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ProVu Win 2 Comms Dealer Sales & Marketing Awards!

It’s that time of year again when we don the ‘posh frocks’ and kick off the year’s Channel awards. One of the first industry awards in our calendar is the Comms Dealer Sales and Marketing Awards, for which we were shortlisted for five awards! Designed to celebrate the work and achievements of Sales and Marketing teams throughout the Channel, the awards are a great event to celebrate success throughout the industry.

Taking place at the Park Lane Hotel on 4th May myself, our Managing Director, Darren and Sales Team Leader, Anna travelled down to London to attend the awards. Having been shortlisted for five awards, we were sceptical about how we may perform; all 5 awards had strong competition and following our success at last year’s awards, we didn’t think we’d do it again.

Much to our delight, we were named winners of the following awards:

  • Distributor Channel Sales Team of the Year
  • Distributor Channel Marketing Campaign of the Year

We were also thrilled to be highly commended for the Distributor Marketing Team of the Year award.

The last 12 months have seen some great achievements for the ProVu team, with yet another record-breaking year in the bag. We are continuously striving to bring more to the Channel and develop our services. But, for us, there are four core messages that we believe stood out to the judges.

  • We have an incredibly dedicated, passionate team who carry out everything in-house; we do not outsource anything we do.
  • We listen to and value our partners’ feedback, enabling us to tailor our services and develop our sales and marketing strategies in response to this.
  • We hold strong relationships with all of our vendor partners, by working with them closely, we are able to offer them marketing support and run joint marketing campaigns for maximum ROI.
  • We’re a great team and we know our stuff – did you know that over 50% of our team are trained technical engineers?

Compared to many of our fellow entrants, we are a very small team – to be named among them is a great achievement in itself!

We would like to congratulate all finalists and thank our Channel and vendor Partners for your continued support over the past year. But most of all, well done to each and every member of the ProVu team, without your hard work and determination this simply would not have been possible! Here’s to another great year!

We’re listed on the Northern Tech 100 League Table!

We’re delighted to have featured in the Northern Tech Awards for the third consecutive year!

Taking a slightly different approach this year, award organisers GP Bullhound teamed up with Tech North to compile the first ever Northern Tech 100 League table.

Revealed last night at a glamorous awards ceremony in Newcastle, we were thrilled to be named 75th fastest growing technology company in the North!

We would like to congratulate all other companies who featured in the league table and the awards.

For the full list and to read more about the awards, please see the Tech North newspaper.

Comms Dealer Sales & Marketing Awards – We’re shortlisted for 5 Awards!

We are thrilled to have been shortlisted in 5 categories in the 2017 Comms Dealer Sales & Marketing Awards! Following our success at last year’s awards, we are delighted to have been recognised among some of the most prestigious companies in the industry for the second year running.

This year also sees the addition of a number of new categories, including Apprenticeship Scheme of the Year and Best Customer/Partner Portal. Our shortlisted categories include:

  • Distributor Channel Sales Team of the Year
  • Distributor Channel Marketing Team of the Year
  • Distributor Channel Marketing Campaign of the Year
  • Best Partner/Customer Portal
  • Best Apprenticeship Scheme

The awards are due to take place at the Park Lane Hotel, London on 4th May 2017. We would like to wish all shortlisted companies the very best of luck!

ProVu Shortlisted in Comms National Awards

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We are delighted to be named finalists in the 2016 Comms National Awards. Shortlisted for the ‘Best Convergence Distributor’ Award, we are looking forward to attending the ceremony on 13th October at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel, London.

Congratulations to all shortlisted companies, we look forward to seeing you on the night!

2016 Comms National Awards – Have you submitted your entry?

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There’s just over 2 weeks to go before the entry deadline for the 2016 Comms National Awards and our entry is beginning to take shape. With a number of awards targeted at resellers and Service Providers, we wanted to share with you some of the categories up for grabs and the benefits of entering the awards.

Categories up for grabs:

  • Best SME Contact Centre Solution
  • Best Enterprise Contact Centre Solution
  • Best SME Vertical Market Solution
  • Best Enterprise Vertical Market Solution
  • Best SME Cloud Solution
  • Best Enterprise Cloud Solution
  • Best SME M2M/Wireless Solution
  • Best Enterprise SME M2M/Wireless Solution
  • The Nine Group Customer Service Award

So why enter the awards?

  • The build up to the awards helps to generate a buzz internally and helps to acknowledge your team’s hard work and dedication.
  • If you are shortlisted for an award you’ll receive free PR and be recognised among other leaders in the Comms and IT Channel.
  • A shortlist announcement gives you something exciting to talk about and share with your customers and stakeholders.
  • Entry is completely free!

To enter, simply register and download the application form from the CNA website, the deadline for entries is 29th July.

Top Tip: Nigel Sergent, Editorial Director at Comms Dealer is always happy to help with any entry enquiries, any questions can be directed to him at: nsergent@bpl-business.com

The Comms National Awards are prestigious awards and having been shortlisted for the past 2 years, we would encourage you to get involved – who knows you could be named champions at the ceremony which will take place on 13th October at the Hilton on Park Lane, London.

We look forward to seeing you on the night and raising a glass to your success!

The ProVu Team.

ProVu Win Independent Software Vendor Award at 2016 Comms Business Awards!

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In May, we were named finalists in two categories in the 2016 Comms Business Awards, our shortlisted categories included: Market Maker Distribution Award and the Market Maker Independent Software Vendor award. Last week both our Managing Director, Darren Garland and Sales Director, Ian Godfrey travelled down to London to attend the awards and we are delighted to have been named winners for the Independent Software Vendor award!

Our independent software, ProSys was launched in 2006 and continues to be developed in-house by our development team. For those who are not familiar with ProSys, it is our online portal which allows resellers and service providers to access a range of tools designed to ease the fulfilment of Customer Premise Equipment, more information can be found on our ProSys information page.

As part of our entry process we were asked to submit a case study which demonstrates how ProSys has revolutionised our customer’s processes. For this we chose to focus on how we adapted our systems to work better for a leading Service Provider, here’s a glimpse of some of the work our development team carried out:

Among our range of value added services, we offer zero touch automatic provisioning for phones, and an API that enables resellers and service providers to integrate their services with ours. Through our API, customer orders can be placed on their websites and fed directly through to our despatch queueing system, however sometimes we need to unwrap our services a little to make them work for our partners.

The service provider in question had their own phone provisioning systems and their own ordering systems which they wanted to feed directly through to us in order to automate their order process. In response to this we created a completely bespoke API for them.

Through our developments, ProVu now sit in the middle with this service provider’s orders; we receive the order from them, translate part codes to their own part codes, ship the items and then they pull the order status information back from us to display on their system and populate their own provisioning server.

This particular service provider had a unique set of requirements which were not available elsewhere in the market. As our systems are developed in-house, we were able to solve their problems and they now have a solution which is entirely within their control, but has all the benefits of the automated ProSys workflow.

Our team work exceptionally hard to develop our systems to ease the fulfilment of CPE and it is a great honour to win such a prestigious award. We are delighted to have been recognised among other leaders in the Channel and are very happy to receive such recognition.

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Comms Business Awards 2016 – ProVu Shortlisted in Two Categories

We are pleased to announce that ProVu have been shortlisted for two awards in the 2016 Comms Business Awards! The finalist announcement comes just two weeks after we were named as Channel Account Team of the Year and Channel Marketing Team of the Year in the Comms Dealer Sales and Marketing Awards. Our latest shortlisted categories include; Distribution and Independent Software Vendor.

It is a great honour to be named as finalists for these prestigious awards, congratulations to all shortlisted companies!

Due to take place on Thursday 16th June, the awards will be hosted by Sir Lenny Henry at the Lancaser London Hotel – wish us luck!

For a full list of finalists, please see the Comms Business Shortlist Announcement.

2016 ITSPA Awards

Members of the ProVu Team travelled down to London last week to attend the 2016 ITSPA Awards. The awards took place at The Deck, National Theatre, London on 11th May. Having sponsored the award for ‘Best VoIP Innovation’ we would like to congratulate 8×8 for winning the award with their Virtual Contact Centre and Gradwell Communications for being named ‘Highly Commended’ in the category for their Call Recording.

We would also like to congratulate our vendor partners, VTech and Yealink for being named ‘Highly Commended’ in their category, ‘Best VoIP CPE’. VTech were ‘Highly Commended’ with their VSP725A/VSP500A/VSP601A bundle and Yealink for their VP-T49G video phone.

We thoroughly enjoyed our day at the awards and as always it was great to catch up with our channel and vendor partners. Congratulations to all finalists and winners of the awards!

ProVu Celebrate Double Award Win!

Last year our Sales Director, Ian Godfrey and I attended the Comms Dealer Sales and Marketing Awards for the first time. ProVu had been nominated for the Distributor Channel Account team of the Year, unfortunately we did not win but I had a moment of clarity whilst there; if we entered more award categories we would probably stand a better chance of winning an award. Not rocket science, I know but sometimes the obvious isn’t immediately clear.

Roll forward a year and after much hard work and many re-writes and alterations we had strong entries in three different categories. April arrived and we found out we had been shortlisted in all three categories, Distributor Channel Account Team of the Year, Distributor Channel Marketing Team of the Year and Distributor Channel Marketing Campaign of the Year. So far so good, my theory was working. Never being over confident about these things we then made lots of PR noise about our treble nomination as I told the team it will be “old news” when someone else has won them.

Did I really think we stood a chance, to be honest no. ProVu is a very successful company that is growing at a pace, but we are still a minnow on the distribution landscape. The figures we talk about in our award submissions I am certain could be delivered by one department in a quarter for the larger distributors. On the plus side we are recognised as experts in our field with our fairly unique product mix and value added services. Was that going to be enough, we would have to wait and see.

So the big day came, Marketing Manager, Kate Stolworthy and Sales Account Manager, Anna Marzec-Smith and I travelled down to London to attend the awards. The awards took place at the Park Lane Hotel where we shared a table with our friends from Voiceflex and had a very pleasant lunch. The awards were hosted by sports presenter, Dan Walker of Football Focus Fame and latterly Breakfast TV. I have to say, he was good, he kept what was becoming a loud crowd in order with some great banter and put downs. He informed us that the hotel’s gents toilets had been part of the film set for the Bond film Casino Royale and then regaled us with a story of immense courage of a Japanese Gymnast called Shun Fujimoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shun_Fujimoto).

The Distributor category awards were the first to be announced. Much to my absolute surprise we won the first award for Channel Account Team of the Year. We went up on stage, grabbed the award, had our photo taken and I was a happy man – it had all been worthwhile. On the way back to my seat I came across various customers and vendors who were passing on their congratulations and were shaking my hand. I had literally just sat down when ProVu were called up again as winners of the Marketing Team of the Year award and we did the whole thing again. I was asked to say a few words this time on ProVu’s success, I waffled on for about 20 seconds and then the microphone was firmly, but politely taken from me. I cannot really remember what I said except that it was all down to the superb team at ProVu. By the time they announced the third category Dan teased us with the name of the winner beginning with a ‘P’, we didn’t manage the hat-trick, but we were named ‘Highly Commended’ in the Marketing Campaign of the Year Award, which was won by Pragma Distribution – congratulations to them! The remainder of the day passed in a flash of fun and laughter, we took a tactical call to extend on the celebrations and not return home that evening, returning to the office the next day and I am delighted to say still with our awards in hand.

So why did we win, there is clearly something to my law of averages theory, but I think ultimately you need good facts and figures that demonstrate a successful story. The successful story comes from having great staff that are dedicated to the company and make that success happen. It is also made a great deal easier if you have good vendors that support you and a great customer base who help you along the way. We are fortunate at ProVu to have all three of these elements.

So to everyone involved in ProVu’s success be it the great team at ProVu, our vendors or our customers I would like to express my sincerest thanks.

Darren

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Comms Dealer Sales & Marketing Awards – ProVu Shortlisted in 3 Categories!

 

We are delighted to announce that ProVu have been shortlisted for three awards in the 2016 Comms Dealer Sales and Marketing Awards! Our shortlisted categories include:

  • Distributor: Channel Account Team of the Year
  • Distributor: Channel Marketing Team of the Year
  • Distributor: Channel Marketing Campaign of the Year

It is a great honour to be listed as finalists for these awards, our small team are an integral part to our continued success and the awards are a real testament to their hard work.

The awards will take place at the Park Lane Hotel, London on 5th May 2016 – Wish us luck!