UC Blogs and Podcasts

NoJitter.com

Blogs

Marty Parker is a regular blogger at NoJitter.com. Click here to see all of Marty’s posts on NoJitter. These are his most recent:

• “The Universal Usage Profile Lays the Foundation for Enterprise Communications” (October 19, 2021)
• “Exploring the Administration Usage Profile: (September 8, 2021)
• “Examining the Management and Executive Usage Profile” (July 27, 2021) 
• “Reinventing Communications: Information Processing Work” (May 18, 2021)
• “Reinventing Communications: Next Step for Retail Workers” (April 13, 2021)
• “Reinventing Communications: The Next Step” (March 9, 2021) 
• “Reinventing Communications: One Usage Profile at a Time” (February 2, 2021)

These are timeless classics:

• “Vertical Industry Communications:  State and Local Government” (December 13, 2018)
• “Vertical Industry Communications:  Inpatient Health Care” (November 13, 2018)
• “Vertical Industry Communications: Higher Education” (October 23, 2018)
• “Vertical Industry Communications:  Financial and Insurance Services” (October 2, 2018)
• “Vertical Industry Communications:  Manufacturing Outlook” (September 11, 2018)
• “Vertical Industry Communications:  Exploring Foundational Services” (August 14, 2018)
• “Vertical Industry Communication Trends and Best Practices” (July 17, 2018)

Podcasts

In advance of Marty’s session at Enterprise Connect 2019,  “Harvesting PBX Budgets to Fund the Future,” he was interviewed by Beth Schultz, editor of NoJitter and Program Co-chair for Enterprise Connect.  In this podcast, Marty talks about how enterprises can find ways to reduce spending and fund new solutions from the existing budget.  To hear the podcast, click here.

BCStrategies.com

Marty Parker is a contributing blogger at www.BCStrategies.com.  Click here to see a list of Marty’s posts on BCStrategies.com.  These are his most recent:

• “Scenarios for Post-COVID-19 Business Communications” (April 23, 2020)
• “Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for UCaaS, Worldwide: Redefining the Industry from the Bottom Up” (September 12, 2019)
• “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2018 – Mature!” (August 7, 2018)
• “Cloud Communications Decisions” (February 14, 2018) 

Usage Profiles

In 2016, Marty wrote a series of articles for UC Strategies that elaborated on “Usage Profiles” as an indispensable tool for planning a Unified Communications investment roadmap.  The articles comprise an introduction to Usage Profiles as well as descriptions for nine Usage Profiles, including where they occur in vertical industries and the communications requirements and solutions for each profile.

• Article 1:  “Usage Profiles – A Guide to Effective and Economical UC Solutions” (9/19/16)
• Article 2:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Collaboration Usage Profile” (9/29/16)
• Article 3:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Field Usage Profile” (10/11/16)
• Article 4:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Contact Center Usage Profile” (10/19/16)
• Article 5:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Retail Usage Profile” (10/20/16)
• Article 6:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Information Processing Usage Profile” (10/24/16)
• Article 7:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Production Usage Profile” (10/27/16)
• Article 8:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Administration Usage Profile” (10/28/16)
• Article 9:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Management Usage Profile” (10/31/16)
• Article 10:  “Usage Profile Series:  The Foundational Usage Profile” (10/31/16)

Information Week

Marty Parker also wrote a series of seven articles for InformationWeek about the changing face of enterprise communications:

• “Goodbye PBX, Hello IT Architecture”
• “7 Ways to Escape Communications Dark Ages “
• “Secrets to Unified Communications and Collaboration Success”
• “Enterprise Communications: Next Big Thing Is Embedded”
• “How to Spot an Obsolete Communications Strategy”
• “6 Reorg Steps To Bring Telecom, Mainstream IT Together”
• Communications Economics:  Harvest the Past, Fund the Future

Podcasts

Read and hear about the latest and greatest in the UC world. Industry Buzz podcasts from BCStrategies feature vendor interviews and exciting industry news that help you follow what the leading vendors are currently doing in the UC market. Marty Parker and Don Van Doren are frequent contributors to the Industry Buzz podcasts.  You can listen to a podcast, download it, and / or read a transcript.

To access the podcasts from BCStrategies, click here.

Interviews

During Enterprise Connect 2017, Marty was interviewed by Chris Lotspeich on the Live Stream.  He talks about the two sessions he conducted and discusses the entry of Amazon Web Services and Google into enterprise communications.  To view the interview, click here.