TalkingHeadz with Javed Khan SVP of Cisco Collaboration
It’s impressive how much Cisco Collaboration changed in 2020. We can attribute some of this to the pandemic, but more of it goes to Javed Khan. He was promoted to unit SVP and GM mid year and...
View ArticleTalkingHeadz with Chris MacFarland, CEO Masergy
In this podcast we ask Chris some tough questions such as why do I need advanced networking when Starbucks has free Wi-Fi and who has better BBQ: Texas or Illinois? You can follow TalkingHeadz on your...
View ArticleTalkingPointz Research: Room Panels
Room Panels By Dave Michels, April 28, 2021 The next big revolution in meeting rooms will take place outside the meeting room. 1. Overview In response to increased demand and low costs, 2019 was a...
View ArticleBroadsoft Connections 2018
Cisco-BroadSoft hosted its Annual Connections Conference right on schedule. This was the first official opportunity to hear how things are changing since the acquisition which was announced a year ago...
View Article10 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 very global event aimed at service providers which see the...
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. Both have expanded their services to include: Team Chat UCaaS/Calling Audio and...
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 are some fantastic things happening at Cisco Collaboration, particularly with...
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 there more comms related announcements this week then any other, but there is no bigger gathering of UC/CC...
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 meeting transcription, voice search, and can...
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...
View ArticleTalkingHeadz with Javed Khan SVP of Cisco Collaboration
It’s impressive how much Cisco Collaboration changed in 2020. We can attribute some of this to the pandemic, but more of it goes to Javed Khan. He was promoted to unit SVP and GM mid year and...
View ArticleTalkingHeadz with Chris MacFarland, CEO Masergy
In this podcast we ask Chris some tough questions such as why do I need advanced networking when Starbucks has free Wi-Fi and who has better BBQ: Texas or Illinois? You can follow TalkingHeadz on your...
View ArticleTalkingPointz Research: Room Panels
Room Panels By Dave Michels, April 28, 2021 The next big revolution in meeting rooms will take place outside the meeting room. 1. Overview In response to increased demand and low costs, 2019 was a...
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