Presenter Patrick brings you the latest news updates from the last few weeks. The UC Today News Update will bring you regular videos summarising the biggest stories from the worlds of unified communications, collaboration and customer experience.
First up on the news agenda is the latest development in the ongoing Avaya situation. It was revealed last week that Avaya and UCaaS leader, RingCentral will form a partnership making RingCentral Avaya's exclusive UCaaS Partner. Patrick covers off the details of the deal.
Some news from the analyst community next as the Newsround covers the Forbes Cloud 100 list which includes several vendors you may recognise from the worlds of UC, CX and collaboration. Gartner also unveiled its Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions. Patrick takes a brief look the latest MQ results as there are some new additions to the quadrant.
Microsoft Ignite is the next big event on the calendar. Microsoft's customer conference takes place in November but there are still various new features that have been added to Microsoft Teams platform, which Patrick highlights. It hasn’t been such a good few weeks for Slack as its share price feel significantly after lower than expected financial results in its first release as a publicly trading company.
