NEC Corporation announced a global strategic partnership with Intermedia. Together, NEC and Intermedia are launching NEC UNIVERGE BLUE® CONNECT, a fully integrated and born-in-the-cloud UCaaS solution, and NEC UNIVERGE BLUE® ENGAGE, a CCaaS solution for businesses of all sizes. For 120 years, NEC has transformed communications and IT for business.

With over 80 million business users worldwide, NEC is in the top three globally for installed unified communications seats, and ranks No. 1 for global line shipments over the past 3 quarters. This partnership agreement with Intermedia represents NEC's rapid global expansion into cloud-based communications and collaboration services.

With over 1,000 employees, 125,000 business customers, and 6,600 active channel partners, Intermedia develops and delivers tightly integrated, extremely reliable, highly secure, award-winning cloud communications software. Sold primarily under private label through a large network of reseller partners and major IT distributors, Intermedia's solutions drive the communications for businesses of all sizes - from SMB to mid-market to Fortune 1000. NEC UNIVERGE BLUE CONNECT and ENGAGE are built on Intermedia's innovative, proprietary technology and world-class support and will be brought to market through NEC's robust partner ecosystem.

With NEC UNIVERGE BLUE CONNECT and ENGAGE, NEC is bolstering its global cloud communications offerings to fully support customer organizations in their migration to the cloud.