Nortel users should hope for best, prepare for worst
Users should chart the progress of Avaya's purchase of Nortel's enterprise assets carefully, so that they are spared any unpleasant product integration or rationalization surprises.
Users should chart the progress of Avaya's purchase of Nortel's enterprise assets carefully, so that they are spared any unpleasant product integration or rationalization surprises.
Nortel enterprise customers will be able to buy the company's current line of products for 12 to 18 months after Avaya officially takes ownership of Nortel's enterprise division that it won at auction for $US900 million.
The biggest issue facing Nortel enterprise customers on the heels of Avaya's US$900 million purchase of that business is product overlap, consolidation and subsequent support, analysts say.
Avaya has emerged as the winning bidder for Nortel’s enterprise business, reportedly beating out Siemens Enterprise Communications over the weekend.
Avaya may be competing against other suitors in its efforts to acquire the enterprise assets of Nortel Networks, published reports indicate.
Research in Motion is calling on the Canadian government to review the auction of Nortel Network's assets claiming it was shut out of bidding for the troubled network hardware maker's wireless properties.
As expected, Nortel has entered into a "stalking horse" asset and share sale agreement with Avaya for its Enterprise Solutions business.
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If Avaya buys up Nortel’s enterprise properties, the new entity will have product overlap issues but they’ll be overshadowed by something more important: customers.
Nortel's liquidation of its assets could possibly gut the 3-year-old unified communications partnership the company has with Microsoft.
Nortel is reportedly close to selling its enterprise division to Avaya for US$500 million.
Avaya and IBM have overcome difficulties presenting joint unified communications proposals to customers and have launched a coordinated sales and marketing program and agreed to conduct technical development together.
Vision Australia (VA) has deployed a new contact centre based on IP technology which enables more functionality for staff who are blind or vision impaired.
Avaya has bought Agile Software, bringing in-house the team that created and develops the call center software Avaya sells to midsize businesses.
By its own admission, insurance and financial services giant Suncorp had no unified communication technology just three years ago, but since then the introduction of IP telephony and videoconferencing has worked wonders for how the business leverages IT in general.