ai

May 23, 2019

COLLABORATION

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Contact Centers

AI is shaping the future of customer experiences and the contact center. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a lot of excitement and there are good reasons for this. According to Forbes, 50% of IT professionals believe artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing a role in cloud com…

May 1, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

Getting to Know the Real Cisco

I often get asked how I got to work at the largest networking company without having any background in networking. In fact, I never thought I would work for Cisco because I didn’t think that they specialized in areas that interested me – particularly Programming, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelli…

April 26, 2019

CLOUD

Wrapping Our Minds Around AIOps

What’s your verdict on AI so far? Is it a good thing? A bad thing? A scary thing? I suspect that most of us—even those employed in the tech sector—are only vaguely aware of what AI is capable of at this point. And what I’m finding is that the more I learn, the more I’m actually quite excited about t…

April 17, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

AI in Cisco IT Operations: Finding Golden Needles in Ever Larger Haystacks

Customers often ask us whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be the kind of game changer that analysts are predicting. From what I’m seeing, the answer is an unconditional yes.   The trick is figuring out the right use cases. While any computer can calculate pi to a million places faster th…

April 11, 2019

COLLABORATION

People Insights: Getting to the Heart of the Matter

When you’re working with people on a project, it’s vital to know who they are. Immediately accessible details such as what department or company they’re with, what experience they’re bringing to the table, and what they’ve achieved already, gives you the power to structure the project and its resour…

April 10, 2019

COLLABORATION

Cisco Contact Center in action at Google Cloud Next Conference

How Cisco is using AI to enhance customer experiences My team and I are excited to be participating at Google’s Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week where we are announcing enhancements to some of the solutions we are building with Google for our joint customers. At the conference, we wi…

April 10, 2019

CLOUD

Consistent AI: The Journey Together

Partners come together because of a common vision. In the open source world, that vision is directly translated into shared execution. With the rapid adoption of AI/ML, the Kubeflow project has made a tremendous amount of progress in the past year, and it is awesome to be recognized as Google Cloud…

April 1, 2019

COLLABORATION

Webex Finds Homemade Waffles Improve Team Collaboration

We’ve all been there. It’s midnight, you’re reading through the action items from the day’s meetings and suddenly you crave waffles. Not just any waffle, the homemade kind that’s still steaming and fresh off the waffle iron. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an on-de…