Paris, 18 April 2013 – NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has achieved significant recognition from Alcatel-Lucent with a host of awards won by the company’s in-country operations in France, Italy, Poland and UK. Announced at the Alcatel-Lucent Executive Partner Days in Rome, the awards highlight the ongoing close relationship between NextiraOne and Alcatel-Lucent and the range of expertise in implementing Enterprise solutions.


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Four of the awards focus on OpenTouch and the successful relationship between the two companies in the implementation of Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship technology for the workspace of the future. NextiraOne was named as OpenTouch Partner of the Year 2012 and also won individual regional awards in France as Best Performer OpenTouch and in both France and Italy as “Best OpenTouch Partner of the Year.” Four further awards included:

NextiraOne Poland          2012 Top Performer - Services Business
NextiraOne France          2012 Top Performer - Installed Base
NextiraOne UK               2012 Top Performer - Data
NextiraOne France          2012 Customer Satisfaction Partner of the Year

"These awards are an extremely rewarding recognition of the close relationship we have with Alcatel-Lucent and especially rewarding is the fact that our work with the future-oriented new OpenTouch solutions is being so clearly marked,” said Andreas Schwarz, NextiraOne’s Strategic Alliance Director Europe for Alcatel-Lucent. “For our customers this is an important further proof point of our ability to design and deliver the kind of powerful multi-media communications solutions they want to deploy.”

NextiraOne is Alcatel-Lucent’s largest European business partner and recently confirmed its re-accreditation as Alcatel-Lucent Global Partner 2013 – the vendor’s highest level accreditation. NextiraOne is Alcatel-Lucent’s most extensive certified Global Partner with more than 2,000 certifications in 15 European countries, including sales, pre-sales and post-sales for the entire Enterprise portfolio. The relationship between NextiraOne and Alcatel-Lucent covers all European countries where NextiraOne has operations, including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and United Kingdom.

Paul Spaargaren, Alliance Director for NextiraOne at Alcatel-Lucent said: “These awards are testament to NextiraOne’s strong commitment and success with our Alcatel-Lucent solutions and what we can achieve together for our customers. Our congratulations go to NextiraOne Group and the individual countries that have achieved these awards and we look forward to our future joint successes in delivering innovative and best-in-class solutions for enterprises throughout Europe.”