Apptis Technology Solutions Earns Polycom’s Federal Partner of the Year Award
Chantilly, VA — March 6, 2009 — Apptis Technology Solutions, and a technology solutions provider and value-added reseller, announced today that it has been named Federal Partner of the Year by Polycom, a global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions.
As Federal Partner of the Year, Apptis Technology Solutions is recognized for its commitment and expertise in leveraging leading Polycom communications solutions for organizations around the world. Apptis Technology Solutions has been a longstanding partner, integrating its high-definition video conferencing, wired and wireless voice and content solution for business and government. With this momentum, Apptis Technology Solutions' Polycom sales grew 47% year over year in 2008.
"We're honored that Polycom has recognized Apptis Technology Solutions' contribution to its growth by naming us Federal Partner of the Year," said Rene LaVigne, President and Chief Operating Officer for Apptis Technology Solutions. "We approach every partnership with a focused strategy to drive business and serve the joint customer base with the best, most robust solutions. We appreciate Polycom's shared commitment to these tactics that have clearly resulted in ascension in the market," said LaVigne.
"We selected Apptis Technology Solutions as Federal Partner of the Year because of its dedication to partners and customers alike," noted Barry Morris, Vice President of Federal Sales for Polycom. "Apptis Technology Solutions brings tremendous value with their experience in engineering and deploying Unified Communications solutions. Apptis Technology Solutions helps our customers understand and adopt Polycom telepresence and infrastructure solutions into a UC environment to help them achieve their goals. The company operates with the highest level of integrity and maintains a focused commitment to implementing strategic initiatives that match their corporate goals and provides value to Polycom, its sales organization and our mutual customer base."
The engagement allows Apptis Technology Solutions to meet customer demands for best-in-breed visual and audio communication solutions by offering a compelling and competitive differentiating product portfolio.
"Our partnership with Polycom has allowed us to better serve our customers," said Stu Strang, Senior Vice President of Sales. "With Polycom's innovative audio and visual communications solutions, we enable agencies to function more efficiently, improve readiness and response, deliver timely and informed decisions, and reduce costs using real–time collaboration. In short, Polycom solidifies Apptis Technology Solutions' reputation as a solutions provider that teams with leading technology vendors to provide organizations with the right technology solutions at the right time and right cost," added Strang.
About Iron Bow Technologies
Iron Bow Technologies, formerly Apptis Technology Solutions, is a technology solutions provider and value-added reseller with a track record of government and industry success. Implementing $600 million in technology solutions annually, the company leverages a strong, flexible, and targeted customer engagement model with premier products expertise to help customers design, acquire and build secure data center, unified communications, network infrastructure, information security and client computing solutions.
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