Unison Announces Partner Program

Unison Technologies has announced its partner program and pricing for resellers worldwide. Unison, which competes with PBX vendors such as Cisco and e-mail vendors such as Microsoft, will offer resellers commissions that scale up to 50 percent.

Unison combines a PBX system, e-mail server, instant messaging server, contacts and calendar into a single server and desktop client. This means that SMBs no longer need to buy separate and expensive non-unified servers or PBX systems – one single Unison server can handle communications for an entire company.

“Unison will be the perfect product for thousands of VARs,” said Rurik Bradbury, chief marketing officer for Unison Technologies. “It is easier to deploy, cheaper and more powerful than non-unified PBX and e-mail systems, so VARs will be able to increase sales. At the same time, the margins for selling Unison are high, so these higher sales will also be very profitable.”

There is no cost to join the reseller program, and full details are available at www.unison.com/partners. Particulars on commissions and schedules will be available to all partners registering for the program at the Unison Web site. The unified communications software, Unison, will have a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $50 per user per year. There will also be a perpetual license option at a per-server price of $36,000, without any user limits.

Currently in beta until the third quarter of 2008, Unison is available to test for free. To download the beta versions of Unison Server and Unison Desktop, along with supporting documentation, go to www.unison.com/download. Unison Technologies also offers managed demo servers, which allow people to download the Unison Desktop client and try the Unison system with a free test account. To register for a demo, visit www.unison.com/demo.