Cisco WebexOne: Partnerships, Integrations, Device - TechDecisions

Cisco is announcing respective cardinal caller Webex products and features, including caller integrations with Microsoft Teams, a concern with Apple, caller collaboration devices, hybrid workspace blueprints, caller apps and more.

In ample part, the improvements announced during the company’s WebexOne 2022 lawsuit are designed to assistance customers of each sizes proceed to standard up their hybrid enactment strategies and assistance teams collaborate efficaciously and efficiently careless of wherever they work.

Microsoft, Apple partnerships

At the forefront of the announcements are caller integrations with Microsoft Teams that let customers to usage Microsoft Teams Rooms connected Cisco’s collaboration devices. This was really announced by some companies earlier this month, but Cisco besides announced an integration with Microsoft Teams that enables users to marque Webex Calls successful the Teams interface.

As organizations proceed to usage aggregate gathering apps, the Microsoft Teams integrations makes it casual to power betwixt 2 large platforms.

In summation to Microsoft, Cisco announced a caller concern with Apple that volition let iPhone and iPad users to stock contented from their cameras via the Webex Meetings app and annotate implicit what they’re seeing with Mobile Camera Share. Cisco gives an illustration of a frontline idiosyncratic sharing occupation tract advancement with clients successful real-time alternatively of conscionable sending static images oregon screenshots.

Devices, apps, experiences

Also announced was the Cisco Room Kit EQ, a videoconferencing bundle designed for larger rooms that integrates with up to 3 outer displays. The kit includes an AI-powered Cisco Codec EQ, the intelligent Quad Camera video bar, a interaction controller and different country peripheral options.

Also announced was the caller Webex Whiteboard app successful the Webex Suite, which allows anyone to commencement oregon articulation a whiteboard and enactment unneurotic from a browser, the Webex App oregon a Cisco device. Whiteboards tin beryllium combined with Slid polls, saved and shared successful a Webex abstraction for asynchronous ideation, the institution says.

Cisco says it has besides improved its asynchronous video offering Vidcast, adding a caller AI-powered editing capableness designed to assistance edit contented and a caller integration with Slido to see polling and assemblage engagement into shared video content.

In summation to the Teams integrations, Cisco says Group Call Management is present disposable for Webex Calling, making it easier for concern to activate informal telephone halfway services to elevate lawsuit calling experiences, measurement performance, amended grooming and present results without needing a sperate oregon specialized interaction halfway application.

Also coming to Webex is simply a caller lobby acquisition for virtual events volition enactment a assortment of customizations, specified arsenic agendas, talker bios, sponsors, and more. The caller acquisition includes caller contented widgets, caller accumulation tools successful Webex Webinars, and an Integration into Network Device Interface.

Hybrid Workspace blueprint

Cisco, agelong a supplier of solutions designed to assistance organizations collaborate remotely, is offering a repeatable Hybrid Workspace Design Guide based connected its New York City bureau that organizations tin usage to physique retired their hybrid workspaces. The usher encompasses the company’s Smart Building Solutions, collaboration, networking, information exertion and more.

We visited the company’s New York City bureau earlier this period and wrote astir it here.

Collaboration security, management

To assistance IT teams unafraid and negociate Cisco products, the institution made updates to its tools that assistance support intelligence property, connection real-time country occupancy and aerial prime updates and usher IT admins make greater ratio for managing and supporting workers.

These see audio watermarking to uniquely tag audio streams to each participants successful a confidential meeting, a caller integration betwixt Webex Control Hub and Cisco Spaces to springiness employees captious installation information, and IT Digital Coach to usher IT admins to execute champion practices.