As a result of the changes, both Webex Meetings and Webex Teams will run on the Webex infrastructure backbone.Ģ018. Spark video meetings had previously operated independently from Webex, hosted in the public cloud rather on Webex data centers. Cisco also launched a new Webex Meetings videoconferencing app, which will replace Spark’s meeting app. The app will include all of Spark’s collaboration features, including persistent messaging, whiteboarding, simple guest access and content sharing. Webex Teams was launched earlier this year when Cisco merged its two collaboration platforms – Webex and Spark – into a single platform.Ĭisco announced that its Spark team messaging app will be rebranded and rolled into its Webex platform.The move follows a decision to ditch the Cisco Spark brand, which will become Webex Teams. The addition of calling to Webex Teams’ content sharing and messaging capabilities makes it a “single UC (unified communications) application, which was the original vision of UC. Webex Teams, a service for continuous teamwork with video meetings, group messaging, file sharing and white boarding, has added cloud calling via the integration with enterprise-grade cloud-based PBX phone system BroadCloud Calling. Webex Teams gets BroadCloud Calling integration This can help cut down on chatter in the main video screen while still letting audiences speak out and respond.Ģ018.
Moderators can also set up polls and simply read feedback in real time to get a better sense of the room. Slido’s solution is to let people ask questions in a margin to the main event, so to speak, and then people can upvote the questions they like to give them higher priority. It is picking up Slido, the company that lets people moderate questions and interactions from a larger group participating in virtual conferences as well as in live events. While Zoom continues to hold a lot of mindshare (and market share) in the world of videoconferencing, Cisco’s WebEx division today announced an acquisition to underscore its own intention to keep its hat firmly in the game. Cisco is buying Slido to improve Q&A, polls and engagement in WebEx It has a prestigious list of enterprise customers that includes Microsoft, Google, Jet Blue, Greenpeace, PepsiCo and Hyundai.Ģ020. Socio was founded in 2016 and raised around $7 million in investment capital, according to Crunchbase data. The goal appears to be to combine this with the recent purchase of Slido and transform Webex from an application mostly for video meetings into a more comprehensive event platform. Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. Cisco to acquire startup Socio to bring hybrid events to WebexĬisco buys startup Socio, which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events.
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