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Quipz Recap for September

October 02, 2017 by Dave Michels Free Download

Quipz provides short-take opinions on enterprise communications news each month. There’s a lot that happens in this industry. You can download the recap for September 2017 here.

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Quipz provides short-take opinions on enterprise communications news each month. There's a lot that happens in this industry. You can download the recap for September 2017 here.

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In this issue:

Microsoft on a Partnership Roll: Microsoft keeps extending its ecosystem. Here's three new interesting partnerships.

IBM and Zoho Jump into Messaging: Two new Team Chat apps made generally available in September. 

Slack Frontiers: What we learned from Slack's first customer event.

SoftBank Invests in Slack: Looks like Butterfield was wrong about Microsoft.

It’s Virtually Cisco Spark: Cisco launches a virtual Spark room and it just might turn into something real. 

Atlassian Stride: Too much too late? Atlassian finally updates HipChat into a new app.

Real-Time Goes Async: It's not just the big vendors. Talkdesk and Ten Digit Communications too.

DoNotPay Bot: Chatbots can be useful for fighting bots and Equifax.

It’s All Connected: Plantronics and Nectar have created an “ear-to-ear” diagnostic solution.

Gartner’s UCaaS MQ: Gartner published its annual Magic Quadrant UCaaS report. Unfortunately, this MQ just isn’t that useful due to its “inclusion criteria.”

Avaya Equinox Meetings: Avaya enters the wholesale conferencing business.

A Big Breach of Trust: BroadSoft has its Equifax moment.

Zello, Over: The storm washed in Walkie-Talkie apps.

Climate Change and Comms: Climate change, longer commutes, and UC.

Amazon Text Notification: Amazon causes a stir for Twilio and Vonage, but may actually be more validation.

Twilio Launches Studio: Why narrow your market to developers when there's so many more that can't code?

IDC Studies Cloud Adoption: IDC claims irrefutable evidence that UCaaS + CPaaS = effective communications.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions: Gartner released its new Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions in September. 

Skype Room Systems Expand: Several improvements and additions to the Skype Room System ecosystem from Logitech, Lenovo, and Polycom.

Zoomtopia: Several announcements from the first Zoom User Conference. 

Dos Trios: One Trio improved and another new, plus a new Voxbox from Polycom.

Genesys and PureCloud: PureCloud update.

Vidyo and NICE: Vidyo enlarges video with contact centers.

Enghouse CC for O365: Enghouse Interactive announced a new contact center offer for SfB Server and SfB Online. 

Face Recognition: Facial recognition is about to forever change security, surveillance, and advertising. 

Google Closing Android? It is rare for a market leader to be open source. 

Apple Sours: Thoughts on Apple's new phones and loss of stature. 

MS and Facebook are Wired: Microsoft and Facebook complete MAREA.

London Calling: Vonage opened a new European HQ in London.

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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.

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