Go to www.cisco.com/go/cos and register for the full Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of Cisco Collaboration Optimization Services where you will also get access to the webcast presented by Forrester's Senior Consultant Michelle Bishop. Share this infographic with your colleagues: share.cisco.com/cos ... View more

Register for this Cisco webcast on May 8th! Learn How to Increase User Adoption, Drive Tangible Results and Ensure an ROI on Business Video How can you maximize your return on investment in video collaboration technologies? From soft clients through room based and immersive systems, Cisco’s Collaboration Change Management Practice will help you to understand “What to use, How to use, When to use and Where to use your video collaboration technologies” to drive business results via a structured approach that will enable your employees to succeed in today’s ultra-competitive world. https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/7963/68477 ... View more

Learn How to Secure, Manage, and Enhance the Collaboration Experience on BYO and Company Provided Mobile Devices Business is increasingly taking place on both personal and company-provided smartphones and tablets. As a result, IT leaders are prioritizing the extension of collaboration, productivity, and business application investments from desktop to mobile devices. In a recent IDG Enterprise Survey, 67 percent of IT leaders who are planning to invest in unified communications capabilities over the next 3 years expect to extend those experiences from the desktop to mobile devices to accelerate the adoption of unified communications. Before IT organizations can fully realize the productivity and transformation benefits of mobile collaboration, they need to address a variety of challenges: Gain visibility and control over mobile devices used at work to enable mobile collaboration on bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and company-provided devices Streamline management, provisioning, and configuration of mobile devices, applications, and content across multiple mobile operating platforms Mobilize and manage collaboration, productivity, and business applications for an increasingly mobile workforce to make them productive when mobile Mitigate the security and compliance risks if these mobile devices are lost or stolen or an employee leaves the organization Encourage mobile collaboration adoption by simplifying the user experience and making it easier for end users to collaborate from their mobile devices Cisco® Mobile Collaboration Management Service (MCMS) from Cisco Services offers IT organizations a managed mobility service to address these challenges. With this cloud-based mobile device, application, and content management service, IT organizations can secure, manage, and enhance the collaboration experience on mobile devices and streamline mobile collaboration management, mitigate security and compliance risks, and enhance the user experience to accelerate the next wave of productivity. Full Brochure ... View more

Cisco collaboration solutions span a wide variety of technologies, including Unified Communications, Customer Collaboration, TelePresence, and Collaboration Applications—all with mobility in mind. This new brochure provides a comprehensive overview of our collaboration solutions portfolio. See how you can meet your organizational goals with the help of the professional services and support we have developed around these and many other related technologies. Download Now ... View more

Watch the webinar recording: "Increasing Collaboration and Benefits of Virtual Work Environments" Companies are implementing solutions to improve employee productivity and to facilitate collaboration between and among their teams, partners, customers and suppliers across the globe. This webinar will share Cisco Best Practices to increase end-user adoption of collaboration technologies to achieve the expected business beneftis and ROI. Recording available at https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/7963/63721 ... View more

Watch the webinar recording: "Increasing Collaboration and Benefits of Virtual Work Environments". Companies are implementing solutions to improve employee productivity and to facilitate collaboration between and among their teams, partners, customers and suppliers across the globe. This webinar will share Cisco Best Practices to increase end-user adoption of collaboration technologies to achieve the expected business beneftis and ROI. ... View more

Watch Video: Journey to the New Collaborative Workspace Collaboration is changing how businesses communicate, share, and innovate. Cisco Collaboration Services can change how businesses collaborate and knows how to make your business more productive, efficient, and innovative. Change is good when managed properly. Learn how to manage change so it doesn't manage you and uncover the real value of your greatest asset. Your people. ... View more

Change is good when managed properly. Learn how to manage change so it doesn't manage you and uncover the real value of your greatest asset. Your people. Watch this fun video that was played at this year's Collaboration Summit (2:00 min). ... View more

A new Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Cisco Collaboration Optimization Services finds that enterprises realize almost immediate payback when engaging Cisco Collaboration Optimization Services. Learn how in an October 3rd webcast where Cisco's Paula Dowdy, SVP for Services Sales in EMEAR, will be joined by Forrester senior consultant Michelle S. Bishop, author of the study, to explain the methodology and the conclusions, and Cisco Director of Services Sales Andre Coetzee, who will discuss our Collaboration Optimization Services. Some of the benefits of Cisco Collaboration Optimization Services as called out in the study include: • Improved long term planning for IT strategy and architecture • Faster adoption of new technology to achieve project ROI • Reduced timeframe for deployment of new network services • Improved user productivity and customer experience by stabilizing collaboration architecture systems Register today! ... View more

Hans Hwang blogs on the challenges of supporting a mobile workforce and answers common questions to help customers plan, build, and manage a solution that will allow their employees to “work their way” with the help of Cisco Unified Workspace services . ... View more

In this Cisco blog and video , Luc Boucher, Services Marketing Manager for Video at Cisco, and Roy Skillicorn, Senior Director for Global Video Services, discuss what IT managers should consider when planning a video architecture strategy such as: Where or how should IT start when considering video Managing deployments for video with medianet Ongoing management of the network and Cisco operation services that could assist in overall operational cost (OPEX) reductions Roy shares some insights he and his team have gained as they formulate plans to assess and prepare infrastructure for business video deployments and the higher volumes of network traffic that result. ... View more

If you have used Cisco TelePresence to enhance collaboration, you’ve seen how this solution can help you save money, boost productivity, and make decisions faster. But that’s only the beginning of what this collaboration solution can bring to your organization. It’s time to consider extending telepresence beyond meetings to desktops and mobile devices. To truly transform your business use it for training or engaging with remote experts. Watch the video ... View more

Watch this short Q&A video with Luc Boucher, Services Marketing Manager for Video at Cisco, and Roy Skillicorn, Senior Director for Global video Services, as they discuss what IT managers should consider when planning a video architecture strategy such as: • Where or how should IT start when considering video • Managing deployments for video with medianet • Ongoing management of the network and Cisco operation services that could assist in overall operational cost (OPEX) reductions For more information, visit: www.cisco.com/go/telepresenceservices ... View more