Polycom Honors Program

Educational institutions continually strive to deliver the highest quality educational experience while improving operational efficiencies, generating revenue to accommodate budget shortfalls and streamlining communication. Polycom, Inc. provides superior communication solutions and tools to connect administrators, faculty, students and content for a more interactive, immersive and life-like educational experience regardless of location and time. Through the Polycom Honors Program, institutions can purchase Polycom solutions at an affordable rate while taking advantage of value-added programs and resources such as specialized application training, whitepapers, special events and tools that drive adoption and utilization across your organization.

Eligible institutions include primary and secondary schools, tertiary institutions, universities, community colleges, libraries, teaching hospitals and not-for-profits institutions who deliver education.

• Academic Discount Pricing
• Academic Training for Success – live and on-demand 
• Access to industry whitepapers, assets and Flagship Special Events

Polycom is the leading provider of unified collaborative communications - converged voice, video, web, and data solutions for emerging broadband networks. Our high quality virtual communications are easy to deploy, manage, and use while delivering an experience as natural as being there. This translates into reduced operational costs, increased enrollment, mobility, educational equity to learning and student’s services, extended reach, expanded research, access to interactive content and much more. Polycom solutions provide educational institutions powerful ways to communicate with and educate faculty, staff, students, and other constituents while simplifying important processes and enabling the collective power of collaboration.

View eligible Polycom products and solutions included in the Honors Program with the Program Product List.

Below are steps for taking advantage of the valuable benefits of the Polycom Honors Program.

1. Qualified educational institution works with a Polycom Territory or Channel Manager to complete the Honors Program application online. Territory or Channel Manager must sign off on all Honors Program applications.
2. Education Institution submits a purchase order and a completed copy of the Honors Program application to the channel partner of choice.
3. The channel partner submits a new purchase order and the Honors claim form to Polycom Order Management for fulfillment.

1. Channel Partner must submit a NEW purchase order and claim form to Polycom Order Management with copies of the completed Honors application form.
2. This offer may not be combined with other promotional offers with the exception of the Polycom Preferred Program.
3. The order must be shipped from Polycom directly to a single end-user location.
4. This offer is available only to certified Polycom channel partners. This offer is void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law.
5. Polycom reserves the right to cancel or modify this program at any time.
6. Sales to non-educational entities. Polycom channel partners and/or employees or family members do not qualify.
7. Shipping costs of drop shipment are the responsibility of the end-user.
8. No exceptions to this program will be allowed. Polycom has the right to deny all orders that do not meet the criteria outlined in this document.
9. Program commences February 2012 and shall continue until terminated by Polycom.