November Quipz
All month it felt like a slow news month, then I wrote the recap. Several big events: re:Invent, OpenTalk, BroadSoft Connection, Connect Central – and lots of general news and updates.
I have to say, the monthly report has become much more important to me (and many of my subscribers) than I expected. There’s a lot more going on in enterprise communications that I realized. 
Each Quipz provides about 12 pages of skim-able news that occurred this month, complemented by a quick opinion on what really matters. Here’s a bit of what occurred in November.
- UC-Centric News : #ConnectCentral18, #VonageAR and Intelligent Interactions, other news from Mitel, Avaya, Cisco, Polycom, Ribbon, and Metaswitch, but not Fuze.
- Workstream-Centric News: #BSFTConnections, Unify, Workplace, and Google.
- Conferencing-Centric News: Trio, Span, LogMeIn, Konftel, and Screenbeam
- Customer Engagement News: #Opentalk18, Genesys, Maps, and Verizon.
- Provider-Centric News: RCS, SIMPLE, and how to get more broadband to rural America (wired, 5G, and Satellites)
- Emerging Technologies: #AWSReInvent, Lasso, facial rec, WeChat, Suisse Innovation, and WeWork becomes speechless
- Miscellaneous: VOSS, Google, Fi VPN, Fi again, and Toys Were Us.
- Acquisitions: 5 stories, but one wasn’t an acquisition.
- Financial Quipz: Asana has a horn, PlayerLync, and notable news from Ribbon
- 17 Recommended Good Reads this month
- More!
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By Dave Michels
Dave is an independent analyst and founder of TalkingPointz which is focused on enterprise communications. In addition to this (free and paid) content on TalkingPointz, he contributes to industry sites, can be found at major industry events, and provides advisory services to vendors and financial analysts.