New Information about Polycom from ScanSource Communications

INNOVATION DRIVING UC EVERYWHERE: FROM MOBILE TO THE CLOUD AND BEYOND

Polycom Real Presence Ready and NEW Cloud Offerings Powered by Polycom UC Software Make Business Grade Video More Flexible and Affordable Than Ever for SMBs! (read more)

Polycom Closes HP Visual Collaboration Group Deal!!! (read more)

June 1 UC Webcast (recorded playback)

Get complete details on these ground-breaking UC announcements that will redefine the way you work.

Polycom to Acquire HP Halo and Managed Services, Become HP's Exclusive Partner for Video UC
Polycom announced it is acquiring HP's Visual Collaboration Business Unit, including HP's Halo products and Managed Services, and the two companies have entered into a deep strategic agreement through which Polycom will become HP's exclusive partner for telepresence and video UC solutions. This will create an end-to-end UC solution that will deliver to our joint customers an unparalleled user experience, interoperability, investment protection, and ease of deployment.
Industry's First Open Visual Communications Consortium to Drive B2B and B2C Video Communication
Polycom introduced the revolutionary Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC), a breakthrough open video exchange cloud with the world's leading service providers that will enable visual communications beyond corporate firewalls and proprietary video platforms. The OVCC will enable global businesses to connect everywhere and make it easy for millions to communicate via video as simply as they connect by mobile phones.
Polycom and Microsoft Expand Strategic Partnership and Extend Joint Development Agreements
Polycom and Microsoft are developing two new breakthroughs in enterprise UC that will expand the companies' joint development and go-to-market activities on multiple fronts. A breakthrough new solution, code-named "Rally," will be the first and only room telepresence solution with an embedded Lync™ client, and will natively integrate with Microsoft's Office 365 cloud offering, running on Lync Server as well as premise-based Lync systems.
Two-for-one Stock Split
In addition to these industry break-through developments, Polycom also announced a two-for-one split of its common stock with a record date of June 15, 2011.

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Polycom Unveils Five New Innovations at InfoComm to Further Accelerate Unified Communications (UC) and Joint Revenue

This week, Polycom announced at InfoComm 2011 several significant solutions to accelerate the adoption of UC. The products range from Polycom® UC Intelligent Core™ software to cloud-based video content management (VCM) solutions to immersive telepresence and VoIP systems. Deliver scalability, interoperability, ease of use and performance to your customers. These latest solutions offer you more business opportunities – profitably! (read more...)

Polycom Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year

Polycom's Momentum Garners Top Media Recognition

With all the recent ground-breaking announcements, the press is pumped up about Polycom. Among all the recent buzz in the industry, here are some of the highlights:
    Andy Miller on Jim Cramer's 'Mad Money' on CNBC
    Investor's Business Daily feature article
    CRN.com article
    The VAR Guy article

POLYCOM’S ACQUISITION OF HP’S VISUAL COLLABORATION (HPVC) BUSINESS

Polycom’s acquisition of HP’s Visual Collaboration (HPVC) business, including the Halo immersive telepresence products and Halo Video Exchange Network (HVEN), is now complete. Polycom will also immediately become HP’s exclusive partner for telepresence and video solutions—a significant validation of Polycom’s market leadership and the merits of our open standards-based approach. Our valued partners and channel ecosystem remain the cornerstone of Polycom’s go-to-market strategy, and we will continue to grow our mutual businesses together and jointly service our customers. Get more details on how this acquisition can grow your business and provide new sales opportunities.

POLYCOM ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF ACCORDENT TECHNOLOGIES

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), a global leader in unified communications (UC), today announced the acquisition of Accordent Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of video content management and delivery solutions, for approximately $50 million in cash. Polycom expects this acquisition to be neutral to earnings in 2011 and slightly accretive to earnings in 2012.

The acquisition positions Polycom to become the leader in the Video Content Management and Delivery market by integrating Polycom's leading open standards UC Intelligent Core™ and market leading UC endpoints with Accordent’s innovative open standards video content management solution. The Accordent solution provides capture solutions for all major video use cases, whether delivering highly scalable live webcasts from the studio, providing automated rich media webcasting from the meeting or classroom, adding a streaming extension to videoconferences or enabling user-generated content from the desktop. According to data from market research firm Wainhouse Research, this acquisition immediately expands Polycom's total available market by $500 million and, for this video management segment, this market is projected to generate a compounded annual growth rate of 32% through 2014 to $1.2 billion. As a strategic partner with Microsoft, Accordent strengthens and further differentiates Polycom's deep native integration with Microsoft Lync and SharePoint.

POLYCOM RECOGNIZES SCANSOURCE COMMUNICATIONS FOR EXCELLENCE!

ScanSource Communications, a leading value-added distributor of communications products and a sales unit of ScanSource Inc., {Nasdaq: SCSC}, has been named Global Distribution Partner of the Year, 2010, and North America Distribution Partner of the Year, 2010, by Polycom, Inc., a global leader in unified communications (UC). The distributor was recognized last week at the company’s annual partner conference, TEAM Polycom in Orlando, FL. Global Distribution Partner of the Year is the highest honor that can be awarded to a Polycom distribution partner.

This year, Polycom recognized ScanSource Communications for its overall excellence in selling and supporting Polycom’s solutions from a global and North America perspective. ScanSource Communications has been recognized for eight consecutive years for its strong partnership with Polycom.

POLYCOM AND HP ANNOUNCE BROAD STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

Polycom, Inc., a global leader in unified communications (UC), announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Polycom will acquire the assets of HP's Visual Collaboration business, including the Halo Products and Managed Services business.

In conjunction with this acquisition, HP and Polycom have agreed to establish a strategic relationship in which Polycom will serve as an exclusive partner to HP for telepresence and certain video UC solutions, including both resale and internal HP deployments. The two companies have also agreed to make available Polycom's video applications for HP's WebOS platform.

The alliance extends Polycom's leadership in the Unified Communications and Collaboration market with HP's installed base of visual collaboration products and technology. The exclusive partnership broadens the company's strategic relationship with HP and expands the UC solutions HP offers its global customer base.