Last week, we learned that Avaya has filed in federal court for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due in large part to a significant debt burden carried over a nearly 10-year period. Only time will tell whether the debt restructuring process under bankruptcy will be kind to Avaya. Regardless, I’m sure our industry and the media will continue to study the legacies of both Nortel and Avaya as history lessons for many years to come.
What I know from my own 30-plus years of experience with NEC is that financial stability through diversification and creating operational efficiency has benefited not only us as a company, but our customers and partners through the years. Continuous improvement and innovation are probably the two biggest reasons for NEC’s 117+ years of longevity.
The next reason is our commitment to providing quality, future-proof unified communications and collaboration tools that will last and be relevant for many years to come. As a result, NEC has always had a ready willingness to step in and offer help to customers and partners who need it the most.
Another reason for our longevity is our ability to adapt and transform. NEC has reinvented itself numerous times through the years and will likely do so many more. As TalkingPointz Principal Analyst Dave Michels observed in his No Jitter coverage of our 2016 Advantage Executive Conference, we’ve done this most recently through the virtualization of our UC offerings, the launch of UC as a Service, and the integration of our UC solution set into a broader IT portfolio we call the Smart Enterprise.
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By leveraging one of our Smart Enterprise solutions, businesses can also benefit from our data center technologies – like our fault tolerant servers, storage and software defined networking – as well as market-leading biometrics and analytics.
As a result, NEC was chosen as one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies by the Boston Consulting Group. Furthermore, Frost & Sullivan recently honored NEC for its “astute strategies for migration of enterprise legacy communications systems to modern solutions” with a 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award.
All of these things add up to one clear call to action.
If you are a customer or partner of Avaya and are unsure about your future, please don’t hesitate to contact us for a free consultation. At the very least you’ll learn something about our current programs and migrating to an NEC Smart Enterprise solution. At best, you’ll come away with a better idea of how you can protect your business down the line.
Stay tuned to NECToday.com for additional ideas on how you can future-proof your business with NEC.