Joseph Williams

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Joseph Williams is an analyst and consultant in the UC industry, with specialties in the channel and in the cloud (UCaaS). A former Business School dean, Joseph recently was the Managing Director for SaaS in Microsoft's Hosting Service Providers channel partner organization and he had run the Hosted Lync channel business. Prior to that he was a Senior Director in Microsoft's Lync product group’s Partner Engineering team and was responsible for integration engineering of Microsoft’s O365 cloud with service providers as well as for the development and delivery of all Lync Hosted and cloud solutions. 

Other roles within Microsoft included being the Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft’s $20 billion enterprise sales organization, being the CTO for Microsoft’s Global Accounts organization, and running a Microsoft Consulting Services team of solution architects. Dr. Williams also worked at Sun Microsystems, JD Edwards, and was a co-founder and CTO of COSS Technology Group. In a distant past Dr. Williams was a professor in the College of Business at Colorado State University teaching and doing research on how enterprises use technology for strategic business advantage.

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The UCaaS market has emerged with most of the major vendors using an eco-system approach to devices and room systems. Cisco has chosen to take the Apple approach of a vertically integrated...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts were asked to make three predictions about what they expect to see or what to watch for in business communications in 2022. ...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts look back at 2021 in business communications. Blair Pleasant moderates the...

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Jim Burton
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss recent the recent flurry of industry news, mergers and acquisitions. Jim...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast the Experts think back to 2016...when Mitel tried to acquire Polycom, Microsoft was doubling down on Skype for Business, UCaaS and CPaaS were newly familiar acronyms...

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Blair Pleasant
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In this special edition Industry Buzz podcast, BCStrategies invites special guests Mike Nelson and Kane Simms of VUX World to join in the conversation. Today's...

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Jim Burton
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts hold their annual conversation predicting what kinds of changes will happen in business communications in 2021. Jim Burton ...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts review the year 2020 in business communications. Jim Burton moderates the...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, Jim Burton hosts a conversation with the BCStrategies Experts about industry consolidation, and changes in the industry particularly due to the explosion in the...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts reflect on 2018. Jim Burton moderates the conversation, with Experts Peter Bernstein, Marty Parker, Phil Edholm, Michael Finneran, Joseph...

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BCStrategies welcomes Dean Manzoori VP, Global Cloud Communication, Masergy, to discuss global delivery of hybrid UCaaS.

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This Industry Buzz podcast is a follow-up to Phil Edholm's recent article, Business Communications in the Digital Transformation Age, a discussion of a structured view of the elements of Business...

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