collaboration

December 4, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Cloud: Are you confused, convinced or converted?

If you are in some way connected to the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, you probably have an opinion on cloud-based services. The past couple of years have seen a frenzy of activity in the business to business cloud services with manufacturers, service providers, and users…

November 27, 2013

PARTNER

Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind – November 27, 2013

Each week, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here’s what you might have missed this week: Off the Top Richard McLeod stopped by the Channels Blog this week and dared…

November 25, 2013

PARTNER

Dare to be Bold in Collaboration

Last month we had the most successful Collaboration Summit conference ever, with partners, analysts, consultants, customers and Cisco executives coming together to explore how new collaboration solutions are helping companies become more empowered, engaged and innovative. My mantra throughout the ev…

November 21, 2013

PARTNER

Why Has the Journey to Cloud Been Slow for So Many Clients?

This is the fifth post in a series from Dimension Data and Cisco Channels looking at user adoption and integration of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions. Findings stem from Dimension Data’s 2013 Global UC&C Survey, developed with ICT researcher Ovum and featuring respo…

November 18, 2013

MANUFACTURING

How Collaboration is Increasing Revenue for Manufacturers

In my last blog post, I discussed how mobile collaboration is bringing flexibility to the manufacturing industry, offering transformational benefits in a variety of functional areas including R&D, operations, customer service and sales. Today, I want to take a deeper dive into not just how colla…

November 15, 2013

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Post-event: The Ultimate Omnichannel Experience – Cisco FSI at BAI Retail Delivery 2013

Enthusiasm was at an all-time high at BAI Retail Delivery 2013 in Denver, CO last week as we continue to see major transformation in the banking industry.  Within the Cisco booth, we demonstrated a series of solutions that enable digital and physical channels to become more interactive and sales foc…

November 12, 2013

EDUCATION

STEM Education Must be a Hands-on Approach

Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields are critical to innovation and the continued development of the U.S. economy. However, trends are showing that while there are and will continue to be plenty of jobs in these fields, many students are unprepared or lack the desire necessary for…

October 30, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: TelePresence for SMBs: It isn’t just for the big guys anymore

If you’re in an SMB company you might think of telepresence as a tool built for enterprise, something that would be nice to have for your small business but just out of reach. You’d be wrong. Video conferencing solutions like Telepresence and even web-based technologies like WebEx are more aff…

October 30, 2013

OPEN AT CISCO

The Age of Open Source Video Codecs

The first time I met Jim Barton (DVR pioneer and TiVo co-founder) I was a young man looking at the hottest company in Silicon Valley in the day: SGI, the place where Michael Jackson and Steven Spielberg just arrived to visit, the same building in Mountain View as it were, that same week in late Spri…