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M&A Update (#2448)

March 8, 2017

So many transactions. Companies are being bought and sold like a game of Go Fish.

Avaya sold its networking business to Extreme Networks for a paltry $100M (It is about $200M in revenue). That $100M does not make a dent in the billions in debt that Avaya is trying to scrape off in bankruptcy.

Posted in amazon, data center, fiber, hosted uc, mergers, unified communications

How Enterprise Voice Has Changed

March 7, 2017

Posted in expo, unified communications

4 Problems with the UC Market

February 27, 2017

On a LinkedIn blog, Telarus co-founder Patrick Oborn writes about the fact that 72% of businesses have not transitioned to cloud communications. 72%!!!

After 15 years, 2000+ providers can only take a 28% handhold in the market?

The growth rate of Hosted PBX (HPBX/UC/UCaaS) has always been a hopeful bad guess.

Posted in PBX, agents, amazon, channel, communications, disaster recovery, hosted uc, master agency, mobile, telecommunications, unified communications, voip

The Desk Phone is Not Done .. Yet

February 14, 2017

OBIHAI, Grandstream, Yealink, Yeastar and VoIP Supply were just a few of the booths at ITEXPO with desk phones. While many say that the desk phone is over, there are still companies that say Not So Fast! They were pretty much hanging out in Ft Lauderdale last week.

Posted in PBX, VAD, security, sip trunking, unified communications, voip

ITEXPO: The UC Outlook

February 10, 2017

The future of UC is bright says a number of executives at UCaaS providers. But is it?

I spoke with a few VoIP executives including CoreDial at ITEXPO. There are two separate layers: cheap voice or POTS replacement and people who want a comms platform.

Posted in Marketing, PBX, communications, hosted uc, organizations, unified communications, voip

How Do You Enable Partners?

January 31, 2017

RingCentral VP of Channel, Zane Long, did an interview with Channel Vision. He states, "Partners need the right sales support and enablement in order to be successful. It isn't enough to have just an amazing product or the richest commissions, because if partners are not fully enabled to really market it, they will not position your product first. The cloud communications marketplace is crowded and the demand for these competing solutions is evident (as noted in my earlier predictions).

Posted in Marketing, agents, broadsoft, channel, commissions, hosted uc, unified communications
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Desk Phones and Other Legacy Services

January 24, 2017

"The deskphone market has been left for dead by many but there is still room in the space for the device to evolve and become become a more integral part of your UC strategy," writes TMC's CEO, Rich Tehrani. The thing is: they will need to change drastically to do that. It is still pretty much the same device that we had 20 years ago. It is still the equivalent to the original brick of a cell phone.

Posted in broadsoft, hosted uc, sip trunking, unified communications, voip, wireline

What Do Buyers Want?

January 18, 2017

I have written about retails troubles before, but this KPMG global survey asks 18,430 consumers about their most recent online shopping experiences.

"Today's consumer no longer goes shopping, but is shopping, all the time and everywhere. And in a truly global online marketplace, competition is no longer limited to local shops during regular business hours. Consumers can easily buy from retailers and manufacturers located anywhere in the world - or from those with no physical retail locations at all," comments Willy Kruh, Global Chair, Consumer Markets, KPMG International.[KPMG]

Posted in unified communications
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The Fight to Make a Living in Cloud

January 17, 2017

How many articles and keynotes have been about how channel partners aren't jumping into cloud? I find it funny that it is mainly vendors and "consultants" saying this. It's Microsoft. It's every booth at CP Expo. It is the channel magazines (like here) and the channel consultants.

Posted in VAR, VDI, amazon, channel, cloud computing, commissions, crm, unified communications

Two New VoIP Offerings

January 5, 2017

IDT is an international LD company doing about a billion bucks globally. Last year, it finally entered the Hosted VoIP world through its Net2Phone brand. Net2Phone launched in the channel. Net2Phone also launched an inbound service (like Google Voice or Citrix's Grasshopper) called PicUp.

Posted in hosted uc, smb, startup, unified communications, voip
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