Digital Media & Entertainment

Tableau: The Wiz Of Data Viz Prepares For New Era

By / Digital Media & Entertainment, Professional Audio/Video (Pro AV), Research / December 12, 2019

Earlier this month I attended the Tableau Conference 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. The annual event draws Tableau partners, developers, and customers together to learn about the latest data visualization solutions. The group collectively and proudly refer to themselves as “the data family.” This year around 18,000 congregated in Las Vegas. As a data-fanatic, former data-driven marketing executive for …

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Poly Delivers A Full House Device Portfolio For Microsoft Teams At Ignite

By / Digital Media & Entertainment, Professional Audio/Video (Pro AV), Research / November 25, 2019

The Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference took place this week in Orlando, Florida. The annual event is an occasion for Microsoft, its partners, developers and IT professional customers to all come together and see the latest solutions from the tech giant. As a unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) industry veteran and former CEO, I wanted to …

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Poly: The Comeback “Mojo” Is Building

By / Research, Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) / November 5, 2019

Poly has an undeniable track record of innovation and leadership, including both major components of Poly (Plantronics + Polycom). Given the recent merger, I looked forward to the analyst briefing last week to meet the key leaders, and learn about their current plans. As a unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) industry veteran and former CEO, …

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Zoom Zen: Mastering The Art Of Simplicity

By / Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) / November 5, 2019

I recently attended the Zoom Communications annual event for customers, partners, analysts, press and employees. Creatively named Zoomtopia, the two-day event was held in San Jose, CA. If you have not heard of Zoom, it is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider specifically focused on video communications, from the cloud versus on an on-premises server. Given that the functional focus …

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