Despite having "as a service" in its name, traditional Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) deployments often fail to deliver on the promise of a true SaaS platform. One company, Alianza, has figured out a way to move UCaaS to AWS, offering a genuine SaaS solution that leverages the scalability and resilience of the public cloud.

I sat down with Brian Beutler, founder and CEO of Alianza, to discuss how his company is working to revolutionize the UCaaS landscape. Listen now to hear:

• The challenges Alianza faced in moving UCaaS to the public cloud and how it overcame them [05:14];
• How telcos’ mindset needs to shift to stay competitive with the evolving landscape [08:11];
• The impact of Alianza's recent strategic collaboration with AWS on the future of enterprise communications [09:41]; and
• Jimmy Chin’s advice for telco executives [16:55].

Links and Resources

• Visit the Alianza website to learn more about the company.
• Read the press release about Alianza’s partnership with AWS.
• Did you know that I bought a UCaaS company, too? TelcoDR affiliate Skyvera bought Kandy Communications in March 2023 and we’re modernizing the product suite for the public cloud.
• Check out findings from Alianza’s recent research report with Omdia, Reinventing Core Communications: Strategic Imperatives for Growth.
• In 2019, Jimmy Chin won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for "Free Solo.” Here’s the trailer for that movie, which is about how Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan, the famous 3,200 ft rock face in Yosemite National Park, without a rope.
• Check out this episode on our YouTube channel.
• You can find the transcript for this episode here.

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This week’s guest

About Brian Beutler

Brian Beutler is the founder and CEO of Alianza, the leading cloud communications platform for telco service providers. He is passionate about transforming the telecommunications industry by empowering service providers to deliver modernized, cloud-native core communications solutions to supercharge growth, simplify operations and reduce costs. Under Beutler’s leadership, Utah-based Alianza has forged a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS and counts Lumen Technologies, Brightspeed, Viasat and Xplore among its tier-one and nationwide customers. 

Podcast Credits

• Executive Producer and Host: Danielle Rios Royston, TelcoDR
• Senior Producer: Lindsay Grubb, TillCo Media
• Editor/Marketing: Alisa Jenkins, Springboard Marketing
• Editing: Andrew Condell
• Associate Producer: Kriselda Dionisio
• Music: Dyami Wilson