Cloud Communications stories - Page 2
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Digital Island appoints Grant Sweeney as Customer & sales general manager
Tue, 26th Apr 2022
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Grant Sweeney appointed as Customer and Sales GM at Digital Island, to enhance role as communication and contact centre provider in New Zealand.
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RingCentral and Mitel enter strategic partnership to enrich cloud comms
Thu, 6th Jan 2022
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RingCentral and Mitel have partnered to offer a migration path to RingCentral's cloud communications platform for Mitel's global customer base.
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Video: 10 Minute IT Jams - An interactive demo of Twilio's Messaging API
Fri, 20th Aug 2021
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cloud communications
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api
Twilio developer evangelist Phil Nash showcases an interactive demo on the solution, and discusses customer success stories with this and other Twilio APIs.
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Video: 10 Minute IT Jams - Who is Twilio?
Wed, 11th Aug 2021
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cloud communications
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api management
In today's interview we have Twilio vice president for APJ Lee Hawksley, who discusses the company's products and solutions.
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Zoom moves into contact centre market, acquiring Five9 in $14.7 billion stock transaction
Tue, 20th Jul 2021
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Zoom has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud contact centre Five9 in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.7 billion.
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8x8 unveils Experience Communications as a Service to help organisations meet new work requirements
Fri, 28th May 2021
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8x8 introduces Experience Communications as a Service (XCaaS; merging UCaaS and CCaaS to enhance employee and customer experiences.
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Dialpad expands Australian channel leadership team
Tue, 25th May 2021
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partner programmes
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contact centre
The new team leads will support Dialpad’s national channel program and assist with partner enablement and growth.
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8x8 adds new business messaging features to Microsoft Teams
Tue, 11th May 2021
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8x8 has announced its new 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams app has now added SMS, MMS, and fax capabilities to extend the teams experience for users.
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LoopUp appoints Leigh Henderson as director of consulting for Australia
Thu, 28th Jan 2021
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microsoft
As part of his new role, Henderson will oversee the execution of Microsoft Teams cloud telephony deployments, from initial planning to project delivery.
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RingCentral launches new partner programme
Thu, 4th Jun 2020
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Enables qualifying partners to manage the sales process end-to-end for opportunities for organisations of up to 400 employees.
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Arkadin relaunches as NTT’s cloud communications division
Tue, 24th Mar 2020
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The division will continue to work with organisations to provide collaboration solutions, which in the recent climate is more important than ever.
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MNF Enterprise and AARNet announce cloud calling partnership
Mon, 24th Feb 2020
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edutech
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Together, the two companies will provide voice communications solutions to the country’s education and research sector.
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8x8 names three new global execs
Mon, 20th Jan 2020
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8x8 has appointed Marge Breya as EVP and CMO, Samuel Wilson as chief customer officer and EMEA MD, and Homero Salinas as global VP and commercial sales head.
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Quantum expands offerings with new line of distributed cloud services
Fri, 28th Jun 2019
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hybrid cloud
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quantum computing
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cloud services
Quantum Corp has launched Distributed Cloud Services to allow users to focus on business goals and improve user experience.
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Zoom Phone beta announced for local customers
Thu, 16th May 2019
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Zoom has launched a beta version of its Zoom Phone service in Australia, introducing BYOC and certifying new desk phone devices from Poly and Yealink.
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Exclusive: How the channel can take advantage of cloud communications
Mon, 1st Apr 2019
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Ingram Micro NZ, 8x8 and Tradewinds discuss the state of cloud communications in ANZ and the channel opportunity it presents.
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Cloud communications turns US$45b collaboration market on its head
Tue, 29th Jan 2019
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collaboration
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cisco
It comes as little surprise that cloud is continuing on its disruptive path – this time in the collaboration market.
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Four reasons it’s time to switch to cloud communications
Mon, 31st Dec 2018
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Ben Swanson explains why organisations bogged down by legacy PBX systems should move to unified cloud communications sooner, rather than later.
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Why UCaaS is the channel’s ‘opportunity of the century’
Mon, 19th Nov 2018
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The popularity of UCaaS has grown very fast, with larger organisations across major industries like financial services and healthcare embracing it.
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At-work collaboration apps most vulnerable to cyber attacks
Fri, 27th Jul 2018
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security vulnerabilities
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cloud communications
According to a survey of 500 decision makers across several industries, 80% believe that cloud collaboration tools are vulnerable to cyber attacks.