I’m writing this blog from the Emergency Room at Akron Children’s Hospital. My 6 year old son Fritz has an eye infection, so he’s lying in bed watching Scooby Doo while we wait for his CT results. My cell …Read more.
Posted by Beth Dannemiller on November 06, 2009 at 01:13PM
I’m really excited about our latest version of Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for the iPhone. In version 1.3, available now in the AppStore, you can now hand off your web conference session from your iPhone to your desktop, join by a meeting number, and when …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on November 02, 2009 at 05:11PM
I’m an unabashed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) believer. I spent the first 10 years of my career defining and building traditional enterprise software and the past 11+ years building SaaS solutions (the last 7 with WebEx (now Cisco)) and from where I …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on October 28, 2009 at 09:28AM
If you didn’t catch the Verizon and Cisco-sponsored research study this week about the return-on-investment of collaboration technologies, you might want to take a peek. The study by Forrester Research found that businesses and government agencies deploying sophisticated collaboration tools saw a corresponding improvement in business results …Read more.
Posted by David McCulloch on October 14, 2009 at 12:51PM
(This is a followup from my previous post on our virtual sales meeting.) It’s been several weeks since we assembled more than 19,000 sales people virtually for Cisco’s annual sales meeting. Cisco broke new ground for the sheer size of this virtual event, as well as the creative combination of …Read more.
Posted by Carlos Dominguez on October 09, 2009 at 02:10PM
Cisco recently conducted a focus group with executive level IT decision makers in several major metropolitan cities to better understand enterprise perception of Software as a Service (SaaS). Having been in the SaaS business over 12+ years with the Cisco WebEx …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on September 24, 2009 at 10:00AM
Our Pass the Ball site features an ongoing series of webinars about how to share and grow your own ideas to make them better. This Thursday, Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Computer Inc., will share how he has taken his ideas …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on September 22, 2009 at 10:30AM
I was over in Building 31 the other day and was about to meet with Cordell Ratzlaff, Director of Cisco’s User-Centered Design Team in the Voice Technology Group when I saw him take his iPhone and flick his wrist at …Read more.
Posted by Doron Aronson on September 03, 2009 at 01:21PM
Investors love to learn about Cisco and we, in turn, learn from interacting with our investors. Case in point: check out a two part WebEx Tech Talk we hosted last week. You can find a replay of both sessions on …Read more.
Posted by Laura Graves on August 31, 2009 at 10:49AM
How would the BART strike affect you? If you haven’t heard, people who work in the San Francisco Bay Area will possibly be dealing with nightmarish commutes come Monday morning. One of the largest pieces of our public transit system, …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on August 14, 2009 at 05:09PM
You may have seen a recent Wall Street Journal article on Cisco’s new management structure. In the article, I was quoted as saying the transition to this new structure has been a challenge for me. That is correct, it has …Read more.
Posted by Keith Goodwin on August 14, 2009 at 09:46AM
Thinking a bout the possibility of a BART strike, I got to thinking about telecommuting and other flexible work situations. I am a full time telecommuter, as are several of my colleagues. For example, a salesperson must be very flexible, …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on July 01, 2009 at 09:46AM
We love to hear collaboration success stories. It’s collaboration that allows us to share a conference table and our ideas—when in reality, we’re a continent away. These tools are breaking down barriers, making us more productive and bringing technology to …Read more.
Posted by Alexandra Krasne on June 26, 2009 at 08:12AM
The new Apple iPhone 3G S on the new 3.0 operating system has many features that will be helpful to WebEx users on the iPhone. Here are my top three new features: Spotlight Search for WebEx meeting invitation You can …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on June 17, 2009 at 03:43PM
“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” - Henry David Thoreau For technology companies, demonstrating how its solutions yield benefits to potential customers is …Read more.
Posted by Alan Cohen on June 17, 2009 at 03:41PM
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on June 01, 2009 at 09:02AM
At Cisco, we firmly believe that the network enables collaboration—the type of collaboration that is required in today’s business environment where you need to work with people around the world. It’s the network that enables the people to connect, communicate …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on May 28, 2009 at 04:43PM
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
Cisco continues its saga of uniting collaboration and mobility with Collaboration in Motion, a strategic approach with the goal of overcoming the barriers of distance and time that enable people to connect, communicate and collaborate. More simply put, Collaboration in …Read more.
Posted by Ed Tan on May 19, 2009 at 10:27AM
I love the WebEx conferencing application for the iPhone. It makes my life easier by marketing itself. People download it, demo it to their friends, and bingo - their friends download it too. There are now over 100,000 WebEx Meeting …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on May 19, 2009 at 07:26AM
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
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
There are many times in our lives when joining a meeting runs up against a glitch. You might be stuck at the airport or unable to find a connection in that hotel basement conference room. Maybe you ran into traffic …Read more.
Posted by Leanne Schrotzberger on April 28, 2009 at 11:53AM
Earlier this week Cisco announced a series of new security solutions designed specifically to secure web-based collaboration and a new application delivery cloud that combines the reach, scale, costs and control benefits of both on-demand and on-premises solutions. The new …Read more.
Posted by Colin Smith on April 24, 2009 at 10:32AM
By Kara Wilson, vice president of collaboration, Cisco Today at VoiceCon we are continuing to fulfill our vision of the unified workspace – where customers can connect, communicate and collaborate with any device, any operating system, any network, anywhere, with …Read more.
Posted by Kara Wilson on March 31, 2009 at 09:04AM
Visual networking, the fusion of digital video and social networking capabilities, has become one of the most engaging and accelerating activities online. In fact, analysts anticipate a 66-fold increase in mobile traffic from 2008-2013. The iPhone is an undisputed enabler …Read more.
Posted by Johanna Fry on March 27, 2009 at 12:19PM
Cisco WebEx became more useful than ever this week with the news that it was being extended to work with a range of business smartphones. The announcement, at Mobile World Congress, means users will be able to join Cisco WebEx …Read more.
Posted by Jason Deign on February 18, 2009 at 02:08PM
Tejas Bhandarkar, a senior product manager for the Cisco WebEx team, highlights the latest in WebEx, a new announcement with Research in Motion, and how, with the flick of a wrist, you can move content from your mobile device to …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on February 18, 2009 at 12:17PM
In Barcelona earlier today, John Chambers, Cisco Chairman and Chief Executive told Networkers 2009: “We are at the beginning of the second phase of the Internet.” This message was delivered to the event’s largest ever audience. “If you look at …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on January 27, 2009 at 09:39AM
One of the things we do relentlessly at Cisco is to test how easy it is for you, our customers, to use our web sites and products. It's called "usability testing" and in the old days it would all be …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on January 23, 2009 at 06:50PM
I'm sure you'll be reading more about this, but I wanted to give a small shoutout to the Cisco WebEx team for their MacWorld Best of Show award (for the new Cisco WebEx Meeting Center iPhone app, which you can …Read more.
Posted by Martin Hardee on January 08, 2009 at 03:25PM
January 7th UPDATE: I just learned that the Cisco iPhone application won a Best of Show award today at Macworld. Congratulations to the collaboration team and thank you to the Macworld editors! Today, Cisco made an exciting announcement about the …Read more.
Posted by Alex Hadden Boyd on January 06, 2009 at 01:08PM
Later today, Cisco and the Ponemon Institute will host a live webinar on policy and collaboration. I encourage you to attend but wanted to give you an advance look into our thinking about the interaction of these two critical technologies. …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on December 03, 2008 at 04:00AM
My little guy, Jack, is not quite two and he is currently in a firetrucks and train phase. No telling when he’ll grow out of it, but I seem to remember wanting to be a policeman or fireman when I …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on October 22, 2008 at 03:00PM
Cisco employee Lisa Napier talks about the “Human Network Effect” that Cisco Virtual Office and collaboration technologies such as WebEx have had on the ways she lives, works and plays. Lisa explains how she is now able to spend more …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on September 23, 2008 at 04:14PM
Post by Doug Dennerline, SVP, Collaboration Software Group Getting work done today requires us to navigate complex global networks of customers, colleagues and partners. Finding and connecting with key stakeholders has become an important part of our daily business process. …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on September 19, 2008 at 07:00AM
Dan Farber, editor in chief of CNET, is in a video today chatting with Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, the company that created and owns Second Life. In the Between the Lines blog by …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on September 02, 2008 at 06:10PM
Post by Doug Dennerline, SVP, Collaboration Software Group Communications, globalisation and automation have flattened the world and transformed the competitive landscape. The traditional competitive advantages of size and scale have been replaced by speed and flexibility. In this new world, …Read more.
Posted by Doug Dennerline on August 27, 2008 at 07:10AM
Post by Doug Dennerline, SVP, Collaboration Software Group Communications, globalization and automation have flattened the world and transformed the competitive landscape. The traditional competitive advantages of size and scale have been replaced by speed and flexibility. In this new world, …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on August 27, 2008 at 07:10AM
“As travel costs rise and airlines cut service, companies large and small are rethinking the face-to-face meeting — and business travel as well. At the same time, the technology has matured to the point where it is often practical, affordable …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on July 22, 2008 at 01:48PM
Doug Dennerline, SVP and GM, Collaboration Software Group, on pervasive trends in the enterprise, and how these impact IT: George Kurian, VP and GM, Data Center Technology, talks about trends in virtualization and what Cisco’s vision is for this technology. …Read more.
Posted by Ken Lotich on June 25, 2008 at 12:34PM
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