Collaboration

Agility pays. Look around you. Businesses that are thriving today are “agile.” Agility is becoming a true differentiator for business success. Agility creates a stronger environment for innovation and adaptability — and creates a cultural shift in doing things. Think about this. Why did Blockbuster…

Cisco Meeting Server is now available. This new offering brings together all the great scalability and interoperability that we acquired with Acano earlier this year. And it adds more value through integration with the broader Cisco collaboration portfolio. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with cust…

Earlier this year when I told you our acquisition of Acano was complete I said fasten your seatbelts… I meant it! The newly combined team is on fire and today we’re announcing the availability of our first product to come of this incredible meeting of the minds. And it is pretty awesome. I have alwa…

One of the most successful (and maligned) songs ever recorded was 1974’s “Feelings”. Written and recorded by Brazilian Morris Albert, its success was offset by a number of ongoing parodies. Yet feelings are critical to how consumers evaluate the companies they interact with. Noted industry speaker M…

When we think of collaboration, we often picture a corporate setting or consider the remote worker connecting from home. In the early days, that was probably accurate. Yet, with video and productivity apps becoming far more common, the only barriers we have now are the limitations of our own imagina…

Introducing Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution for Government Security has never been more important. This is especially true for our U.S. federal, state and local government customers. Their employees and their constituents have become more mobile and more virtual. They expect communications beyon…

In February, Tim Banting of the Business Technology and Software group at Current Analysis, produced a report analyzing the growth and changes around SoCoMo Platforms. I’ve summarized the focus and themes of that report below. When you hear the acronym SoCoMo for the first time, what comes to mind?…

Last week, Gartner named Cisco a leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications. Gartner placed our “dot” highest and furthest right for vision and execution among the participating vendors. In a related post, Tom McCafferty provides insight about the process of participating in Gartne…

The following is a guest post from Christopher Isak, founder of TechAcute.com, who joined us for a #CiscoChat on collaboration. We had a lively conversation with insightful contributions from around the Twittersphere. Check out his recap below and visit the Storify link to revisit the full conversat…