SAN JOSE, Calif., June
8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
- Webex velocity of innovation continues, introducing more than
800 new features and devices since September.
- All-new Webex Suite, including a new look and
feel, supports hybrid work collaboration at 40 percent lower
cost than a-la-carte.
- The integration of Slido's audience engagement capabilities and
soon Socio's hybrid event management tools provide the most
comprehensive events platform for any physical, virtual or hybrid
event.
As the world transitions to hybrid, organizations require
solutions that are flexible, supportive and inclusive. Today, Cisco
(NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled an all-new Webex Suite with innovations to
serve as the foundation for inclusive hybrid work and events,
delivering unmatched levels of flexibility and personalization for
everyone.
With 98 percent of future meetings expected to include at least
one remote participant, this mixed mode of working (blending remote
and in-person interactions) is fueling long-lasting implications on
work culture, event engagement and technology. This requires
investing more broadly – beyond the traditional conference room –
to fundamentally reimagine the new requirements of hybrid events
and a hybrid workforce. The way organizations worked pre-pandemic
and during the pandemic will be starkly different in this next wave
of work – where good enough is simply not enough.
"Cisco's collaboration business is incredibly essential to our
customers," said Chuck Robbins, CEO,
Cisco. "With all the integrations the team has added – 800 new
features and devices since September – we truly have the most
comprehensive meetings, calling, messaging, and event management
solution on the market powering the future of hybrid work."
"To be successful in the era of hybrid work, organizations need
to make sure their solutions are flexible, inclusive, supportive,
secure, and easily managed on the backend by IT," said Jeetu Patel, senior vice president and general
manager of Cisco Security and Collaboration. "The all-new Webex
Suite ensures everyone in a hybrid workforce has equal opportunity
and voice."
New Webex advancements include:
- Increased Value: The all-new Webex Suite is the
industry's first suite for hybrid work to combine meetings,
calling, messaging, polling and events in one offering for up to 40
percent less than a-la-carte. The new Webex identity and logo
unveiled today were reinvented to reflect the powerful purpose and
value Webex brings to the market, its customers and people's
lives.
- End-to-End Events: A complete events execution and
management platform necessary in the next era of hybrid events.
Full capabilities of the industry's first end-to-end event
experience at scale will become available upon completion of
Cisco's Socio acquisition.
- Audience Interaction Tools: Polling, quizzes, Q&A
and more powered by Slido, is the industry's first audience
engagement solution to be integrated across all collaboration
experiences. Polling is available now in Meetings and will be
coming soon to Events.
- Audio Intelligence: Building upon Webex's market-leading
noise removal and speech enhancement capabilities, users will have
the new ability of speech optimization for remote and shared
workspaces through My Voice Only to eliminate background
noise, including speech from people in the background, and
solely focus on the main speaker's speech. My Voice
Only will be available worldwide in August 2021.
- Camera Intelligence: People Focus, announced
earlier this year, is coming to Webex in
2021. People Focus uses machine learning and AI
technology to individually re-frame meeting participants who are
spread across a meeting room allowing remote participants to feel
more connected and everyone in the meeting to benefit from seeing
body language, facial expressions and more.
- Next-level Devices: The Webex Desk provides a powerful
all-in-one collaboration device designed for the desk at work or
home. Immersive collaboration experiences will also be available
with modern touch interactions via RoomOS that connects
workflows with less context switching, as well as Webex
Assistant Skills platform that opens up a universe of voice-powered
extensions to seamlessly and easily integrate more controls,
content and applications for Webex Devices.
- Secure Experiences: Real-time data loss prevention for
Webex, which automatically blocks and removes confidential
information, will be available in Messaging. With this real-time
data loss prevention, users are prohibited from posting classified
content rather than redacting or deleting content after it is
posted. Additionally, European Webex customers will be able to host
and process their content within the EU. Webex users will also
benefit from our strengthened end-to-end encryption options,
including augmenting our end-to-end encryption
with end-to-end verified identity. In other words,
customers will not have to choose between usability and
security, they get both.
Additional Resources
- Comes on the heels of Cisco announcing its partnership with
Thrive Global to promote well-being, resiliency, and empathy at
work.
- Cisco recently announced its intent to acquire Socio Labs,
which is expected to close in Q4 2021.
- Ushering in the era of hybrid work by Cisco's Jeetu Patel
- Launching new innovations for the era of hybrid work by
Cisco's Javed Khan
- A new brand for a new era of inclusive hybrid work by Cisco's
Aruna Ravichandran
- How Webex is creating bigger and better experiences for a new
hybrid world by Cisco's Abhay
Kulkarni
- Introducing the Webex Suite: The first, best-of-breed suite for
hybrid work by Cisco's Chris Barwick
- What's New in Webex: June
2021 by Webex Team
Pricing and Availability
- Webex Suite is available today and will be priced at 40 percent
lower than a-la-carte.
- Webex Desk will be available to order later this month at the
Cisco suggested resale price of $1249
for customers and a standard price of $2495.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide
leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco
inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications,
securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and
empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future.
Discover more on The Network and follow us on Twitter
at @Cisco.
About Cisco Webex
Webex is a leading provider of
cloud-based collaboration solutions which includes video meetings,
calling, messaging, events, customer experience solutions like
contact center and purpose-built collaboration devices. At Webex,
we start with people and their experiences first. This focus on
delivering inclusive collaboration experiences fuels our
innovation, which leverages AI and Machine Learning, to remove the
barriers of geography, language, personality, and familiarity with
technology. Our solutions are underpinned with security and privacy
by design. We work with the world's leading business and
productivity apps – delivered through a single application and
interface. Learn more at webex.com.
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