Avaya Strengths, Domain Expertise, and Key Differentiators
"Avaya sells applications for contact centers and unified communications. AvayaLive Connect is a Cloud-based UC application that supports voice, video, conferencing, chat, and messaging.
AvayaLive Engage is an online, immersive conferencing and social collaboration environment that lets users collaborate as though they were face to face. AvayaLive Engage replicates real-life interactions using personalized avatars, which users control to navigate through an online, three-dimensional environment, with the ability to talk, chat, share, collaborate and present in real-time.
Avaya is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver its Unified Communications and Contact Center solutions on AWS for large enterprise and government customers. Invent Avaya demonstrated Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solutions running on AWS."
Avaya Recent Developments
In May 2023, Avaya Holdings emerged from bankruptcy protection, successfully restructuring its business and reducing its debt load. With a renewed focus and product direction, Avaya aims to re-engage with customers, particularly in the enterprise communications and contact center sectors, backed by a capital structure providing approximately $650 million in liquidity.
In October 2021, Avaya launched ‘Experience Builders’. Avaya is taking a slightly different approach to delivering customer experiences to business customers across the world. According to Avaya, customer interaction is now more important than the product or service the customer is buying. Experience Builders globally aligns Avaya’s services, partners, and developers into an ecosystem designed to help enterprises build better experiences for employees and customers. The ecosystem is designed to meet the new and evolving needs of customers and will be delivered through the Avaya OneCloud platform.
In 2019 Avaya made numerous investments to strengthen its position in the CCaaS and UCaaS markets. The Unified Communications and Contact Center markets and Contact Center markets they serve are continuing to evolve as customers seek blended communications solutions and new delivery models that require strategic technology investments on a larger scale than ever seen before.
The investments led to the launch of a new ReadyNow private cloud solution, combining it with a strategic partnership with RingCentral and crossing the threshold of 4 million total cloud seats. Driving financial outcomes and exited the year generating 83% revenue from software and services, 58% recurring revenue, and 24% in adjusted EBITDA margin.
In February 2018, European law firm Fieldfisher has secured Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) approval for Avaya, the American multinational technology company that specializes in business communications.
Avaya obtained this approval in less than a year from the date of submission, effectively making it one of the fastest BCR approvals obtained by Fieldfisher."
Avaya Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Activities
In August 2021, Avaya acquired CTIntegrations, a contact center software development and system integration company based in Austin, Texas. CTIntegrations provides Avaya with additional digital capabilities for its extensive contact center customer base and will further enhance the Avaya OneCloud AI-powered experience platform. CTIntegrations is the company behind CT Suite and its connectors and has been part of the Avaya DevConnect partner ecosystem, bringing deep expertise in the Avaya OneCloud platform and an understanding of its customers’ evolving needs. Many current Avaya customers are currently benefitting from CT Suite capabilities that integrate into their Avaya contact centers today.
In March 2018, Avaya acquired Intellisist (“Spoken”), a United States-based private technology company, which provides cloud-based Contact Center as a Service (""CCaaS"") solutions and customer experience management and automation applications.
Prior to the acquisition, the Company and Spoken had been working in a co-development partnership for more than a year pursuant to which the Company had recorded a net receivable from Spoken for services provided."
Avaya Customers in ARTW Customer Database
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Avaya Overview
2605 Meridian Parkway Suite 200
Durham, NC, 27713, United States
1 908-953-6000
https://www.avaya.com/
Ownership: - NYSE:AVYA
Number of Employees: 8063
Functional Markets: Collaboration, CRM,
Key Verticals: Automotive, Banking and Financial Services, Communications, Construction, Real Estate, Consumer Packaged Goods, Distribution, K12, Higher Education, Federal Government, State and Local Government, Public Safety, Healthcare, Life Insurance, P&C Insurance, Specialty Insurance, Leisure and Recreation, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Professional Services, Retail, Transportation, Utilities,
Avaya Key Enterprise and Cloud Applications
AvayaLive Cloud,
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Avaya Customers - Breakdown by Geo, Size, Vertical and Product
List of Verified Avaya Customers
No. of Avaya Customers: 220000
No. of Avaya Enterprise Applications Customers: 220000
No. of Avaya Cloud Customers: 33000
No. of Avaya Cloud Subscribers: 6.1 million
Avaya Market Opportunities, M&A and Geo Expansions
In March 2021, Avaya launched new capabilities for Avaya Spaces, the modern workstream collaboration (WSC) platform that offers evolved Unified Communications capabilities via a user’s preferred device. AI-enhanced meetings and simpler, integrated voice and video calling powered by Avaya OneCloud CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) can now extend existing on-premise calling technology with Avaya Spaces.
In October 2019, Avaya entered into certain agreements regarding a strategic partnership with RingCentral, a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions, to accelerate the Company's transition to the cloud.
Through this partnership, the Company will introduce Avaya Cloud Office by RingCentral, new global unified communications as a service (“UCaaS”) solution. Avaya Cloud Office will expand the Company's industry-leading portfolio to offer a full suite of UC, CC, UCaaS and contact center as a service (""CCaaS"") solutions to a global customer base, which includes more than 100,000 customers, over 100 million UC lines and 5 million CC users in approximately 175 countries. Avaya Cloud Office provides the Company with an opportunity to unlock value from a largely unmonetized base of our business as it brings compelling value to our customers and partners. ACO combines RingCentral’s leading UCaaS platform with Avaya technology, services, and migration capabilities to create a highly differentiated UCaaS offering. Under the partnership, the Company is required to market and sell ACO as its exclusive UCaaS solution (subject to certain exceptions). Avaya now has a full suite of public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions for its global UC and CC customers and partners. ACO is expected to launch in the second quarter of fiscal 2020.
Released Cloud communications platform and communication applications Zang to thwart SaaS startups in collaboration and unified communications.
Avaya acquired Esna Technologies Inc., a provider of real-time collaboration and communications software, to accelerate the adoption of communications-enabled applications for both enterprises and midmarket companies.
Avaya acquired certain assets and assumed certain liabilities of the enterprise solutions business (“NES”) of Nortel Networks Corporation out of bankruptcy court proceedings, for an adjusted purchase price of $933 million. The terms of the acquisition did not include any significant contingent consideration arrangements. Innovation focused on emerging technologies such as mobility, cloud-enabled communications, video, application integration, wireless, cloud, security, & services."
Avaya Risks and Challenges
Avaya’s channel sales could undergo significant changes if it decides to withdraw support for box pushers.
In August 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing leadership transition, Avaya announced that it has appointed Jim Chirico, currently Avaya’s Chief Operating Officer and Global Sales Leader as Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2017.
Kevin Kennedy, Avaya’s current President, and Chief Executive Officer will retire as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors effective October 1, 2017, but will continue as an advisor to the Company. Mr. Chirico will join the Board of Directors.
Avaya Ecosystem, Partners, Resellers and SI
"The Avaya sales organization is globally deployed with direct and indirect (e.g., channel partner) presence in over 170 countries.
Among Avaya, partners are Afiniti, Nuance, Salesforce, Verint, Cogito, eGain, EXP360, Sabio, Salesforce Einstein, ScoreData, Sundown AI, Versay, and many others
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