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26 Oct 2014
Arrive to focus on Professional Education as the key enabler in bringing IT and collaboration technology skills to Pro-AV Market and provide Infocomm RU benefits to collaboration certified professionals.

Cypress, CA – 26th October, 2014 : Arrive Systems, Inc. (www.arrivesys.com) the edgeless media company with the industry’s largest range of products and technologies delivering Extreme Collaboration now provides the industry’s first Pro-AV Collaboration Technology Certification Program for the Professional AV Industry with Infocomm RU credits. Offered under the Arrive Academy Program called “Ignite Your Future”, Arrive is offering a two tier progressive professional development opportunity for industry professionals to augment their business development and technical skills by enrolling for the Arrive Collaboration Technology (ACT) Advisor and Specialist Certification which are offered as part of the Collaboration Foundation Certification. Industry professionals who certify themselves for the Arrive Collaboration Technology Foundation Programs will receive 4 renewal credits (4 RU’s) for each of the programs. Announcing the initiative, Lee Dodson, President of Arrive said, “Collaboration presents huge business opportunities and challenges to the Pro-AV industry. Delivering new collaboration experiences using software codecs will place additional demands on Pro-AV professionals in terms of understanding digital standards performance, adaptability, and manageability. To alleviate and address these challenges through professional education and certification will help Pro-AV service providers to offer a plethora of services that bring together data, voice and video. Aseem Gupta, CEO and founder of Arrive said, “Video is the new Voice! This is the chant from the IT side of the industry. What does that mean to the Pro-AV industry? As we all know, the promise of this technology is to enable organizations of all sizes to exchange information, speed decision-making, and enhance training. It means that our existing customers are driving greater and greater adoption of voice, video, data and social networking into a single delivery mechanism… that’s extreme collaboration. Pro-AV has the opportunity to make extreme collaboration it’s nest-egg”. “ACT offers the opportunity for the AV professional to make a beginning in mastering the fundamentals of collaboration”, he added. For those professionals who can certify themselves at the ACT Collaboration Foundation Level, there are twelve (12) Advanced Collaboration specializations to take to finally become a certified “Collaboration Technologist” or “Collaboration Professional” depending on the education tracks chosen. Arrive’s leading collaboration workflow platform called ARRIVE Edgeless Media (EM) is an end-to-end workflow for central management of collaboration rooms, devices and the scheduling, orchestration, automation and management process workflow. Recently ARRIVE announced its next generation simplified, unified solution for collaboration meeting spaces, meeting room devices and software systems — ARRIVE FacePoint® positioned as the extreme collaboration solution in the industry. Designed as an open standards platform and built on proven network and server topology ARRIVE EMS helps your customers deliver on their collaboration technology promise and realize the best return on their technology investment.