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TDAzlan to Deliver Expert Consultancy Services for UC Partners

TDAzlan, the enterprise division of Tech Data, having recently invested to provide pre-sales consultancy services on behalf of its partners, is ready to start working with more resellers to help them build their unified communications business.

The company says the services, delivered by specialist Solution Architects, are designed to support the unified communications channel, encompassing areas such as virtualisation, video collaboration (end-points and infrastructure), IP telephony, LAN / WAN technologies (including wireless and mobile data), Microsoft OCS, full network infrastructure readiness reviews, and both Microsoft and Open Source operating systems.

Joel Chimoindes, Director of Unified Communications at TDAzlan commented: “Unified communications and collaboration is an area where very few channel partners have the range of skills and abilities required to truly deliver a complete solution. Our aim is to support them by providing access to our Solutions Architects, who will not only provide services on their behalf, but also train and transfer skills as part of the process to better equip partners to take advantage of this high growth sector.

“I often describe our Solutions Architects as ‘non-confrontational salespeople’, as they are capable of turning a small opportunity into a very large one, simply by knowledgeable discussion with a prospect, using a non-sales approach to outline the benefits of adopting or implementing a solution,” states Chimoindes.

TDAzlan’s consultancy services include partner support in areas such as end user meetings, solutions design, technical trials, solution testing, vendor interoperability advice, solution validation builds in lab environments, training and technical enquiries. TDAzlan has vendor- level capability and unrivalled expertise in solutions from Cisco, Tandberg, Avaya, LifeSize, Microsoft, IBM and HP.