New Polycom Services Help IT Expand the Power and Potential of Workplace Collaboration

Where and how people work is changing, and IT departments must meet the demands of this workplace evolution. Dedicated to delivering high-quality experiences and customer success, Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) announced today several new services offers designed to help IT administrators make smarter decisions, drive adoption and protect their unified communications and collaboration investments—now and into the future. One of the new unique innovations, Polycom® RealAccess™ services delivery platform, puts personalized and near-real-time data at their fingertips through a secure, cloud-based portal, giving them the power to analyze, manage and make evidence-based decisions about their collaboration environment. “Organizations are making significant investments in collaboration technology, and because every organization is unique, they need a partner who can build a solution that satisfies their business needs today and well into the future,” said Navin Mehta, Polycom Senior Vice President of Global Services. “Polycom’s new services provide a clear roadmap for success from planning and evaluation through deployment and ongoing operations. Having the right partner every step of the way helps our customers create better user experiences, which drives adoption and faster return on their investment.” Through a set of innovative and highly differentiated applications, the Polycom RealAccess services delivery platform provides IT with important data on utilization, capacity and success rates, giving IT administrators the information they need to make faster and smarter decisions. The platform improves solution performance by identifying  issues quickly and proactively, which ultimately improves end user experiences. It also gives IT the flexibility to choose specific applications that best fit their needs, such as:

• Asset Management: Provides detailed insight into endpoints, including information on where and what solutions—down to the software version—are being used.
• Analytics: Provides data and metrics on utilization, capacity and performance, so customers can make data-driven, evidence-based decisions about current and projected needs.
• Video Library: Contains short how-to training videos to help people use collaboration tools, driving adoption across all levels of the organization.

“With the Polycom RealAccess services delivery platform, Polycom has changed the way we approach asset and capacity management,” said Laurent Chartier, Global IT Building Manager at SCOR, a global reinsurance company. “By giving us the information, resources and analytics we need, in simple and easy to access ways, Polycom makes our decisions easier and gives us clear feedback on their impact.” Polycom also has broadened its Managed Services offering to meet the needs of customers who want to outsource all or part of their video collaboration investments. The expanded offers cover the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform (video infrastructure) and endpoints through state-of-the-art monitoring, management, hosting and transformation services, allowing IT departments to spend more time on their strategic priorities. Polycom Managed Services proactively monitors, detects and resolves new issues or threats to current infrastructure, while offering robust reporting and diagnostic tools that are designed to create efficiency and maximize return on investment. The new offerings also give customers the ability to choose the level of service they need. Organizations of any size adding enterprise voice to their Microsoft Lync (Skype for Business) deployments and using Polycom® VVX® business media phones will now have the benefit of Polycom’s support and expertise with Polycom VVX Services for Lync . These services offerings help customers optimize their networks and infrastructure, familiarize administrators and users with the features of the device, as well as provide assistance from planning to going live and beyond. The Polycom RealAccess services delivery platform and Polycom Managed Services are globally available today from Polycom and our certified partners. Polycom VVX Services for Lync will be available in late spring. For more information on how channel partners can deliver and sell Polycom Services, please visit The Partner View.