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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Alcatel-Lucent Enteprise introduced Genesys Social Engagement, a solution to analyze, prioritize, and route social media interactions.
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Cisco demos integration of Syn-Apps' application with the Cisco unified communication platform and the Cius device in a retail environment, resulting in the "...
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There've been some changes to the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) bylaws, which may encourage some of the vendor holdouts to join the forum -...
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Miles Valentine of Zeacom joins UCStrategies' Blair Pleasant in this podcast to discuss Business Process Automation and how Zeacom is helping its customers streamline communications and achieve...

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One of the first enterprise communication vendors to embrace social media was Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN). Siemens set a pretty aggressive timeline of new...
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At Cisco's Collaboration Summit, Cisco discusses SocialMiner, it's customer collaboration product for mining the social web and engaging with customers.
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At Cisco's Collaboration Summit, Blair Pleasant of UCStrategies speaks with Paul Fulton about Cisco's Prosumer business unit and how Cisco is taking consumer products and making them available for...

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In this Industry Buzz video, Frank Eliason, SVP of Social Media at Citibank (formerly of Comcast), discusses the role of video in enterprise 2.0 and social CRM.

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In this Industry Buzz video, Chris Yeh discusses PBworks and how the company is melding Social Media and Unified Communications.

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At Alcatel-Lucent Dynamic Enterprise Tour, ALU tells analysts and attendees about its products, direction, strategy, and a new next-gen architecture based on SIP.
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In an effort to understand the costs of maintaining and supporting legacy voice mail systems, COMMfusion LLC conducted a study to...

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