NEC achieve position as global no. 1

For the second consecutive financial quarter, NEC have held the top position globally for the sub-100 extensions corded PBX/IP PBX market, as reported by MZA telecoms and IT analysts.

"It is great to see NEC take and maintain this lead”, says Lex de Gier, Vice President Sales & Marketing EMEA at NEC Unified Solutions. “We have been able to carve out this excellent market position thanks to continuous innovation in our portfolio, as well as expanding our channels to market. Our cost-effective communication servers are ideal for many smaller businesses, yet powerful ...

NEC’s new Unified Communications and Infrastructure solutions make role-based communications a reality

Next-generation IP communications servers and revolutionary terminals to shake up SMB and Enterprise markets

24 September 2008 – Hilversum, The Netherlands – NEC, a global leader in enterprise business communications, today announced the introduction of a host of new Unified Communications (UC) and infrastructure offerings for both SMB (Small & Medium Businesses) and Enterprises in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region. Embracing the entire communication stack, from ...

NEC stand out at the Summit

As main sponsors of Convergence Summit South once again, NEC’s new stand design went down a storm at Sandown Park.

Showcasing all three telephone systems, individual pods were the focus of attention, with three large screens showing NEC’s latest corporate video. “The exhibition has been a great success and we’ve had excellent feedback about our new stand design” said Jim Eagers, NEC Marketing Manager. The NEC sales team were on hand to speak to resellers about the product range, ...

NEC awards top performers in Valencia

UK resellers triumph at the annual event

The NEC EMEA Partner Conference was held in Spain on the 29th and 20th September, in the majestic setting of Hotel Las Arenas. The event brought together NEC’s major distributors and key business partners from over 40 countries across EMEA. � As the awards ceremony got underway, there was no doubt that the UK attendees stood out from ...

NEC resellers get contact centres cracked!

NEC have been organising free workshops to help their business partners to boost their solution selling potential.

The latest event was a session with an industry expert to help resellers to understand the business needs of contact centres. With focus on the UCB Contact Centre application, attendees were encouraged to consider which technologies are of most interest to the constantly evolving contact centre market. This included a discussion on how best to demonstrate the business benefits of ...

NEC boldly go into the enterprise space with SV8500

With ten’s of thousands of SV8500 users worldwide, Nottingham-based NEC look forward to increasing this figure by taking their ‘easy to do business with’ approach to the UK enterprise market sector.

“The SV8500 makes the NEC portfolio here in the UK complete across all markets” says Sales Director Andrew Cooper. “Our other systems are successful within the small business to medium markets; now we have the product to enable our UK resellers to hit the enterprise space”.� Cooper observes that the SV8500 has been globally successful for NEC and has in no small ...

New recruit to propel NEC into Enterprise market

Jim Robertson will join NEC in May, and will be responsible for the introduction of the SV8500 platform.

Based at the Innovation House headquarters in Nottingham, Jim hopes to play a key part in replicating NEC’s success in the SMB market within enterprise level businesses. Jim has a wealth of experience within the telecoms industry, having worked for distribution business Scan Source, and more recently within Business Development at Capstan, a LG Nortel distributor. “We are ...

NEC resellers display a passion for speed

The last few months have seen the return of the NEC Passion for Speed incentive, with 26 teams of resellers competing to swap the rush hour for the race track, with a weekend of glamour and sunshine in Spain.

The race to the finish line reached a tense culmination on the last day of the financial year. Five teams of resellers qualified for the trip of a lifetime to the FIA GT3 races in Navarra, to see winning driver Paul Van Splunteren race around the track in the NEC sponsored Porsche. Core Communications finished in first place, and Sales Director Jim Mulready said he was delighted. “We ...

NEC Technical Services helps resellers to raise the bar

This new division puts expertise into practice, propelling NEC resellers into more lucrative projects.

“What we are offering is a resource to deliver turnkey technology solutions” claims Ian Shanahan, Technical Services Manager. Since setting up the Technical Services team and bringing highly qualified engineers Mike Black and Daniel Arkley on board, Ian has been hard at work planning and managing the team’s first projects. Essentially, the team can offer a unique skill set, covering the ...

NEC helps resellers go vertical

“With the correct approach, vertical markets can lead to some of the most lucrative revenue streams for a reseller” says NEC EMEA Healthcare and Hospitality Director Kees van Donk.

� Vertical market interest within the channel is increasing, and NEC endeavour to help their partners to sell into new areas. In November, Kees van Donk came to the UK to hold workshops, in order to help resellers to maximise sales within expanding vertical markets. � � “NEC is strong in hospitality globally, with products installed in major hotel chains in the UK and all ...

Trapped Chilean Miners used NEC phone system to stay in touch

24/7 communication provided for miners and families free of charge

Shortly after the accident at the now famous San Jose mine in Chile, an NEC dealer provided an NEC (Nitsuko TX-824) phone system free of charge. This enabled the miners to speak to their families 24 hours a day, providing an invaluable link to their loved ones and a great sense of moral support. Due to the narrowness of the 700 metre pipe that was also used for food, water and ...

NEC awards top performers at 2010 EMEA Partner Conference

NEC’s EMEA business partners embrace strategy for growth

The conference held earlier this month brought together EMEA region NEC divisions and their partners. During the three day conference, awards were presented to resellers from across Europe for their excellent performances. � The award for Fastest Growing Reseller was snapped up by Peach, and Managing Director Darren Scott-Healy said that is was a massive honour to receive the ...

NEC at Gitex in Dubai

NEC will showcase innovative business solutions at Gitex Technology Week 17th-21st Oct 2010

NEC will launch Mobicall, an integrated messaging solution for the mobile workforce, ideal for healthcare and hospitality sectors. MobiCall is designed to connect with a wide variety of external applications such as paging systems, nurse call systems, fire alarm systems, building management and workflow systems. Frits Neyndorff, Vice President NEC Unified Solutions, Middle-East & ...

NEC relieves UC fear factor: Unveils UCB to enable truly integrated

NEC anticipates trend in customer engagement preferences; by 2011 only half of customer contact will be via phone

NEC� today unveils its Unified Communications for Business (UCB) suite designed to help contact centres rapidly and cost-effectively meet increasing demand for multichannel customer service. With industry research predicting that only 54% of customer contact will take place over the phone by 2011, the NEC solution empowers contact centres to optimise their response by slicing through existing ...

UK Call Centre Doubles Call Volume and Increases Revenue with NEC Unified Communications for Business

Inkjets and Toners reaps the cost saving and customer experience benefits of intelligent process automation from NEC

Inkjets and Toners (IJT Direct Limited) a leading provider of print products to over 250,000 customers, has significantly improved customer experience levels with the implementation of NEC Unified Communications for Business (UCB) suite. The implementation has introduced intelligent Process Automation techniques across inbound and outbound teams, resulting in improved first time resolution, ...

XN120 – The Secret of Staying Power

The XN120 from NEC has recently hit a sales milestone of 200,000 units globally, proving that a simple solution that is value for money remains a smart choice for resellers.

Launched in 2005, the popularity of the XN120 was due to its simplicity and competitive pricing. Still immensely successful five years later, it has gone from strength to strength, and has become a record-breaking product for NEC. It has advanced features normally associated with enterprise level systems, including Auto Attendant, Mobile Extensions and a MyCalls management ...

NEC go full Throttle at FIA GT3

Racing driver helps NEC to increase brand awareness

Nottingham, 13 May 2010 – NEC Unified Solutions are excited to announce the Sponsorship of the FIA GT3 with the new Porsche GT3 R, giving the NEC profile a turbo boost in the UK. Racing Driver, Paul Splunteren, will be pushing the boundaries and aiming to achieve great results over the competition, Splunteren says “Thanks to the support of NEC Unified Solutions, I am ...

NEC beats all records

NEC defies downturn to post record sales in September

Nottingham, 19 September 2009 – Communications market leader NEC has announced that despite the current recession, its sales in September were the highest on record for the UK business. NEC has listed a record number of sales of its flagship Communications Server SV8100, topping off significant growth in the first six months of the year. The company is also ...

NEC signs distribution agreement with Micro-P

Partnership cornerstone of Micro-P plans for growing comms market share.

Nottingham, 22 September 2009 – Communications market leader NEC has today signed a distribution agreement with Micro-P that will see the value-add distributor bring its range of PBX and telephone systems to market. “With the NEC range of XN120 and SV8100 products and applications such as the MyCalls suite and Unified Communications for Business (UCB) growing in ...

NEC UNIVERGE MH240 - Helps Workers Stay Connected on the move

The MH240 offers organisations a low-cost WLAN environment

Nottingham, 4 September 2009 – NEC is allowing businesses to stay in touch on the move with the launch of the UNIVERGE MH240 Multi-line Mobile Handset. The MH240 delivers all of the features that users expect from a desktop phone in an easy-to-use mobile handset, allowing employees to do business as seamlessly as if they were at their desks. “The UNIVERGE ...

NEC unveils MyCalls Desktop

New addition to leading call management range offers screen-pop functionality for slicker call control

Nottingham, 1 July2009 – NEC has today launched MyCalls Desktop, an outstanding new addition to the MyCalls family of call management solutions. MyCalls Desktop is a standalone application that offers businesses massive time savings, as well as boosting productivity, through a wide range of telephone functions direct from the desktop. In addition to all the familiar ...

NEC Infrontia to sponsor Convergence Summit

Nottingham 27 May 2009 - Voice and data convergence specialist NEC Infrontia has signed up as principal sponsor of the Convergence Summit 2009. The event, which brings together voice and data resellers with major convergence suppliers, will be held at Sandown Park on October 13 and 14. “With NEC having such a good portfolio of products and applications, ...

Trust Distribution chooses NEC SV8100 for own premises

Nottingham, 17 April 2009 – When the sales team at Trust Distribution speaks to its customers about the business benefits offered by NEC’s SV8100, it is with first-hand experience: the company installed the system at its own Oldham premises and has been delighted with the results. Trust Distribution, a leading UK voice and data distributor ...

Great things come in small packages

SMBs receive the benefit of Unified Communications without the cost

Nottingham, 30 March 2009 – IP telephony leader NEC Infrontia is bringing all the benefits of integrated communications to small and medium businesses (SMBs) with the release of a 9.5 inch version of its flagship SV8100 unified communications server. Previously only available in a standard 19 inch rack configuration, the new compact version is ...

NEC Infrontia – Opens Its Doors

Nottingham 16 March 2009 - IP telephony market leader NEC Infrontia has hosted a special partner event to unveil the company’s new state-of-the-art facility, Innovation House in Nottingham. NEC invited business partners and suppliers to the launch, where they were treated to a tour of the building’s modern facilities, including the company’s brand new ...

UK market enthusiastic about UNIVERGE SV8100

New communication server defies recession

Nottingham, 13 March 2009 – Towards the end of 2008 NEC Infrontia launched its new communication server, the UNIVERGE SV8100, to the UK market. Partners of NEC Infrontia gave an immediate positive reaction to the new product, which, with its attractively designed terminals and innovative applications such as MyCalls and Unified Communications for Business, offers ...

US Award for SV8100

January 2009 – NEC Infrontia’s SV8100, launched in the UK last September, has been quick to make an impact in the USA. Internet Telephony, America’s premier sector trade journal has named it Product of the Year in its 11th annual awards listings. NEC Infrontia Sales Director Andrew Cooper confirms that SV8100 sales on this side of the Atlantic are, ...

NEC’s new M155 Messenger sets new standards in mobile messaging

Small and comfortable, the ultimate messaging device for healthcare and hospitality.

January 2009 – NECi, UK – With the introduction of the M155 Messenger, an extremely sophisticated and easily wearable wireless messaging device, NEC sets new standards in mobile communications and once again demonstrates the company is at the forefront of innovations. The M155 Messenger is a sophisticated wireless messaging device, ideal for use in ...

NEC Infrontia Relocates

November 2008 – After ten years at its Loughborough base, NEC Infrontia has moved a few miles up the M1 to its new flagship HQ, Innovation House at Ruddington, near Nottingham, which went live on 24th November. “It’s not just that we have grown in size over the last decade,” said Sales Director Andrew Cooper. “We now have a responsibility ...

NEC’s SV8100 Goes Global

October 2008 – The success story of NEC’s SV8100 goes from strength to strength as the October launch in South Africa caused quite a stir. Over 100 resellers attended the unveiling at the Montecasino Conference Centre. NEC’s focus is aimed at businesses with up to 150 users with its Unified Communication solution, which it claims delivers ...

UNIVERGE SV8100 – A 360° perspective on communications

NEC has recently completed a successful series of Roadshows around the UK and Ireland.

October 2008 – The NEC Roadshows started on 15th September, stopping at various football stadiums, including Wembley Stadium, The Reebok, and also the Madejski Stadium, with these venues proving to be a very popular choice with the resellers. The tour drew to a close in Ireland on 13th October. Launched in September in the UK, the SV8100 is a ...

Mission accomplished as dealers Aspire to the SV8100

Migration training at NEC from the Aspire to the SV8100 has been hugely successful and is a must for all resellers to make the next simple step.

October 2008 – The two-day course is designed to build on the current knowledge and skills of the Aspire system to take the reseller onto the next generation of installation. Training covers the complete range of additional features and changes of the Aspire that are offered by the SV8100 system. So far, close to 200 resellers have taken the SV8100 training. ...

New NEC application release quicker to configure than making noodles

NEC’s tasty new release allows configuration of the call management application MyCalls Manager in an instant. The wizard installer can be set up in well under four minutes, quicker than a popular noodle snack takes to prepare!

Distribution Account Manager Nick Thompson says, ‘This couldn’t be quicker or easier. Any reseller who’s avoided applications in the past for fear of a complex install should take note, it’s a doddle.’ Product Specialist Rich Horsley adds, ‘Not only does this speed up the configuration, it even assists with the main SV8100 system installation. Just a few clicks and it’s ...