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Blair and Jon discuss NiCE Acquisition of Cognigy
Blair Pleasant and Jon Arnold discuss NiCE's $955M acquisition of conversational AI company Cognigy. Kevin Kieller moderates the discussion.

Multiple Experts
Aug 11 min read


NiCE + Cognigy – What Took So Long?
Experts Blair Pleasant and Jon Arnold analyze NiCE's $955M acquisition of Cognigy

Multiple Experts
Aug 15 min read


Zoom Perspectives 2025 - A Quick Summary
A quick recap of Zoom Perspectives 2025 from Kevin Kieller, Blair Pleasant, and Jon Arnold

Multiple Experts
Aug 11 min read


Zoom Perspectives 2025 – From Conversations to Completion
Zoom held its annual analyst event in its hometown of San Jose, CA, providing insights into how the company is transforming from a...

Blair Pleasant
Jul 247 min read


NiCE Interactions 2025 – A New Era
NICE recently hosted its annual customer event, NiCE Interactions, drawing an impressive 3,000 CX leader attendees from 20 diverse...

Blair Pleasant
Jun 246 min read


BCS Experts Recapping Q1+ 2025
(Podcast length 20:52) BCStrategies Expert Blair Pleasant hosts Experts Joseph Williams, Jon Arnold, Kevin Kieller, David Maldow and...

Multiple Experts
May 131 min read


Comms vNext Conference Recap (2025)
BCStrategies Expert David Danto interviews Expert Kevin Kieller related to the April 2025 Comms vNext conference which focused on the...

Kevin Kieller
Apr 221 min read


Google Cloud Next – Stepping up its Customer Experience Game
While AI and AI agents got most of the attention at Google Cloud’s customer event, Google Cloud Next, it was great to see a bigger focus...

Blair Pleasant
Apr 174 min read


Analytics Delivers ROI for Calling and Collaboration
You are investing money in your UCaaS (unified communications as a service) platforms like Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, and Zoom...

Kevin Kieller
Apr 154 min read


8x8 Analyst Summit Takeaways – Track Some Mud on the Carpet
My favorite line from A Complete Unknown – “ Don’t be afraid to track some mud on the carpet ”. My favorite line – and pretty much...

Jon Arnold
Apr 107 min read


Q&A with Pete Lavache, Avaya CMO and Blair Pleasant, COMMfusion president and principal analyst
Expert Blair Pleasant asks questions of Avaya's CMO Pete Lavache

Blair Pleasant
Apr 106 min read


Chalice AI: The DeepSeek of Ad Tech
In this exclusive interview, Adam Heimlich, Founder and CEO of Chalice AI, breaks down how his company is disrupting the ad tech space by...

David Maldow
Apr 91 min read
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