euromicron Executive Board member Thomas Hoffmann: "euromicron continues to optimize its portfolio of unified communications solutions"
The euromicron Group has taken over as representative agent for the German telephony business of NEC, according to Gartner Group the world’s third-largest vendor of communications systems in the corporate customer segment. euromicron will ensure absolute proximity to customers by building NEC know-how at all its branch offices. The competence center for NEC technologies is the Hamburg branch office. It will also be responsible for large enterprise business with NEC technology and aim to grow it.
The NEC master distributor for Germany is SKM Skyline GmbH (www.skyline.cs.de). SKM Skyline GmbH offers its customers not only NEC’s telecommunications solutions, but also an extensive range of active and passive network components, as well as many years of consulting expertise. As master distributor, it will also provide its customers with all technical and market-related support. It will also be responsible within the euromicron group for intensifying the good relationships with NEC’s European head office. With its portfolio and NEC’s UNIVERGE SV8100 communications solution, the company exclusively cultivates the indirect sales channel.
“Thanks to the partnership with NEC and its UNIVERGE series, we have been able to expand our portfolio with a key VoIP and unified communications component for IP and hybrid systems. As a result we are all the more able to develop and integrate solutions tailored to our customers,” states euromicron Executive Board member Thomas Hoffmann. “As a network specialist and system integrator, we have thus optimized our overall portfolio in the communications arena even further,” adds Hoffmann.
Paul Kievit, President of NEC Unified Solutions, says: “The euromicron Group is a powerful strategic partner with whom we can achieve our growth strategy in Germany in a focused manner.”
NEC Corporation and NEC Unified Solutions
NEC Corporation, which was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading vendor of IT and network solutions, ITC products and electronics components. 150,000 employees worldwide and more than 50,000 patents are figures that underscore NEC’s global footprint and innovativeness.
NEC is one of the world’s largest manufacturers in the telecommunications sector. Its extensive portfolio implements unified communications for companies of all sizes, using a conventional as well as IP telephony solution. NEC Unified Solutions (Hilversum, the Netherlands) supports telecommunications sales partners in the EMEA region. Created from a joint venture, NEC Unified Solutions has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC since April 1, 2010, when NEC tool over Philips’ shares in it.
You can find more information at www.nec-unified.com.
euromicron AG is an all-round solution provider for communications, data and security networks. Its network infrastructures integrate voice, video and data transport wirelessly, via copper cable and by means of fiber-optic technologies. euromicron builds its leading applications, such as e-health, security, control or surveillance systems, on the basis of these network infrastructures.
Founded on its expertise as a developer and producer of fiber-optic components, euromicron AG is a strongly growing, highly profitable group that is listed on the stock market, has a medium-sized character and focuses on operational growth, integration and further market penetration, internationalization and expansion.