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...

As the saying goes, you don't know where you're going until you know where you've been. 2016 was a year of tremendous growth here at AVANT. UCaaS, SD-WAN, and Public Cloud were key areas of sales growth, and AVANT cemented sales enablement as the cornerstone of the company’s future. Check out our Top 10 Growth Initiatives of 2016!

AVANT is about to disrupt the channel sales enablement industry in a major way and Salesforce invited us to talk about it tomorrow at Dreamforce!  The team is heading to Salesforce Dreamforce 2016 (San Francisco (Oct. 4-7) to showcase our SEaaS platform, with Drew Lydecker, President and Ian Kieninger, CEO, sharing the coveted spot in the Dreamforce speakers lineup. 
 

Enables sales channels to sell and close more cloud, colocation and connectivity opportunities

Chicago, IL, August 15, 2016  AVANT, the premier distributor and channel sales enablement company for next-generation IT technologies, announced the launch of its platform for Sales Enablement as a Service (AVANT SEaaS). 

We’re excited to introduce the newest member of the AVANT team. JP Tucker joined us on July 11th as Director of Product. JP is a former Product Manager at Google tasked with building next-generation technology for the Android mobile operating system. JP will help us continue to build the next-generation Sales Enablement Platform that helps our partner exceed at selling next-generation IT solutions.

Fasten your seatbelts: We’re about to cram everything you need to know about selling software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) into 500 words. What exactly is an SD-WAN? In short, it’s the most recent innovation in the evolution of multisite enterprise connectivity with unique advantage over alternative WAN solutions.
 

You knew it was good news when AVANT revealed its partnership with Cisco. After all, the AVANT partner community now has access to the world’s top cloud service providers in one portfolio. Whether or not you are a current partner or considering becoming a member of the rapidly expanding AVANT community, you might not yet be aware of just how robust the AVANT/Cisco partnership has become.

A lot of exciting new things happened at this year’s Channel Partners for us! This year was the biggest and best Channel Partners show in recent memory, maybe ever, and we are thrilled to have made a big splash. Even amongst the Tesla's, tricked out Jeeps, and ex-NBA stars, AVANT managed to steal the buzz on the show floor.

AVANT has grown to become the largest and fastest growing aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services. What’s a cloud aggregator? AVANT works with more than 70 solution providers around the world to bring their cloud solutions to market; then they help the channel partners sell those cloud services more effectively.

News flash: According to a recent report from SDxCentral, titled “SDxCentral and NFV Market Size Report 2015 Edition,” software-defined networking (SDN) revenue (combined with that of NFV) will exceed $105 billion per annum by 2020. Your customers will soon expect you to advise them on the ins and outs of advanced SDN solutions.