CRI is ready to Hit the Road

We are excited to see you all and let you know what CRI is up to.

So many exciting developments, be sure to catch up with us at one or more of these events!

VMware Partner Exchange Feb 3-5 – San Francisco

Avaya PartnerU Feb 5-  Detroit

NYIAUG Chapter Meeting Feb 10-  NYC

NACR Sales Conference Feb 17-20-  Orlando

ATF Feb 24-27- Orlando

Avaya PartnerU March 5- Las Vegas

Avaya PartnerU March 10- Washington DC

Avaya PartnerU March 11- Kansas City

Enterprise Connect March 16-20- Orlando

Channel Partners March 16-19- Las Vegas

 

 

 

Happy New Year and Congratulations to our Winner

Congratulations to our 12 Days of Christmas in 5 Days Contest- Krista Dubroc of NACR!!!  We hope that you had fun and learned a little something about CRI.

 

A message of thanks from our President and CEO Robert Gill

To all of our Customers, Partners, and Vendors,

Our 24th year in business closed as one for the CRI record books, an achievement only possible when partnerships are strong and commitments are successful. We truly appreciate your business, and we’re grateful for the trust you’ve placed in us.

Through November 2014, CRI completed over 600 installations and upgrades for unified communication environments supporting over 2 million end users, for enterprises ranging from 1,000 to 350,000 employees.  On behalf of the growing CRI team I would like to express our thanks to our customers for choosing CRI as their real time unified communications and collaboration expert. We have worked diligently to shape our Firm to meet the needs expressed by our clients and are extremely grateful for the opportunities which have followed.

I personally would like to give special recognition to all of the talented team members we have had the pleasure of working with to deliver industry leading solutions.  Each job we assembled a team comprised of Customers, Vendors and CRI staff. When you dig into the 600+ projects there are hundreds of thousands of “work hours”. Thank you for your diligence and sacrifice that is naturally associated with making complex work successful.  There is nothing like watching talented people partner, collaborate and execute toward a common goal. Congratulations to all of you!

On behalf of everyone at CRI I would like to wish you a very Happy and prosperous 2015!

Sincerely,

Robert Gill

President and CEO, CRI

CRI Spotlight: Herb Bodtke

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Honoring one of our own
CRI’s Favorite Veteran: Mr. Herb Bodtke
On November 11th, Veterans Day, our nation will honor the men and
women who have served and defended the United States of America.
I have had the privilege to work alongside a distinguished veteran, Herb Bodtke, CRI’s recently retired Executive Vice President. Herb is a Vietnam Era Navy veteran, he served on the USS Pargo, a Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine. Herb and I recently attended the commissioning ceremony of a new nuclear submarine in New London, CT at the US Navy Submarine Base. Herb shared with me some of his best Navy stories, such as when he was new to the sub in the 60’s, the Captain pulled him aside and lead him to one of the most important systems on the boat, the Coca Cola machine. The Captain instructed Herb to always make sure it works and it is always full. A second and beautifully sentimental story, was that his wife wrote him a letter every day he was in the service and she sprayed every letter with her perfume, which Herb apparently liked quite a bit.

 

Every employee at CRI would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to Herb and to all veterans. Herb has always been a fine role model and continues to be a great friend to us all.

 

Respectfully,

Gil Engels

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CRI’s CTO talks tools at Converge 2014

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Fletch and Paul had a good time joking about being a “tool”, In this case it is not a bad thing at all!  The Leatherman tool is know as  “The Original American Made Tool” .   As an integrator and innovator working closely with other partners and DevConnects,  CRI is “The Leatherman” of  Technology!

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CRI and ObjectTel Partnering for the Win, short line railroads are just the beginning!

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Converge 2014- Exciting news- Just before delivering a thoughtful podcast reflecting on the DevConnect Partnership between ObjectTel and CRI

ObjectTel was presented with the DevConnect Partner of the Year Award 2014!  We Congratulate them and look forward to furthering our partnership,

 

Another fabulous Podcast-   Each year the Avaya DevConnect program hands out awards to program members. The “Devvy’s” go to innovative partners with proven solutions as well as several other categories. Jon Alperin covers this years winners with Fletch.

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