About Philipp Bohn

VP Circuit at Unify and CEO of blueKiwi

Philipp is VP Circuit and CEO of blueKiwi Software at Atos. In previous roles at Unify, he worked as Chief of Staff and in strategy planning. As an industry analyst at Berlecon Research, his focus has been on enterprise communication technology and digital media. Philipp holds a degree in business administration from University of Mannheim.

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Circuit Sprint Update: Evolving Our Meeting Experience

Welcome to Sprint 132. With our current update, we are introducing two main improvements: New conferencing experience: Our new user experience during conferences will give you more control of content and participants and a cleaner look and feel. For example, you can now select which video to see and switch more conveniently between screenshare, whiteboarding, polling, etc. Make sure…

Circuit Sprint update: Go with the flow

“It all starts with a conversation” has been our motto since we launched Circuit a few years ago and it still guides our evolution and development, as you can see with our first improvement on our Sprint 130 feature list. New conversation flow: With our current sprint, we are introducing a new, clearer and more flexible flow for starting…

Vacation relaxation: Reduce your out-of-office stress level with Circuit

It’s summer season in large parts of the Northern hemisphere, but no time to rest for Circuit: Welcome to Sprint 128! Unlimited snooze time: Are you on holiday and still need to be on Circuit occasionally to check for updates in your most important conversations, or for a quick call with your team…

Introducing the collaborative Internet of Things with Circuit

We created Circuit to enable communication and collaboration between people. With the advent and fast-paced evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbots, we now need to enable people and machines to work together effectively. As a proof point, we have developed a Circuit chatbot for MindSphere the cloud-based, open IoT operating System, enhanced…

Efficient collaboration is about reaching the right people at the right time

Efficient collaboration is about reaching the right people at the right time Welcome to Sprint 124, our first summer time sprint! With this sprint and based on your feedback, we make it even easier for you to manage calls and conversations, specifically: Delete participants to conversations Circuit is all about sharing knowledge…

Circuit Analytics: In Numbers We Trust

Welcome to sprint 122! Let‘s do a quick run through what‘s news with our most recent update, with a particular focus on our new analytics capabilities. Domain administrators with either Professional or Enterprise license now have access to statistics on Circuit usage and call quality within their domain. To access your statistics, we have added a tab in the administration settings menu. Usage…

Getting you hooked with Circuit and Webhooks

Circuit Sprint 120 Getting you hooked with Circuit and Webhooks Welcome to Sprint 120! With our most current update, we are releasing a few Circuit Labs capabilities, namely multiple conversation windows, our enhanced Google connector, and the new participant information pane. Thank you for all your feedback that helped us polish those particular features before we make them available…

Unified Communication and Collaboration Mean Choice, Not The End of Voice

The Times of London with the thought leaders from Raconteur recently published a feature article about the future of voice. For a deeper dive and with a unique Unify perspective, we talked to Philipp Bohn about the future and potential of voice communication, and why we’re at the beginning of a new innovation…

Work From Home: Bits, Bricks and Behaviours

This article is featured in the e-book "Everything you need to know about working from home" by Remote-how. Download the e-book here. Productive and enjoyable work environments are always a combination of bits, bricks, and behavior. This is also true for the home office. I want to share a few tips based on my own experience as a home and…

Cowork2019: We want to make the world a better place

With our Circuit partner BVG Communication Technologies, we were happy to be part of Cowork 2019, the annual conference and BarCamp organized by the German Coworking Federation (GCF). Thomas Schlebach from BVG was joined at the event by two of our Atos student trainees, Marcel Gardias and Niclas Strauch, and I discussed their key insights…

Circuit is coming to Apple CarPlay

Circuit Sprint 118 Coming soon: Circuit for Apple CarPlay Sprint posts are usually not the place to share news about our iOS app, as backend and app updates follow their own release cycles. But let me make an exception and start with a major teaser: Very soon following this week‘s update, we are also updating our iOS app and with that…

Better multitasking with Circuit chat

Circuit Sprint 116 With our current sprint, we are implementing a few enhancements to our conversation model, and take another exciting technical integration step in the context of our broader strategic alliance between Atos, our mother company, and Google. You will see more integration points between Circuit and Google as part of our 2019 evolution. Let me walk you through our most…

Solving a business dilemma: OpenScape Business telephony integrates with Circuit team collaboration

For most of us, work is changing: We are more mobile than ever before, we work from home or rent coworking space, new generations of professionals grow up with messaging rather than email and telephony. With the latest release of our award-winning OpenScape Business telephony platform, we address dilemmas faced by many…

Making 5.555.555 users more productive with Circuit

Circuit Sprint 114 5.555.555. We passed this milestone last December and it‘s the total number of users of our market-leading OpenScape Business telephony platform. If you are one of them, our latest Circuit sprint release is for you. But even if you use Circuit standalone, there‘s a lot of new features packed into this sprint. New OpenScape Business Connector: Our latest…

Zooming in on our developer community

Circuit Sprint 112 Welcome to our first sprint release in the new year! With our current sprint, we put a particular focus on developers and on further enhancing our meeting experience. Let me quickly walk you through what‘s new: Developer console: We have designed Circuit as an open collaboration platform, rather than a closed product. As a member of our developer…

Boas festas: Circuit is now available in Portuguese (and more product news)

Circuit Sprint 110 Note: Our new features are available for our customers in the Americas, where we updated our local system this week. The update for customers served out of our European data center is scheduled for Dec. 1st. Welcome to our final update before the holiday season and for this year.…

Circuit + Zapier: Integrate your business workflows with team collaboration

We built Circuit to make you more efficient as a team, with strong voice, video, screen sharing, file sharing and messaging capabilities. With our new Zapier support, you can integrate business workflows with Circuit team conversations. It‘s an important next step to realize our vision of Circuit as your central enterprise collaboration platform and hub. Collaboration becomes…

Did you get my message?

Circuit Sprint 108 As a Circuit user, staying on top of new and important messages and topics is getting less and less of an issue for you, as we are constantly working to enhance visibility and conversation structure. This has been a particular focus of our current Sprint 108 release. New message visibility: You now have options for a flashing task bar icon or red…

Widen your scope and increase your focus

Circuit Sprint 106 With Circuit, it‘s not as paradoxical as it sounds! Let‘s walk through the new features and enhancements coming with our current Sprint 106 to see why. Wider feed: Users told us that Circuit conversations should make better use of screen real estate for larger devices. We listened and you now have a wider feed when using…

Are your project teams still using email?

Here’s five reasons to try team collaboration tools Companies still have an ambivalent attitude to email. On the one hand, we are annoyed by endless email chains, irrelevant distribution lists, and spam. In the digital workplace, the "zero inbox" remains the magical goal and a measure of a successful working day. On the other hand, figures from the IT…

May update: Efficient collaboration

For Circuit, agile development means monthly releases based on customer and user feedback. With our most recent update over the past weekend, we added a few technical and design capabilities to make your collaboration experience even more efficient and secure. User experience enhancements Improved navigation for conversation functions: “One View” is one of our foundational design principles for Circuit. On a strategic product level,…

April update: Sharing is caring

With our current update, we wanted to make it easier for you to share content with your colleagues, and keep on top of your most important messages: iPad multitasking: Our iPad app supports iOS 11 multi-tasking features, including drag and drop content between other applications and Circuit. Go to the App Store to download and rate ⭐ Circuit for iOS. Notification control for favorites: You can now…

March update: We‘re making it easier to connect!

One key ambition with our March update was to make it easier for you to stay in touch with your colleagues on Circuit. Specifically, we have heard your feedback on how user presence is displayed in Circuit and implemented a few tweaks and changes: Enhanced display of presence status in Circuit Enhanced presence visibility: We firmly believe presence states…

Bits+bricks+behavior = The future of work

Bits, bricks and behavior: I first heard about the “New Work triad” during a speech that Markus Albers, a consultant and influencer in this space, gave at the Factory. The Factory is one of an explosively growing number of coworking spaces and innovation communities here in Berlin, that are collectively hosting disruptive new businesses like SoundCloud or Tesla, established corporates and…

You can now share Syncplicity files in Circuit conversations

We‘re happy to announce our new integration between Syncplicity, a Content Collaboration Platform, and Circuit team collaboration. We believe workflow integrations are key elements of successful digital workplace and collaboration strategies, particularly in the enterprise market. CIO, business decision makers and users want to be able to pick and choose tools that meet their individual needs, without…