Raúl Castañón-Martínez is a senior analyst based in Boston focusing on business communications and collaboration technologies such as enterprise messaging, voice, bots, speech recognition and unified communications. Before 451 Research, he was a product manager at EMOSpeech, analyzing emotion recognition technology. At Comverse Network Systems, he gained significant experience in product marketing working with tier one mobile operators to define strategy, pricing and business models for voice and data products. Raúl is widely quoted in the top tier press including publications like CIO, Computer World, Fortune and Wired.
The smart speaker manufacturer has acquired Chirp, which uses audio technology to enable M2M communications. The target could help Sonos enhance the user experience in its product line " it could also enable it to expand beyond the consumer segment, targeting a wide range of use cases such as proximity marketing, mobile payments, IIoT and gaming.
The target should round out Synacor's enterprise collaboration offering with video capabilities and provide cross-selling opportunities for its partner network of video, internet and communications providers. Qumo's solid customer base includes Global 2000 and Fortune 500 companies and well-known global brands.
At its Collaboration Analyst Summit, Cisco shared recent product and business updates. While details are under NDA, at a high level, the highlight was hearing from company executives about how Webex has evolved into a platform for securely enabling the digital employee experience.
The company provides a mobile-first platform that helps large enterprises foster alignment and engagement across the entire organization by allowing employees to access work-related services and business applications and stay updated with company information.
The new Webex Assistant for Meetings allows users to automate common meeting tasks such as transcription and note-taking, with the goal of improving productivity and enhancing the digital employee experience.
The company recently announced its latest platform release, which includes more than 300 new features and integrations that should help users embed real-time communications into business workflows and close the gap with traditional unified communications providers.
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