SaaS

If you’ve been curious about location services, but always assumed it was complicated to deploy, too technical for non-IT folks, too expensive, or all of the above, hear me out. Perhaps you run a public-facing organization – maybe it’s a retail mall, hotel, an airport, or a café. In this new digital…

You can think of collaboration tools—messaging, meetings, calling—as the central nervous system of the modern organization. But traditional collaboration platforms, with their disparate applications, interfaces, and delivery models, have often been complex and frustrating—both for end-users and the…

In today’s world of digital disruption, the customer experience is king and end-users are becoming sovereign decision makers who select their own portfolios of collaboration and content sharing SaaS tools. This pattern is driving tremendous innovation in the market and exponential growth for dozens…

If you are a Business to Consumer (B2C) enterprise, you want to know more about the visitors in your venue, how long they stay and what they do in the venue. These insights can help you create more relevant customer engagements, maximize promotional activities, as well as optimize venue operations.…

Software testing. For a long time, software testing was one of those dark alleys of the software development process. Often ignored, considered as an afterthought, and staffed by “someone else” who did an important job but was outside of the core development process. Well, that has all changed. In t…

I’ve spent a lot of time on the road over the last few months.  Europe.  Asia.  Canada.  Latin America.  And everywhere I go I talk to our partners.  The one constant: frustration over their ability to have a deep conversation with customers about cloud. Partners have told me their customers want to…

Cisco continues to make significant investments in our Data and Analytics offerings, including our industry-leading Data Virtualization software. The latest release of the Cisco Information Server, version 7.0.3, reflects the healthy collaboration that we have with our valued customers, and our tale…

This is part of a series on the evolution of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud platform, exploring the technical and design principles behind its unique architecture. In the last post in this series, Jens Meggers talked about the huge importance of user experience, and how essential it is to simplify, c…

In today’s world as more and more customers prepare to take advantage of cloud technologies, they are finding that private cloud and colocation services are essential options in their journey to the cloud. We are lucky to have Dan Harrington, as a guest blogger. Dan is a Research Director covering D…