messaging

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Jabber 12.5. Our goal is to “build bridges” and provide technology that works together and delivers a consistent experience, regardless of the device or application you use.  So, what’s new in Jabber 12.5? We are introducing modern messaging features…

Express Yourself with GIFs in Webex Teams With GIPHY Integration for Cisco Webex Teams, expressing yourself has never been easier! Today we announce a Webex Teams feature that I’m excited about. Webex Teams now supports Giphy in order to express your feelings and bring more excitement to collaborat…

I rely on Cisco Jabber every day to connect with my team. Cisco Jabber has more than 50 million users, making it one of the world’s most widely used business-communications applications. We are always looking for ways to improve the Jabber user experience, so we appreciate your feedback on the featu…

Really and seriously, and I mean it this time. In my work in the last twenty years on IP communications, the holy grail of the industry was to enable solutions that provide true any-to-any communications. That is – in the workplace environment – it would be possible for any user in Company A to talk…

Digitization, workplace transformation, investment protection. These are all top-of-mind subjects that come up in my conversations. Many of you are currently evaluating your collaboration strategies and thinking about how to evolve your unified communications solutions. There’s no doubt that the UC…

Fundamentally, collaboration is about people coming together to innovate. Not once or twice, but ongoing. The best kind of collaboration is continuous. Continuous collaboration means enabling teams to innovate before, during, and after meetings. Collaboration isn’t a series of discrete, unconnected…

We all know the story of Goldilocks and her ill-fated visit to the house of the three bears. What lesson, if any, one might take away from this story is that too much of a good thing doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing. Porridge is best hot, but too hot and that’s not good. Big chairs are bi…

Recently there has been a lot of buzz in the news around people getting fed up with enterprise messaging applications. This began with a well written and widely read article in Medium titled, “Slack I’m Breaking Up with You.” A twitter hashtag called #slacklash started to rise in usage. Others jumpe…

Yes, Cisco Spark has arrived! That cool mobile business messaging app we launched a year ago has grown up. It’s now a full-blown business communications service from the Cisco cloud. We are really excited about bringing this to market and are encouraged by some of the early reactions, including an a…