Munich, 8th March 2018: Damovo, a leading provider of managed services and solutions to large enterprises worldwide, has won Mitel´s EMEA “Government Partner of the Year” award in recognition of securing the contract to deliver a significant, highly scalable Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform, using Mitel technology, for a major public sector authority in Germany.

The award recognises Damovo’s work in winning a private cloud infrastructure solution for Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung (HZD), the central IT services provider for all state-owned authorities in the federal state of Hessen, the fifth largest state in Germany.

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Damovo, with the support of Mitel, will provide HZD with a private cloud managed unified communications platform that will potentially serve more than 96,000 public employees across 610 state authority offices.

Carl Muehlner, Managing Director of Damovo DACH, commented: “We are delighted to win this award from Mitel. Our organisations worked very closely together in order to demonstrate to HZD that we could meet both their technical challenges and operational demands. This collaboration process lasted more than a year and this trusted relationship was essential to being considered as a supplier for such a strategic project. The Hessen Government is investing heavily in order to be prepared for digital transformation, and our Aquila cloud aggregation platform enables it to set course for a digital future.”

Richard Roberts, Vice President for UK/Ireland and EMEA Channels at Mitel added: “This award acknowledges Damovo’s commitment to delivering innovative and secure solutions for their customers. Damovo is one of our major cloud partners across Europe. We will continue to work closely together in order to guide enterprises on their digital journey – enabling them to achieve better collaboration, mobility and customer service.”