ACR Centre
19, rue Pierre-Boulanger
ZI du Brézet-Est
F-63100 Clermont-Ferrand France Phone : +33 (0)4 73 90 07 07 Fax : +33 (0)4 73 90 54 05 Website :http://www.acrcentre-alliance.com E-mail : acrcentre@reseau-alliance.com
Team
Manager : Mr Frédéric Cristofini Sales director : Mr Fernando Da Silva Department manager : Mr Damien Inguimbert Department manager : Mrs Christelle Busteau Department manager : Mr Cédric Bayle
Information
Creation year : 1996 Siret : 408 890 481 00018 VAT identification number : FR 46 408 890 481 Annual turnover 2011 : 4,07 M€ 2010 : 3,60 M€ 2009 : 3,10 M€ 2008 : 3,94 M€ 2007 : 3,77 M€ Active resellers : 150 Indirect turnover : 90% National/regional/export split : 0/100/0 Specialist : Cabling and connectivity, networks, security Main brands : Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, D-Link, Nexans-NCS, Schneider Electric Clients : Associations (2%), corporate resellers (1%), distributors (2%), installers (85%), IT consulting and service providers (3%), systems integrators (7%) Employees : 7 people
Products
Accessories 19" accessories, bays and racks
Atos, Minkels Battery chargers
Slat Headphones and microphones
GN Jabra, JPL Communications, Plantronics
Cabling and connectivity Network cables and connectivity
Acome, Nexans-NCS, R&M, Schneider Electric-Infraplus, Silec Optical cables and connectivity
Acome, Nexans-NCS, R&M, Schneider Electric-Infraplus, Silec Phone cables and connectivity
Acome, Nexans-NCS, Schneider Electric-Infraplus, Silec
Telecommunications Audioconferencing
Avaya-Radvision, Polycom Micro-switches
Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Panasonic Music on hold
Reinau PBX
Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Panasonic Phone and voice-over-IP
Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Gigaset, Meru Networks, Panasonic Switchboards
Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Panasonic Teleconferencing
Polycom
Telephony Faxes
Sagemcom, Samsung Fixed phones (wired or wireless)
Doro, Gigaset, Technicolor Mobile phones
Doro
Services
Value added services After-sale consulting, after-sale service, architecture design, authorized training centre, brand-dedicated sales staff, BTO, cash-and-carry, co-marketing funds, configuration help, custom cable manufacturing, customer loyalty program, dedicated contacts, demo products, demos, direct shipping to final client, e-commerce site, e-mailing, field sales staff, help with specifications write-up, hot-line, information newsletter, lead generation, leasing, manufacturer certifications, meeting room, modeling, pre-sale consulting, product catalog, product loan, regular special offers, retail-dedicated sales staff, sales help, show-room, specific preparations, standard exchange, thematic catalogs, trial products Financial services 30-day payment, automatic transfer, bank garanty, bill of exchange, cash with order, draft, factoring, promissory note, transfer Minimum delivery time
National : 72 hour(s) International : NC
News
Polycom multiplies alliances and programs
2011-08-30
While it did not want to comment the impact of the acquisition of the video-conference division of HP over its distributor network, Polycom has unveiled its new partner program and another technology alliance.
Dubbed Choice Program, the new partner program aims to push its resellers to invest more in its technologies (A/V, industry specialization, Microsoft unified communications, VoIP, etc.). As a reward, its certified channel gets higher earnings. The goal is to strengthen the skills and commitment of its partners, to face more efficiently Cisco-Tandberg competition. This new partner program leans obviously on its distributors (organized by major specialties, such as network infrastructure, telephony or VoIP - that is Arrow ECS Network and Security, Itancia and Imago in France for example), which may become training centers if they wish.
Beside its POCN (Polycom Open Collaboration Network) alliance, launched last year ago with 8 partners around the Lync unified communications from Microsoft, Polycom plans to further simplify the interoperability of videoconferencing infrastructures with OVCC (Open Visual Communication Consortium). Like POCN, OVCC purpose is to be able to use any videoconferencing solution without having to worry about the infrastructure of the other users. A bit like the traditional telephony, since the dawn of time…
