Collaborate with Confidence

Collaborate with Confidence By Maurizio Taffone, Business Development Manager, Cisco There is no doubt that collaboration technologies - from social networking to unified communications and video technologies – offer substantial business benefit and competitive advantage. These range from reduced travel …Read more.

Posted by Doron Aronson on November 02, 2009 at 01:46PM

Cisco Collaboration Technologies Fostering Innovation at Proctor and Gamble

Proctor & Gamble (P&G) today is a ninety billion dollar company with about three billion people around the world that use their products. Increased collaboration with Cisco Unified Communications and TelePresence has helped P&G meet its sustainability goals. Watch this …Read more.

Posted by Doron Aronson on October 27, 2009 at 02:09PM

ITU 2009: The Cisco and Bharti Airtel Alliance for Services

P.K. Peruvemba and I talk about the Cisco/Bharti Airtel Alliance for Services. Bharti Airtel and Cisco today announced a strategic business alliance to create products and services for the small, medium and large enterprises. A suite of jointly created unique …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on October 07, 2009 at 09:55AM

Innovation in Collaboration

As CTO for Unified Communications at Cisco, I’m involved in all three ways in which Cisco creates product innovations: current product evolution, partnerships & acquisitions, and internal innovation.  My team and I help to ensure that Cisco strikes the appropriate …Read more.

Posted by Joe Burton on October 01, 2009 at 02:57PM

The Next Wave of Collaboration in Australia and New Zealand?

G’day.  In the next of our series of video blogs from Cisco Networkers in Southern Australia, we hear from Peter Hughes, director of Collaboration and Unified Communications for Cisco ANZ.  Peter outlines how we are really looking to scale human …Read more.

Posted by Marc Musgrove on September 29, 2009 at 12:34PM

Unified IP Phones Play a Key Role in the ‘Collaboration Toolkit’

The recent news that Cisco shipped its 22 millionth Unified IP Phone to Foster’s Group Ltd.seems a good indication that recent media reports projecting the imminent decline of the desk phone are at minimum premature in their predictions.  Is it …Read more.

Posted by Doron Aronson on September 10, 2009 at 08:51AM

The Future of Email

As we continue to integrate Cisco’s acquisition of PostPath into the Cisco SaaS-based Collaboration portfolio , below are some salient characteristics of how email will evolve and change:  Universal. Email will be delivered from the cloud (or from mixed cloud-and-customer-premise …Read more.

Posted by Doron Aronson on September 03, 2009 at 08:53AM

The Changing Face of Customer Collaboration

Cisco recently co-sponsored a survey which asked over 1800 consumers from six countries (USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Australia) a set of questions focused on their perceptions of Speech Recognition and Self-Service as used for customer care.  Although this …Read more.

Posted by Doron Aronson on August 21, 2009 at 06:01PM

Design (Not Just Art) on the New Unified Communications Page

A friend of mine was making a point the other day about the difference between art and design. Paraphrased, it goes something like this: Art is when you make something interesting, touching, inspiring or beautiful. Design, on the other hand, …Read more.

Posted by Martin Hardee on July 27, 2009 at 05:45AM

Cisco creates new opportunities for partners in $34 billion dollar collaboration market

Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on June 01, 2009 at 09:02AM

Cisco’s Collaboration Imperative: The Next Market Adjacency

In a recent Q&A our Chairman and CEO John Chambers reflected on Cisco’s future growth, sharing a “Back to the Future” moment with the financial and industry analyst community: “We believe that we are very well positioned in the industry …Read more.

Posted by Alan Cohen on May 26, 2009 at 10:33AM

Collaboration Trends from Interop

Watch Tom Wesselman, manager of software development for Cisco Unified Communications, and Tugba Goksel, integrated marketing for Cisco Unified Communications, discuss next generation architectures for collaboration and a few of the exciting trends from this year’s Interop show. Find out …Read more.

Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on May 21, 2009 at 03:22PM

Cisco WebEx Interactive Features Form Core of Cisco’s Largest Virtual Training Deployment

A new case study from Cisco-on-Cisco describes how WebEx interactive features engaged the company’s global salesforce during training for an important corporate initiative and formed the core of Cisco’s largest virtual training deployment: Late in 2008, Cisco’s entire global sales …Read more.

Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on May 08, 2009 at 09:36AM

Weaving a Case Study with Web 2.0 Technologies

The Cisco on Cisco team recently published its first case study created entirely by leveraging the three pillars of a Web 2.0 environment: people, communities, and information (P-C-I). We met with the Worldwide Sales Process and Systems team (the people) …Read more.

Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on May 06, 2009 at 03:39PM

The Phone that Wasn’t a Phone

by Laurent Philonenko, vice president and general manager, Cisco Unified Communications Business Unit The growth in 3G cellular networks and proliferation of WiFi gave rise to one of the most compelling mobile service delivery platforms ever made.. I am pretty …Read more.

Posted by Laurent Philonenko on January 08, 2009 at 03:24PM

Cisco takes lead in enterprise telephony market according to Infonetics Research

Customers are voting with their wallets. In the recent release of Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts: 3Q08 from Infonetics Research, Cisco took the lead for the first time in the overall PBX-KTS equipment market after growing its revenue 19% …Read more.

Posted by Steve Slattery on December 18, 2008 at 01:58PM

Cisco is Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications

Earlier this year Cisco took the #1 spot in enterprise voice and the #1 spot in enterprise telephony. I guess good news also comes in threes because, the recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications* positioned Cisco in the …Read more.

Posted by Cisco PR on November 10, 2008 at 02:59PM

Cisco UC 7.0 Investment Priorities

Rick McConnell, Vice President of Market Development in Cisco’s Voice Technology Group, discusses investment priorities surrounding the Cisco Unified Communications Release 7.0.  

Posted by Johanna Fry on September 25, 2008 at 05:00PM

Word Up

Just this last week, Merriam-Webster released their updated dictionary for 2008.  As you may imagine, the 100 or so new words added each year reflect our current interests, new technologies, or topics in the news.  In looking over the list, …Read more.

Posted by Marie Hattar on July 10, 2008 at 03:56PM

Cisco #1 in Enterprise Voice AND #1 Enterprise Telephony Worldwide

Post by Steve Slattery, VP, Cisco Voice Technology Group The release of the Q1 2008 Enterprise Voice Market Share Report from Synergy Research Group, a leading research firm, marks a significant milestone for Cisco in Unified Communications. For the first …Read more.

Posted by Cisco PR on May 29, 2008 at 10:42AM

Cisco Motion: Evolve Your Mobility Network

Today, we announce our mobility vision called “Cisco Motion.”  Evolve your mobility network with the Cisco Mobility Services Engine and a suite of mobility services software. Fully integrated with Cisco Unified Wireless Network and Unified Communications, the mobility services engine …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on May 28, 2008 at 11:48AM