Never Mind the Quality

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Simon Dudley
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07/19/2016 - 14:30

I've talked about the importance of quality endlessly over the years. I was wrong. I started with the idea that quality was a one-way street; once you experienced...

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Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Audio & Video Conferencing, Collaboration Suites, Quality of Service (QOS), Education, Energy and Utilities, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, video conferencing

Polycom Bought by Siris Capital for $2Bn; Mitel Loses Out

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Simon Dudley
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07/11/2016 - 14:30

Recently I predicted that Siris Capital would be the winner in the contest to secure Polycom. Today it seems I was proven right.

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Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Audio & Video Conferencing, Collaboration Suites, SaaS, Cloud Apps, Banking and Investment, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, Mitel, Polycom

UCStrategies Reacts to Microsoft Purchase of LinkedIn

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Simon Dudley
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06/22/2016 - 14:30
In this Industry Buzz podcast, Simon Dudley leads a conversation with UCStrategies Experts about the announcement that Microsoft will purchase...
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Team Collaboration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, Microsoft, LinkedIn, CRM

Infocomm16 and King Kong

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Simon Dudley
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06/19/2016 - 14:30

At Infocomm16 something had changed. Suddenly the market is abuzz with new players, and the numbers are beginning to look serious. The big...

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Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Audio & Video Conferencing, Collaboration Suites, Government, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, video conference, video conferencing, Infocomm16

Microsoft Buys LinkedIn Instantly Becomes Huge CRM Player

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Simon Dudley
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06/15/2016 - 14:30

In the largest deal in Microsoft's history and in a move extremely counter intuitive to their previous Modus Operandi, Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for $26.2Bn. I...

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Why the Windows PC is Finally the Future of the Video Conferencing Industry

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Simon Dudley
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02/23/2016 - 13:30

The last 20 years in the Video Conferencing space have been dominated by specialist devices. There have been very good reasons for this, all of which made sense at...

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Communications In 2016 - Doing More "Business," Not Just "Work"

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Art Rosenberg
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01/10/2016 - 13:30

I was unable to join my colleagues in their recent podcast forecasting major changes in business communications...

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My Business Communications Summit Takeaways

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Art Rosenberg
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11/29/2015 - 13:30

"UC" has finally grown up to become more than person to person communications, and is now "BC" to include business process applications that will interact and...

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Mobility, Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Telephony (VoIP, AA, IVR), Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Business Process & Workflows (CEBP), WebRTC, Wireless Networks (Wi-Fi), Federation, Mobile Devices, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes

Multimodal Customer Service Interactions Need Actionable Data Monitoring

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Art Rosenberg
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11/11/2015 - 13:30

We talked to Clarity Consulting about their innovative approach to contact center operational management that has extended the power of real-time feedback and...

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Mobility, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Telephony (VoIP, AA, IVR), Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Contact Centers, Collaboration Suites, Configuration, Monitoring, Operations (BCOM), Banking and Investment, Government, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, Clarity Connect

Migrating To Enterprise Mobility With Business Call Management as a Service (CMaaS)

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Art Rosenberg
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11/08/2015 - 13:30

I am calling this focus on mobile call management "Call Management as a Service" (CMaaS), which is a practical migration step in moble business communications. To get...

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Mobility, Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Telephony (VoIP, AA, IVR), Unified Messaging (Email, Voicemail, SMS, Chat), Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Phones, Headsets & Hardware, UCaaS, Hybrid Cloud, Business Process & Workflows (CEBP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), WebRTC, SaaS, Cloud Apps, Configuration, Monitoring, Operations (BCOM), Mobile Devices, Professional Services, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, Toto Lynx, Toto Communications

Global Companies Need Global Partners

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Simon Dudley
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10/08/2015 - 14:30

The American economy matters, a lot. Not just because a quarter of all the world's economy occurs here, but because a much greater percentage of the world's decisions...

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Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Audio & Video Conferencing, UCaaS, Hybrid Cloud, Collaboration Suites, SaaS, Cloud Apps, Government, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, Tata Communications

Video Conferencing is a Solved Problem and Why That Changes Everything

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Simon Dudley
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10/06/2015 - 14:30

Last week a potential new supplier of Video Conferencing solutions showed me their product. It had all the components one would want: multiway calls, recording, audio...

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Mobility, Infrastructure, Team Collaboration, Unified Communication, Telephony (VoIP, AA, IVR), Instant Messaging & Presence (IM), Audio & Video Conferencing, Phones, Headsets & Hardware, Contact Centers, Collaboration Suites, Business Process & Workflows (CEBP), Social Business, SaaS, Cloud Apps, Retail & Distribution, Professional Services, unified communications, UCStrategies, IP, VoIP, business process, business processes, video conferencing