Wednesday, December 10, 2014

West Positioned as a Gartner UCaaS Magic Quadrant Leader for Third Consecutive Year

OMAHA, NE, September 9, 2014 – West, a leading provider of technology-enabled communication services, announced today that Gartner, Inc. has positioned the company in the Leaders Quadrant of its August 28, 2014, “Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Multiregional” for a third consecutive year. The recognition is based on West’s ability to execute and the Company’s completeness of vision in the UCaaS space.

West provides its midmarket and large enterprise clients with a complete unified communications cloud-based platform consisting of, enterprise voice, conferencing and collaboration, network management, messaging and presence, contact center and client application integration solutions. The company has extensive experience in designing, deploying and managing UCaaS solutions as well as the ability to provide superior long-term support to its clients.

“We believe this recognition from Gartner, for the third year running, is a strong indicator of the value that our clients continue to experience with our powerful applications and services, our expertise in deploying Unified Communications solutions and the outstanding support that we are able to deliver in the rapidly evolving UC market,” said Todd Strubbe, President of West’s Unified Communications business segment. “We remain focused on providing our clients with the industry’s best cloud-based communication applications and services. West recognizes that empowering our clients to transform the ways they do business, which can give them new competitive advantages, requires that we aggressively reinvent both our products and the enveloping services.”

West delivers best-of-breed telephony and conferencing cloud infrastructure—interconnected with proprietary and partner collaboration and messaging tools—to create transformative communications solutions. The company has expertise in a variety of areas including public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

According to Gartner: “Vendors in the Leaders quadrant have been delivering complete UCaaS solutions for more than a year, have clients with more than 1,000 subscribers and have more than 100,000 total endpoints in service. These vendors offer comprehensive and integrated UCaaS solutions that directly, or with well-defined partnerships, address the full range of market needs, including the ability to service large accounts. These vendors have defined migration and evolution plans for their products in core UCaaS areas and are using their solution sets to acquire new clients, as well as to expand their footprints in their client bases to new functional areas.”
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About InterCall

InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation, is the largest conference and collaborations service provider in the world, and a leading provider of global cloud-based unified communications services. Founded in 1991, InterCall offers telephony, messaging, conferencing and collaboration tools for businesses of all sizes, from large global enterprises to small or regional companies. With a global footprint and broad service capabilities, InterCall’s flexible models for hosted, managed and on-premises communication services help companies get the most out of their business processes.
InterCall's strong U.S. presence, including four call centers and 26 sales offices, is bolstered by operations in Canada, Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. For more information, please visit www.intercall.com.


About the Magic Quadrant

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About West Corporation

West Corporation is a leading provider of technology-driven communications services.  West offers its clients a broad range of communications and network infrastructure solutions that help them manage or support critical communications.  West’s customer contact solutions and conferencing services are designed to improve its clients’ cost structure and provide reliable, high-quality services.  West also provides mission-critical services, such as public safety and emergency communications.
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, West serves Fortune 1000 companies and other clients in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, retail, financial services, public safety, technology and healthcare.  West has sales and operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.  For more information on West Corporation, please call 1-800-841-9000 or visit http://www.west.com/.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Everest Communications, LLC and LifeSize Combine to Offer Powerhouse Video Conferencing Business Tool

DAYTON, OH - Everest Communications, LLC, a private audio, web and video conferencing services wholesaler since 2003, announced today it is now an authorized reseller of LifeSize Cloud, the easiest, most user-friendly cloud video conferencing service that immediately connects the user to a video meeting in a conference room of choice or any mobile device.

Lifesize HD Conferencing, a division of Logitech (NASDAQ – LOGI), delivers end-to-end cloud video conferencing that is as easy, as lifelike and as remarkable as meeting in person. The company’s technology achieves this by connecting its award-winning room video systems and mobile apps to a radically simple cloud service. Now everyone, regardless of location, is just one video call away from having a seat in a meeting.

The marketplace references the Everest/LifeSize partnership as a solution that makes the conference room experience easy, accessible and frustration free for up to 25 video participants per call.  Further, when the enterprise considers that each participant can be either an individual or an entire conference room full of people, the video conferencing marketplace sees new possibilities through the richness and appeal of crystal clear, collaborative video communication.

Everest Communications, LLC, founder Kenneth Charbat says, “All you have to do is plug in the Everest/Lifesize Icon video system to the Internet and connect it to the cloud.  From there you can invite your team to participate in your video call and join together as many people on the call as you’d like. Once Lifesize Cloud is downloaded onto a laptop or mobile device, users can connect to their meetings anywhere, anytime, on any device.”  Charbat continued, “We are thrilled to be partnered with LifeSize - the preeminent video conferencing enabler in the world today.  The commitment we have to our customer base in the area of effective, affordable collaborative communications is validated with this worldwide-reaching partnership.”

Lifesize video conferencing solutions are used by a wide array of customers, from the largest of enterprises down to small businesses, and across several industries such as education, financial services, manufacturing, design, government, technology, retail, health care, construction, real estate, public utilities, legal services, arts organizations, nonprofits, transportation, media and entertainment.

Owner, Founder and CEO of Everest Communications, Kenneth A. Charbat, is a collaboration industry veteran of over 25 years.  Starting in sales at American Teleconferencing Services (ATS), Lenexa, Kansas, and sales management for Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE - PGI), Charbat learned the value of virtual collaboration by serving Procter and Gamble and other Fortune 500 company’s years before the positive economic impact of effective group communication became not only fashionable, but necessary for business in today’s global marketplace.

Everest Communications, LLC, embodies and defines the American success story.  From the company’s inception in a basement in Kettering, Ohio, $125 capital investment and an undying passion for the power of collaborative technology, the company has grown in reputation and revenue year over year since 2003.  Today Everest serves customers in 49 countries around the globe.  Despite its place as a leader in the virtual collaboration space, the company’s mission is steadfast in the belief that personal relationships are requirements for success in any line of business.

For more information, please visit Everest Communications, LLC online at www.everest-communications.com. 

Contact:
Ken Charbat, President

Everest Communications, LLC
937-293-1842
kc@everest-communications.com