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The UCStrategies Experts share their expertise in bylined articles, opinion pieces, blogs, and podcasts, to define unified communications, educate you about unified communications technologies, and help you make informed decisions about unified communications solutions.
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Kevin Gavin, VP of Marketing, ShoreTel, joins Blair Pleasant in this podcast to discuss ShoreTel’s successful quarter, new branding, new announcements, and n...
By Blair Pleasant.
Blair Pleasant of UCStrategies is joined by Caleb Barlow, Director Small Business Solutions, IBM Software Group, to talk about IBM Foundations and how IBM is...
Jim Burton is joined by Bernard Aboba, a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Office Communications Server team, and Jeffrey Rodman, co-founder and CTO of P...
By Jim Burton.
Paul McMillan, Director of UC Technical Vision and Strategy at Siemens Enterprise Communications, joins Jim Burton for a conversation about how Siemens is us...
Barry Margerum, Chief Marketing Officer of Plantronics, joins Jim Burton for a conversation about Plantronics and the importance of the end-user experience f...
Talbot Harty, Chief Development Officer and Chief Information Officer for NET, joins Jim Burton for a conversation about recent acquisitions, partnerships, a...
Bill Durr, Principal Global Solutions Consultant, Verint Systems, and Jim Burton of UCStrategies discuss adapting contact center workforce optimization tools...
Helping customers receive great business value from IBM Sametime software, VoIP and a unified communications and collaboration environment.
Paul Segre, President of the Alcatel-Lucent Application Software Group and CEO of Genesys, joins Jim Burton and Blair Pleasant for a conversation about the c...
Jason Andersson, Aastra’s Head of Center of Excellence for Applications, talks about unified communications and the next generation of workers.
Larry Levenberg, Vice President and General Manager of National Channels for NEC Corporation of America, joins Jim Burton to discuss the NEC’s unified commun...
Steve Hardy, Avaya’s Director of Global Product Marketing for the Unified Communications Solutions Group, talks with Jim Burton about Avaya’s vision and the ...
Seamus Hourihan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Acme Packet, talks about the company and session border controller (SBCs), which enab...
Joe Staples, CMO, Interactive Intelligence, has a conversation with Jim Burton about their new Interaction SIP Station, a new communications endpoint device...
Mark Straton, Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications has a chat with Jim Burton in a crowded (noisy) room after Mark's...
Bruce Morse, Vice President of IBM’s Unified Communications Software Group, has a conversation with Jim Burton about what's new with IBM in the unified commu...
Tim Whittington, Sr. Vice-President and General Manager of Aastra USA talks with Jim Burton about Aastra’s extensive history of innovation and impressive pro...
Kevin Schwartz, Executive Vice President, Global Professional Services at Aspect talks to Jim Burton about the Microsoft/Aspect relationship and how Aspect i...
Jeff Kane, Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation of America, talks to Jim Burton about NEC’s recent organizational news and what it means for its own North ...
Joe Staples, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing talks to Jim Burton about Interactive Intelligence’s approach to business process automation. Expandi...
Mike Sheridan, Aspect's Senior VP of Strategy and Marketing, talks with Jim Burton about the benefits of Aspect’s ability to deploy Microsoft OCS into all bu...
Jerry Fleming, COO at Altigen, talks to Jim Burton about Altigen’s UC mobility solutions, including Altigen’s new product Max Mobile.
Don Smith gives advice on how to evaluate unified communications in these troubled economic times.
Joe Staples, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing talks to Jim Burton about Business Process Automation - Interactive Intelligence's Approach to Unifie...
At Cisco's annual global analyst event, C-Scape, Cisco's CTO of UC, Joe Burton, talks with Blair Pleasant about Cisco's focus on collaboration. To Cisco, col...
IBM's UC evangelist, Bruce Morse, talks about IBM's Unified Communications news.
Talbot Hary, Chief Development Officer for NET discusses NET’s development of an intelligent gateway product, which is a versatile, enterprise class product ...
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