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Top Trends in 2020: Disruptive Technologies Go Mainstream
2020 marks the year when innovative technologies such as drone deliveries, 5G, disruptive retail solutions and new form factors in digital interfaces will achieve widespread adoption. The constantly evolving digital ecosystem and frantic adoption rates require quick... Read more
It’s Your Cloud – Make Sure It Does Everything Your Organization Needs
If you’re not sure whether it’s time to modernize your communications solutions—either as part of broader digital transformation efforts or separately—be assured that it is indeed time. Many disruptor companies have already migrated from the legacy technologies that... Read more
The Carbonite Maneuver
By: Mukul Krishna, Global Head of Practice, Digital Media OpenText has chosen a strategic, inorganic growth path through acquisition over the years. OpenText was one of the first vendors to recognize the critical role managing enterprise information will play... Read more
Zoom’s Growing Ambitions in the Business Communications Market
Since the launch of its first product, Zoom has morphed considerably from a cloud video conferencing provider to its current, fast-growing focus on end-to-end enterprise communications. Zoom’s strategy of building a strong, well-functioning core, i.e., its wildly... Read more
Avaya Partners with RingCentral: The Tides Have Turned
Making a splash in an already news-filled space is a daunting task. Yet, the RingCentral-Avaya strategic partnership announced last week certainly made a splash. The two companies already discussed certain partnership details here, here and here. Media coverage... Read moreHigh-tech Companies: How to Win the Innovation Race with Advanced Communication and Collaboration Tools
As technology innovators, high tech companies drive in the IT fast lane. They are relentlessly looking to get ahead with innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and mobility, among other things. However, significant... Read moreTata Communications: Leveraging a Dark Horse in the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Race
Today’s businesses have doubled down on the hybrid and multi-cloud IT models, for a variety of reasons, including application performance, data security and sovereignty, and regulatory compliance. Despite the assertions of industry pros that said that public cloud... Read moreThree Big Reasons to Consider Hybrid Infrastructure for Business Communications
For years, it seemed that the key focus of IT and telecom decision makers was on moving communications to the cloud. Industry watchers drove the conventional wisdom that suggested that all communications would be handled as a service in some unknown data center.... Read moreBaby, it’s Cold Outside … But the UCaaS Market is Hot!
Reflecting on UCaaS Announcements around Enterprise Connect 2019 Yet another busy, informative and exciting Enterprise Connect is over. Many vendors, service providers, resellers, enterprise buyers, consultants and analysts spend three to five days under the glass... Read moreEnterprise Connect 2019 Recap: Platforms and Ecosystems Come to the Forefront
For watchers of the unified communications industry, the yearly jaunt to Orlando for Enterprise Connect is a marathon: with seemingly hundreds of press releases, analyst briefings and other meetings. With a couple of days to process, two themes emerged for me around... Read moreAdvanced Collaboration for Consultants: How to Maximize Client Engagement and Success
Businesses today have a strong need to drive their strategy and growth by reaching outside of their own knowledge domains. Consultants are a trusted source of information to gain access to objective insights from third party experts. In recent years, large consulting... Read more
CONNEX19: An Update from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
With an unbeatable location, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) celebrated its 100 years by hosting its CONNEX19 partner, executive and analyst events in the iconic principality of Monaco. The anniversary was an opportunity for the company to not only update the market... Read moreUnpacking Avaya’s New Cloud Solutions Portfolio
This week Avaya hosted its ENGAGE conference in Austin, TX. The multiple thousands of attendees spanned customers, channel partners, technology partners, media, consultants and analysts. The company made numerous announcements during the event. Here we’d like to focus... Read more