Mindware to join Alcatel-Lucent business partner program

The strategic partnership is expected to present tremendous business opportunities for the two companies by focusing on driving the sales of Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise IP networking and communications solutions to businesses throughout the Middle East. Mindware has also partnered with Al-Futtaim Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent's premium strategic business partner in the UAE, to further advance its enterprise convergence solutions and leverage opportunities in the booming regional IT market.

As business environments become increasingly complex, the demand for fast, reliable and secure voice, data and video communication channels have steadily grown. Addressing this need, Mindware will offer Alcatel-Lucent's comprehensive array of communication solutions that allow enterprises and government institutions to reach their customers and citizens through secure, business critical communications networks. The implementation of Alcatel-Lucent's range of solutions will also help companies increase productivity while reducing costs and generating new business opportunities.

"Alcatel-Lucent's secure end-to-end solutions will complement our existing portfolio in security, networking and application delivery, and we expect our customers to benefit from the increased array of products we offer while creating expanded market opportunities for our international partner. We will leverage our extensive distribution network and range of VAD services in order to bring cutting-edge yet cost-effective communication offerings to small, medium and large-scale enterprises,"

said Nehme Mouchantaf, Manager, Networking and Solutions Department, Mindware.

"Developing and delivering secure and critical communication solutions that bring integrated and personalized services to end-users is a key focus of our company. We are set to bring our top-of-the-line convergence applications and devices to new markets by partnering with a reputable company such as Mindware, which has the expertise and the facilities to successfully push our offerings," said Philippe Cros, Channel Sales Director for the Middle East, Alcatel-Lucent.

"With the addition of Alcatel-Lucent offerings to the company's portfolio, Mindware has designed VAD services for the promotion, selling and implementation of the new products. Our primary aim is to gain channel partners across the Middle East, Egypt, Lebanon and Pakistan in order to create market awareness and build a loyal customer base," concluded Mouchantaf.