Company to sell SMART products to business and higher education customers
ARLINGTON, VA --- February 21, 2012 --- SMART Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SMT) (TSX: SMA), a leading provider of collaboration solutions, announces that ePlus has been appointed an authorized SMART dealer. ePlus specializes in IT infrastructure and unified communications, and will provide its customers with SMART business and higher education products. The ePlus staff will receive SMART certified sales and technical training, ensuring top-quality service for customers. The appointment of ePlus highlights SMART’s continued push to add resellers of unified communications solutions for business and higher education customers. ePlus joins more than 280 authorized SMART dealers across North America.
Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, ePlus is an award-winning value-added dealer with expert-level teams who specialize in building, maintaining and financing IT infrastructure to help customers enhance productivity and efficiency through integrated business solutions. A public company, ePlus experienced strong financial results in 2011 with stock that appreciated more than 50 percent over 2010. ePlus has long-standing partnerships with leading suppliers such as Cisco® and Microsoft® and has been awarded the highest level of unified communications certifications from both of these organizations. These relationships enable ePlus to integrate SMART products with those of Cisco, Microsoft and other leading suppliers to provide customers with complete collaborative solutions for meeting spaces and lecture halls. For more information on authorized SMART dealers, visit smarttech.com/wheretobuy.
“SMART is a great addition to our collaboration portfolio that includes our Master Unified Communications certification with Cisco and our Unified Communication specialization with Microsoft,” says Mark Melvin, CTO, ePlus. “Our customers will benefit due to the collaborative capabilities for unified communications of SMART products with those of Cisco and Microsoft.”
“ePlus has a track record of creating solutions specific to the client’s overall technology needs,” says Rick Winde, Director of Advanced Collaboration Solutions, ePlus. “We recognize the key advantages of SMART’s collaborative tools and we have already demonstrated, with customized solutions, how to migrate these tools into solutions for our clients.”
“SMART business solutions give customers the tools to implement unified communications into their workspaces and as SMART’s position strengthens in these markets we continue to add dealers to actively promote and sell our products,” says Patric Nagel, Vice President, Americas, SMART. “ePlus is an ideal addition to our dealer network due to its expertise in providing integrated solutions and the support the company will provide to our business and higher education customers.”
About ePlus
ePlus is a leading provider of technology solutions. ePlus enables organizations to optimize their IT infrastructure and supply chain processes by delivering world-class IT products from top manufacturers, professional services, flexible lease financing, proprietary software, and patented business methods. Founded in 1990, ePlus has more than 750 associates in 20+ locations serving federal, state, municipal, and commercial customers. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.
About SMART
SMART Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of collaboration solutions that transform the way the world works and learns. We believe that collaboration and interaction should be easy. As the global leader in interactive whiteboards, we bring more than two decades of collaboration research and development to a broad range of easy-to-use, integrated solutions that free people from their desks and computer screens, so collaborating and learning with digital resources are more natural.
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