2019 – What a Year for Cisco Collaboration!

An Incredible Year for Cisco Collaboration

It’s 2020 already? Wow, time flies when you’re busy and having fun, which certainly describes 2019 for Cisco Collaboration. 2019 was an incredible year and our team worked really, really hard to deliver more amazing technology and help customers leverage its power. So before we get on with 2020, I’d like to look back briefly at some highlights of 2019:

Innovation and Acquisitions

2019 was a very productive year for our engineering teams and they delivered a record number of new collaboration solutions:

Our EVP and General Manager Amy Chang introduced the industry’s first Cognitive Collaboration solutions.
Cisco Live announcements included unified experience and extension of People Insights across the portfolio
Single Platform Advantage , cloud calling innovations, new devices, and more introduced at Partner Summit
Cognitive Contact Center unveiled at Contact Center Summit
Webex security options extended without compromising user experience
New Cognitive Collaboration solutions
CloudCherry acquired to provide analytics, customer journey mapping, and survey capabilities
Voicea acquired to extend Cognitive Collaboration

Helping Customers Succeed

Customers are transforming their workplaces with our collaboration solutions and we’re proud to showcase what they’ve done:

IBM – using Webex to communicate with customers
The Ellen DeGeneres Show – uses Webex Teams to get top ratings
NASA – Webex plays a key role in Apollo 50^th Anniversary Gala
T-Mobile – transforms customer care with Cisco Contact Center
Premiere Research – finds their “unicorn” with Cisco Webex
University of North Carolina – using Webex to connect remote students
Sparke Helmore Lawyers – uses Webex to grow and innovate
10x Banking – Webex transforms team collaboration
Other customer videos, product overviews, and how-to tutorials on Webex YouTube channel
Other collaboration customer case studies on Cisco.com

Industry Leadership

We worked hard to extend our industry leadership and it was awesome to see the industry recognize us:

Cisco is top-rated in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions, a leader in Unified Communications as a Service
Aragon Research names Cisco a leader in Web and Video Conferencing, Unified Communications and Collaboration, and Contact Center
IDC names Cisco a leader in Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)
Cisco Collaboration captures the “Overall Win” in the 2019 CRN Annual Report Card
Cisco Webex Meetings is a PC Magazine Editor’s Choice
Webex Room Kit Mini wins 2019 Red Dot Design Award
95% of the Fortune 500 uses Cisco’s collaboration suite
Webex product ratings up year-over-year as measured by G2
Strong momentum for Webex Calling cloud solution
View other industry analyst reports

Industry Partnerships

To help our customers integrate our products with their other IT products, we’ve partnered with key technology providers:

Microsoft – partnership to interconnect video conferencing solutions
Samsung – partnership on workplace transformation solutions
Google– Webex integration with Google Calendar

Other New Resources and Communications

And I’d like to thank my team and others in Cisco for providing other new resources in 2019 that you hopefully find interesting and useful:

Our new brand campaign – The best collaborations happen on Webex
Collaboration news releases
New blogs on Cisco.com and Webex.com, as well as the Webex Content Library
Major events for Cisco Collaboration in 2019
New videos and content on Cisco.com and Webex.com

I could go on and on but I know my blogs should be short. Suffice it to say 2019 was an outstanding year for Cisco Collaboration and we appreciate all the hard work that our team put in and the partnerships we have with our wonderful customers.

2020 will be a fantastic year indeed with even more innovation, customer satisfaction, and collaboration success. Thanks for being a part of our journey!

Cheers,

Aruna Ravichandran
Cisco’s VP Marketing/CMO, Webex/Collaboration

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