Company expands internationally and grew agent revenue 75 percent year-over-year 

Chicago, Illinois—January 17, 2017 AVANT today announced that Brendan Taylor assumed the role of chief financial officer. Originally from London, England, Brendan joins AVANT from Chicago-based SaaS cloud technology business CVM Solutions, a Kroll Company, where he was responsible for rapidly scaling profits, and delivering predictable and repeatable earnings. Brendon will be a key contributor to help further accelerate AVANT’s growth after a record 2016, where we doubled our active agent base, grew booked Agent revenue 75% and continued international expansion

As the saying goes, you don't know where you're going until you know where you've been. 2016 was a year of tremendous growth here at AVANT. UCaaS, SD-WAN, and Public Cloud were key areas of sales growth, and AVANT cemented sales enablement as the cornerstone of the company’s future. Check out our Top 10 Growth Initiatives of 2016!

The cloud contact center solutions market is sizzling. According to Gartner, the global market will reach $204 billion by the end of 2016, and will continue growing throughout the foreseeable future. This is a golden opportunity for trusted advisors. Uncovering the right opportunities is the first step to getting your piece of the pie. Here's how to do it...

Cloud contact center is in demand and the average revenue per deal is HUGE compared to other solutions. If you play your cards right, you can use this momentum to your advantage. Before you approach your customers with cloud contact center solutions, you’ll need to think about the right pain points to zero in on and the key benefit that Cloud Contact Center has to offer.

AVANT is excited to announce the addition of another heavy hitter to the team, a Microsoft and HPE alumni, Juan Ochoa, as AVANT’s new Sr. Director of Contracts. Juan will be responsible for developing an industry-changing licensing program to enable the cloud channel ecosystem, and securing top notch, impenetrable agreements with leading vendors to protect the long-term revenue of our partners.

On October 21st, IoT devices across the globe were part of one of the broadest and largest DDoS attacks in history. Many of the most popular internet sites were non-responsive, bringing DDoS awareness to main stream media. The scale and magnitude of this attack has propelled it to the top of the news cycle. Now is a great time to use this coverage to open some much-needed dialogue about security with your customers.

Selling the public cloud to businesses is easier today than ever before. Right now, 58 percent of IT leaders believe the public cloud is the right solution for their use case. But, is it actually worth your time and energy to sell public cloud services? Here's the secret to monetizing the public cloud...

A hyperscale cloud provider will offer the bare metal infrastructure that is needed for running a public cloud environment. The infrastructure will even be of premium quality. But it will be your customer’s job to manage that infrastructure on a daily basis. Enter, the MSP...

AVANT is excited to announce another important addition as we expand both our team and geographic footprint. Please welcome Bana Qashu as she joins AVANT as senior channel manager, East Coast. Bana comes to AVANT from Mitel where she was responsible for managing and recruiting strategic master agents.

AVANT is about to disrupt the channel sales enablement industry in a major way and Salesforce invited us to talk about it tomorrow at Dreamforce!  The team is heading to Salesforce Dreamforce 2016 (San Francisco (Oct. 4-7) to showcase our SEaaS platform, with Drew Lydecker, President and Ian Kieninger, CEO, sharing the coveted spot in the Dreamforce speakers lineup.