collaboration
Simplifying Management of Consolidated Networks
It started with voice: Get more from your corporate infrastructure investments by moving audio traffic onto the data network. It was a good idea that made good financial sense. It caught on. It became pervasive. As it did, we looked for more ways to leverage that same network investment – extending…
Privacy v. Productivity: The CIOs Role in Shaping Future of Work Policies
According to Cisco’s 2014 Connected World Technology Report, the future of work will be more flexible and collaborative than ever before. In this two-part blog series, Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group, explores how the IT and b…
Put People First: Using Video to Enhance Relationships
How can you make the most of every opportunity to delight your existing client base? How do you identify new areas to expand your business? How can you improve employee engagement? These are just a few of the challenges that organizations face today. Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends 2014 survey explo…
Where Do Your Teams Work?
Lately we’re hearing a lot about the end of traditional workplace hierarchies. Organizations expect employees to do more within smaller teams, and to do it faster. People want the freedom to rapidly move between projects and to collaborate with others inside and outside their organizations with fewe…
What’s New from Cisco IT?
If you’ve seen the short introductory video to Cisco on Cisco, then you know that Cisco IT shares stories with customers. But – what kind of stories? Well – let me turn that around. What stories would you like to hear? Because we have some good ones. And if we don’t have content to point you to, we’…
Industry First: h.264 Video endpoint calls Firefox via Webrtc-enabled Project Squared
Yesterday on stage at Cisco Collaboration Summit, I demonstrated an industry first – the first non-transcoded video call between a webRTC application and an existing video endpoint. Why is this significant? WebRTC is an exciting new technology, enabling real-time voice and video calling natively in…
What Is the Cisco Collaboration Cloud?
Today at Collaboration Summit, we announced a bunch of really exciting stuff: the IX5000, the Project Squared client, and the Cisco Collaboration Cloud. This third announcement is a big one for me personally. I have invested a lot of my time and energy working on the Cisco Collaboration Cloud with t…
How I Manage a $4B Business from my Phone
I don’t use my laptop to run my business. It’s not that I don’t like my laptop. It’s just that I really love using my mobile device — for everything. My mobile is incredibly convenient, small, and functional. Let’s face it: we’re lucky to be in the era of the smartphone when one device can do…
The Most Sophisticated Collaboration Experience on the Planet
When we said that we strive to deliver “no-compromise” collaboration experiences, nowhere did we mean it more than with our latest endpoint product. Today culminates 24 months of refreshing our endpoint portfolio as we unveil our flagship triple-screen immersive system, the Cisco TelePresence IX5000…