Cisco's new open collaboration portfolio now in RP

In an effort to extend its reach in the open collaboration market, Cisco Philippines recently announced the availability of a new portfolio of products designed to help companies accelerate business processes, increase productivity and speed up innovation.

Some 200 customers were present during the grand launch of the Cisco collaboration portfolio at the EDSA Shangri-La recently.

The suite of products consists of the Cisco Unified Communications, Cisco TelePresence, and a new Web 2.0 application platform.

With the network as the platform, the Cisco collaboration portfolio is designed to interoperate with business applications, communications devices and Web-based tools while allowing IT departments to maintain their mandates regarding security, policy and compliance.

The keynote speaker at the event was Richard Dodsworth, Cisco’s chief technology officer for unified communications for the Asia-Pacific.

“In this age of globalization where the workforce is increasingly distributed, Cisco uses the intelligent network to unify not only the elements of the workspace, but also the workspaces between groups of users,” said Dodsworth.

“Cisco is extending its reach in the collaboration market, not as a suite player, but to enable collaboration through an open framework making customers’ existing infrastructure and applications work better,” said Christian Hentschel, acting country manager of Cisco Philippines.