PETALUMA, Calif., May 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Calix, Inc. (NYSE:CALX) today announced its sales and marketing teams have been honored with industry recognition from the Broadband Multimedia Marketing Association (BMMA) and Oracle. In April, the BMMA selected Calix for the 2018 Best in Class Vendor Marketing Award for the launch of Mesh-enhanced Carrier Class Wi-Fi. In addition, Calix was named the winner of the 2018 Markie Award from Oracle for Best B2B Commerce Experience for its My Calix Store online experience. Both of these awards highlight the commitment Calix has to its service provider customers, enabling them to connect everyone and everything at an unprecedented pace.
“This BMMA Award recognizes a major inflection point in our go-to-market strategy. With the launch of our cutting-edge mesh Wi-Fi solution, we shifted our focus from simply marketing to our customers to partnering with them to help them succeed,” said Matt Collins, Calix Chief Marketing Officer. “We introduced resources and completed over 100 consults and workshops that were designed to help our customers market their new services and communicate a compelling new value proposition to their subscribers across all channels. Our ultimate goal is to help our customers generate new revenue streams, establish a central role in their subscribers’ homes and businesses, and win in their markets.”
To help service providers jump-start their managed and whole-home Wi-Fi service offerings, the Calix team developed campaign content and offered segmentation strategies and enablement resources that could be customized for own their campaigns. In addition, the Calix marketing team conducted consulting sessions with service providers to help them develop their new campaigns. While the launch and campaign generated record levels of engagement and revenue ramp for Calix, the biggest success was the unprecedented partnership between Calix and its customers.
For over a decade, Oracle has presented the Markie Awards to recognize innovation and excellence in data-driven modern marketing, shining a spotlight on organizations who have delivered superior customer experiences with technology, expertise, and creativity. The awards cover 36 categories and recognize innovation and excellence across the entire customer lifecycle from marketing and commerce to sales and customer service.
My Calix Store borrowed a page from the B2C world to deliver a next generation B2B ecommerce experience that is intuitive and enables seamless self-service transactions. Calix customers can now quickly log-in and place orders whenever they require supplies, licenses, and systems. To date, 60 percent of Calix customers are actively making purchases through My Calix Store with more than 300 sessions completed per week.
Calix was recognized by Oracle with their Markie Award for excellence in ecommerce. “At Calix, we are dedicated to empowering our customers to build new business models and rapidly deploy new services through platform and digital innovations, as well as streamlined business processes,” said Michael Weening, Calix executive vice president of sales and marketing. “My Calix Store is a great example of enabling our customers to easily do business with us by putting the power in their hands to acquire the solutions they need as they need them. We have seen a great response from our customers who are utilizing the Calix ecommerce site at an increasing rate, and we are looking forward to adding even more functionality in the future to further accelerate the development of their next generation networks."
About Calix
Calix, Inc. (NYSE:CALX) – Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix platforms to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix is the leading global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems, and services required to deliver the unified access network and smart premises of tomorrow. Our platforms and services help our customers build next generation networks by embracing a DevOps operating model, optimize the subscriber experience by leveraging big data analytics and turn the complexity of the smart home and business into new revenue streams.
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