Airtel Business Africa and Avaya are working together to better equip organisations across the continent to deliver effortless customer and employee experiences.
Through the partnership, Avaya will enable Airtel Business Africa to provide customer control and flexibility on its fixed voice service.
Airtel Business Africa is the B2B provider of Airtel Africa, a telecommunications and mobile money services firm with a presence in 14 countries across Africa.
The agreement will see Airtel Business Africa to leverage the Avaya OneCloud AI-powered experience platform. This will allow them to empower customers as they transition to the digital workplace.
The platform, bundled with Airtel Africa voice services, includes workstream collaboration, contact centre, unified communications, and communications platform as a service solution with Avaya OneCloud CCaaS, OneCloud UCaaS and OneCloud CPaaS.
With this joint offering, Airtel Africa’s customers will be able to procure vertical-focused, communications-enabled solutions on a simple, 24/7, one-stop shop and service support in addition to having access to the latest business devices.
Luc Serviant, Group Enterprise Director, Airtel Business at Airtel Africa, said, “Airtel Africa is committed to exploring opportunities and possibilities that will enhance enterprise operations, empower entrepreneurs, and enable more productive and successful organisations. Our existing partnership with Avaya has supported key sectors over the last 18 months, ensuring minimum disruption to everyday business while still supporting economic growth. This MoU takes our partnership to a new level that will see us enable enterprises to compete and win in the emerging experience economy.”
The agreement will also see Airtel Business Africa take part in the recently launched Avaya Experience Builders initiative. As part of the initiative, Airtel will leverage and add to Avaya’s rich ecosystem to make it easier for regional businesses to build and deliver experiences that create deeper relationships with their customers.
Nour Al Atassi, Director, Service Providers – Asia, Middle East & Africa, Avaya, said, “Airtel Africa has helped to foster great customer and employee experiences across Africa with its investments in innovation, and we’re proud to be helping Airtel build on that legacy as we work towards an expanded partnership. We can’t wait to see what African businesses, governments and other organisations can do with the power of Avaya OneCloud as Airtel helps them use the platform to compose effortless experiences for their customers and employees.”
