Cloudy outlook in store for resellers

forecastMore vendors are working out ways to get their resellers at the heart of cloud based operations.

Now unified communications specialist Swyx Solutions has announced a new version of its cloud solution SwyxWare Compact for Datacentre for the channel.
The product has been designed for reseller partners, and makes it possible to take into account the individual requests of customers.

Using SwyxWare Compact, resellers and MSPs can offer cloud-based unified communications services to their customers without a huge fee.

Based on a VMware platform, the Compact version has been adapted to the needs of the channel and is aimed at partners with existing VMware knowledge.

Swyx CEO Ralf Ebbinghaus said that the SwyxWare Datacenter Edition that has been primarily offered by carriers and service providers with their own data centre.

“With the Compact version we now cover the needs of the entire channel, so any reseller can give the customer a choice for SwyxWare – on-premise or out of the cloud,” he said.

“In the last year we have given our resellers the ability, through our partner Deutsche Telekom, to offer customers a UC solution via the public cloud, and now with SwyxWare Compact we have created a further business model for our partners.”