Chicago, Illinois and Las Vegas, Nevada —April 17, 2018 AVANT Communications announced today the findings of its Cloud Channel Survey 2018. Together with Channel Partners, Hosting, Masergy, Navisite - Spectrum Enterprise and TALARI Networks, the findings reveal key insights about the state of selling cloud services. Conducted by Edge Strategies in early 2018, the research looked at understanding major customer trends and changes in decision drivers as they impact IT and cloud services channel sales.

AVANT Communications today announced that Rick Reed assumed the newly created position of Senior Director of Channel Sales, South-Central Region. Reed joins AVANT with more than 17 years of experience in telecom between AT&T and Informa (Channel Partners), with 5 years of channel experience between AT&T (leading marketing launch efforts at AT&T Partner Exchange) and Channel Partners (leading the Channel Partners brand most recently as the SVP of sales and strategy). 

Chicago, Illinois—March 6, 2018  AVANT Communications, the leader in channel sales enablement for next-generation IT solutions, today announced completion of its first company NPS® survey. AVANT surveyed its customers -- leading VARs, MSPs and Agencies located in the US, UK and Canada -- receiving an NPS score of 84.

Chicago, Illinois—December 13, 2017 AVANT Communications, the leader in channel-sales enablement for next-generation IT solutions, today announced that Isaiah Hogberg assumed the newly created position of West Coast Channel Director. Hogberg previously served as the vice president of channel sales at Peak10 + ViaWest. During his tenure at ViaWest, Hogberg built the firm’s indirect channel program into a major strategy driver.

Isaiah Hogberg likes to stay in motion.  When you have a person that spends their “free time” doing activities like rock climbing, skiing, biking, and rafting, you know you’re dealing with someone that isn’t going to be content to sit on the sidelines.  That’s why we hired him to lead the West Coast Region.  

Chicago, Illinois—Sept. 25, 2017 AVANT Communications, the leader in channel-sales enablement for next-generation IT solutions, doubled its channel support resources, further enhancing the company‘s superior level of support. AVANT also made significant investments in its BattleApp technology platform, allowing partners to intelligently search more than 1,000 sales and marketing resources, selecting relevant content with machine learning.
 

CHICAGO—April 10, 2017 AVANT and Comcast Corporation today jointly announced an agreement in which AVANT will offer Comcast Business services to AVANT’s channel sales partners leveraging AVANT's channel sales enablement capabilities.

CHICAGO -- April 10, 2017 AVANT, the leader in channel sales enablement for next-generation IT solutions, today announced major enhancements to their Channel Sales Enablement Program, delivered to partners as a service, and the release of BattleApp v.2.1, with expanded face-to-face selling capabilities at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo 2017 in Las Vegas, NV.

CHICAGO, Ill.—January 24, 2017  AVANT starts 2017 with an expanded list of SD-WAN providers and a significant commitment to partners to support the need for SD-WAN services. This portfolio of partners places AVANT, a leader in sales enablement and distribution of next generation IT services, squarely in the middle of one of the fasting growing IT cloud segments in the market with the broadest portfolio of SD-WAN leaders in the industry.

Special guest blog:  We’re eCloud Managed Solutions, and we recently selected AVANT to be our exclusive distribution partner — largely because of the way AVANT handles sales enablement. Simply put, AVANT provides resources that no other company can match.  AVANT’s enablement tools, like their BattleBriefings series, have made an impact to our business at eCloud Managed Solutions, here's how...