ChannelVision Magazine

january - february, 2018 Emergent 8 Office AI 10 Drone farming Cyber Patrol 12 Threat Analysis The year of escalating cyber-crime By Tara Seals Virtual Reality 20 Making the Case Study Fisher & Co. saves big with Cato SD-WAN 24 SD-WAN Roundtable, Part 1 Making the transition By Tara Seals Mobile & Wireless 32 5G and the Mobile IoT The intersection of two evolutions By Tara Seals Channel Management 36 Start with the ‘How’ Exiting the channel’s commodity lane By Bruce Wirt Core Communications 38 MSP & Agent UCaaS Concerns The survey says … By Martin Vilaboy 42 Teams Work Microsoft moves from Skype for Business to ‘Teams’ By Greg Plum 44 2018 UC and SMB Top Trends By David Portnowitz At Your Service: XaaS 48 Are Cloud Contact Centers Ready for Revolution? By Jacki Tessmer Buyers’ Side 50 Inside an SD-WAN Implementation Sitting down post-deployment with Rentokil Initial By Tara Seals 6 Editor’s Letter 52 ICYMI 58 Ad index CONTENTS 4 Channel Vision | January - February, 2018