Microsoft Rolls Out Teams Premium Infused with OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

Sean Spradling, senior analyst at Wainhouse Research, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of Microsoft’s rollout of Teams Premium infused with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5.
Frontline Workers – Sizing the Opportunity for Workplace Communications and Collaboration

This report focuses on one of the two segments of the workforce, specifically on Frontline Workers versus Knowledge Workers. This report provides a framework for vendor product teams to evaluate opportunities in the frontline worker segment with a basis in concrete definitions, categories, broad personas, and counts. Organizations should use this framework as a starting point for the development of their own personas.
This report draws on data from the World Trade Organization (WTO), The International Labour Organization (ILO), and ILO’s International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), as well as The Futurum Group’s internal database of qualitative and quantitative research and analysis of enterprise communications platforms, technologies, services, and devices.
Verizon Mobile for Microsoft Teams Launches: Verizon Becomes the First Carrier in the U.S. Market to Support Teams Phone Mobile

Sean Spradling, senior analyst at Wainhouse Research, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers the launch by Verizon of Verizon Mobile for Microsoft Teams, becoming the first U.S. carrier in the market to support Teams Phone Mobile — and what that bodes for the future.
Microsoft Set to Invest $10 billion in OpenAI — What That Could Mean for Enterprise Communications

Sean Spradling, senior analyst at Wainhouse Research, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers the recent whispers of Microsoft’s potential $10 billion investment with OpenAI, the company who created ChatGPT, and how it has the potential to streamline enterprise communications.
Market Landscape: Global SIP – An Analysis of The Providers Managing PSTN Interconnect

This landscape report defines many commonly used terms in the Global SIP market, reveals the primary benefits sought by customers, provides an overview of the major vendors in the market, including segmentation and differentiating characteristics, and offers forward-looking trends that may impact GSIP and unified communications.
Vendors researched include: British Telecom (BT), Orange Business Services (OBS), Telefonica, Verizon, LoopUp, PureIP, Lumen, NTT, Colt, Microsoft, Cisco Webex, and Zoom.
Spearline Acquires Callstats from 8X8 to Solidify Position as Global Leader in Communication Testing

Sean Spradling, senior analyst at Wainhouse Research, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of Spearline’s acquisition of Callstats and what these new capabilities mean for Spearline moving forward as it relates to the testing and analysis of fixed line, cellular, and webtrc connections.
Market SpotCheck: Online Meetings – CY Q3 2022 (July – September 2022)

This quarterly market SpotCheck tracks the Online Meetings (OM) market. Data covers licenses and revenues of online meeting providers based on data received from the vendors or estimated by The Futurum Group from known data points (previous license counts, revenue reports, private briefings, publicly available information, and growth percentages.) The Futurum Group does not publish data for individual vendors or their market shares but does provide vendor ranking based on the number of licenses.: 8×8 (includes Fuze), Adobe, Avaya, Cisco WebEx, Dialpad, Google, GoTo, Microsoft, Mitel, Pexip, PGi, RingCentral, Verizon/Bluejeans, Vonage, Zoom.
This report covers the following regions: North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
Microsoft Announces Teams Integration with Hololens 2

Sean Spradling, senior analyst with Wainhouse, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers the recent announcement from Microsoft about the Teams integration with Hololens 2.
Lumen Sells EMEA Assets to Colt for $1.8B — The Driver Behind That Move and a Look at What’s Ahead for the Company Now

Sean Spradling, senior analyst with Wainhouse Research, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of Lumen’s sale of the company’s EMEA assets to Colt for 1.8 billion, thoughts on what drove that move, and a look at what’s ahead for the company.
Roam Raises $30M and Enters Beta to Push the Future of Work Forward

Sean Spradling, senior analyst at Wainhouse, part of The Futurum Group of companies, covers news of Roam, a new entrant in the virtual headquarters segment of workplace communications, closing their Series A round of funding for $30.6M and why we should expect to see more.
Zoomtopia 2022 – Zoom Adds Calendaring and Email to the Platform — But Why They Did it is the Interesting Thing

Sean Spradling, Senior Analyst at Wainhouse Research, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers announcements coming out of the recent Zoomtopia 2022 event, with a focus on the addition of email and calendaring to the platform and his thoughts on why they did it and what makes that so interesting.
Wainhouse Live! From the Show Floor with Lumen Technologies at Zoomtopia 2022

In this episode of the Wainhouse Webcast, senior analyst Sean Spradling is joined by Dalton Curry, Senior Manager of Global Product Management at Lumen Technologies, to talk about trends in the collaboration space, the products and services they offer, and how Lumen helps customers adopt UC&C technology.
