Cisco said today it was buying a little-known collaboration software company, Versly for an undisclosed amount. Versly makes it easy to collaborate inside Microsoft Office products. This seems like an acq-hire, aka a large company buying small players for their skills. Read More »
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What lessons has Chuck Robbins, a senior VP running Cisco’s sales team for the Americas, learned from his experience at a company that was not only an early adopter of flexible working, but also builds a number of remote work solutions? Read More »
Just like other voice-focused communications, video content is hard to find, not accessible to all and hard to repackage. But transcription can add value to to both content providers and content users in at least three ways, and creating these transcripts is becoming easier. Read More »
One of the major drawbacks with traditional room-based telepresence installs is that systems from different vendors are typically incompatible with each other. Video conferencing and online meeting provider FuzeBox, makers of the Fuze Meeting service, announced Fuze Telepresence Connect, which hopes to overcome these interoperability problems. Read More »
I’ve increased my usage of video and multimedia presentations and conferencing, both for collaboration with external business contacts and for internal product development. I decided I needed a better and more permanent setup in order to remain productive and comfortable, without constantly rearranging my workspace. Read More »
Over the next 20 years, nearly 80 million people will retire. This trend will lead to significant shifts in the workforce, and the potential for a tremendous loss in intellectual capital as senior staff depart. Enterprise social software can help organizations address these knowledge transfer needs. Read More »
Cisco today announced Cisco Jabber, a messaging app that brings together presence, IM, voice and video, voicemail, desktop sharing and conferencing into one product that will be available across a swathe of desktop and mobile devices: PC, Mac, tablets and smartphones. Read More »
Cisco today announced a range of new initiatives aimed at boosting production video, most interesting of which is the new integration of its TelePresence Content Server with the its Show and Share service, which should make it easier for users to record and share telepresence sessions. Read More »
The inclination in many organizations is to put social media monitoring into marketing or public relations. But is that the right move? I recently spoke with Ross Daniels, Director of Marketing for Cisco, about the challenges of deploying social media monitoring tools inside a larger enterprise. Read More »
Cisco’s CIO explained today that the rapid adoption of collaboration technology represents an opportunity that is, “[T]he biggest transformation since e-commerce in the mid 90s, related to how a set of technologies can change the way you work and change your business model.” Read More »
Thanks to broadband and mobile technology, the tools and the very nature of work are changing, but are corporate IT policies keeping up? According to data released today by Cisco, it would appear not: workers are prepared to break IT policies to get their jobs … Read More »
The Jawbone Icon for Cisco is a little different from other headsets because it adds in upgradable firmware and the ability to seamlessly switch between mobile phones, Cisco IP desk phones, the Cius tablet and softphones, all through the headset. It’s basically a wearable computing device. Read More »
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