Why NEC


Why NEC

NEC – The best Choice for Enterprise Communications

WHY NEC

  • $42B in revenue (worldwide)
  • Over a century of telecommunications experience
  • Consistently ranks among top three communications provider
  • Vertical Market Expertise (US)

  • – Government

    – Healthcare

    – Higher Education

    – Hospitality

    – Retail

    – Finance

  • Top five market share for North & Latin America
  • More than 30,000 North American customers

Global Presence / Financial Strength

NEC has a market presence in over 75 countries around the globe, offering a broad scope of products, services and solutions related to information technology, network systems, social infrastructure, and electronic devices. As a Global Fortune 500 company, NEC Corporation has more than $42B in revenue and more than 142,000 employees worldwide.

NEC Corporation of America provides innovative IT, network and communications products and solutions for enterprises throughout North America. NEC consistently ranks among the top communications providers both globally and in North America.

Worldwide line shipments increased 4.2% in 2012 and NEC maintained its position as a global leader with more than 12% market share*. NEC has more than 3,000 partners worldwide, spread across more than 100 countries.

  • Upwards of $37 Billion
  • 109,102 employees
  • $2.1 Billion in R&D
  • More than 50,000 patents worldwide
  • #271 in Fortune Global 500

NEC is a financially strong global player with diverse business interests. In its 2012 fiscal year NEC posted net sales upwards of $37 billion. NEC’s enterprise communications solution business is part of a very large multifaceted organization, which strengthens its financial viability and helps to provide dedicated funds for its R&D initiatives.

NEC has strong R&D capabilities that provide it with a competitive edge in the enterprise business and have enabled it to launch a number of innovative products. Some of NEC’s key R&D focus areas are role-enabled solutions, vertical solutions and UC. Its strong R&D capabilities have helped NEC to gain a wide range of intellectual property. In the past several years, NEC has applied for more than 8,500 patents combined in Japan and the United States, and it holds more than 50,000 patents worldwide.

NEC is able to support a full spectrum of purchase options, whether CAPEX or OPEX models, through NEC Financial Services. By providing diverse leasing models, NEC helps organizations maximize their communications budget.

NEC Overview

NEC Corporation of America (NEC) is a leading technology integrator providing “Smart Enterprise” solutions that improve the way people work and communicate. Smart Enterprise delivers integrated Solutions for Society that are aligned with our customers’ priorities to create new value for people, businesses and society, with a special focus on safety, security and efficiency. We deliver one of the industry’s strongest and most innovative portfolios of communications, analytics, security, biometrics and technology solutions that unleash customers’ productivity potential.

We accomplish all of this through NEC’s Smart Enterprise solutions. These solutions are the result of integrating our Unified Communications (UC) technologies with our comprehensive IT portfolio, Software-Defined Networking, biometrics, analytics and cloud-based technologies. These solutions solve some of today’s most complex business challenges while delivering safety, security and operational efficiency to our customers. By delivering on the Smart Enterprise, NEC empowers organizations to improve the way people live, work and communicate.

NEC’s Smart Enterprise Framework

NEC’s 4 Key Values that Empower Smart Enterprises

Business Agility – A Mobile workforce optimally responsive to customers and business changes

Collaborative Communities – Productive teamwork for better workplace productivity, customer value and business outcome

Cloud Delivery – Flexible carefree on-demand deployment models – premises, cloud and hybrid

Assured Services – Business continuity and data security ensured by a highly available, secure IT infrastructure

NEC supports its customers through best-in-class development teams and channels across all NEC entities and geographical borders. in order to be the single-source provider of voice, data, video solutions and IT storage and server solutions for the connected enterprise. Through all of these solutions, NEC combines its best-in-class solutions and technology, and leverages a robust partner ecosystem to solve today’s most complex business problems. Moreover, our end-users profit from the distinct advantage of our industry partnerships with established leaders.

NEC is a relationship-driven company, approaching each challenge and opportunity with the highest levels of commitment and consideration for our customers’ long-term benefit.

NEC Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with a presence in 160 countries and $25 billion in revenues.

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NEC Communication History/Milestones

At NEC, we have been delivering innovation for over 118 years. We were originally founded as a joint venture between Western Electric and Nippon Electric Corporation. This was the first joint venture of its kind between a US and Japanese company. Later, we officially changed our name to NEC. NEC has both a rich history of innovation and a strong set of partnerships that allow us to uniquely focus on solving some of society’s biggest challenges. Some of those innovations and milestones include:

  • Developing the first Public Branch Telephone System (PBX) in 1927
  • First to test Microwave Multiplex Communications in 1944
  • NEC has now been in North America over 50 Years
  • Development of the Earth Simulator to project the effects of global climate changes in 1997
  • Discovery of single walled carbon nanotubes now used in bicycle components, wind turbines and marine parts and have potential uses in solar cells, paper batteries, and various medical devices
  • We became one of the first Microsoft Partners in 1979
  • In 1994, we were the first to deliver Service Oriented Communications
  • NEC received the Top Innovation Award at Interop in 2012
  • In 2014, NEC added DoD Certification for our UNIVERGE 3C solution – demonstrating our commitment to security and launched our new, next-generation UNIVERGE SV9000 communications platforms
  • In 2016, NEC was named one of the 50 most innovative companies by Boston Consulting Group and Frost & Sullivan honored NEC for its “astute strategies for migration of enterprise legacy communications systems to modern solutions with a 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award . Other awards and acknowledgements:
    1. NEC’s HYDRAstor® HS Series wins 2016 Top Gold Award at the 11th annual Hot Companies and Best Products Award in Storage Solution category
    2. Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 North America Company of the Year Award for Face recognition Technology for Government and Public Sectors
  • • In 2017, for the third time, NEC was named to the “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations” List. As a social value creator, NEC will continue leveraging ICT to resolve challenges facing society as it aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 UN members in 2015.

Our long history of milestones has helped propel NEC to a position of leadership in the industry, one based on a track record of solving business challenges that also help make our lives better.

NEC’s Global Presence

NEC has a market presence in over 160 countries around the globe and is the only company in the entire world to rank in the top 5 in Computers, Semiconductors and Communications. When it comes to the broad scope of technology, you couldn’t be in better hands. NEC Corporation serves the Fortune 1000 and customers across the globe in vertical markets such as hospitality, education, government and healthcare.

NEC in North America

In the North American market, NEC has built a legacy over the last 50 years of providing businesses with innovative products and solutions. Our current focus is to build on that legacy over the next 50 years and provide customers with the innovative technologies that they need

NEC Solutions and Services

To thrive in today’s fast and ever-changing business environment, it is essential to build a culture based on innovation, cost efficiency, superior productivity and meaningful customer experiences. Pursuing and embracing these key principles makes the difference between transforming and remaining relevant to playing catch-up and losing opportunities to the competition.

With our Smart Enterprise solutions set, NEC enables enterprises regardless of type and size to operate more effectively by optimizing operational practices, driving workforce collaboration and creating competitive advantages through enhanced customer interaction.

When committed to Smart Enterprise practices, significant synergies can be established to integrate communications and business applications with a solid IT infrastructure. The result is a resilient, agile and predictive organization that operates cost efficiently while providing better services using the latest business applications. Employees gain full command of their own work environment to function more productively and provide customers with tailored enhanced experiences.

NEC’s Smart Enterprise Solutions Framework (Detailed)

NEC’s Smart Enterprise Solutions Framework brings together all of our key technologies, applications, media and IoT endpoints which can be used individually or as an integrated solution. This Framework illustrates how the various components and solutions relate and integrate, giving organizations the flexibility to make choices in what they deploy, depending on their business needs at any point in time.

NEC IT & Communications Technology Solutions

As communications have evolved into IT-oriented technology, the desire to have a more natural integration of communications and business processes, and their related IT business components has been ongoing in many industries. NEC, in 2016, has differentiated itself among competitors by merging our formerly separate IT and Communications Technology (ICT) business units into one – resulting in a complete end-to-end Smart Enterprise solution set and framework. Whether implementing on-premises, cloud or hybrid solutions, NEC’s Smart Enterprise solutions can meet the needs of organizations of all sizes.

This consolidation has already created new synergies and offerings such as our High Availability UC solution – NEC’s software-based UC comes preloaded onto our award-winning Fault Tolerant server for five nines (99.999%) reliability. Another offering is our Software Defined Networking Enabled UC solution which integrates the management of UC, networking and IT security to improve performance, security, manageability and quality of user experience while reducing the cost and complexity of delivering mission critical real-time applications.

NEC consistently ranks among the world’s top enterprise IT & Communications Technology providers. With one of the industry’s strongest and most innovative portfolio of solutions, we unleash the potential of the Smart Enterprise with new approaches in how communications and IT services are delivered and managed. In North America, NEC serves enterprise (large) and small-to-midsized businesses across multiple verticals, including healthcare, education, hospitality and government. Our Smart Enterprise solutions include:

We have the track record, the resources and the technology few companies can come close to matching. Bottom line: you can be confident in choosing NEC.