Salesforce, Slack Just Changed Team Messaging
Slack takes on Microsoft Office with its recently revealed Canvas feature.
Zoom Phone Local Survivability: Zoom Phone’s Hybrid Moment
The hybrid office conversation needs to extend to resilient architecture. Zoom’s first hybrid workload addresses this need.
Zoom Phone Local Survivability: Zoom Phone’s Hybrid Moment
The hybrid office conversation needs to extend to resilient architecture. Zoom’s first hybrid workload addresses this need.
Perspectives on Zoom Perspectives 22
I have to admit that I am getting burned out on remote analyst events. I know I should prefer them. Online events are less expensive and more efficient, but we just haven’t nailed them yet. While in-person events are slowly…
The Convergence and Evolution of Enterprise Calling
The disruptive aspects of enterprise calling convergence have significant impacts on UC/UCaaS providers and channels.
What Goes Well With UCaaS Meetings?
It’s time to wonder what adjacent services will improve a UCaaS platform’s value.
It’s Time to Make Bots Sound Less Bot-Like
It’s already common for bots to allow us to select their voice from a menu. Why not take it a bit further and allow us to select more human-like voices?
Avaya Braces for Big Changes to Avoid Chapter 11 Again
A new CEO and old problems set the stage for turbulent times ahead at Avaya.
Ericsson Completes Vonage Acquisition
Ericsson intends to leverage Vonage to expand its mobile networking business into broader enterprise communications.
Would You Like an App with That?
Anyone responsible for customer call centers should look to their local fast food drive-thru lanes for inspiration.
Phone Booth For Sale
SOLD A digital transformation initiative at TalkingPointz has created some surplus equipment. It’s time to sell the world renown TalkingPointz Phone booth, complete with a rotary payphone. The phone booth has been utilized by the tele-rati. For sale: One original…
Bandwidth and Alianza Partnership Targets CSPs
Bandwidth and Alianza plan a “sell-with” go-to-market strategy, as the communications service provider market is seeing new growth with private-label solutions.
Queuing Theory
A long hold time does not necessarily mean too much demand. I think a lot about queuing theory. Today, it’s mostly about contact centers, but in the old days it was basic voice engineering. Most telecom engineers today missed all…
Exploring 3 Alternatives to an Enterprise M365 Subscription
Enterprise IT leaders might be missing out on great UCaaS offerings by simply going with Microsoft and not doing an analysis of competitive services.
What to Expect at NICE’s Interactions Live 2022 Event
The CCaaS provider’s upcoming conference will set the priorities for a lot of organizations — and competitors.
TalkingHeadz with Sippio COO Dawn-Marie Elder
Direct Routing and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams allowed providers to benefit from the explosive growth of Teams. However, coming up with a differentiated offer isn’t easy. That’s one of the topics we cover with Dawn-Marie Elder, COO of SIPPIO….
TalkingPointz Insider April 2022
The Most Important Enterprise Communications News from April 2022 The Most Important Enterprise Communications News from April 2022 This may be be the shortest Insider yet (6 pages). It seems the news pipe was drained last month at Enterprise Connect….
Lumen’s New Way to Service Old Customers
The Lumen Cloud Communications service aims to transform legacy voice services into modern, cloud-based ones.
With Poly Buy, HP Sees Growth Opportunity
Poly’s product lines are about to get boosted by HP’s access to markets and resources – and HP’s about to get access to the growing enterprise video market.
Supply Chain Shortages: Here We Go Again
I recently noticed that there weren’t many ships at the Tacoma Port. I was wondering where they all were. Eureka. They are in Shanghai. I initially learned this from a tweet. With Shanghai in a near total lockdown, this is…