AVM Achieves SMART Gold Business Partner Accreditation
11/05/12

AVM announced that it has achieved SMART Gold Business Partner status as part of the SMART Reseller Accreditation Programme.

 

The programme was developed to enhance the sales and technical competencies of SMART’s reseller network. The accreditation represents the highest tier of product and service delivery. It gives business users confidence that AVM is able to provide the best customer experience and deliver a full range of services such as installation, training and customer support for the SMART collaboration and meeting room solutions.

 

Edward Cook, Chief Executive Officer at AVM said “Undergoing the accreditation program shows the commitment that AVM has to the SMART business products and allows us to become more effective in deploying these. The extensive training and technical knowledge that’s required means that AVM are best placed to advise customers and meet the needs of the market place.”

 

Martine Dodwell-Bennett, Sales and Marketing Director at Steljes, comments “I am delighted that AVM has made the investment in joining SMART's Reseller Accreditation Programme. AVM is one of the largest audiovisual integrators in the UK working with many extremely high profile clients. Their experience and knowledge within the corporate sector make them a key business partner in our progress within this market place. I am looking forward to strengthening our relationship with AVM and seeing them thrive as a pioneer within this programme.”

Londoners prepare for the Olympics with ‘Stress Test’
08/05/12

With just over two months to go until the summer Olympics, Londoners will stress test the readiness for the 2012 Games by working from home.

Today and tomorrow, close to 100 firms in the capital will be taking part in an Olympic Games ‘Stress Test’, organised by Canary Wharf Group and Deloitte. Companies will test measures including working from home, varying work hours and changing travel plans.

Hundreds of London companies are under-prepared for the Olympics with a third of firms having no contingency plans, and only 1 in 10 planning to allow staff to work from home.

Mark Naysmith, Games readiness director at Deloitte, said: “On the busiest days of London 2012, there are expected to be an extra three million journeys on the public transport system. It is essential that companies across the city, large and small, have thought through how their business and their people will cope with this period.”

MWB's head of Olympics, Kathryn Hurt, said: “We’ve been calling on companies to stress test their systems for months. Now with just 80 days to go until the start of the Olympics, businesses are slowly waking up to the fact that they need to prepare.”

She added: “During snowday in February 2009, £1bn was lost from the economy. Now times that by the 17 days of the Olympics and you can see the potential hit UK PLC could take.”

The Department for Transport is asking long-distance commuters to try different methods of working such as video conferencing and unified communications.

■ 42 per cent of companies are worried about staff availability during the Olympics

■ Predicted there to be an extra 20m train and tube journeys during the Games

■ 80 per cent of spectators visiting London this summer will travel by train and Tube

■ 89 per cent of firms believe the Olympics will affect them

■ Yet 30 per cent of companies have not made any contingency plans for the Games

■ 22 per cent of staff feel their employer is prepared for the disruption from the Olympics

■ 21 per cent of employees are willing to skive work to watch a live Olympics event

 

AVM is the leading visual communications systems integrator in the UK and continues to help businesses realise the benefits of video conferencing such as cutting costs, eliminating travel time and reducing carbon footprint. For more information or advice please contact us.

0845 2626 200

info@avmvision.com

AVM awarded onto the North East and North West University Purchasing Consortia Frameworks
29/03/12

AVM Education has been awarded a place on the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) and North West University Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) to supply, install and support integrated audio visual systems to universities across the North of England for a minimum of three years.

AVM Education is part of the largest videoconferencing and audio visual systems integrator in the UK and has worked on some of the biggest higher and further education AV projects. Having served the NEUPC & NWUPC in the past for many years, they fully understand the operational concepts of supplying AV within the higher education environment. AVM Education also has experience with many other consortiums such as the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW), London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) and others.

Both of these university framework agreements encompass the design, installation and support of audio visual equipment. It will range from installation of a basic teaching and meeting room, to upgrading of lecture theatres and conference rooms, through to new build projects.

AVM now part of the APUC framework
23/03/12

London, March 2012. AVM is now on the contract for the supply and delivery of audio visual equipment to Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) for a minimum of two years.

 

APUC is the procurement centre of expertise for Scotland’s 60 universities and colleges. AVM was awarded onto the contract as part of the North West Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) multi-supplier framework agreement on behalf of the NWUPC, APUC and the Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC).

 

The university framework agreement encompasses the supply and delivery of audio visual equipment from a single projector and whiteboard to full video conferencing and digital media systems.

 

Members of APUC are invited to attend AVMs national technology update event at Murrayfield Rugby Stadium in Edinburgh on the 17th April. For more information and to register visit www.avmvision.com/edinburgh.

VC is finally breaking out of the meeting room
29/02/12

Industry experts nominate the single biggest technology changes or obstacles likely to affect the market in the next two years.

According to AVM director of visual communications, John Masters there is an unprecedented amount of interest in desktop video: “Our customers are mainly talking to us about this because they want to know how to integrate their meeting rooms and exec systems with desktop platforms.

 
“The greatest breakthroughs come when customers take the step of installing video in smaller rooms with collaboration tools such as Webex, visualisers or interactive whiteboards integrated into the solution and show staff how this can be used to enhance business processes.” 
 
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