Posted by: Collabo
Category: Collaboration, Enterprise, Mobile
Tags: Cisco, iPhone, smartphone, WebEx
Cisco to Enhance Mobile Collaboration & WebEx Integration
An effort to give smartphones a more integral role in business communications will expand collaborative features for WebEx users. Announced at the Cisco Live conference this week, new features planned for the third quarter of next year include…
The availability of employee presence information while a smartphone is in use.
Speech-to-text voicemail while users are participating in a WebEx conference. This non-intrusive measure will allow users to carry on a text conversation and offers the ability to invite the sender into the conference.
Anchored connections in case a user loses mobile service while in a WebEx conference, which will allow easy re-connection when service is regained.
Additional features include the ability to visit a remote office and map your location via Wi-Fi, which will also allow detection of available resources such as meeting rooms and equipment.
WebEx introduced an iPhone app earlier this year. As these new initiatives continue to develop Cisco plans to upgrade these features and offer intuitive interfaces across multiple smartphone platforms.
Source: PC World
