Avaya Spaces Collaboration App, Currently Offered Free To Schools, Leveraged Across Avaya’s Global Workforce to Support COV...
March 20 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Avaya Spaces video collaboration traffic has
increased more than 500 percent as organizations shift to remote
operations
With governments, schools and businesses of all sizes continuing
to look for ways to address the impacts of the COVID-19
(coronavirus) pandemic, Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA) is
powering its global COVID-19 response efforts with Avaya Spaces,
and providing significant resources to enable more organizations
globally to adapt to a world that is mandating new ways to
engage.
Avaya Spaces is a cloud meeting and team collaboration app that
enables people and organizations to connect and collaborate
remotely with video, meetings, content sharing and more. The
company has made the collaboration app available at no charge to
educational institutions and nonprofit organizations worldwide
through August 31, 2020.
Avaya’s extensive efforts to support its COVID-19 response
requires internal and external collaboration, globally, on a 24 x 7
basis. In addition, Avaya’s workforce has increasingly transitioned
to working remotely for the safety of its employees, contractors,
partners and clients. The Avaya Spaces offering has been critically
important in empowering the necessary, rapid reliance on virtual,
cloud-based communications.
Avaya CEO Jim Chirico said, “Communication and collaboration
solutions are important during business as usual, but absolutely
mission critical during times of crisis. In addition to the support
we are providing to global organizations through our complementary
software offerings, Avaya Spaces is being used across every element
of our business to support rapid response to COVID-19 related
projects.”
Avaya Spaces provides users all the critical meeting and team
collaboration features needed, including voice and video
conferencing. Since January, Avaya has seen an increase of more
than 500% in video collaboration traffic on the Avaya Spaces
platform. And in the past week alone, several hundred universities,
schools and other organizations worldwide have engaged Avaya to
gain the connectivity and collaboration capabilities Avaya Spaces
provides as they address the challenges of this pandemic.
Charter College International High School in Johannesburg, South
Africa is one of many schools that has transitioned to online
learning. “Our first priority is the safety of our students. During
a global pandemic, our goal is to provide continuity of their
classes while ensuring we’re following the most up-to-date health
advice from government bodies. Avaya Spaces enables us to achieve
this,” said Alison Dodge, Principal at Charter College
International High School. “We join a growing number of educational
institutions worldwide who have had to cancel in-person classes,
but we’ve worked extremely quickly to move lessons online and
ensure that our students are still being provided with a top
education.”
In quick response to the Egyptian government’s decision to close
schools and universities for two weeks, Orange Egypt, the leading
provider of integrated telecommunications services and Avaya
partnered to enable all educational institutions in the country to
implement remote learning initiatives. Hisham Mahran, Vice
President of Orange Egypt for the corporate sector said, “It is
clear that technology plays a pivotal role in our day to day lives
and is an especially valuable tool in such challenging times. Our
partnership with Avaya is another testament to Orange Egypt’s
commitment to supporting the digital transformation of key sectors
in the country. The solution that we are jointly offering enables
educational institutions to maintain the safety of students as
their top priority, while ensuring minimum disruption to their
education.”
For comprehensive information on Avaya’s programs to assist
organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the company’s
global COVID-19 technical hotline for customers and partners,
please visit the web page.
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and
everyday millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE:
AVYA). For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations
around the globe to win – by creating intelligent communications
experiences for customers and employees. Avaya builds open,
converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify
communications and collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a
hybrid of both. To grow your business, we’re committed to
innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next.
We’re the technology company you trust to help you deliver
Experiences that Matter. Visit us at http://www.avaya.com.
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