Foster City, CA, November 2, 2011:  Today, NextUC, an on-demand unified communications provider, announced the launch of a Partner Incentive Program for Microsoft Lync 2010. The program offers attractive incentives for resellers and partners who activate new clients for a 90-day free Beta trial.  The prizes include Microsoft Arc Mouse, Microsoft Office Professional and a grand prize drawing for Kinect for Xbox 360 in addition to an appealing recurring revenue commission.

The benefits of the NextUC Partner Program include access to Lync 2010, dedicated channel sales and marketing tools and access to a user-friendly on-boarding portal. The product allows users to self-provision their account on the NextUC website, where clients can register, pick telephone numbers and start using Lync, a unified-communications system in minutes. Customers who sign up can instantly chat and make calls to other computers or traditional phones.

NextUC provides clients the flexibility to make phone calls from a variety of devices, including their PC’s, MACs, iPads, iPhones and Android phones.  Companies and users can choose new or port existing numbers and chat with users on other platforms, such as Windows Live.

NextUC is currently offering a free trial of NextUC Enterprise, a comprehensive bundled service that includes secure chat, presence, unlimited calling to computers and PSTN, audio, video and web conferencing, unified messaging (Voice-to-text) and email integration and NextUC Messenger, a hosted secure chat and presence service. Partners interested in trying the service can sign up for a limited-time free BETA trial.

NextUC offers three tiers of prizes for its partners, ranging from 10, 10-25 and 25+ activations. For every 10 activations, resellers get a Microsoft Arc Mouse, for every 25 activations a copy of Microsoft OfficeProfessional and for 25+ activations the reseller will enter a drawing for a Kinect for Xbox 360. Partners can sign up for the program in the dedicated partner portal and become a reseller of a first-to-market telephony enabled Lync service to their clients.

About NextUC

NextUC is a cloud-based communications product providing enterprise-class voice, messaging, conferencing, collaboration and mobility capabilities from a single unified client, hosted Microsoft Lync, all provided by CallTower.  For a monthly subscription fee, NextUC replaces all of your voice and conferencing providers and streamlines your multiple communications channels into one collaboration platform that improves your team’s efficiency and productivity. NextUC  works on all operating systems including Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry. For more information please visit www.nextuc.com.

Written by Bob Barnes

NextUC Launches a Partner Incentive Program with Attractive Microsoft Prizes