorten sales cycle
"We believe that partners are the conduit to the SMB," said Mark Sher, VP of Unified Communications Product and Marketing at Intermedia. "We built Intermedia Unite with an eye toward making it the easiest UCaaS solution for partners to sell, provision, install, and support. Their clients will be able to hit the ground running, with the integrated tools they need to be more effective with their customers, be more collaborative, and ultimately be more productive. In turn, partners will be able to take advantage of the high-growth UCaaS market, delivering high-quality, dependable products generating strong new revenue streams." Clayton Oswald, Intermedia partner and President of Northwest Cloud Consulting, explained: "I've already had great success with Intermedia's Cloud PBX services, and I find them more profitable to sell because of how easy Intermedia is to work with. Consider the support cost savings, for example; Intermedia removes time intensive roadblocks like complicated taxation and billing. The Partner Concierge Desk is there to help whenever I need them, and their VoIP Scout network testing tool saves me a huge amount of time making sure that my clients have a successful and reliable experience from the get-go. The fact that Unite comes paired with Intermedia's unsurpassed reliability and J.D. Power-certified support is a game-changer for my business." Key benefits from the Intermedia Unite platform:
For more details and benefits, visit intermedia.net/unite. About Intermedia Intermedia's 360° approach to partner success makes it easy for channel partners to sell, set up, manage, and support the cloud while achieving strong margins and creating attractive new revenue streams through both branded and private label programs. Intermedia is the only business cloud application provider to have twice been certified by J.D. Power for its superior 24/7 technical support in 2016 and 2017. For more information, visit Intermedia.net or connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook. Contacts Katie Halloran Intermedia Unite, SecuriSync, VoIP Scout, AnyMeeting and HostPilot are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Intermedia.net, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. J.D. Power 2017 Certified Assisted Technical Program, developed in conjunction with TSIA. Based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer satisfaction benchmark for assisted support operations. For more information, visit www.jdpower.com or www.tsia.com. 1 Market volume numbers include telephony (DID, PSTN access plus local and long-distance minutes) and Unified Communications as a Service. From Frost & Sullivan's North American Hosted IP Telephony and UCaaS Market, Forecast to 2023 from September 2017. 2 Customer is responsible for ensuring that all call recordings comply with any applicable federal or state law (including consent requirements). Device dependent.
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