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CityIS Teams with Avistar in Joint Videconferencing Venture
July 23rd, 2008 by Video Conferencing Expert
Avistar Communications Corporation , a provider of visual communications and video conferencing services, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with City Information Services Limited, also a global visual communications and video conferencing services company. The agreement offers CityIS’ clients a cost-effective, user-friendly desktop videoconferencing solution that is built to extend video conferencing to the desktop, office, home or on the road.
Avistar General Manager, Darren Innes:
CityIS is a significant player in our strategy to deliver our C3 solutions through the reseller channel. CityIS has more than a decade of specialized experience in the videoconferencing space, and knows first-hand what its clients need to remain competitive in today’s challenging global marketplace. With offices around the world servicing global clients, CityIS offers a breadth and depth of channel coverage that will be instrumental in our goal of making Avistar desktop videoconferencing services as ubiquitous as large room implementations.
CityIS Chairman, John Thompson:
More and more, our clients see the value of videoconferencing as a means to boost workplace efficiency, optimize supply chain operations, accelerate decision-making and reduce carbon emissions. This agreement allows us to complement our extensive videoconferencing offerings with an easy-to-use, intuitive desktop solution that maximizes the productivity of users and does not disrupt the work flow they have underway at their desks.
Wainhouse Research Senior Analyst, Ira Weinstein:
Today’s challenging economic climate has spawned increased interest in both group and desktop/personal videoconferencing. CityIS’ experience selling and supporting professional videoconferencing solutions makes them well suited to offer Avistar’s C3 integrated desktop conferencing solution to its roster of enterprise clients.
As the boom in videoconferencing services increase, many web conferencing and video conferencing companies are creating strategic partnerships with similar firms to increase their offerings to their clients at prices that reflect the economies of scale. Webconferencing companies such as Webex are able to offer services at far lower prices and strategic parterships among smaller corporations allow them to stay competitive.