COGNITIVE COLLABORATION TAKING OVER PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL MEETINGS

With geographical boundaries no longer a barrier for work, remote collaboration is becoming the new norm. People want tools and technology that allow them to have immersive and richer collaborative experiences and that is pushing us to develop some of these technologies says Pankaj Agrawal, Director Sales - Collaboration Business, Cisco India & SAARC

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Collaboration evolving for the modern workplace

People don’t need a large video conferencing room for collaboration today as they heavily depend on their mobile phones for day-to-day collaboration needs. Small rooms or open spaces with a video unit or the whiteboard are more popular with millennials, instead of large dedicated video conferencing rooms. Organizations are creating huddle spaces to provide an experience that millennials will like.

The Cisco Webex Room Kit offers an integrated unit can be paired with any display to bring more intelligence and usability to the small to medium team collaboration needs. There are compact and simpler units like ‘Webex Board,’ which can be placed anywhere without too many wires running and they can be a great aid for video-conferencing, for content sharing on the whiteboard and relaying that information with people in real-time.If you look at the high-end units also, which we call ‘Panorama’ also have evolved from room remediation to something which can be used as plug-and-play.

Cognitive collaboration is the way forward