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NEWS : RESELLERS 01732 759725 14 Michael Field Independent managed office services supplier ASL is expanding its service offering with the Cloudya cloud telephone system from pan-European cloud PBX provider NFON, as it embraces voice as a key lever for growth ASL Group Sales Director Paul Derry said: “We have a great legacy with print and IT services, but in order to keep growing we want to diversify our portfolio with solutions that will complement our product set and add value to our customers’ business.” ASL will deliver services through Nuvola Distribution, NFON UK’s distribution partner since July 2019. www.asl-group.co.uk ASL targets voice for growth Workflo looks beyond print West Lothian-based document management and IT support specialist Workflo Solutions has forged a strategic partnership with Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) as both companies extend their offerings beyond print to include IT solutions based on AI, robotics, cloud and mobility. Michael Field, Managing Director of Workflo Solutions, said: “We are thrilled to announce this partnership with Konica Minolta UK. Our businesses are closely aligned in a number of areas, not least in our joint ambition to provide bespoke workplace automation using the most advanced and disruptive technologies available.” BIOS IT appointed Panasas VAR High-performance computing (HPC) integration specialist BIOS IT has announced that it is to sell Panasas storage solutions throughout the US, EMEA and APAC. As an appointed value-added reseller (VAR), it will provide customised HPC storage solutions leveraging the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra appliance, which runs the PanFS parallel file system on industry- standard hardware for a low total-cost-of- ownership (TCO). ActiveStor Ultra with PanFS offers the performance, reliability and manageability needed to process the large datasets associated with HPC workloads and applications like AI, precision medicine, autonomous driving, AR and VR. www.bios-it.co.uk Transforming the public sector UKCloud, the multi-cloud expert for the UK public sector, has developed VMware- powered cloud services to help public sector organisations accelerate their digital transformation so that citizens, businesses and public sector staff can access services and securely share data from remote locations. The VMware Cloud Verified supplier says that its relationship with VMware enables it to meet public sector requirements in four areas – remote working (e.g. with a government-grade desktop-as-a-service offering powered by the VMware Horizon virtual desktop); digital services to accelerate the delivery of public services via multiple clouds; cost reduction through cost-effective cloud licensing models and a cost optimisation service; and cloud native services. www.ukcloud.com PTG reinforces commitment to Candlelighters Leeds-based pure technology group (PTG) has launched its Summer 100 campaign of fund-raising events in support of children’s cancer charity Candlelighters. Confirmed activities include ‘Pink-it-up week’ in June, a sponsored skydive, a socially distant 10k run, plus corporate donations at the business’s annual event ‘ptXX the circus’. PTG has also become the first company to sign up to the new ‘Club Candlelighters’ scheme, with a commitment to raise a minimum of £25k per annum for the next three years. PTG has raised £84,000 for Candlelighters to date and expects this summer’s fundraising events to take it past the £100k mark. First Connect Partner of the Year Synergy Technology Group, a Surrey- based supplier of managed print and technology solutions, has been announced as the inaugural Connect Partner of the Year 2019/20 by Sharp Business Systems UK. The Connect Partner programme was established by Sharp in 2018 to strengthen relationships with organisations whose services complement its portfolio. Today, there are 15 Connect Partners specialising in managed print, IT, document processing, archiving, office products and consultancy. Simon Warnes, Director of Sharp Connect, said: “Synergy embody the Connect Partner programme ethos perfectly by ensuring our relationship is truly 360-degree, whereby we are passing opportunities to each other. Synergy really have met us halfway at each step of the way and we have worked collaboratively on all their Sharp Connect initiatives over the last 12 months.” Synergy expects to triple the number of devices it has under management by the end of 2021. www.sharp.co.uk Enghouse integration Customer experience specialist converse360 has joined Enghouse’s EMEA partner programme to support deeper integration between the companies’ products. Converse360 has already integrated its Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) with Enghouse’s Communications Center (CC) to automate customer interactions and, over the course of the partnership, plans to work with Enghouse on other integrations and new product development. It will also help other Enghouse Interactive partners with automation integration by enabling them to use its platform to build chatbots, IVAs and automated speech applications and by building connectors to Teamwork Messenger applications and process automation vendors. www.converse360.co.uk