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Carahsoft | February 17, 2021

Vyopta, a main supplier of Collaboration Intelligence, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a partnership. Under the arrangement, Carahsoft will fill in as Vyopta's Master Government Aggregator® and make Vyopta's exhaustive checking and examination for Collaboration Performance Management (CPM) and Workspace Insights arrangements accessible to the public area through Carahsoft's affiliate partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V and Maryland COTS contracts.

“Collaboration has become critical in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our customers have expressed a need for full visibility into their complex collaboration environments,” said Natalie Gregory, Vice President of Sales managing the Vyopta practice at Carahsoft. “Vyopta empowers public sector agencies to improve collaboration, optimize meeting room usage, meet compliance reporting requirements, and efficiently manage large, complex collaboration environments. We look forward to partnering with Vyopta to provide innovative collaboration intelligence solutions to our public sector customers with the support of our reseller partners.”

Vyopta helps governments in the U.S., Canada, and Europe uphold a wide scope of collaboration use cases including giving strategic correspondence, empowering far off wellbeing administrations and expanding admittance to office administrations. Vyopta's CPM Monitoring arrangement gives ongoing cautions and nitty gritty measurements on execution and nature of live and finished gatherings – video, telephone or online. CPM Analytics offers significant experiences that can recognize cost-saving measures while distinguishing convenience and quality concerns.

Vyopta incorporates and gathers information from Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Zoom (counting Zoom online courses), Google Meet, Cisco UCM, Cisco Meeting Server, Pexip, entryways for voice and video, and IoT collaboration gadgets.

“We’re excited to partner with Carahsoft to set up a distribution channel in the public sector market for the first time,” said Cody Bell, Director of Federal Accounts at Vyopta. “We are seeing high demand among federal agencies to provide video and UC troubleshooting tools that are simple to use for front-line IT support teams.”

Vyopta’s U.S. Federal government customers include the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Senate and U.S. Courts. In early January, Vyopta received the “In Process” designation from the U.S. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), and is listed on the FedRAMP marketplace website.

About Vyopta Incorporated

Vyopta, the Collaboration Intelligence company, is a global leader in comprehensive monitoring and analytics for Collaboration Performance Management and Workspace Insights. By integrating insights from multi-vendor Unified Communications & Collaboration vendors and IOT devices, Vyopta helps organizations deliver the best UC user experience and optimize their UC and real estate investments. Vyopta helps hundreds of organizations worldwide spanning 20+ industries monitor 6 million endpoints and over 20 billion meeting minutes a year.

About Carahsoft

Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®. As a top-performing GSA Schedule, SEWP and ITES-SW2 contract holder, Carahsoft serves as the Master Government Aggregator® for many of its best-of-breed technology vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, value-added resellers, system integrators and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

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