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MORRISTOWN, NJ, April 17, 2024 —Today, Avaya, a global leader in customer experience and communications solutions, outlined continued business momentum, innovation, and industry leadership in the recent quarter as the company and its extended partner ecosystem work closely with customers to help their organizations accelerate and grow. Avaya made the announcement as it prepares for a Global Industry Analyst Summit this week in La Jolla, CA, and then its largest global customer conference — Avaya ENGAGE 2024 — scheduled for May 13-15 in Denver, CO.
Over the last quarter, Avaya accelerated its momentum as the company showcased how enterprises can leverage AI-powered innovation on top of existing systems to deliver customer experiences that drive better business performance. The momentum resulted from various strategic decisions, including the announcement of a simplified portfolio and solutions architecture, new strategic partnerships, industry and analyst event presence, new executive appointments, and more.
“Avaya’s upward momentum reflects our core differentiator as we deliver on the promise of ‘innovation without disruption’ — a strategy that helps enterprise customers avoid the serious business repercussions that can come from ‘rip and replace’ upgrades of entire systems,” said Alan Masarek, CEO, Avaya. “Avaya’s innovation without disruption strategy is adding tangible value for enterprises, giving these organizations the unmatched ability to add AI and other innovations on top of existing investments, keeping their business moving with speed and quality with Avaya’s solutions, services, and world-class ecosystem. We are excited about the possibilities we are exploring with customers, as we continue to break ground on new opportunities to empower our customers with improved customer and employee experiences that drive better business growth and outcomes.”
Avaya Business Performance Continues to Build on Strong Momentum
Avaya’s market momentum includes continued strong business performance that builds on the company’s successful financial transformation in 2023. With the financial restructuring behind it, the company is levered free cash flow positive, excluding one-time items, and retains a strong balance sheet with <1x net leverage1.
This solid financial position has provided more than sufficient liquidity to execute the strategic plan and continued reinvestment in the business as the company exited the calendar year with ~$650M of cash, and access to a further $128M in a revolving facility. Avaya successfully delivered on its revenue plan for the past five quarters (across FY23 and Q1 FY24) and is on track to exceed planned revenue for the first half of FY24. Avaya said its core value proposition — ‘innovation without disruption’ — continues to resonate exceedingly well with customers, with net logo retention among large enterprise customers at 97% and renewal rates on base subscription contracts ahead of plan.
Delivering for Customers
Avaya highlighted how, over the recent months, it has successfully supported customers to help them succeed in their unique markets:
Innovation and Strategic Partnerships that Deliver Customer Experiences and Collaboration
The company’s momentum was recently showcased through several announcements at a leading industry trade show, Enterprise Connect, where Avaya announced a strategic partnership for AI-powered collaboration with Zoom and streamlined its solutions portfolio into a single product suite for Unified Communications and Collaboration, and a single platform offering for Customer Experience.
Enterprise Connect was preceded by a similar event – ITEXPO – where CEO Alan Masarek delivered a keynote address highlighting key CX trends. In addition, a steady stream of customer and partner announcements, along with positive industry analyst recognition, executive additions, and continued financial performance have underpinned the company’s continued acceleration.
Today’s enterprise customers must continually address rising customer expectations, the difficulty of attracting and retaining employees in a competitive market, and the unrelenting pressure to drive business growth. To address these customer challenges, Avaya’s solutions drive significant improvements in Enterprise CX, by optimizing both Customer Experience and Employee Experience to deliver Business outcomes.
To enable this, Avaya simplified its portfolio and solutions architecture to help its customers to adopt new capabilities that meaningfully improve customer experience, employee experience, and business outcomes. Avaya announced their enhanced and redefined Avaya Experience Platform™ (AXP) as a single, unified platform that encompasses Avaya solutions for customer experience (CX). The move enables Avaya to accelerate roadmap delivery, and makes it easier for Enterprise customers to innovate without disruption, deliver exceptional experiences to their customers and employees, and drive measurable business growth. AXP lets customers choose their solution deployment path, whether on-prem, private cloud, public cloud, or often a hybrid deployment combination.
The company also announced the Avaya Communication and Collaboration Suite, a suite of solutions that delivers seamless communication and collaboration experiences and can connect with people and tools — all in one place to meet, call, chat, share files, manage tasks, and more. The suite is unique in the industry as it lets organizations choose their solution deployment path for themselves across on-prem, private cloud, or public cloud.
Avaya now offers a hybrid deployment option that integrates with video collaboration solutions. Customers can enable their employees to access existing Avaya telephony from within the leading collaboration platform of their choice. Avaya announced a new partnership and native integration with Zoom’s AI-powered collaboration platform, Zoom Workplace. The Zoom Workplace native integration will be available for Avaya Aura or Avaya Enterprise Cloud customers, providing a new streamlined way to manage their communications environments and workflows. Microsoft Teams Integration is also available for all solutions in the Avaya Communication and Collaboration Suite.
Strong Affirmation from Leading Industry Analysts
The world’s largest public and private enterprises trust Avaya to deliver customer and collaboration experiences that help them differentiate, accelerate, and grow and to enable them to meet the needs of their customers. Industry analysts agree that Avaya innovations are driving forward the customer experience and collaboration industry market segments:
Critical Talent Continues to Choose Avaya
In addition to product innovation and customer success, Avaya’s momentum is also demonstrated by continued success in recruiting experienced leaders to the company. Over the past quarter, many additional executives joined Avaya's leadership team, including: Soren Abildgaard as Chief Technology Officer, Al Morales as Chief Transformation Officer, and Marylou “ML” Maco as Chief Revenue and Customer Experience Officer. A continually strengthened leadership team reflects Avaya as a company on the move, a destination place to work, and one that can attract world-class talent, the company said.
Avaya ENGAGE to Showcase the Customer Experience Journey
Avaya now looks ahead to Avaya ENGAGE 2024, which will be held in Denver, CO on May 13-15, and is the must-attend CX event for 2024. Avaya executives, partners, and customers will highlight how they are shaping their CX and communications journeys through informative breakout sessions and hands-on labs. Key topic areas across the agenda include: how to adopt a digital-first experience powered by AI for people engagement; identifying and filling gaps in CX fluency; how organizations can look at data and network security as a competitive advantage; how a vibrant partner ecosystem can help companies shape their CX journey with Avaya; and examining how employee experience can be the secret to creating the best CX.
The mainstage host for Avaya ENGAGE again this year is technology expert and Emmy Award-winning TV personality Katie Linendoll. The event boasts keynote sessions from speakers including: Arianna Huffington (founder and CEO of Thrive Global, founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books), Ayanna Howard, PhD (innovator, entrepreneur, leader, and international expert in robotics and AI, and Dean of Engineering at The Ohio State University and Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean's Chair), R “Ray” Wang (Founder and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research), Alan Masarek (CEO, Avaya), Lori Wodrich (President, IAUG), Soren Abildgaard (CTO, Avaya), and more.
Avaya ENGAGE 2024 will also feature the winners’ ceremony for the inaugural CX Force Awards. Founded by Avaya in partnership with IAUG and sponsored by Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research, the new awards program is designed to spotlight and celebrate the innovators, strategists, and pioneers dedicated to reshaping the world of customer experience.
Preceding Avaya ENGAGE, Avaya is hosting an exclusive analyst event on April 16-18, where top analysts will meet with Avaya executives for discussions around Avaya’s roadmap and vision.
1Last twelve months adjusted EBITDA further adjusted for pro forma cost savings initiatives and normalized revenue, which eliminates the ASC 606 impact of pulling forward subscription revenue for certain subscription contracts.
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Businesses are built by the experiences they provide, and every day, millions of those experiences are delivered by Avaya. Organizations trust Avaya to provide innovative solutions for some of their most important ambitions and challenges, giving them the freedom to engage their customers and employees in ways that deliver the greatest business benefits. Avaya contact center and communications solutions power immersive, personalized, and unforgettable customer experiences that drive business momentum. With the freedom to choose their journey, there’s no limit to the experiences Avaya customers can create. Learn more at https://www.avaya.com.
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