collaboration

What will Rowan announce at Collaboration Summit? It’s a popular question leading up to Tuesday’s keynote. If you want to know, then I may be able to share a few things… The first thing to share is that Cisco Collaboration is hot.  In Cisco’s last quarterly announcement, Coll…

This is part of a series on the evolution of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform, exploring the technical and design principles behind its unique architecture. So far in this series my colleagues have talked about various elements of our Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform. Rowan mentioned its ori…

Have you heard the expression, “People don’t remember what you say, they remember how you made them feel?”  Last week, I had the opportunity to participate with more than 8,000 women (80 from Cisco) — in a one-day conference sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. and other companies.  There were man…

This is part of a series on the evolution of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform, exploring the technical and design principles behind its unique architecture. In the last post in this series, Jens Meggers talked about the huge importance of user experience, and how essential it is to simplify, c…

We are at an inflection point in video adoption. In the enterprise alone, less than 10 percent of the conference rooms in the world are connected via video and only 1 percent of users have video systems on their desktop today. The market is poised for dramatic growth, with IP video expected to repre…

Wainhouse Research polled a group of video conferencing users to gauge their feelings about video conferencing. What they found is great news for those who want to integrate video into their collaboration strategies. Comparing their experience to 2 years ago: 95% agreed that video is more reliable…

This is part of a series on the evolution of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform, exploring the technical and design principles behind its unique architecture. In the last post in this series, Rowan wrote about revolutionizing enterprise communications through the cloud to deliver amazing experie…

“Why does a computer need a fan? I want my computer to be quiet and small!” Steve Jobs actually provoked that question when he started the journey that led to the creation of Apple II nearly four decades ago.  And, of course, the journey made history and continues on into new frontiers of technology…

It’s been a little more than a year since we created Cisco’s first Office of Inclusion and Collaboration (OIC).   And it’s been a milestone year.  Today, we’re releasing our annual Corporate Social Responsibility report (CSR), which details Cisco’s high-level priorities for being socially and enviro…