Chandra Chivukula, Vice President, Engineering Microsoft Teams
Chandra Chivukula, Vice President of Engineering for Microsoft Teams, has been on the Teams engineering team since before the product had a single customer.
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New Teams Rooms, Express Install and Edge web apps on MTRoW Boards
Tom Arbuthnot reports from ISE 2025 in Barcelona, where 85,351 visitors saw Shure's full Teams Rooms portfolio, Jabra's PanaCast 40 VBS, MAXHUB and Yealink MTRoW Boards, and the Logi Rally Board 65. Plus Microsoft's Express Install, Edge on touch boards, MDEP news and Queues app updates.
Video Rooms in 2025 with Olly Henderson, Head of Video Product Jabra
Olly Henderson, Head of Video Product Management and Portfolio at Jabra, joins Tom Arbuthnot ahead of ISE to introduce the PanaCast 40 VBS small-room Android bar and explain the move to MDEP.
Luware Nimbus Microsoft Teams Contact Center 2025 Roadmap Revealed
Luware's Markus Weisbrod (Nimbus Product Manager) and Martina Willig (Head of Presales) unpack the 2025 Nimbus roadmap: AI virtual customer assistants, agent coaching, omnichannel and parallel task handling, outbound calling workflows and richer customer journey reporting on one Teams-native…
City of Independence, from Analog Phones to Microsoft Teams and Five9 over 20 locations
Chris A. Johnson, IT manager at the City of Independence, Missouri, describes replacing a patched-together analog Avaya estate across 30 municipal buildings with Microsoft Teams Phone and Five9, delivered with AVI-SPL.
Real demo of Interpreter Agent and Manage Direct Routing numbers in Teams
Tom Arbuthnot's round-up: a real demo of the Teams Interpreter agent's speech-to-speech translation, full phone number range management for Direct Routing via PowerShell and the Teams Admin Center, Logitech's Rally Board 65 and Spot sensor, plus Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat rolling out to all Office…
5 Reasons On-Premises Telephony Remains Key, even when moving to UCaaS
Tom Arbuthnot's whitepaper, supported by Ribbon, sets out five scenarios where on-premises telephony connectivity still matters, from analogue devices to contact centres, as organisations move to Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom and other UCaaS platforms. Free PDF download.