collaboration
Before the Next Business Crisis, Consider Collaboration and IoT for Service Providers
We’ve all been on WebEx calls, video calls, and IM chats. Maybe we have been sophisticated enough to have more than one of these communications methods turned on at once using WebEx or Jabber. However, what happens when the call ends? What happens to the files that were shared, the chats that were…
#CiscoChat Recap: How Collaboration Can Help Digitize Your Business
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…
Diversity of Deployment Models for Unified Communications
“Now. Right now.” That’s the motto of modern technology. As contemporary consumers, we expect access to everything regardless of location or time. If we are sitting in traffic, too many of us automatically reach for our phones to check our messages and email. (And risk an expensive traffic ticket to…
Cisco a Leader in Gartner MQ for Group Video
We’re delighted to share that Cisco has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Group Video Systems for the second year in a row. This is a dynamic time for video and collaboration. Many organizations are evaluating more pervasive deployments and expanding the use cases for video. Amon…
Remote Classrooms: Connecting Two Schools in Japan
Following The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the Ministry of Education was looking for a way to teach students in remote locations about disaster prevention. Their solution was Cisco TelePresence. To test this method of learning, the Ministry of Education selected two middle schools, Hashi…
Placing Dots vs. In-depth Analysis: Gartner Names Cisco a UC Leader
Having spent most of my career in product marketing, and having participated in Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluations across multiple technology categories, I can tell you that these things are a lot of work. You might think that Gartner just waves a magic wand and drops some dots on a chart, but you’d…
A Millennial’s Take on Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer’s Mary Meeker recently released her annual “2016 Internet Trends Report.” As always, it was a wealth of information. That being said, all her data — 213 slides worth — blew my mind. The seemingly endless facts and figures opened my eyes to both the goo…
Cisco UC for Midsize Recognized as a Leader
For the second year, Gartner has positioned Cisco as a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications for Midsized Enterprises, North America. We believe this is a significant achievement. Gartner puts a lot of analysis into these reports. Last year was the inaugural publicatio…
Collaboration at #CLUS Wrap Up: Simplicity, Innovation & Bots
It’s Thursday and the sun has set in Las Vegas. That means it’s still hotter than blazes outside, but we’ve closed the books on Cisco Live 2016. It was a busy week of summer camp for geeks. How busy? CMO Karen Walker threw some mighty stats at the closing keynote crowd: The Cisco technical team bui…