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October 18, 2017

COLLABORATION

Cisco Spark for Salesforce Is Now Available

Some people spend most of their time working in collaboration tools. They message, attend meetings, and share documents — living in applications designed to help them connect faster, better. Others work almost entirely in specialized applications. Healthcare staff, financial services teams, sa…

October 18, 2017

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Accelerating Productivity and Profitability with the Power of Services

What if you could simultaneously reduce your network downtime by 74 percent and increase IT efficiency by 30 percent? What would you do with your newfound time? Maybe you would divert recovered costs toward revenue-generating activities. Perhaps you would redirect resources to take meaningful steps…

October 17, 2017

INNOVATION

Intelligent Workflow Drones

Commercial drones are moving from a novelty item to an indispensable business tool, with PwC pegging the potential opportunity size at $127B in its report, “Clarity from Above”. However, there is a key element that is needed before drones can be successful in enterprise applications: they must be in…

October 17, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Cisco Predictive Services Will Help Customers Fill the Technical Skills Gap and Grow Their Businesses

The life of the typical CIO has become amazingly complicated. No longer are they just expected to manage costs and keep the network running, the CIOs I talk to also have to help grow the business. That’s because their networks are generating massive amounts of data and it holds the key to business i…

October 16, 2017

INNOVATION

Converging Hyper Co-Innovation Inside and Outside a Big Company

Innovation in today’s disruptive digital economy can come from anyone and anywhere—inside and outside any enterprise. This means companies must fire up and fuel co-innovation like never before across all functions, grade levels, geographies, partners and customers within, without and among their fou…

October 16, 2017

LIFE AT CISCO

The Cisco Foodies

It’s no secret that Cisconians are fueled by creativity, collaboration, and innovation – but did you know there’s something else that keeps us going too? FOOD! 😀 Not only are we surrounded by delicious meals throughout our Cisco cafes daily – we also have dedicated Cisco Foodies on our teams…

Cisco Next Generation Utilities, IoT and Smart Cities at Itron Utility Week 2017

Today, managing utilities and smart cities to achieve business outcomes require real-time decision making. In this age of digitizing critical infrastructure, managing renewable power generation, and dealing with the proliferation of electric vehicles – smart solutions must generate actionable insigh…

October 12, 2017

NETWORKING

Journey to an Intent-based Network

Insights from Gartner ITxpo Orlando By now you’re aware that we’re on the verge of one of the biggest transitions the enterprise network has seen –  and intent-based networking is the name many industry leaders are using to describe it. Whether you’ve heard about the concept of “intent-based…

October 12, 2017

COLLABORATION

Funding the Future of Collaboration

The Cisco Spark Innovation Fund is a $150 million initiative to enable exceptional startups, developers, and ISVs to create new solutions to improve the Cisco Spark experience. We distribute funding in a variety of ways, including: Direct investments Partnerships with startup accelerators Micro-gra…