The Munich-based telecommunications specialist C4B Com For Business and Alcatel-Lucent announced today at the CeBIT that C4B has officially been accepted into the international Alcatel-Lucent Application Partner Programme (AAPP). The OmniPCX Office RCE offered by Alcatel-Lucent and XPhone? solutions offered by C4B are compatible and have been tested and certified accordingly by both companies. In future, both companies will be expanding their activities to include sales and technical collaboration.
The Alcatel-Lucent Application Partner Programme accepts partners whose solutions represent an optimum complement to the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio. Customers thereby receive the opportunity to have special requirements covered which can only be realised in the form of joint solutions.
“We are delighted at having been accepted into the Alcatel-Lucent Application Partner Programme”, claims Michael Schreier, CEO at C4B. “This makes the long-term and positive co-operation by our two companies visible for both our customers and our partners.”
“The XPhone solutions offered by C4B enjoy an excellent reputation on the market and are an ideal complement to our portfolio in the area of Unified Communications and CTI”, explains Marcus Hänsel, Vice-President Enterprise Germany at Alcatel-Lucent. “The future will see us collaborating even more closely with C4B in both the marketing and technical area in order to offer our customers perfectly co-ordinated communications solutions.”
Strong distribution network thanks to common distributors
Alcatel Lucent and C4B can rely on a common distribution network for marketing their solutions thereby providing specialist trade with optimum support. The companies- mutual distributors include Komsa, Itancia, ALSO (formerly ALSO Actebis) and Deutsche Telekom which markets both portfolios under its own Octopus Open or Octopus Desk brands.
About C4B Com For Business AG
With over a million installed licenses, C4B Com For Business AG is a market leader in CTI and Unified Communications software. C4B develops and distributes communications solutions under the XPhone? brand for companies of all sizes in all industries. With services such as voice, fax, CTI, presence, desktop sharing and instant messaging and solutions for mobile workers, C4B software improves how businesses interact with customers over the long term while simultaneously streamlining in-house communications processes. Its solutions are distributed by an extensive network of qualified partners, including such major vendors as Siemens, Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom. Visit www.c4b.de to learn more about C4B.
About Alcatel-Lucent
As a leading innovator in the business areas of networks and communication technology, products and services, Alcatel-Lucent has been an estimated partner to service-providers, companies and governments for many years. One member company of Alcatel-Lucent is represented by Bell Labs, an internationally-acclaimed R&D facility. Bell Labs are responsible for technological innovations which have decisively characterised the network and communications sector. The “Technology Review” magazine published by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has included Alcatel-Lucent in its list of the top 50 “most innovative companies in the world”. The award stands for ground-breaking inventions such as lightRadio? which reduces energy consumption and operative costs in mobile networks while offering a high-speed Internet connection. With such innovations, Alcatel-Lucent largely designs communication which is sustainable, affordable and easily accessible ? entirely in line with its mission to exploit the potential of a networked world. Represented in more than 130 countries and with experienced global service teams, Alcatel-Lucent is available for its customers wherever they may be. The company achieved turnover of 15.3 billion Euro in 2011 and has its headquarters in Paris.
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