01732 759725 14 NEWS : RESEllers Synextra acquires The Hosting Heroes Peter Sweetbaum Martin Roberts Enreach branding Enreach, the fast growing unified communications and cloud contact centre group, has brought Benemen under the Enreach brand as part of its strategy to present a unified identity across its European markets. Based in Helsinki and Stockholm, the company has been part of Enreach since May 2021. Enreach CEO Stijn Nijhuis said: “The rebranding from Benemen to Enreach is another important step on our journey to be Europe’s UC and CCaaS market leader. Now, we can also target upper mid-market and enterprise businesses as well as strategic partners with our cloud embedded voice solutions. With Benemen, we add enhanced voice capabilities to our broad portfolio of unified communications, cloud contact centre solutions and other value-add services, such as conversational AI and Teams integration.” Enreach was formed in 2018 from the merger of Swyx (rebranded to Enreach DE), Voiceworks and Centile Telecom Applications (rebranded to Enreach for Service Providers). Since then, the group has grown through a dynamic buy-and-build strategy and organically. https://enreach.com/ Content+Cloud acquired by Avania Nordic technology services group Advania is gaining a UK presence with the acquisition of Content+Cloud, the Microsoft cloud services, digital transformation and managed services provider. The deal, Avania’s first outside its core markets of Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Denmark, gives the combined group a turnover of £800 million and a workforce of 3,500 employees. Content+Cloud will continue to operate as a Microsoft-focused cloud services and digital transformation partner under its existing senior leadership team led by CEO Peter Sweetbaum, with the added benefit of access to Advania’s breadth of services and the opportunity to introduce its own services into the Nordics. Operating across all three Microsoft clouds, including Modern Workplace, Azure and Dynamics, Content+Cloud is the most awarded Microsoft partner in the UK, with 16 Microsoft Gold Certifications and six Advanced Specialisations in Intelligent Cloud (Azure), Modern Workplace and Security, and Business Applications. Mikael Noaksson, CEO of Advania, said: “Being able to join forces with Peter and his team is an exceptional opportunity for Advania to enhance our customer proposition and to scale our offering outside the Nordics. For Advania, the acquisition of C+C is a major step towards becoming a leading northern European IT services provider with our decentralised model, customer intimacy focus and longterm relationships.” contentandcloud.com • www.advania.com Synextra Ltd, a provider of cloud hosting services to small and mid-market IT departments, is setting up a new division focused on web hosting, domains and virtual private servers (VPS) after acquiring The Hosting Heroes, a UK-based web hosting and cloud provider. Following growth of more than 40% over the last 12 months, Synextra is aiming to become the ‘go to’ for organisations looking to host IT solutions in the cloud. Chris Danks, who founded The Hosting Heroes in 2002 and has grown the business through the acquisitions of EZPZ Hosting, Yeti Host and Reyaltec, will stay on as Managing Director. He said: “I’m excited that The Hosting Heroes is now a part of the Synextra Group and we’re looking forward to the future of the two businesses working alongside each other. The same excellent team at The Hosting Heroes will continue to support our customers.” www.synextra.co.uk OVHcloud Bechtle partnership European cloud computing provider OVHcloud has announced a pan-European partnership with IT service provider Bechtle to help each other expand across Europe and offer B2B and public sector customers extended access to the latest cloud solutions with full data sovereignty. The alliance will see European customers benefit from a combination of Bechtle’s cloud expertise and state-of-theart cloud solutions from OVHcloud. As a founding member of GAIA-X, OVHcloud offers complete GDPR compliance and has all relevant cloud certifications in core European markets, including C5 in Germany, SecNumCloud in France and G-Cloud in the UK. Hiren Parekh, VP – Northern Europe at OVHcloud, said: “As one of the largest and most advanced cloud system houses in the DACH region, with a strong UK presence, a partnership with Bechtle was an obvious choice for us. Now we want to join forces to jointly tap into new potential across Europe.” corporate.ovhcloud.com • bechtle.com Free Teams migration services TWC IT Solutions is offering UK businesses free migration services from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams before the service goes end of life in April 2022. TWC claims that its Teams Telephony application, built on Microsoft infrastructure, is more feature-rich than Microsoft’s standard Teams telephony thanks to its use of BT and Gamma, the UK’s primary voice carriers, and an online portal for management of call routing, time schedules, AI agents, IVR, call analysis, international local presence DDIs, voicemail and more. twc-it-solutions.com One of the best Derby managed services provider Neuways has been listed as one of Britain’s Top 50 Best Managed IT Companies for the third year in a row, based on an assessment by TechnoPlanet. Neuways Managing Director Martin Roberts said: “It is a source of great pride to be named as one of Britain’s best IT businesses, as it highlights the excellence of the IT experts throughout our business and reaffirms the belief we have in our team and the exceptionally high levels of customer service we provide.” In 2021, Neuways increased its Customer Satisfaction Rating to 98% and the Neuways Support Team maintained its record of hitting 100% of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) agreed with customers. www.neuways.com Stijn Nijhuis
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