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From the News Desk
Monday, 5. June 2006
Nokia Appoints Redington Gulf as Enterprise Distributor
Nokia has appointed Redington Gulf as a distribution partner for its enterprise solutions across the Middle East, making its move into the IT channel. Redington will be one of our its distributors in the Middle and Near East, providing all components of the mobility solution – security, mobility platform and enterprise class devices, Nokia said.
"We are seeing more and more enterprise IT departments looking to mobilise their applications, starting with mobile push e-mail and providing enterprise mobilisation solutions requires skills on the back-end IT infrastructure, corporate messaging systems, security and mobile devices. We needed a distributor that has experience in the IT channel and is already engaged with IT system integrators who have these skill-sets, and we found all that in Redington," said Joe Devassy, sales manager key accounts at Nokia enterprise solutions Middle East and Africa (MEA).
Nokia said the deal would allow it to reach to a larger audience with its Eseries enterprise device offering. The distributor also offers points of presence in multiple countries covered by the agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Redington will cover the GCC, Levant, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, Nokia had acquired wireless messaging and e-mail management firm Intellisync and it is aggressively building up the levels of customer interest in its enterprise mobility solution.
Under the partnership, 10 pilot installations are currently underway in Saudi Arabia.
"We are seeing more and more enterprise IT departments looking to mobilise their applications, starting with mobile push e-mail and providing enterprise mobilisation solutions requires skills on the back-end IT infrastructure, corporate messaging systems, security and mobile devices. We needed a distributor that has experience in the IT channel and is already engaged with IT system integrators who have these skill-sets, and we found all that in Redington," said Joe Devassy, sales manager key accounts at Nokia enterprise solutions Middle East and Africa (MEA).
Nokia said the deal would allow it to reach to a larger audience with its Eseries enterprise device offering. The distributor also offers points of presence in multiple countries covered by the agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Redington will cover the GCC, Levant, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, Nokia had acquired wireless messaging and e-mail management firm Intellisync and it is aggressively building up the levels of customer interest in its enterprise mobility solution.
Under the partnership, 10 pilot installations are currently underway in Saudi Arabia.
