Cisco Jabber to Help Millions of Users Collaborate Directly From Web Applications; Next Generation Cisco WebEx to Change the Way People Meet With New Cloud Services
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With today's announcement, Cisco is unveiling the next generation of Cisco WebEx. From HD video advancements and enhanced mobile capabilities that enable all new ways to prepare, meet and follow-up after a meeting, Cisco WebEx is helping to change the meeting experience. Additionally, Cisco is extending cloud conferencing to more people with a new free basic edition of WebEx® designed for three people or less.
Cisco is also transforming the workspace by dramatically changing how people collaborate from Web applications they use every day, like SAP Streamwork, Cisco Quad™ or Google Apps. Today, whether mobile or at their desks, people find themselves having to open and utilize a variety of collaboration applications just to communicate on their own terms -- whether that's via instant message (IM), voice, or video. Cisco is making collaboration much easier by advancing Cisco Jabber with a freely downloadable Web browser plug-in that will help extend collaboration to tens of millions of people that use Web browsers on Windows- or Mac-based OS devices.
With these innovations and recent announcements around virtualization and unified communications, Cisco is continuing to transform the workspace. Additionally, with WebEx and the recently announced Cisco TelePresence® solutions for small and medium sized businesses, Cisco is advancing its cloud-based offerings through the Cisco Collaboration cloud.
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In addition, IT Administrators can set policy controls providing users with a single identity across all Cisco WebEx SaaS offerings to meet corporate security guidelines.
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Zeus Kerravala, industry analyst, ZK Research: "With Cisco Jabber and the Jabber SDK, Cisco is extending collaboration beyond the Windows desktop to provide greater collaborative workspace options and flexibility. And with the introduction of the next generation of WebEx, Cisco continues to drive market transitions by helping users manage the meeting lifecycle in one work stream even while mobile. Cisco is the only vendor that can offer broad collaboration capabilities as a rich, mobile, virtual and now Web-based end user experience."
Davide Petramala, vice president, Sales and Business Development, Esnatech: "The market for cloud-based business applications is growing rapidly. At Esnatech, we see tremendous demand to enhance Web applications, like Google Apps and Gmail, by integrating communications directly into the user experience. The Cisco Jabber SDK removes all roadblocks and allows us to transform Google apps and the Google framework into a live communication and collaboration for Cisco's enterprise customers."
Riann Kruger, vice president, Infrastructure and Operations, Corinthian Colleges: "I can see the whole collaboration stream coming together in the new WebEx meeting spaces and integration with chat and the other features of Cisco Jabber. The more fluent the work streams the better, especially for busy executives."
Greg Smith, vice president of sales, enterprise solutions at Datavox, a Houston-based Cisco Gold Certified Partner: "As part of Cisco's collaboration architecture, Jabber and WebEx are vital elements that expand the ways that people can collaborate to drive business decisions and results faster. We view the new integration of Jabber into line of business applications as a key differentiator, and WebEx continues to be an important part of adjacent sales of collaboration. The more critical the need for effective collaboration becomes, the more customers see possible benefits in other areas of their business. As they understand the value, opportunities emerge for Datavox as a channel partner to explore more and larger use cases for these collaboration applications."
Warren Johnson, network systems administrator, Telvent DTN: "We want the users to be able to dole out access and rights to the content in meeting spaces, not centrally administrate. I also expect this kind of file sharing to prevent inboxes from going over their limits due to seventeen copies of the same huge PPT being attached to emails."
Barry O'Sullivan, senior vice president and general manager, Collaboration and Communications Group, Cisco: "We've listened to our customers and significantly advanced Jabber and WebEx to enable seamless experiences on a range of devices and platforms, whether on premises or in the cloud. This approach further accelerates our strategic goal of enabling 'any-to-any' collaboration while also making it easier than ever to collaborate with people inside or outside of an organization. In a post-PC era, businesses need ways to extend mobile, social, video and virtual collaboration on any mobile phone, tablet or Internet-connected device. We are bringing that to life today."
Cisco will showcase these new offerings along with other collaboration innovations during a keynote presentation and demonstration on November 16 at the Cisco Collaboration Summit in Miami, Fla. Register to view Senior Vice President Barry O'Sullivan's keynote live on that day from 9:00 to 10:30 am ET. For those unable to tune in live, a replay will also be available.
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