U.S. technology services distributor, Intelisys, is the newest and one of the first cloud master agents for Avaya. Intelisys Sales Partners will help to accelerate sales of Avaya Cloud to small- through mid-market businesses, and Intelisys will connect potential customers with Avaya through its network of sales partners across the United States.

Avaya has become a Supplier Partner of Intelisys through its Avaya Master Agent program. The program enlists Intelisys Sales Partners to address the “increasing” demand for Avaya cloud services, and speeds the process of onboarding, deploying the customer’s communications, with expert management and support delivered by Avaya.

Intelisys independent sales partners can now offer this Avaya Cloud solution to customers, which will include:

  • Unified communications services, fully hosted by Avaya
  • Bundled carrier services, i.e. minutes, SIP Trunks
  • Desktop options
  • Delivery, management, and support
  • Monthly, subscription-based billing

“The breadth and depth of Intelisys’ network of sales partners will facilitate and enhance the delivery of Avaya’s hosted cloud offerings to end-user customers,” said Gary Levy, vice president, U.S. Channels, Avaya. “Together we plan to provide unified communication services to meet growing market demands, while simplifying the process of onboarding, deploying and managing the technology and customer relationship. The Master Agent program is another proof point of our commitment to make it easier to do business with Avaya.”

CSPs, MSPs, VARs, SIs

A ScanSource company, Intelisys is a distributor of business communications services, including voice, data, access, cable, collaboration, wireless and cloud. Intelisys provides its services to telecom sales agents, IT Solution Providers, VARs, MSPs and systems integrators. Intelisys has more than 140 of the world’s leading telecom carriers, cloud services providers and technology partners under contract.

“We have great respect for the longstanding relationship between Avaya and ScanSource, and are incredibly pleased to add Avaya cloud solutions,” said Jay Bradley, president, Intelisys. “We have the unique privilege of being able to now collectively offer our Sales Partners a holistic and complete solution to their customers – or any individual Avaya solution components they see as a fit. We see tremendous opportunity for our Sales Partners to leverage Avaya’s cloud services together with a full bundled solution.”

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