10 Take-Aways from #BSFTConnections
Cisco/Broadsoft hosted its annual Connections conference last week in Hollywood, Florida. This has always been a fantastic conference. It’s a...
View ArticleTalkingHeadz Podcast with Jonathan Rosenberg
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View ArticleTop Considerations in Teams vs. Webex
There’s a lot to Microsoft Teams and the Cisco Webex Suite. These solutions are much broader than UC or conferencing....
View ArticleInitial Thoughts #CiscoCollabAnalystSummit
As usual, Cisco provided analysts a fire-hose stream of content during their two-day analyst event in San Jose, CA. There...
View Article#CCTR at #EC19
EC is next week. I expect it will be, as usual, the busiest week of the year. Not only are...
View ArticleTalkingHeadz with Vasili Triant , VP #CCTR Cisco
Vasili (shown here without his new beard) leads Cisco’s contact center initiatives for premises, hosted, and cloud.
View ArticleI Would Like to Buy 2 Vowels: AI
Today, two communications companies bought to two NLP voice technology companies. Cisco announced intent to acquire privately-held Voicea. Voicea provides...
View ArticleMicrosoft versus Cisco: A Classic Three-card Monte Con
If you are spending time debating between Cisco and Microsoft communications solutions, you are likely falling victim to the classic three-card monte con. The Three-Card Monte Con The three-card monte...
View ArticleCisco Spark Security
Today, Cisco made its first major announcements on Spark since its January launch of the Spark Board. The company says there are more major announcements still planned for this year. Cisco’s...
View ArticleUnAuthorized FAQ Regarding Cisco and BroadSoft
Last month, Cisco upstaged BroadSoft’s annual Connections conference with news that the two companies agreed to be one. Acquisitions and mergers are complicated matters that take months to resolve....
View ArticleA Year in SMB
More options are always a good thing, and in that sense, 2017 was a good year for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) seeking new business communications solutions. Market statistics vary, but all...
View ArticleConsolidation Round-up
The business communications industry is evolving fast in terms of technology, but also in the number of vendors and providers competing in this market. There were several major shake-ups that impacted...
View ArticleNext Stop Phoenix #CollabSummit
This Week is the Cisco Collaboration Summit in Phoenix, Arizonia. This is Cisco’s first event since closing on its acquisition of BroadSoft, so I am hopeful to get some answers to how the tech and...
View ArticleCisco Spark is Dead
Cisco just wrapped up its Collaboration Summit (Summit de Webex). Below is a short video with some of my key points. I will soon published a full report that captures all of the announcements and my...
View ArticleCisco Collab Update #CiscoCollabAnalystSummit
Cisco hosted a PACKED 2-3 day Analyst Event in San Jose, California. The emphasis on PACKED is legit. I’m exhausted. The bus left the hotel at 7:30 AM and returned 10:30 PM. The first two days were...
View ArticleTalkingHeadz Podcast with Sri Srinivasan, SVP GM Cisco Collaboration
The @CiscoCollab team has gone through some big transitions. Some were caused by acquisitions and some were caused by changes in leadership. The big acquisitions were Selsius (1998), Webex (2007),...
View ArticleReview: Cisco Desk Pro
At 17 minutes, this is the longest review I have posted. That’s because the Desk Pro is a sophisticated product with numerous use cases. One thing I didn’t mention in the video is Desk Pro admin is all...
View ArticleGartner MQ for Meetings
Gartner issued its Magic Quadrant for Meetings this month. It included 15 providers, three of which were declared Leaders: Microsoft, Cisco, and Zoom. Each has bragging rights. The three were clustered...
View ArticleCisco to Acquire IMImobile
A day before WebexOne, Cisco Collaboration announces its intent to acquire IMImobile. The purchase price is approximately $730M USD. Analysts were briefed on the upcoming announcements at WebexOne...
View ArticleTalkingPointz Research #WebexOne Conference 2020
Cisco WebexOne and the Magic of We [This Research Note is available to TalkingPointz Premium subscribers or separate purchase. It is 12.5 pages long. Section 5, Dave's Thought's, has 110...
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