Oct 6, 2021 - Tallinn
Press release: ALSO Group and RealWear expand partnership to empower frontline workers in BeNeLux and Eastern Europe
ALSO Group today announced the extension of its collaboration with RealWear, the world’s leading provider of assisted reality solutions for frontline industrial workers. The Technology Provider will distribute RealWear’s popular wearable solutions to enterprise customers across BeNeLux and Eastern Europe. The agreement will enable channel partners to identify and manage enterprise accounts as well as deploy products at scale.
RealWear’s “Reality First, Digital Second” extended reality (XR) approach enables industrial workers to receive in-situ information and in-the-field training with software and hardware while maintaining full situational awareness. Additionally, hundreds of authorized software developers, including Cisco and Microsoft, have built and optimised voice-enabled apps for hands-free use on RealWear’s devices.
“Since its inception 18 months ago, our partnership with ALSO has been instrumental in our success in Central and Northern Europe, and we are excited to expand together into the growth markets of Eastern Europe and BeNeLux,” states Owen Loughrey, VP Global Channels, RealWear. “We are looking forward to engaging and developing opportunities within ALSO’s strong reseller ecosystem in these regions and are excited to bring RealWear assisted reality solutions through to their enterprise customers.”
ALSO has already been a key distribution partner of RealWear in the Central and Northern EMEA regions. Over the last 18 months the company developed the expertise and experience to ensure RealWear customers will have the all the resources and skills needed at their disposal.
Simone Blome Schwitzki, SVP Solutions at ALSO: “Assisted reality solutions are an important part of our Solutions portfolio. The collaboration with RealWear has enabled us to offer the latest technology to our partners, which helps them to cement relationships with their customers and improve retention. The ALSO Solutions Business Team offers comprehensive expert support, and the implementation can be realised quickly and easily. In short: an innovative product and accompanying ALSO service that empowers partners to take the solution where it needs to go – to the end customer.”
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ALSO Holding AG (ALSN.SW) (Emmen/Switzerland) is one of the leading technology providers for the ICT industry, currently active in 27 countries in Europe and in a total of 93 countries worldwide via PaaS partners. The ALSO ecosystem comprises a total potential of around 110,000 resellers, to whom we offer hardware, software and IT services from more than 700 vendors in over 1340 product categories. In the spirit of the circular economy, the company provides all services from supply to recycling from a single source. The business activities comprise the areas of Supply, Solutions and Service. Supply comprises the transactional range of hardware and software. Solutions supports customers in the development of customised IT solutions. Subscription-based cloud offerings as well as platforms for cybersecurity, virtualisation and AI are at the heart of the service area. The main shareholder is the Droege Group, Düsseldorf, Germany. Further information at: https://also.com.
About RealWear
RealWear® is the world’s leading provider of assisted reality wearable solutions that engage, empower, and elevate the modern frontline industrial worker to perform work tasks more safely, and with increased efficiency and precision. RealWear gives these workers real-time access to information and expertise, while keeping their hands and field of view free for work. Workers use voice-controlled commands – even in high noise environments – to collaborate with remote experts or navigate through workflows.
RealWear offers the only assisted reality wearable solutions fully supported by the world’s leading video conferencing applications. RealWear is compatible with worker PPE, purpose-built for industry and enterprise, and features the only “full shift” battery in its category. RealWear is field proven with world-class customers, including ExxonMobil, Goodyear, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, and BMW, who use it to improve workplace safety while delivering unprecedented ROI.
RealWear is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington in the United States, with local offices in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, and Japan, along with a new customer experience center in Dubai. RealWear’s number one position was further strengthened with triple (3X) year-over-year growth in 2020. The company has shipped wearable devices to more than 3,000 unique enterprise customers worldwide in a range of industries, including Energy, Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Automotive, and Telecommunications.