Award winning project delivers unified communications in the cloud to the City & Guilds Group

20th October 2014: Azzurri Communications has gained the Best Enterprise Hosted Solution accolade at the prestigious annual Comms National Awards, which highlight the greatest achievements and innovations of the communications industry.
Beating fierce competition from a shortlist of five, Azzurri won the award for the ICON Communicate solution delivered to the City & Guilds Group, a global leader in skills development. ICON Communicate is a cloud-based suite of IP telephony, unified communications and contact centre services operated by Azzurri on its own infrastructure.
The solution enables 2,500 City & Guilds Group employees to work anywhere, whether in the office, on the move or on clients’ premises. Using services delivered to Azzurri’s rigorous performance guarantees, City & Guilds has embarked on its strategy of removing communications systems from its sites whilst offering the business a seamless and cost-effective user experience.
Chris Jagusz, CEO of Azzurri said, “This award is a validation that Azzurri’s ICON services are leading the market in delivering innovative cloud communications that meets the needs of our customers. City & Guilds’ IT team has delivered seamless unified communications to their employees by working with Azzurri. We look forward to a continued partnership with City & Guilds, based on innovation and confidence in delivery.”
This Best Enterprise Hosted Solution award recognises communications providers who deliver innovative hosted and managed service solutions that meet Enterprise end user requirements. The awards ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on 16th October 2014.