For Volac, a fast-growing and ambitious dairy business, communication across the world, at any time, is important to make sure everything runs smoothly. With a tight deadline and a need to upgrade, after speaking to Mark Large, Head of Business Systems at Volac, we went to work.
After our discussions, we quickly implemented full unified communication and collaboration solution from Cisco across all of their office sites that supported up to 300 users who were mainly working from home. This solution included:
- Multiple Webex Boards, Webex Room Kit’s and Webex Room Kit Mini’s in all meeting rooms
- Webex Application for Chat, messaging, meetings, and calls
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- Cisco Unity Connection voicemail
- Cisco Unified Contact Centre Express
- Resilient SIP trunks
- Appspace digital signage and messaging
We have such a good relationship with the Amtech team, if we’ve got a problem, we call them to sort it out and they do. Everything we’ve asked for they’ve delivered or gone the extra mile and delivered
more than what we’ve asked to keep us happy.Mark Large, Head of Business Systems at Volac
Tell us a little bit about how Amtech helped you with the issues you were experiencing with your previous provider?
“We had talked about moving our physical phones and switching over to soft phones. When we told Amtech that we need it delivered in less than a week, Dave from Amtech said ‘no problem’ and it happened, with no issues. It was quite insane, but we did it and from day one they’ve been contactable.”
“Prior to this we had old Polycom equipment and we needed to move forward as we’ve got people all over the world that we need to connect to (different customers and suppliers), so we needed a platform that would do that seamlessly without too much difficulty. We went through a few different solutions with Amtech and went for Cisco Webex.”
Why is Amtech important to how you operate and who you are as a business?
“They’re trustworthy – trust is one of our core values, collaboration is another one and they’re also very collaborative. Performance as well – they’ve never let us down. The system is up 99.9% of the time and any queries are dealt with quickly.”
“They’re also small enough still to care and have that personal touch which is key to having the ability to understand their customers’ needs.”
“We have such a good relationship with the Amtech team, if we’ve got a problem, we call them to sort it out and they do. Everything we’ve asked for they’ve delivered or gone the extra mile and delivered more than what we’ve asked to keep us happy.”
And what do you have installed now?
“We’ve now got a hybrid video conferencing system where you can book a virtual conferencing room, where you can use touchscreens and whiteboards with all of your teams across sites. There’s also the option to sit at your desk in your office or work from home and have a Webex call, it’s an amazing tool that Dave has helped us to deliver all the way through. We’ve received good direction from Amtech on which way to go.”
If you could sum Amtech up, what would it be?
“Built well, reliable and trustworthy.”
They’ve never let us down.Mark Large, Head of Business Systems at Volac