The company, which has worked in partnership with Siemens for the past 16 years, has received the Best Enterprise Solution for the innovative IP Solution that it designed and implemented for West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds.
Central’s solution at West Suffolk College was an end-to-end IP solution with a 300 IP extension HiPath 3800 version 5 and one of the very first H3800's to be installed.
The college, which is one of the leading providers of post 16 education and training in the region, sees itself very much as a flagship enterprise and offers a wide range of learning opportunities – from full and part-time education to university courses, apprenticeships or workforce development and tries to attract traditional and business students from the local area.
With this in mind, the board required a cutting edge communications platform that would help when encouraging local businesses to send staff to the College for courses.
The college operates on one main site and four extension sites. Thanks to Central’s solution, they can now communicate seamlessly. The solution has been so successful that the college has now become a reference site for both Siemens and Central.
This award is the second major award from Siemens over the past 12 months. Last year, Central was awarded the prestigious Siemens Partnership award in recognition of its work in the communications sector with Siemens over the past 15 years.
Commenting on Central’s award, Paul Morgan, head of Siemens channel sales, said:
“We view our channel partners as an extension of our own sales force, and want to recognise and reward top performers. The huge contribution that Central has made throughout the year, not only reflects the enormous amount of hard work they have put in, but is also an indication of the strength of Siemens Communications’ overall proposition.”
Andrew McDougall, Managing Director of Central, added:
“I am delighted to accept the Best Enterprise Solution award from Siemens on behalf of the whole team at Central.”
“This is the second award that we have received from Siemens in the past 12 months and demonstrates our ability to work in partnership with global names in the telecoms industry to improve the working environment of thousands of UK businesses,” added Andrew.
Central was founded in 1985 and is now firmly established as one of the UK’s leading integrated communications specialists. It implements leading edge communications solutions across a diversity of market sectors and has more than 6,000 managed accounts and more than 500,000 end users throughout the UK, ranging from SME’s to blue chip and public sector organisations.
Partnerships with all of the industry’s major players enable Central to exploit the latest technologies and deliver total communications solutions tailored to customers’ individual voice and data requirements.