Arkadin Wins Cloud Computing Excellence Award

By Rahul Arora
TMCnet Contributor

Arkadin (News - Alert), a provider of unified communications and collaboration services, recently announced that it has won The Cloud Computing Excellence Award for Arkadin Total Connect, a Microsoft (News - Alert) Lync hosted service.

Arkadin Total Connect helps customers standardize the core communication and collaboration workloads with the integrated Microsoft technologies of Lync, Exchange and SharePoint. Delivered from the Cloud as a Service, Arkadin Total Connect provides a simple, consistent user experience that empowers your workforce to collaborate the way they want to via instant message, voice call, audio/web/video conference or email.

The solution leverages a client’s existing investment by enabling a full-feature phone system that seamlessly integrates for unified messaging in a cloud-hosted deployment. The end users can communicate and collaborate in rich interactions across all Lync workloads, improving productivity and driving efficiency, while reducing costs associated with traditional third party conferencing services.

"It's an honor to be recognized for the excellence of Arkadin Total Connect," says Mark Alexander, managing director, Arkadin North America. "Our new cloud-based UC service gives businesses of any size a convenient all-in-one solution to meet all their collaboration needs, including telephony."

In related news, Arkadin recently announced that it has won a silver award for 'Fastest Growing Company of the Year', and a bronze award for 'Company of the Year' in the Best in Biz Awards 2014 EMEA. The awards competition is the only independent business awards program in Europe, the Middle East and Africa judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

Winners of Best in Biz Awards 2014 EMEA were determined by scores from a panel of 16 high-caliber judges from top-tier newspapers, business, finance and technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets from 10 countries, including ARD (Germany), Banking & Finance Magazine (Belgium and Netherlands), BBC Radio Leeds (U.K.), Branders (Switzerland), Guardian (U.K.), HTmobile (Israel), IAA Magazine (U.A.E.), Irish Independent (Ireland), Jerusalem Post (Israel), Khaleej Times (U.A.E.), Micro Mart (U.K.), PC Format (U.K.), Tbreak Media (U.A.E.), The Engaging Brand (U.K.) and Xbox Plus (Brazil).