Industry Giants Join Together to Drive Open and Seamless Collaboration
Collaboration: The act of working with someone to produce or create something.
It’s a word we use all the time. But, have you thought about what it really means? “The act of working with someone to produce or create something.” That statement carries a lot of weight.
Collaboration is the heart of how my team and I take bold steps every day to connect employees to each other, transforming workforces and the future of work itself. Delighting employees and customers is central to Cisco Webex, what we do and why we do it.
Shaping the Future with Employee Experience
Our digital workplaces are more innovative and agile than ever before. People are at the forefront of shaping the way work is performed and they need the right collaboration technologies to get work done even faster. These tools must work seamlessly together to really be impactful in enabling teamwork that leads to better results, higher productivity, and engaged employees.
Today Microsoft and Cisco are announcing a partnership that enables Cisco’s Webex video devices to connect to the Microsoft Teams meeting services in multiple ways. First, Cisco Webex will introduce an interop solution that will be certified as a Microsoft Cloud Video Interop (CVI) offering to allow Cisco Webex Room devices and SIP video conferencing devices to join Microsoft Teams meetings with a reliable interop experience.
Frictionless Collaboration in Multivendor Environments
Cisco and Microsoft are working together on a new approach that enables a direct guest join capability from one another’s video conferencing device to their respective meeting service web app (WebRTC based) – ability to join a Microsoft Teams meeting from a Webex Room Device and the ability to join a Cisco Webex Meeting from a Microsoft Teams Room. These capabilities will be supported on the latest generations of meeting room devices that can run via embedded web technologies. Cisco will support additional vendors in the future. With today’s announcements, we hope to simplify and accelerate interoperability options for our customers as they adopt Cisco Webex Teams and Webex Meetings solutions within their organizations.
Why are these integrations important? We both have a large base of customers who use Cisco and Microsoft products. Customers will benefit from a reliable interop solution using their existing Cisco video conferencing devices to seamlessly join a Microsoft Teams meeting or using Cisco Webex Meetings to join a Microsoft Teams Room. The solutions are expected to GA in early 2020.
Building the Bridge for Meaningful Experience-Centric Collaboration
We are listening and are working together to build these bridges to provide the best user experiences with the tools desired to get the job done. Today’s news further showcases Cisco’s and Microsoft’s joint commitment to openness by creating these enriched experiences for meeting participants in multivendor environments by providing frictionless collaboration without boundaries.
See how easy it is to join a Microsoft Teams meeting from a Webex Video Device:
Today Microsoft and Cisco are announcing a partnership that enables Cisco’s Webex video
devices to connect to the Microsoft Teams meeting services in multiple ways.
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Long time coming. We have been asking for this feature for a long time. Hopefully it's not just a marketing statement.
This is long overdue. Cisco get this to your Teams customers ASAP.
This is awesome.
Exactly the kind of meaningful partnership between two of the largest players the collab marketplace has been thirsting for. A big move in the right direction for both vendors. Let's hope this is the first part of much more to come.
Does this mean that MS Teams users will be able to connect to a WebEx meeting hosted by a Cisco Spark Board 55 and vice versa? Thank you.
Good news!!!
Is there anything on the roadmap to allow Microsoft Teams clients to connect to Cisco Meeting Server?
Better functionality with CMS to allow for interoperability between the different platforms — not just with Cisco & Microsoft — but with BlueJeans, Zoom, etc. would be a more worthy conversation to have … let’s hope this announcement between Cisco & Microsoft will be the kick-off for a potential solution to this.
Still we are facing issues in WebEx Teams when connected from Home/4G network and Cisco did not take any steps to improve it.
I am interestin to implement
Is there any timeline when this integration will be available !!
What is the date for this integration?