Blair Pleasant

COMMfusion LLC

http://www.commfusion.com/

[email protected]

 

Blair Pleasant is President & Principal Analyst of COMMfusion LLC and a co-founder of ucstrategies.com, an industry resource on the growing UC arena. She provides consulting and market research analysis on voice/data convergence markets, applications, and technologies, aimed at helping end-user and vendor clients both strategically and tactically. Prior to COMMfusion, Ms. Pleasant was Director of Communications Analysis for The PELORUS Group, a market research and consulting firm, and President of Lower Falls Consulting.

With 20 years experience, her primary areas of focus are convergence applications, including Unified Communications, Unified Messaging, the contact center, computer telephony integration (CTI), and voice processing. Blair has authored many highly acclaimed multi-client market studies and white papers, as well as custom research reports, and provides market research analysis and consulting services to both end user and vendor clients. 

Blair’s blogs and articles can be found on www.ucstrategies.com and www.commfusion.com. She also tweets on Twitter as blairplez, and you can find her on Facebook and LinkedIn.

She can be contacted at [email protected].

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Genesys' Lisa Abbott discusses the company's new cloud strategy and partnership with Salesforce.com.

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the UCStrategies Experts try to make sense of recently announced quarterly results, in particular the positive results announced by ShoreTel. The podcast is...

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Vertical Communications is using the term singular to refer to its pricing model, which combines all technologies into a single license. Throughout the analyst meeting,...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, Blair Pleasant leads the UCStrategies Experts in a discussion about the Channel, and a new Channel Study...

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As contact center customers look for solutions that are easy to deploy, manage, administer, and purchase - whether an on-premise or hosted solution - Cisco is refining...
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Beyond the UC Summit, UCStrategies is going a step further to help vendors and channel partners better work together, and will be conducting a comprehensive study to...
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Joe Burton of Plantronics gives a tour of Plantronics' flexible working environment, which makes it easier for smarter working.

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A couple recent articles point out several reasons why the writers claim that unified communications is a failure, although VARs and system integrators stand to benefit...
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At Enterprise Connect 2012 in Orlando, Eric Penisson, General Manager, Enterprise Communications, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise,...

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There were many themes at this year's Enterprise Connect. To me, the biggest take away was that vendors are starting to focus their unified communications and...
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Usually, when a vendor acquires another company, it causes headaches for their channel partners, who don't like having to learn something new. Such is apparently not the...
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