Gartner Magic Quadrant

Today everything is becoming digital, and we don’t mean just connecting to a network. We are talking about machines communicating with other machines, employees retrieving the information they need allowing their work to be done anywhere and everywhere, customers interacting with their favorite bran…

Last week, Gartner named Cisco a leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications. Gartner placed our “dot” highest and furthest right for vision and execution among the participating vendors. In a related post, Tom McCafferty provides insight about the process of participating in Gartne…

We’re delighted to share that Cisco has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Group Video Systems for the second year in a row. This is a dynamic time for video and collaboration. Many organizations are evaluating more pervasive deployments and expanding the use cases for video. Amon…

Having spent most of my career in product marketing, and having participated in Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluations across multiple technology categories, I can tell you that these things are a lot of work. You might think that Gartner just waves a magic wand and drops some dots on a chart, but you’d…

For the second year, Gartner has positioned Cisco as a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications for Midsized Enterprises, North America. We believe this is a significant achievement. Gartner puts a lot of analysis into these reports. Last year was the inaugural publicatio…

We did it again! Gartner recently published its annual Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide report. And for the fifth year in a row, Cisco is positioned highest in “Ability to Execute.” Gartner bases Ability to Execute on several criteria, including the breadth, qu…

I am excited to share that Cisco, once again, secured a leadership position in Gartner 2016 WAN Optimization Magic Quadrant. This comes shortly after the Best of Interop win in Las Vegas for Cisco Enterprise NFV. According to the report, Leaders in this Magic Quadrant have a broad feature set, inclu…

“Choosing a Unified Communications and Collaboration vendor is a complex decision,” Marty Parker, Principal at UniComm Consulting, recently told me. “Any organization looking to refresh their architecture or rework their entire communications and collaboration strategy should be looking at a broad s…

The evaluation is complete. And we think Cisco Unified Communications scored well. Very well, in fact. Just released, the 2015 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Unified Communications is a product-centric overview of UC vendors. The report digs deeper into the vendors represented in the 2015 Magic Q…