TalkingHeadz with Stewart Butterfield
While Slack gets its fair-share of publicity as an innovative technology provider, its story is less understood within the UCC space. Slack may not have been the first messaging-centric collaboration solution, but it was the first to breakthrough. Virtually every…
July 2020 Insider Report
The Most Important Enterprise Communications News from July 2020 The big story in July was Hamilton on Disney+. It may not seem like an enterprise communications story, but I saw the show in 2015 right after the NY Mitel Analyst…
TalkingHeadz Podcast with CEO Bruce at Ribbon
I really enjoyed this conversation. Bruce has a tremendous opportunity with Ribbon, but it won’t be easy. Ribbon has a lot of moving parts. I’ve been impressed with many things (projects, approaches, people, vision, etc.) at Ribbon, but the company…
Unify-Atos Connects with RingCentral
Earlier this year, Atos expanded its portfolio with RingCentral. It seemed odd at first as Atos had acquired Unify along with its UC portfolio back in 2016. However, Unify had very limited UCaaS services, and SI Atos needed UCaaS in…
Microsoft Teams: In The Room Where it Happens, Virtually
Microsoft introduced 14 new features for Teams last week — mostly related to meetings. As usual, the news has received strong coverage. The star new feature is Together Mode. It’s a simple approach to virtual reality that requires no glasses. …
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Ryan Hollenbeck, Verint
Confession: I could never get that excited about WFO, but like the entire customer engagement category, the space is going through some exciting changes. I gave Ryan some pretty pointed questions that didn’t phase him at all. There’s a lot…
June 2020 Insider Report
The Most Important Enterprise Communications News from June 2020 Whadda Month! I figured I was going to skip Covid-19 this month. But, the story of the year applies to June as well. The collective sigh of relief many of us…
5 Trends Poised to Change the Contact Center
The shift from product to service is opening up new opportunities to improve and deliver customer engagement.
It’s Time to Fix Email
Find out what developments happened this month that could curtail our use of this historical messaging system.
EC20 Innovation Showcase on Track… and Just in Time
Assuring the security and privacy of communications and collaboration data is more important now than ever
The Most Dangerous Job in UCC
It’s been turbulent times for UCC leadership. In the past 15 months, we’ve seen leadership changes at about 10 companies. I thought this deserved a conversation so arranged a brain-trust with: Irwin Lazar of Nemertes Research Dmitry Netis of Q…
When 75M Isn’t Enough
Last month, Microsoft reported that its Teams product hit 75M daily active users. It’s a significant achievement that suggests Teams is a wildly successful product. While 75M DAU is clearly impressive, I suspect the figure is significantly lower than what…
TalkingHeadz with Avaya’s Anthony Bartolo
Anthony is driving product leadership at Avaya, and relies on outcome focused, customer journey mapping to do it. There’s a lot of excitement about the work he is doing at Avaya. He brings an interesting background to Avaya with a…
Forbes is Sensational
I frequently come across misleading headlines. Usually, these are from the shadier click-bait sites that are more concerned about total views than retaining an audience. I thought Forbes was better, but I came across two posts recently that were deceptive….
4 Post-Pandemic Trends on the Rise
Less demand for commercial real estate, a mortally wounded office space – these changes make it necessary to revisit prior conclusions and assumptions.
TalkingHeadz with Dmitry Netis of Q Advisors
I have regular discussions with financial analysts, and I really enjoy them. They look at the companies so differently than industry analysts do. Most industry analysts, including myself, don’t pay a lot of attention to quarterly results. Dmitry taught me…
Masarek Departs Vonage: WTF?
Vonage has announced that its CEO for the past 6 years, Alan Masarek, will be stepping down. His replacement is Rory Read, new to Vonage and the enterprise communications industry. Of course, team Vonage and Alan are excited and optimistic…
May 2020 Insider Report
The Most Important Enterprise Communications News from May 2020 “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” ~ Vladimir Lenin Situational timing can make this report difficult. Most of May was still about the pandemic,…
UC with No Strings Attached
A new hardware device enables a small business to leverage a fixed wireless connection for its data and UCaaS needs.
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Antony Passemard, of Google CCAI
There is a great flow to this dialog, I think I will call it: Dialogflow. Also, the three participants sound really human. Most of the talk about AI is hype. However, there are two areas in enterprise communications where we…