Nuance Announces Winners of Inaugural Voice Industry Partner Awards
Orlando, Fla.- Nuance (NASDAQ:NUAN), announced the winners of the inaugural Voice Industry Partner Awards. Nuance partners were recognized within seven distinct categories for their voice automation expertise and commitment to building outstanding solutions to serve the expanding speech market. Nuance's winning partners - Avaya, Accenture, Intel, Intervoice, Tellme Networks, WorkForce Technologies and Ydilo - are commended for their commitment to delivering Nuance-powered voice automation solutions, experience in delivering successful speech applications, Nuance revenue contribution and participation in Nuance partner training courses.
The 2004 Voice Industry Partner Awards have been divided into seven categories: OEM, Platform Value Added Reseller, Messaging, Consulting, Technology, Voice ASP and International Partner of the Year.
Best OEM Channel Partner Award: Intervoice
Intervoice, a leading provider of converged voice and data solutions, was named the year's Best OEM Channel Partner. This award recognizes the partner that best markets, sells and deploys IVR systems or other call center solutions which embed Nuance speech recognition, voice authentication, or text-to-speech software.
Best Platform Value Added Reseller Award: WorkForce Technologies
WorkForce Technologies, a leader in voice self-service solutions, is the Platform Value Added Reseller category winner. The Platform Value Added Reseller Award recognizes the partner that best markets, sells and deploys voice automation solutions on the Nuance Voice Platform, providing value-add through design, development, deployment, and ongoing support, as well as their own unique systems integration services.
Messaging Award: Avaya Unified Communication Center (UCC)
Avaya Unified Communication Center (UCC), which provides enterprises with a unified speech interface to their most commonly accessed network services, is the Messaging Award winner, fusing speech within its products to offer voice access to email and voice messages, calling and conferencing capabilities, directories, databases, calendars and task lists, and company information. The Messaging Award recognizes the partner that best markets, sells and deploys Nuance-powered communications solutions, such as voice-driven voicemail, email and unified messaging.
Consulting Award: Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company that helps clients become high-performance businesses and governments. The Consulting Award recognizes the partner that best provides business and technical services that complement a voice automation solution deployment, solving business problems for customers and adding value in connection with a sale of a Nuance speech solution.
Technology Award: Intel
The winner in the Technology category was Intel, which supplies the computing and communications industries with standards-based modular building blocks for the communications market segment. Their commitment to speech technologies and standards has helped to increase quality and lower deployment barriers. The Technology Award recognizes the partner that best markets and sells products, services, designs or standards that are a primary component of a speech solution. This partner works with Nuance sales and Nuance channel partners to deliver a complete business solution.
Voice ASP Award: Tellme Networks
Tellme Networks takes top Voice ASP honors for its work uniting the Internet and telephone. The company operates the largest network of VoiceXML phone applications in the world. The Voice ASP Award recognizes the partner that provides customers with the best-hosted voice automation application.
International Partner of the Year Award: Ydilo
Ydilo, a leading European Voice ASP based in Madrid, emerges as the International Partner of the Year. The International Partner of the Year Award recognizes the partner outside the United States with the greatest commitment to Nuance, revenue contribution, number of successful applications deployed, and ability to meet Nuance-set partner training requirements.