Top 10 UC EXPO 2018 Takeaways

UC Today attended Europe's leading Unified Communications & Collaboration Expo last week - here's what was #trending

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Published: May 21, 2018

Rob Scott

Rob Scott

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Last week UC Today attended UC EXPO 2018 in London. Here’s our top 10 takeaways from the event:

  1. Collaboration was the HOT topic
  2. AI and emerging tech attracted lots of curiosity and attention
  3. The GDPR Cloud looms – deadline this Friday, will it be an anti-climax?
  4. Microsoft Teams got a lot of attention – Teams Teams Teams!
  5. Cisco Collaboration boss (Snorre Kjesbu) talks about enterprise collaboration and how to take AI one step at a time
  6. Slack boasts recent growth and 8 million active daily users
  7. Collaboration within Collaboration – vendors demonstrating strategic partnerships – admitting they can’t offer the full solution
  8. /unified-communications/ucaas and Cloud Communications vendors and service providers lead the show – NFON, Fuze, RingCentral, 8×8, Mitel, Cisco, Avaya – Missing brands: Unify, Samsung, NEC, Splicecom, Swyx
  9. Avaya pushes real use cases over everything else – a refreshing change to expo style
  10. Zoom boasts big growth in U.K. – Cloud video and meeting rooms continue to gain market share and customer interest – cloud vendors blur the lines between UC & Collaboration and video conferencing  – it’s just collaboration right?

We interviewed over 30 vendors and analysts last week at the show, keep watching UC Today for our event reports and industry insights as they go live across the next week or two.

Comments welcome below – what did you think of UC EXPO 2018?

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