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Cisco Innovation Hub at SXSW You are in for a treat if you are headed to SXSW this year, as Cisco Webex and our partners descend upon one of the most innovative thought leadership conferences of the year. South by Southwest, (March 14-15) is deemed as the world’s largest gathering of creative techno…

Webex Gifts for Collaboration ‘Tis the season, as they say, for jolly good fun and some holiday tunes.  One of my all-time favorite holiday songs is “The 12 Gifts of Christmas.”  As I was singing this song out loud in the shower recently (yep, I must confess), I started also thinking about how Webe…

Keeping Up With User Expectations IT departments today are well aware that the applications they provide to their users need to keep up with the latest trends – in terms of functionality, ease-of-use and design. In the era of mobile apps and shadow IT, the dangers of not keeping up are apparent. You…

In this era of remote work and global organizations, our ability to connect and meet from anywhere is more than just “nice to have.” It’s a necessity. So the real question now is how do you find the right technology provider? With many options, it can be tough to sift through endless feature compari…

Love them or hate them, meetings are important. They’re a big part of how we get work done, how we run our business, and how we collaborate. And if you’re like me, you’re in meetings a lot, which is OK by me since I run Cisco’s WebEx business! But there is one thing that drives us here at Cisco craz…

Cisco Meeting Server is now available. This new offering brings together all the great scalability and interoperability that we acquired with Acano earlier this year. And it adds more value through integration with the broader Cisco collaboration portfolio. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with cust…

I’m sitting across a table from a guy we’ll call Mike.* He’s trying to join an 8:00 a.m. conference call from one of those free services. It’s not working. First, the hold music is awful. I can hear it from here. I’m pretty convinced that it must be worth a few bucks a month to avoid just that…

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a Wainhouse review that evaluated the ease of use and deployment, and cost efficiency of the Cisco SX10 Quick Set for small group video meetings. I wouldn’t have thought when we introduced the SX10 a few years back that we would be able to do even more to reduce c…

Collaboration is all about enabling diverse and distributed team members, both inside and outside your organization to effectively communicate, share information, and work toward a common goal. The benefits of collaboration show up as: Productivity gains Better and faster decision making Improved c…