Microsoft, Cisco Still Big Dogs in UC Market
Cisco remained the world's leading telephony vendor for the sixth consecutive quarter in Q4 2012 and was one of only three players – alongside Mitel and ShoreTel – to post revenue growth.The post...
View ArticleChallengers Beware: Cisco Back on Track
Cisco accounted for more than one of every two dollars spent across the six main segments of the enterprise networking market in 2012, according to Synergy Research.The post Challengers Beware: Cisco...
View ArticleIngram Micro Debuts Hosted Cisco Collab Wares
The distributor this week rolled out a new Cisco Systems Inc.-powered hosted collaboration offering for partners looking to deliver standardized and easily repeatable cloud-based unified communications...
View ArticleCisco Hit With $70M Fine for Duping Partner
XpertUniverse claimed it was teased with the prospect of becoming part of Cisco SolutionsPlus, a reseller program designed to augment Cisco's advanced technology products to create complete solutions...
View ArticleStudy: Poor User Profiling Threatens UCC Growth
IT decision-makers charging full speed toward UCC with visions of greater organizational efficiency and improved worker productivity are skipping a key step in the process: Most haven’t bothered to ask...
View ArticleAvaya Smooths Quotes, Orders With One Source
Resellers of Avaya Inc.’s business communications and collaboration wares may finally be getting some relief from navigating thousands of price groups and hundreds of catalogs as the vendor moves to...
View ArticleShoreTel CEO Blackmore to Resign
The executive rumblings that shook up channel leadership at unified communications stalwart ShoreTel Inc. are apparently reverberating all the way to the corner office as CEO Peter Blackmore announces...
View ArticleCisco and Microsoft Can’t Communicate
Cisco is once again trying to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, hoping to blunt the software giant’s ambitions in unified communications. Cisco doesn't want to unravel the deal, but rather force...
View ArticleSlide Continues in Videoconferencing
New IDC figures show Q1 videoconferencing equipment revenues fell a whopping 22 percent from the previous quarter and dropped 13.2 percent from the year-ago quarter. Market leaders Cisco and Polycom...
View ArticlePartners Can Ride Wave of Workforce Changes
A new study provides ample justification for solution providers that employee habits and business processes are morphing perhaps faster than we’d imagined.The post Partners Can Ride Wave of Workforce...
View ArticleShoreTel Revs Up UC Partnership With Williams F1
The Williams F1 team will use ShoreTel's unified communications technology at this weekend's Silverstone Grand Prix in Britain.The post ShoreTel Revs Up UC Partnership With Williams F1 appeared first...
View ArticleSmile for the Camera: Young Executives Crave Video in the Workplace
Survey: Unified communications and video conferencing could be poised for a major boost in the workplace as younger workers rise through the management ranks and bring their preferred methods of...
View ArticleCisco Brings Together Partner Led and Inside Sales
New Cisco Global Midmarket Acceleration chief John Donovan looking to enable partners around Cisco’s midmarket offerings.The post Cisco Brings Together Partner Led and Inside Sales appeared first on...
View ArticleAvaya Updates UC Wares
Avaya extends the range of IPOffice, makes Aura more programmable and introduces a text-any-number messaging service.The post Avaya Updates UC Wares appeared first on Channelnomics.
View ArticleRaising the CRM Bar: Two Different Approaches
Two CRM players made interesting moves this week with the rollout of new platform functionality and a clever CRM/unified communications crossover that takes visibility into sales and marketing...
View ArticleReport: Vendor Shake-ups to Continue in Telephony
The global enterprise telephony market of PBXs and unified communications (UC) shrank nine percent in Q4 to achieve $7.4 billion for the 2013 year, says Infonetics' research.
View ArticleIngram Micro Gears Up for UK Cloud Success
U.K. resellers are being taken to Ingram Micro’s flagship Cloud Summit event in the U.S. next month for the first time.
View ArticleUnify Looks to the Channel for SME Success
Unify, the company formerly known as Siemens Communications, is looking build and expand channel sales to take its unified communications products to the small- and mid-size enterprise market....
View ArticleShoreTel CEO: We Have 3-Year Window to Get Market Lead
ShoreTel's chief executive Don Joos believes the firm has a three-year window to establish itself as the market's leading hosted communications player
View ArticleOn Point: Communications Take Fore in New Offerings
Businesses need more than just Skype to communicate these days. In this week’s On Point column, we focus on communications solutions through the Web, the cloud and even a robot on wheels.
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