{"id":6851,"date":"2013-04-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/08\/avayas-cloud-uc-strategy-continues-to-evolve\/"},"modified":"2013-04-08T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T08:00:00","slug":"avayas-cloud-uc-strategy-continues-to-evolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/avayas-cloud-uc-strategy-continues-to-evolve\/","title":{"rendered":"Avaya\u2019s cloud UC strategy continues to evolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Telecoms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Enterprise Connect in March 2013 Avaya introduced a set of platforms on which its partners &ndash; which include operators, systems integrators, and resellers &ndash; can build to offer fully hosted communications services. The move is a marked departure for the company, whose revenues are derived mainly from selling communications software and solutions that enterprises deploy on-premise. <\/p>\n<p>Avaya also has a services business that sells managed and hosted communications services to a highly restricted set of business customers. Last month&rsquo;s announcement, however, represented something new for the company. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to selling its communications solutions and services to businesses, Avaya will now sell them to service providers, which will use them as the basis for the cloud-based unified communications (UC), video conferencing, and contact center services that they sell to enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good move on the part of Avaya, which has lagged behind &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Telecoms<br \/>\nAt Enterprise Connect in March 2013 Avaya introduced a set of platforms on which its partners &ndash; which include operators, systems integrators, and resellers &ndash; can build to offer fully hoste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}