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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How a integrated tech stack solves collaboration and communication problems in our new reality

The age of silos is over. A preintegrated, cloud-based VoIP, UC, collaboration,...

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As a response to the coronavirus or COVID-19, the “new normal” is remote work, or work from home (WFH). With recommendations to enforce “social distancing,” many...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts discuss the future of conferences. Assuming that in-person conferences start up again sometime in 2021, what can we expect these events to...

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Deep insights to help you understand the path to success and potential challenges related to achieving usage and adoption of unified communications and collaboration...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, the BCStrategies Experts take a look into the future and answer the question, "what do we think the post COVID-19 world will look like?" Blair Pleasant moderates the...

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In this video interview, BCStrategies Expert Blair Pleasant speaks with Avaya’s Dennis Kozak about the new Avaya Cloud Office by RingCentral. Dennis provides an overview...
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As business users and consumers become more comfortable with video for meetings, yoga classes, religious services, and of course, virtual happy hours, visual...
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In today’s challenging environment, the way we work and collaborate is changing, requiring new tools to help employees be more efficient from wherever they may be...
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Melissa Swartz hosted a group of BCStrategies Experts to discuss best practices for working from home (WFH). BC Experts participating include Marty Parker, Roberta J. Fox, Steve Leaden, JR Simmons...

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In this BCStrategies podcast, Jim Burton leads a discussion about business communications technology and how it is positioned to immediately help enterprises facing challenges posed by the...

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This new offering gives 2600Hz customers and partners a new option for call center services, while adding value to the KAZOO platform.
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There was lots of energy and enthusiasm on display at Cisco’s recent Collaboration Analyst Summit with several new team members, new announcements, and new messaging.
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