Mavenir aims to transform network economics with mobile-native unified communications

By Raul Castanon-Martinez June 15 2018 | Market Insight

The vendor aims to provide new revenue opportunities for mobile network operators by helping them address the mobility needs of small office/home office and SMBs.

Networking Workforce Productivity & Compliance

Microsoft Build 2018: IoT, collaboration and multi-device experiences

By Christian Renaud Raul Castanon-Martinez June 15 2018 | Market Insight

Redmond's giant annual developer conference served as the company's launchpad for dozens of new announcements including several new IoT services from the cloud to the edge, team collaboration and a revolutionary integration platform across its entire portfolio.

Internet of Things Workforce Productivity & Compliance

Apple introduces new 'digital wellness' features

By Raul Castanon-Martinez June 6 2018 | Market Insight

Customer Experience & Commerce Internet of Things Workforce Productivity & Compliance

Nuance reaffirms focus on automotive business with VoiceBox acquisition

By Raul Castanon-Martinez David Immerman Brenon Daly May 30 2018 | Market Insight

After an uncharacteristic M&A drought, the speech giant has picked up VoiceBox, a developer of speech recognition and natural language technologies that primarily focuses on connected cars. The acquisition reaffirms Nuance's focus on the automotive segment, which is the company's fastest-growing business unit.

Customer Experience & Commerce Development, DevOps & IT Ops Internet of Things Mobile Telecom Workforce Productivity & Compliance

Google I/O 2018: Solving real-world problems with AI

By Raul Castanon-Martinez May 25 2018 | Market Insight

Over 7,000 developers attended Google's annual conference to learn about new products and updates and participate in training workshops. In this report, we provide an overview of key announcements and share our main takeaways from Google's developer event and the adjacent analyst AI event.

Customer Experience & Commerce Development, DevOps & IT Ops Internet of Things Mobile Telecom Workforce Productivity & Compliance

AWS introduces meeting scheduling in Alexa for Business

By Raul Castanon-Martinez May 23 2018 | Market Insight

Networking Workforce Productivity & Compliance

CyberLink launches web comms app for meetings, presentations and messaging

By Raul Castanon-Martinez May 21 2018 | Market Insight

The provider of consumer multimedia software applications is leveraging its technology and market footprint to expand into team collaboration. The company believes there is a market need for voice and video collaboration tools that are easy to use – like social apps.

Networking Workforce Productivity & Compliance

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise expands cloud communications with Sipwise acquisition

By Raul Castanon-Martinez May 18 2018 | Market Insight

The acquisition of a majority stake in Austria-based Sipwise should enhance Alcatel-Lucent's communications PaaS and unified communications as a service, and support its efforts to provide customers with a 'hybrid' pathway to the cloud.

Cloud Transformation Managed Services & Hosting Networking Systems & Software Infrastructure Workforce Productivity & Compliance

Dialpad adds AI-powered speech analytics by reaching for TalkIQ

By Raul Castanon-Martinez Scott Denne May 17 2018 | Market Insight

The cloud communications provider has acquired TalkIQ, which brings natural-language-processing and sentiment analysis technology that Dialpad plans to deploy to add new features to its call-center products and enhance its collaboration portfolio.

Customer Experience & Commerce Networking Workforce Productivity & Compliance