Integrated Vision integrates Unify, aims for unified comms leadership as iVision

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:42

Business IT - Technology

Thirty year old Adelaide video communications specialist, Integrated Vision, has merged with unified communications integrator, Unify (which it has owned since 2006) to create a new systems integrator, iVision with the ambitious goal of being Australia's lead player in unified communications.

Integrated Vision and Unify have been operating under the iVision brand since April, but the new entity was formally launched with a press conference in Sydney with founder and MD, Graham, Williams saying: "we want to be the leading provider of unified communications in Australia."

The company has a track-record of leadership to back up its ambitious goal. According to Williams, it was the largest reseller in Australia and New Zealand for videoconferencing vendor Polycom in 2002 and is now the largest systems integrator and reseller in Asia Pacific for rival company Tandberg.

The UC arm of iVision, Unify, was, according to Williams, "relatively small UC provider specialising in IP telephony and unified communications based on Cisco Call Manager, but a Cisco Gold Partner with about 20 very good Cisco engineers."

iVision, Williams said, would turn over in excess of $50 million this year, had grown revenues 20 percent in the last financial year and was on target to achieve similar growth this year. The company employs about 100 people.

iVision claims to offer five key service areas: consultation, integration, implementation, managed services, network and conferencing hosted service and usage and adoption services.

Williams said the move into UC represented the company's third major change of strategy in its 30 year existence. "Before we embarked on this change we road tested it with a number of our customers - all big companies. They all said it made sense. We have been overwhelmed by the customer response."