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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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss trends in CCaaS. Blair Pleasant moderates the conversation, with Elizabeth English and Nicolas DeKouchkovsky. Topics include ...

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There’s never a dull moment in the contact center world, and the past couple of months have been no exception. Here’s a quick review of some of the recent news, from...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss recent conferences, analyst briefings and industry news. Blair Pleasant moderates the conversation, with Jon Arnold, Phil Edholm, ...

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Staking a claim in AI and speech technology markets at this stage of the game is essential, and Nuance is one of the leaders in this area.
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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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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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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts address a topic near and dear. We asked the Experts for best practices or recommendations for managing or participating in video meetings....

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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, the BCStrategies Experts discuss the recent Cisco virtual WebexOne event and the many announcements Cisco made at the event. Blair Pleasant moderates the...

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In this video interview, John provides an overview of the two key Genesys offerings – Genesys Cloud and Genesys Engage, as well as Genesys Multicloud and “Experience as a Service.”

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At Mitel’s virtual Analyst and Consultant Summit, I spoke with Mitel CMO David Silke about the company’s strategy, its path forward, and its focus on partner and customer relationships.

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