Nexus Makes the VARBusiness Networking 100 List

In the recent June 2008 edition, VARBusiness polled a variety of solution providers on their expectation for the upcoming year. The networking survey results show that solution providers expect to see the greatest revenue growth in VoIP, unified messaging and IP videoconferencing. With more than 40 percent of solution providers offering VoIP solutions, the future looks bright for those who incorporate these popular technologies.

In addition to the survey results, VARBusiness listed the top 100 networking companies. This list was based on the original VARBusiness 500 list published earlier this month in which Nexus ranked number 230. Below is the link to the list.

Nexus is listed on page 5. http://www.crn.com/networking/208700184;jsessionid=NO3EZ05ZFZ1MYQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN

To view the articles on the technologies, see the links below:

State Of Technology: Networking Growth In VoIP, Video

Networking – VoIP

Networking – Video

Networking – Wireless

Networking – Network Management

Networking – Wired

Networking – Services

Nexus Raises Money for Women’s Cancers

Recently, two of our dearest employees recently found out they had cancer; one with breast cancer and the other with cervical cancer.

Besides providing awareness of women’s cancers to our associates, it allowed us to team up and come up with a way to contribute to defeating this disease. The company set a goal of raising $2,000 to two organizations:

• Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• National Cervical Cancer Coalition

If that goal were met, four of our associates volunteered to have their heads shaved.

We are happy to report that we met the goal…in the first day! As of May 15, we have raised over $6,000 and contributions are still going strong.

If you would like contribute, please visit http://cms.komen.org/komen/Donations/index.htm or http://www.nccc-online.org.

PIX to ASA Migration

Your organization doesn’t stand still, and neither do threats to your network. You need to make sure that your security capabilities can keep up with both. So far, your Cisco PIX solution has provided a reliable shield against intrusion, but it could be time for your business to move to the next generation of VPN and security solutions: the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance.

In addition to the firewall defense you currently receive with your existing Cisco PIX appliance, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series gives you VPN, intrusion prevention, and content security. These security features are integrated on a single platform that looks and feels like the Cisco PIX interface, making the ASA 5500 Series appliance easy to install, configure, and manage. With this next-generation security solution, we can help you:

• Protect sensitive information from evolving security threats
• Provide anywhere, anytime access while keeping costs low
• Increase performance and network availability while simplifying management

Now is the perfect time to build up your network security. Please contact your local Nexus Account Manager or call 800-536-2400 for more information.

Mobility and Single Number Reach

Have you ever walked away from your desk for a few minutes, come back, and find that the call you have been waiting for came, and went to voicemail? Have you ever been on that important conference call that is running long, and you have to leave for your next appointment? Do you ever sit on your cell phone, in the office, completing the remaining 45 minutes of the conference call you are on just so you don’t interrupt the call by hanging up and dialing back in? We at Nexus used to, until we deployed Mobility and Single Number Reach.

Over the past few months, Nexus has been enabling the field sales force with new productivity tools and enhancements that were gained as a result of the investment Nexus made to refresh our internal systems.

Mobility
The Mobility feature provides the ability for a user to transition telephone calls from desk phone to cell phone, and from cell phone to desk phone, without interruption or disconnection. Providing this feature allows our users to move more freely in and out of the business.  “The best part about single number reach for me is not having to disconnect from a conference call when I leave the office. I just hit my mobility button; send the call to my cell phone, and no one knows that I am headed out,” commented Dave Elsner, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Nexus.

Single Number Reach
Single number reach enables system users to publish a single phone number to clients, partners and others, and build a find me list that can simultaneously ring multiple phones, such as a cell phone, home office phone, or any other phone. For our sales organization, this means that customers can more often connect with them rather than voicemail, resulting in better customer response time, leading to overall better customer satisfaction.

Some of the financial benefits Nexus is gaining as a result: reduced cell phone plan usage as a result of users being able to transparently take the call they are on back to their desk phone. This significantly minimizes the number of users sitting on cell phones in the office. We are also experiencing fewer calls to voicemail, which not only reduces the number of callers ending up in voicemail, but also reduces email storage capacity impact.

To learn more about how your business can save money and increase productivity with features such as Single Number Reach and Mobility, contact your account team.

Nexus Takes a Leading Role in the Cisco Partner Operations Advisory Board

The Partner Operations Advisory Board (POAB) meets live approximately twice a year and holds regularly scheduled conference calls between meetings. The agendas include numerous topics which open and maintain active communications between Cisco’s operational management teams and high-level operational leaders from select companies within Cisco’s partner community. Nexus has taken an active role in POAB including contributing our best practices and early adoption to various initiatives and new processes.

The Cisco Partner Operations Advisory Board provides a great opportunity to gather and share ideas and best practices for improving existing tools and processes when working with Cisco. The Partner Operations Advisory Board Provides a conduit for information exchange between Cisco and their Partners allowing Partners to give specific feedback on matters that impact our businesses as well as our performance to our mutual customers, and make recommendations for improvements.  The combined team shares best practices and works together to improve existing practices wherever possible.   The board works together with the common goal to assure improved accuracy and quality in the delivery between Cisco and their partners, resulting in improved overall performance delivery to our mutual clients with the highest level of client satisfaction.

We are pleased to have Dale Hardy, Nexus Vice President of Professional Services, representing Nexus on the Partner Operations Advisory Board. Please feel free to reach out to him directly (dale.hardy@nexusis.com) if you have any questions or thoughts pertaining to issues that you believe should presented to the board.

Nexus to Offer the Latest in Enterprise Branch Office Optimization Using Cisco and Sagem-Interstar Technology

Nexus, a three-time Cisco partner summit award winner this year, will soon be offering a brand new “green” IT technology. based on Cisco’s new AXP platform and Sagem-Interstar’s XMediusFax, it will cater to enterprise requirements in branch office survivability, network virtualization, and reduced hardware footprint.

Sagem-Interstar Inc., the global leader in advanced fax solutions for IPnetworks, today announced that it is teaming up with Nexus, a California-based provider of advanced technologies for enterprises, to offer the benefits of its ip fax solution as part of an integrated Unified Communications (UC) strategy. Nexus, a holder of a Cisco Masters Certification in Unified Communications, will offer the recently announced Cisco Application eXtension Platform (axp), which natively provides IP fax for the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR).

The new AXP platform, recently unveiled at the Cisco Partner Summit in Hawaii on April 10, comprises Sagem-Interstar’s XMediusFax Fax over IP (FoIP) solution. XMediusFax is the industry’s only IP fax server solution to run inside a Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR), thereby further extending the value of some 4 million Cisco ISRs deployed globally in enterprises today.

“We are really excited about the environmental and ROI benefits that the Cisco AXP platform offers. It is yet another environmentally-friendly Cisco technology model that we can add to our extensive portfolio of green technology solutions that help organizations connect, collaborate, and create,” said Dave Elsner, Nexus Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “The Cisco AXP-XMediusFax IP fax solution will also play a paramount role in empowering enterprise branch offices with secure and consolidated fax communications, as well as reduced tco and optimized branch IT footprint.”

Nexus, a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, already supports Sagem-Interstar’s complete suite of XMediusFax products (Enterprise, Express, SP).

“Our partnership with Nexus, a progressive and respected network solution provider, will help fulfill the increased market demand for innovative solutions that address the corporate need for secure document communication as part of a complete UC initiative” said Christian Larocque, Sagem-Interstar’s Director of Sales. “The Cisco AXP-XMediusFax solution improves document workflow and critical business processes. It also cuts operating expenses significantly by streamlining application deployment and maintenance. Enterprises will diminish their overall environmental footprint since the Cisco AXP-XMediusFax solution reduces hardware footprint, power consumption and overall printing (toner and paper). XMediusFax is a field-proven solution that improves collaboration and presence. It delivers rapid ROI, improved productivity and enhanced customer relationships.”

Nexus’ Partnership with NEC Unified Solutions

NEC Unified Solutions designs products and services to fulfill the needs of organizations while maintaining the basic requirement to make money. The versatility of NEC products meets the needs of organizations as they grow, protecting their investment as they migrate to new technologies.

NEC is known for its long-standing reputation of developing technology that can be easily upgraded. With the expertise of Nexus, we can help you incorporate this new technology without a complete system redesign - so you can preserve your original communications investment. NEC’s technology set includes:

• Enterprise Communications Platforms
• SMB Communications Platforms
• Unified Communications
• Voicemail and Unified Messaging
• Contact Center
• Data Networking
• Application Development - CTI
• Mobility

Nexus is dedicated to helping organizations solve problems through advanced technologies. NEC Unified Solutions is committed to creating products and technologies to make the Internet more useful and dynamic. Together, our partnership focuses on helping your organization succeed. Just tell us where you want to take your organization - your goals and your challenges - and we will work with you to develop powerful solutions to help you achieve your objectives.

 

 

 

Nexus Ranked Among North America’s Top 500 Technology Integrators by VARBusiness Magazine

Nexus, a leading provider of advanced technology and network integration, has been recognized by Everything Channel’s VARBusiness magazine as one of North America’s top technology integrators.  Nexus placed number 230 in the 14th annual VARBusiness 500 ranking.

The VAR 500 list details the leading revenue producers among technology integrators and technology solution provider organizations in North America. The list’s ranking is based on gross worldwide revenue of hardware and software sales, as well as earnings from professional and managed information technology (IT) services.

“The indirect sales channel for technology products and services drives two-thirds of all technology sales in the U.S., and the solution providers who make up the channel are the primary influencers of business technology decision making. This is why the VAR 500 is such an important list, because these are the top solution providers in the industry, and we salute each of them for their stellar performance,” said Robert C. Demarzo, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director, Everything Channel. 

The 2008 VARBusiness 500 list includes 113 new companies with 10.6 percent of them in the top 100 of the list.  In addition, the starting point of the list - the revenue of company number 500 - rose to $33.4 million, up 35.2 percent, from $24.7 million in 2007. This increase reflects the strength and robust growth of the technology reseller channel.

“We are extremely pleased to make the VARBusiness 500 list again this year,” said Deron Pearson, Nexus President and Chief Operating Officer. “Since nexus was launched in 2004, we have expanded to nearly 350 professionals and our 2007 revenues exceeded $140 million on organic sales growth that has exceeded 30% each year since inception. As part of our commitment to our customers and our employees, we continue to plan for long-term growth by continuing to invest in the business. We look forward to connecting with our clients on their organizational goals, collaborating with them to determine the best route to make those goals, and creating a solution that will make them even more successful.”

The complete listing of the VARBusiness 500 is published in the May 26, 2008 issue of the business magazine that provides strategic insight for technology integrators.

To complete the 2008 ranking of the 500 largest North American solution providers, system integrators, VARs and IT consultants, companies were asked to complete an online questionnaire to determine prequalification.  In February 2008, VARBusiness conducted extensive research and analyzed the data. Independent data sourcing (e.g., SEC filings, annual reports, etc.) also was conducted.  finalists were ranked according to their fiscal year 2007 revenue, based only on their reseller-related services business.

To view the latest Nexus news, visit: www.nexusis.com/news_events.

Nexus’ Partnership with Cisco

Today, more than ever, organizations are searching for a communications partner willing to deliver products, services, and support that will meet current and future challenges. These organizations require a partner that has the agility and flexibility to address those unique needs.

Cisco has earned a reputation for its foresight into the future of Advanced Technologies. As a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, Nexus has the knowledge and experience Cisco requires to implement its technologies. Our engineering team is qualified to design, implement, and support complex solutions based on Cisco’s technologies:

• Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP-PBX
• IP Contact Center (IPCC)
• Local and Wide Area Networking (LAN/WAN)
• Wireless LAN
• Unified Messaging
• Rich-Media Collaboration
• TelePresence
• Data Protection

Nexus is dedicated to helping organization solve problems through advanced technologies. Cisco is committed to creating products and technologies to make organizations more productive. Together, our partnership focuses on helping your organization succeed. Just tell us where you want to take your organization and we will work with you to help you achieve your objectives.

To view the latest certications and specializations that Nexus has achieved, please visit: www.nexusis.com/certifications.asp.

Nexus Can Assist With Technology Relocation

Traditionally, relocating technology solutions has been handled as an offshot, or an afterthought of a typical small systems integrator. While this helped the traditional small system integrator round out their workload, it did nothing for the customer, who was left with inexperienced people moving their technology, causing hours and in some cases, days of downtime. Perhaps you’ve suffered through one of these technology moves yourself and felt you deserved better.

Nexus has changed all that. As a company that is 100% specialized in office and industrial technology design, implementation, and management, we understand how vulnerable your organization is during the relocation process. We take very seriously the time-sensitive nature of moving your organization, and we plan your move in such as a way as to minimize or eliminate downtime.

With Nexus, you’re working with account managers, project managers, and systems engineers with years of experience moving just about every technology imaginable. If you have it, we’ve seen it. After all, the only difference between the ordinary and the impossible, is that with the impossible, we just have to work a little harder to pull it off.

We have the teams and methodology to back everything up. Allow our professional staff and experienced team show you just how easy moving your organization’s technology can be. Our team of professionals will handle all the details of your technology move, so you can focus on running your organization.

Relocation services offered by Nexus:

• Telephone line sourcing and provisioning
• Cabling planning and needs assessment
• Data and voice Infrastructure
• Wireless Infrastructure
• Network security, Tele-commuter, and VPN Remote Network access
• Coordination with your furniture movers to minimize downtime
• Financing options to facilitate relocation and upgraded technology.