Avant Partners with Interactive Intelligence

Technology distributor Avant has signed a partner agreement with Interactive Intelligence Group to offer its partners the Interactive Intelligence customer engagement cloud solution PureCloud Engage.

"Cloud contact center services sold through our channel have grown more than 400 percent year over year," said Drew Lydecker, co-founder and president of Avant, in a statement. "We're pleased to offer PureCloud Engage from Interactive Intelligence through our channel of leading agents, VARs, and MSPs. We believe PureCloud delivers what our channel wants: a cost-effective, fast-to-deploy, and easy-to-manage solution with continuous delivery of the most innovative features."

"As a trusted advisor to thousands of businesses worldwide, Avant has earned a reputation for giving its partners top-notch sales and engineering support, along with sophisticated tools and resources," said Darren Gill, vice president of channels at Interactive Intelligence, which was recently acquired by Genesys, in a statement. "With the addition of PureCloud Engage, we're thrilled to empower Avant's end customers with innovative, secure, and reliable technology resulting in a competitive edge."

Interactive Intelligence's PureCloud Engage is an omnichannel cloud solution with a microservice architecture built atop the Amazon Web Services Cloud. PureCloud Engage functionality includes omnichannel routing, speech-enabled IVR, recording, quality management, outbound campaigns, CRM integrations, graphical scripting, the ability to plug into other apps and cloud services, and unified communications and collaboration capabilities.

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