video conferencing
“Clear and Differentiated” Video Wins the Day
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Sometimes when the essence of something is so eloquently captured, there’s no need to say it any differently. That’s how I felt when I read Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Group Video Systems report. In it, we feel Gartner confirms Cisco’s position as an established leader in the group video systems market who offers “a […]
Reduce Costs and Increase User Adoption of Video
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Yesterday I took my car to get a dent fixed. It was one of those dents that, while barely visible, required a lot of time and expense to fix. (In fact, you had to kind of crouch down and look very closely at the underside of one panel to see it.) But given that it […]
Solving Customer Problems with Flexible Solutions
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I recently flew from Heathrow to San Diego to attend Cisco Live. About an hour in and the cabin crew started serving dinner. It was a full flight...
“Seeing is Hearing” – Where Video Really Makes the Difference
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I love hearing customers talk how they’ve conquered communications challenges using our technology. It’s exciting to be a key part of their journeys and successes. A recent conversation with such a customer affected me in a powerful and personal way that I haven’t stopped thinking about it. It was late afternoon at a recent technology […]
How Cisco Scored a Spot on TWiST
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If you don’t know about the podcast series, This Week in Startups (TWiST), hosted by my friend Jason Calacanis, it’s worth checking out. Jason is a legendary investor and media mogul who has his fingers in every part of the tech industry. Each week, he brings CEOs, business founders, venture capitalists, angel investors, and tech […]
Collaboration Systems Release 11: Innovation and Integration for the Best Experience
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If you’ve been following Cisco Collaboration, you know that we’re focused on the experience. The whole experience: Product experience for users Sales and support experience for partners Purchase, deployment, and management experience for administrators The market continues to centralize on unification of voice; video; messaging and presence; conferencing; and extending communications to customer and team […]
Video Collaboration and the Present Mom
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“Mom, is there anything you don’t do well?” That came from Jaden, my twelve-year-old daughter, after a particularly arduous week tackling algebra and a To Kill a Mockingbird essay with...
Collaboration Technologies Can Help Reduce Travel Costs Without Reducing Relationships
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Did you know these corporate travel facts? On average, companies spent more than 10% of their total annual budget on expenses related to business travel in 2014, according to Aberdeen. Non-compliance with corporate travel policies is a top-three challenge for 57% of executives surveyed by Travelport. Nearly 85% of respondents to the Travelport survey say […]
We’re Happy to Oblige
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My biggest take-away from today’s set of announcements? Customers just cannot get enough of Cisco video collaboration products. Our new Cisco TelePresence MX800 Dual, for example, was not a planned product. But after experiencing the vast, single 70-inch screen of the original MX800 (now called MX800 Single), customers told us they wanted more of that […]
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