Cisco has paved way to help people collaborate more effectively in the "post-PC" era, with the launch new offerings – Cisco WebEx to Cisco Jabber.
Cisco WebEx features HD video advancements and enhanced mobile capabilities that enable all new ways to engage prior, during and after a meeting, and extends cloud conferencing to more people, said the company.
With Cisco’s advanced WebEx Meetings space, users can manage the complete meeting lifecycle and they will be able to engage in two-way high-quality video meetings on mobile devices with new support for the Cisco Cius tablet and Apple iPhone and Apple iPad.
WebEx includes Cisco’s "one-button-to-push" technology with which users can connect into Cisco TelePresence meetings from the Cisco Cius and Apple mobile devices.
Cisco Jabber is a Web browser plug-in that will help extend collaboration to many people that use web browsers on Windows- or Mac-based OS devices.
The WebEx Basic Edition will offer a free version of WebEx that supports up to three meeting participants and provides users with VoIP audio, standard video, IM, presence, desktop sharing and a 250 MB of storage.
Cisco Jabber is a Web browser plug-in that will help extend collaboration to many people that use web browsers on Windows- or Mac-based OS devices.
With the Jabber, companies and developers can take Web browsers on Internet-connected devices, and can embed Cisco UC capabilities and this new software developer kit for Cisco Jabber allows developers to collaboration-enable Web applications.
Cisco Collaboration and Communications Group senior vice-president and general manager Barry O’Sullivan said Cisco has listened its 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 organisation," said O’Sullivan.
"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."
