SAN JOSE, CA and ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - Mar 17, 2015) - Today at Enterprise Connect 2015, Cisco (
Cisco Spark -- built with significant customer feedback and accessible from nearly every major mobile or desktop device -- creates secure, virtual rooms where teams work together from anywhere. Just by downloading Cisco Spark from an app store or by pointing a web browser to http://web.ciscospark.com any member of any team can initiate the service and start a Cisco Spark room on any topic. Once in the room, team members securely send messages, share and view files, start multiparty voice and video calls and share their screens.
Because a Cisco Spark room is the one place where all the teams' files, documents and decisions are stored and the same place where the team holds all its virtual meetings, video calls and chat sessions -- teams are instantly more productive. Here is how some customers and partners are using Cisco Spark to transform their firms into Agile Enterprises:
Customer Input Vital to Agile Enterprise Product Development
After launching Cisco Spark as the fast-moving 'Project Squared' in November 2014, Cisco evaluated an incredible amount of customer input -- much of it provided through the product itself. Based on that feedback, Cisco also announced the following customer-driven enhancements:
Individuals can sign up for Cisco Spark and start using the following features for free: 1:1 and group messaging, file sharing, 1:1 video calling and meetings with screen sharing in rooms up to three participants, mobile calendar and contacts integration, online self-service functionality and end-to-end content encryption.
Additionally today, Cisco is announcing value-added subscriptions of Cisco Spark. Cisco Collaboration Specialized Partners can now sell** Cisco Spark to customers looking to accelerate collaboration within and between teams. Packages for Spark have been created to cater to individual company needs:
Supporting Quotes:
Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President, Collaboration Technology Group, Cisco
"To stay competitive, business leaders and employees are desperate to modernize their organizations, becoming more agile and nimble and less hierarchical. Existing tools like email were built for a slower moving world and aren't cutting it today. To truly transform, businesses need a new way for their teams to communicate and move faster. We knew we had a game changer on our hands with Cisco Spark when we saw companies using it to transform how teams work together. Cisco Spark is enabling this transformation by bringing everything together in one place -- team members, their text based discussions, documents they work on, and the ability to connect in real time with multi party voice and video."
Philip Jones, Executive Director of Global Products and Solutions, Telstra
"Telstra used Cisco Spark to help us improve collaboration within our product development team and we were genuinely surprised at the rate of change in behavior, as staff spent far less time on email and in meetings and saw team productivity boost as a result."
Sr. CHENGZONG QIU, CEO Loggoss Group & President of Logos & He Foundation "It is our goal at Loggoss to let our customers 'focus on their business and forget about the rest.' Cisco Spark helps us deliver this vision by providing us a communications vehicle that perfectly creates an environment for disseminating information, creating communities and providing excellent customer service through video, audio and chat communications."
A host of other companies are also using Cisco Spark to increase productivity and collaboration. Publishers are using Cisco Spark to source, write and approve content. Because it is accessible from nearly any device, editors no longer have to be in the office to collaborate with editorial teams. Instead, they are now filing content from the field, getting content out faster. Financial services are adopting Cisco Spark, in part, because of its end-to-end content encryption.
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*Features available to customers utilizing Spark Message and Spark Message and Meet.
** Final pricing is subject to volume and customer discount tiers.
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