At its Spark Event in San Francisco, Cisco introduced the new Spark Board and Spark Meetings to revolutionize the way people meet. That's a pretty tall order, but Cisco seems to have done a great job in simplifying and improving the meeting experience.
In this Executive Insights podcast, Jim Burton
It is difficult to overstate the importance of Apple's iOS in the enterprise or the significance of Apple's announcement regarding Cisco's Spark at the Worldwide Developer's Conference on Monday. While Androids hold a dominant worldwide lead in mobile operating systems, if you look solely at US enterprise mobile deployments, iOS represents roughly 70% of mobile devices in use.
New Integration Brings Actionable Task and Project Management to the Cisco Spark Team Collaboration Experience
Redbooth announced a new integration with Cisco Spark to unite task-centric Redbooth workspaces and communications-centric Cisco Spark rooms. Through this integration, users can now work simultaneously in both Redbooth and Cisco Spark to seamlessly communicate and collaborate with a clear focus on productively completing work.
The big news at the Cisco Collaboration Summit recently was all about Spark. In addition to Spark the Service, Cisco also announced Spark Hybrid Services, and Spark for Developers. Cisco introduced Spark (nee Project Squared) last year at Enterprise Connect, and at that time Spark was essentially a messaging application. According to Rowan Trollope, Spark was "redesigned to deliver a magical experience." (Note: Spark has moved from a delightful experience to a magical one).
Waves of disruption seem to be the norm in the UC space these days, and we touched on some during our last podcast. For a while now, the UC vendors have been emphasizing collaboration, to the point where UC&C has become the moniker of choice. While the technology keeps maturing, adoption has lagged expectations, largely because the value proposition is so hard to pin down.
Cisco and Apple have announced a new partnership, wherein they'll create a "fast lane" for iOS business users. The partnership aims to turn the iPhone into a greater business communications and collaboration tool, by providing a more efficient network and performance, and a seamless experience between the user's iPhone and desk phone.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, Dave Michels moderates a spirited discussion with the UCStra
UCStrategies was well represented at Enterprise Connect 2015, presenting, moderating, and participating on panels.
