O365
Collaboration gets more convenient with each new Webex Teams integration
In collaboration with Arti Patel Making dinner is relatively easy if you already have first-rate ingredients and supplies at hand — harder if you need to schlep to multiple stores to gather the ingredients and then hunt for an AWOL garlic press. Replace “making dinner” with “collaborating” and you h…
Connecting the docs—Webex Teams and Enterprise Content Management
Webex Teams is the hub for collaboration at Cisco. For every project or program, we set up a Webex space where we can meet, chat, and share content—from any device. Keeping connected helps us be productive when email is just not enough. On May 1, 2019, the user experience for collaborating on conten…
Waste not, WAN
Our existing circuits comfortably handle terabytes of new Office 365 traffic with Cisco SD-WAN technology Before migrating to Office 365 in early 2019 we needed to make sure we had enough WAN capacity. At the outset we’d be transferring 500 TB of email—the equivalent of 19 years of streaming HD vide…
Staying productive on the fly
Today I’m publishing this post from Heathrow Airport in London. That’s not unusual because I work away from the office probably 50% of the time, either at home, my local café, or hotels and airports. I’ll collaborate with people across different time zones and luckily for me, working at Cisco…
The Marriage of Webex Teams and Microsoft Office 365: Our Vision and Strategy
The documents my team produces aren’t solo efforts. When I build a presentation, for example, I’ll leave placeholders for colleagues to fill in, ask people to review, and maybe work with a designer. We have great collaboration tools at Cisco with Webex Teams, and with the new approach to bring Webex…
Webex Teams + Office 365 + Implementation Part 1: Rollout and Change Management
One of the most ambitious steps in our journey to the cloud is rolling out Office 365 to 118,000 employees. Read about our vision and strategy here. This blog explains the rollout and our change management strategy. Part 2 of this blog explains how we managed the implementation using SAFe. R…
Implementing Office 365 at Cisco – Part 2: SAFe Bought Us Speed, Visibility, and Accountability
As we continue on our journey to the cloud, Cisco IT is rolling out Office 365 to 118,000 employees. You can read about our vision and strategy in this blog. Our implementation has two unusual angles that might give you ideas for your own move to Office 365. First, rather than using Office 365 as-i…
Office 365: How We Made It More Secure than On-Premises Email
An internal audit a couple of years ago pointed out that our email contains restricted information. That conclusion shone a spotlight on the security of our planned Office 365. Restricted information includes things like customer data, financial data, even SEC filings before they go public. If this…
Improve Office 365 Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN
Posted on behalf of contributing author: Robin James Robin James is a Product Manager at Cisco Systems Inc., focusing on WAN solutions for enterprise networks. In his role, he is responsible for driving customer adoption of Cisco’s SD-WAN solution and leading technical discussions with enterpr…