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F&S Awards Avaya for Business Success, Innovation

  By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC

Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) has recognized Avaya Holdings Corp. with its 2018 Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award in the Latin America Enterprise Communications Industry.

In conveying the award, the research and consulting firm noted Avaya’s (News - Alert) success in building stronger brand positioning, customer satisfaction, and market share. And it mentioned Avaya’s effective cloud communications strategy and innovation.

On the product front, Frost & Sullivan mentioned Avaya’s development of a virtual agent named Avaya Ava. This solution leverages analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to allow businesses to engage with their customers via chat, messaging, and social media.

(Jon Alperin, Avaya’s director of A.I. Connect, DevConnect (News - Alert) and DevConnect Marketplace, will be a panelist for The Future of Work Expo session “From VoIP to the New Voice,” Jan. 31 in Fort Lauderdale.)

Frost & Sullivan also mentioned Avaya’s integration of enhanced team collaboration abilities in its Equinox Meeting Online conferencing client. Additionally, it noted the company’s Avaya Private Cloud Services and “Powered by” program. APCS is a set of applications and remote managed services delivered via the cloud to support hybrid clouds, private clouds, and premises-based systems. Powered by Avaya IP Office helps customers migrate to the cloud.

"By building a strong cloud communications strategy and a robust development program to constantly respond to customers´ evolving demands, Avaya has a clear path to future growth opportunities in the Latin American enterprise communications market, providing our customers with solutions tailored to their needs and budgets,” said Galib Karim, vice president of Avaya Americas International. “We thank Frost & Sullivan for giving us this recognition in an industry where there are more and more participants every day and to our business partners, clients and work teams because together we are changing the way we do business in the region."

One of Avaya’s partners is ISI Telemanagement Solutions. The company is a Gold Level and Innovator Member of the Avaya Developer Connection Program. Avaya and ISI (News - Alert) has worked together for a decade. ISI provides Avaya users with its Infortel Select Call Accounting solution.