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Long View Achieves Cisco Master Unified Communications SpecializationCalgary, Alberta, Oct 02, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- Long View announced today it has achieved the Master Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco(R). This specialization recognizes Longview as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support highly sophisticated applications-based Cisco Unified Communications solutions. "At Long View, we strive to ensure our clients enjoy collaboration that's comprehensive, effective, and meaningful," says Kent MacDonald, Long View's Vice-President of Converged Infrastructure. "Frankly, we're tickled at achieving Master Unified Communications Specialization from a global frontrunner like Cisco. It's a ringing endorsement of our sales, technical, and service competencies and capabilities." "To help turn the promise of unified communications into a strategic advantage, customers are demanding an enhanced set of skills and capabilities from channel partners," says Richard McLeod, Cisco's director of unified communications for worldwide channels at Cisco. "Long View's investment in the Master Unified Communications Specialization ranks them among the industry's elite." To achieve the Master Unified Communications Specialization, resale channel partners must first attain advanced Unified Communications Specialization. Partners must then meet stringent requirements that demonstrate their master-level sales, technical, and services capabilities. Furthermore, master specialized partners must possess a number of Cisco and industry-standard technical certification requirements, provide customer references that document Cisco-prescribed design and deployment capabilities; and show evidence that they have the infrastructure to support a full menu of Lifecycle Services offerings and capabilities. The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills, and then validates their skills through a third-party audit. Cisco resale partner certifications--Select, Premier, Silver and Gold--represent an increasing breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner's ability to deliver integrated networking solutions. Cisco resale partner specializations--SMB, Express, Advanced and Master--reflect an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies. Cisco master specializations provide {PARTNER NAME} access to comprehensive sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and support available from Cisco. ABOUT LONG VIEW: With more than 950 employees, including over 700 technical consultants, in offices across the continent, Long View is one of the most powerful IT solutions and services companies in North America. With a clear focus on combining business and technology in key areas such as Cloud, data center infrastructure, user support, and IT outsourcing, Long View is able to customize and define what the future of IT looks like. Innovative, flexible, cost-effective, and business focused . . . that's Long View. Cisco, the Cisco logo and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. -30- For more information: Patrick McGuinty Manager, Marketing and Communications Long View Systems Phone: 604.676.5239 E-mail: patrick(dot)mcguinty(at)lvs1(dot)com http://www.longviewsystems.com Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb9964887.htm PRWeb.com |