Cisco Rebrands Social Tool; Enterprise 2.0 News Roundup
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Cisco made a strong impression at Enterprise 2.0 this week with WebEx Social, its rebranded enterprise social networking product.
Formerly known as Quad, Cisco’s social collaboration platform will join the WebEx product family at the same time that it is coming to the cloud. The software-as-a-service version will be available in North America starting in July.
Cisco will continue to support an on-premises version of the product, but the company wanted to give WebEx social a boost by associating it with the popular cloud service, according to Raj Gossain, vice president of product management for the collaboration group. “WebEx has historically been about Web conferencing, but our aspiration is to make it much more about integrated collaboration.”
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Like Quad, WebEx Social will emphasize the connection between social collaboration and unified communications, integrating instant messaging, telephony, and video with social networking. The latest update includes the same video technology used in the Cisco Jabber instant messaging and synchronous collaboration client, bringing high-definition video to the social experience.
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