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Alliance Systems, tekVizion
Sign Joint Services Agreement
Duo to Help Streamline Service Providers’ Transition to
Reliable VoIP Networks
PLANO and RICHARDSON, TX (March 8, 2005) –
Alliance Systems and tekVizion™ PVS, Inc., the new standard
for systems integration, today announced they have signed a joint
services agreement intended to help smooth service providers’
transition to reliable converged networks.
By working together, Alliance and tekVizion offer completely
integrated, tested, and supported solutions including servers,
software applications and middleware from leading independent
software vendors (ISVs).
The two parties have agreed to work together to create market
opportunities for each other’s products and services and
to further expand their portfolio of shared vendor relationships
with market-leading ISVs.
Today the industry is benefiting from the innovation and modularity
that open standards provide. The downside to this flexibility,
however, is that service providers are left to deal with many
more vendors to build a competitive solution. In most cases, launching
even a single new service into the market requires a service provider
to work with different hardware vendors, several different ISVs,
and possibly multiple professional services firms. Through this
relationship, Alliance and tekVizion can help streamline this
process, saving considerable time for the service provider and
leading to more reliable services by delivering tightly integrated
and pre-tested multi-vendor solutions that arrive on-site with
customer-specific configurations and support documentation.
tekVizion offers specialized professional services including
consulting, custom software and portal development, integration,
support, and test services that include the tekVizion Labs™
testing and certification facility. tekVizion offers these services
to communications service providers and vendors.
Alliance Systems is an original design manufacturer (ODM) serving
ISVs and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by providing
value-added services including the design, build, ship, and support
of Intel server technology. By combining its design and manufacturing
capabilities with its global logistics, technical support, and
implementation services, Alliance delivers end-to-end infrastructure
support services.
“Forming a relationship with tekVizion provides customers
that have embraced complex technologies like AdvancedTCA with
a seamless solution for their custom software development needs,
server design, and configuration as well as testing,” said
Rusty Cone, president of Alliance Systems. “Our goal is
to provide customers with the highest quality products and services
in the most convenient and cost-effective way possible. We believe
this agreement strengthens our efforts to do so.”
“Alliance and tekVizion are a natural fit, since each company’s
area of expertise complements the other’s,” said Terri
Griffin, tekVizion president. “The range of expertise represented
by this relationship enables service providers to hand off the
headaches of moving to VoIP networking to experts while reaping
the marketplace advantages of rapid rollout of converged services.”
About Alliance Systems
Alliance Systems (www.alliancesystems.com),
based in Plano, Texas, designs, builds, ships, and supports Intel-based
servers. These systems provide the infrastructure for voice over
IP, wireless, security, and other communications applications.
Through its engineering, manufacturing, and value-added services,
Alliance Systems helps customers optimize their businesses by
enhancing profitability and reducing time to market. Today, Alliance
focuses on delivering open standards-based servers to OEMs (original
equipment manufacturers), ISVs (independent software vendors),
and service providers throughout the world. Through strategic
partnerships with Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, and HP, the company
provides a full range of products and services that are specifically
designed to meet today’s mission-critical communications
applications.
About tekVizion PVS, Inc.
tekVizion (www.tekvizion.com) is setting the new standard for
systems integration in the telecommunications industry. tekVizion
Labs™ is the first interoperability certification lab of
its kind, and tekVizion’s suite of FastForward>>SM
services helps service providers achieve a smooth transition to
packet-voice networks, speeding delivery of integrated services.
tekVizion leverages its real-world, multi-vendor integration and
test experience and proven processes to provide leading vendors,
carriers, and enhanced service providers with solutions that meld
legacy and next-generation resources. tekVizion’s headquarters,
along with a state-of-the-art test lab and Executive Briefing
Center, is located in the Telecom Corridor® in Richardson,
Texas.
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