Last year Cisco started talking about a forthcoming product for the enterprise market: Cisco "Enterprise Collaboration Platform". In the past few weeks, Cisco has peeled back some of the layers around the forthcoming platform, and has given it a real product name: Cisco Quad. Capability Review. Communities. MORE >>

Cisco provides a Collaboration Services Group that is not tied to Cisco products but helps clients with a vendor independent approach. Mark Eggleston, a member of this group I met at the Enterprise 2.0 found it full of good advice and very helpful for framing an enterprise collaboration effort. Clearly help is needed. MORE >>

I just published my review of Cisco's Collaboration Summit last week. Cisco hosted a major strategy conference in California during the second week of November 2009. In sum, these announcements hold the potential to elevate Cisco to being a major player in the enterprise collaboration technology space. MORE >>

The following is Part 4 of a series on today's announcement by Cisco. Is Cisco’s Vision Holistic Enough? While Cisco does a very good job of navigating market transitions and managing its efforts to move into market adjacencies, that does not mean that it has “perfect knowledge”. Cisco Collaboration: Bottom Line. trends. MORE >>

“ Social Media is not just a fun trend, it’s something that can really help drive business value. &# – Jeanette Gibson , Director of Social Media Marketing, Cisco. Cisco has been using online social media listening as a way to inform business decisions for some time.  Thank you to the Cisco team for letting us share this. MORE >>