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TD SYNNEX Maverick Brings Zoom to Channel Vizrt Group invests in partners with expanded offering and new program Partners in Europe Maverick, a specialist business of TD SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX) today announced a new agreement with Zoom to extend the reach of its fully integrated communications and collaboration solution portfolio to all Maverick partners in Europe. Maverick is focused on enabling partners to address the fast evolving market opportunity for solutions that support smart virtual collaboration and hybrid working models. In addition to its Zoom offering, Maverick will support partners in developing comprehensive smart, future workplace-focused solutions with a comprehensive portfolio of Zoom-enabled hardware and software products from many of the industry’s brands. Partners can also access required technical resources accreditations via Maverick in order to enable deployment of Zoom solutions. Hugo Graca, Senior Vice President, Specialised Solutions, TD SYNNEX, said: “This new agreement with Zoom represents a great opportunity for our partners in Europe to accelerate its smart collaboration offerings at scale with a market-leading solution that has become a byword for innovation in the unified communications space in the last few years “Our specialist Maverick teams across the region are poised to extend Zoom’s reach across the channel, helping our partners to deliver on the promise of true hybrid work flexibility, simplifying deployment and accelerating go-to-market with comprehensive solutions combining hardware and software to address the demand for hybrid and virtual collaboration solutions,” added Graça. Dion Smith, Head of Channels, EMEA, Zoom, said: “With the global workforce embracing hybrid work environments and the growing demand for Zoom across all client verticals and industries, it’s the perfect time
to extend the reach of our solutions portfolio to the channel through this new agreement with Maverick. “The breadth and reach of TD SYNNEX across Europe, allied to their operational strength and the deep specialisation of the Maverick team, provide a great launchpad for us to accelerate adoption of the evolving range of Zoom solutions and tools.” Partners can now access the entire Zoom portfolio, including the unified communications platform Zoom One, an evolution of the Zoom experience, which combines team chat, phone, meetings, whiteboard, and other solutions for a holistic collaboration experience. Alongside Zoom One, Maverick partners can incorporate Zoom Rooms, Zoom Phone, Zoom Events, Zoom IQ, Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Webinars, and Zoom Whiteboard into the solutions they take to market The recently launched Zoom Contact Center is an omnichannel solution optimised for video that helps answer end-customers’
questions and solve issues faster, improving the overall customer experience, and driving operational efficiency. This new offering works in tandem with Maverick’s portfolio of collaboration and communication technologies from world-leading manufacturers to create modern meeting spaces with flawless video and audio. Zoom’s offerings are now available to partners in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom.
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The aim of Vizrt Group’s substantial partner investment is to extend its certification and training offerings of Vizrt solutions to current and future NewTek and Vizrt partners. This will be the first time since the acquisition of NewTek by Vizrt in 2019, that NewTek partners will gain access to training, certification, and the opportunity to sell the Vizrt product portfolio. NewTek will also widen its channel partnerships beyond its
to promote, support and grow our partners’ businesses. These new initiatives will add value to our current partners, and offer opportunities to prospective partners across the globe," states Barbara Spicek, General Manager Global Channels & Channel Strategy, Vizrt Group. While Vizrt does have a series of partners, it has historically not had a formalized partner program. With the new program, cus-
and certifications to deliver what our partners have been asking for, to better support them in achieving success. And we are really excited to share what we’ve accomplished so far, very soon,” says Vanessa Walmsley, Global Head of Customer Success, Vizrt Group. The first of the new trainings and certifications will be launched in the new year and focus on live graphics and live production,
traditional channel resellers with new tiers and offerings for systems integrators, value added resellers, consultants and more. “Partners have been a key differentiator for our success and as the cross-over of proAV and broadcast grows, we realize the opportunity and importance of uniting our portfolios, extending and injecting investment into our Vizrt Group partner programs
tomers can choose to buy direct or through partners – depending on what suits them – providing accessibility to Vizrt solutions and expanding the number of local Vizrt experts – globally. “We spoke with many of our key Vizrt partners earlier this year and realized we can do better. We’ve been working hard as a team to build out extensive new trainings
available for free to all Vizrt and NewTek partners through Viz University. Viz University will also offer extensive on-
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