Cisco Announces New Enterprise Collaboration Solutions

Cisco announced new and enhanced collaboration solutions designed to help workers to connect to the right people and access and share content remotely. Cisco announced that Cisco Quad, an enterprise collaboration platform will be available later this year via native iPad and iPhone applications. Cisco also unveiled a new Cisco Prosumer Video solution which integrates Cisco FocalPoint, an online video workspace with a business-class Cisco Flip MinoPRO camcorder. Finally, Cisco announced that Cisco WebEx Connect IM is now available across browsers. Together, these three collaboration solutions offer a secure, manageable collaborative environment with video, real time instant messaging (IM) and social networking capabilities. Cisco Quad highlights include: the ability to search across content within the organization, as well as locate people and expertise; Mobile Quad applications optimized for the Apple iPad and iPhone; Integratation with content management systems such as Microsoft SharePoint and Documentum, as well as with voice and video business communications solutions; and every Quad user will receive a Cisco Show and Share license granting video authoring, posting, publishing and editing capabilities. Quad will be available on a limited basis, beginning in Cisco's first quarter of fiscal year 2011, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia/New Zealand. The Cisco Prosumer Video solution highlights include a new online video workspace, FocalPoint, and a new business-class four-hour Flip MinoPRO camcorder. FocalPoint delivers cloud-based management, sharing and editing capabilities and provides an easy way for organizational teams to interact with their video content. Cisco FlipShare software, preloaded on the camcorder, allows users to edit, store and manage video content locally on their workstation before sharing it with the organizational team via FocalPoint. The software client uses an encrypted upload protocol to enable confidential content delivery, while FocalPoint adopts SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for highly secure Web sessions and data protection. The Cisco Prosumer Video solution is part of the Cisco collaboration portfolio and will be available through Cisco channel partners beginning in August. The newest version of Cisco WebEx Connect IM lets users access their contact lists and send instant messages via a browser-based IM client, making the solution accessible from any computer without the need for a client download. The Windows client for Cisco WebEx Connect IM is now localized for French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Server-side IM logging allows organizations to capture logs of all IM traffic for efficient regulatory compliance. Customers who are already archiving email can use their existing infrastructure. Building on Cisco's acquisition of Jabber, customers looking to add presence and chat capabilities to their Web applications can do so with Cisco's AJAX XMPP library, for developing Web applications and portal integrations. These tools were used in building presence and chat capabilities into Cisco Quad. http://www.cisco.com/