Cisco employees drive adoption of collaboration technologies (Web worker daily)

Rebecca Jacoby, Senior Vice President and IOC Cisco three years ago has attended a meeting of peers to large companies and discovered that very little used instant messaging in deep within their organizations. Fast forward to today when few people to imagine life without IM, either in the workplace or home. Such rapid adoption of collaborative technology represents an opportunity of called Jacoby, "[L]" it more major transformation since the e-commerce in the mid-1990s, about how a set of technologies can change the way that work you and change your business model. ""

Today, the GigaOM Net event: work Jacoby said adoption of Cisco comes from employees and top to bottom. She says that many of the technologies that they have adopted are as used in small groups, people tried to scale with. At this time, his organization participated, try to think strategically about how they could deploy collaboration systems without causing security or compliance issues. And the deployment of these products correctly led to big advantages in terms of savings and improved productivity.

Jacoby said sale virtual meeting holds Cisco, which helped about 10 times as many people to participate in one-third of the cost. She also released favourite example of Cisco Telepresence collaboration - savings. High-end videoconferencing hardware company and software company has registered more than a billion dollars in recent years with approximately 75 per cent of the savings from a reduction of transport costs and entrance a quarter a boost in productivity. No wonder that Cisco believes collaboration will be a $ 34 billion company.