Cisco Releases Products Across Collaboration Portfolio

Cisco has announced significant product introductions across all categories of its collaboration portfolio. The company also announced its entrance into two new markets, enterprise social software and hosted email.

New Cisco enterprise instant messaging (IM) and presence solutions powered by Jabber XMPP help people quickly find, connect and collaborate with colleagues inside and outside their organisation. A Cisco-hosted directory of organisations and locations with Cisco TelePresence simplifies the scheduling of intercompany telepresence meetings.

Cisco’s new enterprise social software solutions include a new social video system which helps enable companies to form secure video communities around user-generated content under enterprise control. Cisco’s hosted email offering, based on the Postpath acquisition, allows IT to move to cloud efficiencies while leveraging their current investment in the Microsoft Outlook client.

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Also announced are new medianet-enabled products deliver better collaborative experiences for end-users across heterogeneous devices, applications and clients. New media processing engine solutions offer speech-to-text transcription and provide real-time video transcoding, enabling any content to be shared across the network to any end-point device, including HD interoperability for Cisco TelePresence.

An innovative search platform performs dynamic tagging of content as it traverses the network, offering a real-time organisation-wide cross-application view that allows people to accurately locate and rapidly connect with the best available experts and information they need.

The new product introductions announced today are offered to customers as on-premise, on-demand or software-as-a-service solutions, or blended approaches, and can be deployed on a sliding scale of consumption based on business process needs, rather than information technology constraints.

The new solutions are:

• Intercompany Cisco TelePresence Directory
• Cisco TelePresence WebEx Engage
• Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
• Cisco Unified Communications system 8.
• Cisco WebEx Mail
• Cisco Show and Share
• Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform
• Cisco Media Experience Engine 3500 and the Cisco Media Experience Engine 5600
• Cisco Pulse

“There are a few key trends that are creating a need for organisations to change the way they operate: globalisation, consumerisation of IT, information overload, and increased worker mobility,” said Tony Bates, senior vice president and general manager, enterprise, commercial and small business, Cisco. “Cisco’s collaboration strategy and portfolio is designed specifically to enable this new way of working. Solutions can be implemented on-premise, taking advantage of existing infrastructure, or via a hosted SaaS solution, or a combination of the two. They can be deployed in any order and at a pace that matches a company’s business objectives.”