Unify Square Named as Gartner Cool Vendor

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Unify Square has been included in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Unified Communications and Collaboration report. The inclusion in the Gartner Cool Vendor report is a powerful milestone for us, our customers, and our partners. Our efforts to help enterprises effectively and efficiently streamline the Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business capabilities of their end-users continues to set Unify Square apart in our unique niche of providing performance and operations monitoring and management software in the UCC marketplace. In fact, it’s not “just” Gartner who thinks so, as the prestigious UC analyst firm, Nemertes also recently highlighted the Unify Square leadership. We’ve created a short video here to help you to better understand what Gartner and Nemertes are seeing.

Nemertes Names Unify Square Top UC Vendor

If the Gartner award was not enough, Nemertes piled on as well. The UC analyst firm recognized Unify Square as a Top Vendor in their UCC 2018 Research Study: Total Cost of Operations & Vendor Ratings report, pointing to top customer sentiment ratings among Microsoft UCC customers using Unify Square for performance management, in addition to topping the charts for productivity increases generated with Unify Square tools. Released in April 2018, the report delivers insight into the real-world cost of unified communications and collaboration operations, and how IT leaders view their software solution providers.

“Productivity increase is a key success metric in evaluating any communications or collaboration tool,” says Robin Gareiss, president of Nemertes Research. “Productivity typically equates to time saved, which generates cost efficiencies. Compared to all other providers in the research, those using Unify Square for UCC management saw the largest increase in employee productivity, at 30 percent.”

Transitioning from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams

According to the Gartner Cool Vendor report, “This year’s selection of Cool Vendors recognizes the user experience’s primacy in the digital workplace.” This aligns with Unify Square’s relentless focus on the end-user experience. PowerSuite is capable of gathering real insights at an individual user level, as well as providing company averages to help streamline IT team workflows with powerful performance monitoring analytics.

As Microsoft Teams continues to pick up steam in the marketplace, Unify Square has emerged as the first industry vendor to provide a full software, managed services, and consulting offering for Teams. Unify Square’s exclusivity to the Microsoft UC Stack has enabled us to help with every transition an organization faces – starting with Skype for Business as a leader in market share for unified communications and now encompassing Teams.

UC-Core Technology at Work

With PowerSuite running in the cloud on Azure, our benchmarking services are powered by machine learning to automatically process data in real time and make PowerSuite even better. As more customers use PowerSuite, it gathers more data, and becomes smarter.

Our benchmarking technology, which provides insight at an organizational and individual sites level, is identified as a disruptive technology in its ability to create a system of continuous UC service improvements for the Microsoft UC Stack. Organizations are also able to benchmark the health and performance of their UC systems relative to overall data generated by other PowerSuite users.

Powerful Features Focused on UCC System Health

Above all, we believe this recognition by Gartner as a Cool Vendor and Nemertes as a Top Vendor is due to PowerSuite’s:

• capability to be a single innovative tool to consolidate management of heterogeneous communications products
• ability to proactively assist IT to avoid service and user experience problems by consolidating the operations and management of the UCC portfolio
• end-user feedback and sentiment analysis relating to experiences using Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams

We’re honored to receive these various analyst recognitions, and love helping teams stay agile and healthy so they can compete effectively in a constantly changing world. You can view the full Cool Vendors report here.

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