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InterviewUC&C31 Jul 2018 · 1 min read

Out Loud: Sizzling Summer News Summary

Rob Scott and Patrick Watson review the summer news from the unified communications and collaboration world and look ahead to the next few months.

First up Rob and Patrick look back at the most recent events in the UC and collaboration world. The discuss CCW18, the Cloud Comms Summit, Microsoft Inspire and look ahead to Microsoft Ignite will take place in September.

Next up the guys round up all the biggest and most popular news stories from the last two months. There is so much news to get through from the release of Microsoft Team's free version, confirmation of the Plantronic's Polycom acquisition to Slack and Atlassian's closer alliance.

Rob and Patrick dissect all of the news stories and consider how they will affect the current landscape within the industry. Many of the stories seems to centre around mergers and acquisitions.

Finally Patrick and Rob look ahead to the future and discuss some news from UC Today itself. The inaugural UC Awards have been launched the guys discuss the format logistics and their excitement about the potential winners. As well as the awards the second edition of the UC Today market guide will be released in September. The market guides provides a repository for all the main industry vendors and providers.

Listen on your daily commute, whilst walking the dog, or in the gym. UC Today Out Loud provides bite size podcasts, bringing you all of the latest UC and collaboration news.

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Presenter and Tech Journalist Patrick Watson and expert guest Rob Scott.

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