Symbol announces Solution Centres for EMEA partners and customers

The Solutions Validation Program will help reduce development and test costs for channel partners who will be able to provide customers with fully tested solutions that are ready to use. The first Symbol Solution Centre will open this month in the United Kingdom, and be available to Symbol partners and customers located in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

"Last year, we launched the first Solution Centre at Symbol's headquarters located in New York, and have seen tremendous success with partners validating their solutions," said Jan Burton, vice president, Symbol EMEA. "To continue the success of this programme, we are expanding this service to our partners and customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa so they have a Solution Centre geographically closer to validate their applications and solutions with Symbol products - and to help solve the wireless and mobility needs of businesses in the region."

The Symbol Solution Centre is a testing and development lab that houses a wide range of products, accessories, peripherals and associated technologies that provide a testing and validation environment for enterprise mobility solutions. Symbol PartnerSelect partners that provide applications and solutions will now be able to work with the company's engineers, in a lab environment, to test their software applications and solutions with Symbol products.

The Solutions Validation Program enables both software and hardware partners to leverage Symbol's Mobility Services Platform (MSP) to accelerate deployments of their solutions and ease the ongoing maintenance and support challenges customers face. Customers can also use the Symbol Solution Centre to test their applications, whether they are developed in-house or supplied by an independent provider, to eliminate risk before the solution is deployed.

Access to Symbol's Solution Centre and its equipment and staff will enable Symbol partners to decrease their time to market and save time and money on development, testing, and post-sales support. By using a Symbol validated solution, customers benefit from an application solution proven to work with Symbol products.

"The Symbol Solution Centre provides customers and partners with confidence that the applications and solutions we develop are tested, optimised and validated,"

said Tarek Hassaniyeh, sales manager, Symbol Technologies Middle East. "We are confident this will help our partners and customers save on testing equipment and customer support processes."