Video Guidance Named Gold Solution Provider of Polycom

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. --(Business Wire)--

Bloomington, Minn.-based Video Guidance (www.videoguidance.com), a leading strategic visual communications company, has been named a Gold Solution Provider of Polycom (News - Alert), a global leader in unified communications (UC), with industry-leading telepresence, video, voice and infrastructure solutions built on open standards. As a Gold Solution Provider, Video Guidance is recognized for its sales acumen and technical expertise, and offers customers best-in-class UC solutions.

Polycom's end-to-end unified communications will be showcased at Video Guidance's Bloomington headquarters. Video Guidance's state-of-the-art facility will enable customers to view Polycom solutions, from desktop to room and immersive telepresence, including the Polycom® Video Content Management (VCM) platform.

"Polycom Gold Solution Providers such as Video Guidance ensure that customers are receiving the highest quality technical expertise and sales support," said Ron Myers, Polycom's senor vice president of Global Channels. "We deliver to our partners industry-leading UC solutions to help customers improve collaboration, boost productivity and operate high-performing workplaces."

As an independent provider of visual communications, Video Guidance partners with the world's leading audio/visual equipment manufacturers to implement customized strategic communications. The customer-focused company differentiates itself by providing "best of breed" technologies and unlimited applications to help its customers to communicate more effectively and to exceed their business goals.

"We are extremely proud of our longstanding relationship with Polycom, which goes back to the earliest days when Video Guidance was formed," said Michael Werch, president of Video Guidance. "With Polycom's recent UC innovations announcements, we see more market opportunities for our business and for giving our customers the right solutions."

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bloomington, Minn., Video Guidance, Inc. (www.videoguidance.com) is a market-leading, independent provider of strategic visual communications, offering video conferencing, telepresence and audio visual technologies and services. The company has enjoyed a 64 percent increase in booked sales and 38 percent increase in revenue during the second quarter of 2011 over the same period in 2010. The company has also had a 43 percent increase in booked sales during the second quarter of 2011 over the first quarter of 2011. Privately held Video Guidance is an independent partner of Cisco, Polycom and LifeSize. Other strategic alliances include Conference Plus, On Stream Media Corporation, Radvision, VBrick (News - Alert), and Accordent.

For five consecutive years, Video Guidance has been named to the "Inc. 5,000" list of the nation's fastest growing private companies; and has been named by The Business Journal as one of the "50 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies" in the Twin (News - Alert) Cities metro area (2007-2010). In 2007 and 2010, the company has been among the "Top 100" of the fastest growing regional companies in Minnesota and Wisconsin.