Channel collaboration enables AVANT network of “trusted advisors” to offer comprehensive portfolio of security services

CHICAGO, Oct 9, 2018, 10:00am EDT—AVANT Communications, a leading channel sales enablement company and the nation’s premier distributor for next generation technologies, today announced a newly forged alliance with Trustwave. Avant’s thousands of channel sales professionals, known as Trusted Advisors, help customers navigate today’s fast changing IT landscape to help make the right technology choices to solve today’s business problems.
 

Bana Qashu took on the role of Senior Business Development Manager for the East for AVANT effective April 1. The newly created role is responsible for recruiting such partners, on boarding, and working closely with senior leadership at AVANT on strategic initiatives, and the senior partner managers within the region to ensure that partners are receiving the local support they need.  

Quick quiz: What do Adidas and Ticketmaster have in common?  AVANT's Chief Cloud Officer, Ron Hayman, gives you the answer and more in this guest blog post about today's security opportunity. 

I’ve quite literally never been more excited to announce a software update, and having come from Google I can say I've seen a lot of updates!  For those of you that visited us at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, you know what we’ve been working on, and how excited we were to be demoing the newest set of BattleApp features.  Release Day has finally arrived, and I get share with you the three most powerful new weapons in the BattleApp arsenal.  Read on to find out why I'm so excited!

We're passionate about helping the channel sell more effectively, and we always strive to learn as much as we can about what the channel truly needs to succeed. That’s why AVANT and a few of our channel friends recently conducted a survey to better understand channel practices and related outcomes. We wanted to reach beyond our own experience to learn about the channel across the board – not just our own partners.  Survey participants were a mix of agents, consultants, MSPs, and VARs. They offer a variety of solutions to an array of business verticals. These survey participants sold a combined 14,518 deals in 2017.  Find out what we learned and how it can help you achieve new levels of success!

Chicago, Illinois May 30, 2018 AVANT Communications today announced winners of the first annual Special Forces Summit Awards.  Recipients were recognized across twenty categories for their sales achievements and sales resourcefulness.

Chicago, Illinois—May 14, 2018  AVANT Communications, the leader in channel-sales enablement for next-generation IT solutions, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named five women leaders to its prestigious 2018 Women of the Channel list. The executives who comprise this annual list span the IT channel, representing vendors, distributors, solution providers and other organizations that figure prominently in the channel ecosystem. Each is recognized for her outstanding leadership, vision and unique role in driving channel growth and innovation.

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.