Cisco Unveils New AI Innovations to Amplify the Employee Experience
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Cisco has unveiled new AI-powered solutions to enhance workplace collaboration and employee experience. Key innovations include Cisco Spatial Meetings for 3D meeting experiences with Apple Vision Pro integration, Ceiling Microphone Pro with AI-powered adaptive audio, and enhanced Cisco AI Assistant capabilities. The company is introducing Workspace Designer for automated workspace design, Smart Diagnostics for IT management, and improved productivity tools including automated workflows, Vidcast enhancements, and AI-generated Slido polls. These solutions aim to create seamless collaboration experiences and streamline IT management for hybrid workspaces.
Positive
- Integration with major enterprise apps (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk) expands market reach
- New AI features could drive product adoption and revenue growth
- Strategic partnership with Apple Vision Pro positions Cisco in emerging XR market
Negative
- Heavy reliance on third-party integrations may impact profit margins
- Significant investment in AI technology development could increase operating expenses
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News summary:
- Cisco launches new AI solutions to advance collaboration and empower employees with equitable and exceptional experiences.
- IT teams benefit from simplicity of deployment, management and the ability to scale in any workspace.
- Designed to help organizations reimagine work and workspaces, new innovations include Cisco Spatial Meetings to deliver 3D meeting experiences that reduce the impact of distance, Ceiling Microphone Pro to enable truly immersive and integrated audiovisual experiences, and Cisco AI Assistant features to advance employee productivity.
Today, employees and IT teams want solutions that enable seamless and intelligent collaboration. From delivering enhanced meeting quality to enabling increased productivity and streamlined device management, Cisco's new AI innovations are designed to transform work and workspaces.
"With AI baked into every part of Cisco's product portfolio, we're helping organizations futureproof their workspaces with solutions ready for the next generation of how and where people work," said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. "We're providing our customers with intelligent, adaptable, and easy-to-manage technology that enhances experiences for their employees and customers."
Delivering Distance Zero Experiences
In this era of distributed work, employees need experiences that make all meeting attendees feel like they're in the same room, even if they aren't – a concept Cisco calls Distance Zero. Cisco is leveraging AI to reimagine smart workplaces and enable equitable and inclusive meeting experiences for everyone regardless of where and how they work. New innovations include:
- Cisco Spatial Meetings: Turn any space equipped with a Cisco Room Bar Pro into a stunning immersive studio and deliver spatial video to Webex for Apple Vision Pro users – easily with a simple software upgrade. With any Room Bar Pro device and an Apple Vision Pro, users can do things like product demos, remote training, education and more with video that includes remarkable depth and dimension.
- Cisco Ceiling Microphone Pro: Capture natural conversation from anywhere in a variety of workspaces. This industry-first adaptive microphone uses AI to automatically adjusts to speaker position and changes to room configuration. Compatible with Cisco cameras and room systems, the Cisco Ceiling Microphone Pro delivers a fully integrated and immersive meeting experience that is easy to manage. Microphone set up is now faster than ever, taking minutes, instead of hours.
Managing Smart Workspaces
With the rise of flexible work, IT responsibilities have expanded alongside increased employee expectations. To address this, Cisco is empowering IT and facilities teams to streamline their work with:
- Workspace Designer: Fully automates the design and customization of workspaces. It provides a 3D view of audio and video coverage, and accelerates the time it takes to deploy video-enabled hybrid workspaces.
- Smart Diagnostics in Control Hub: Enables IT to dynamically identify and resolve meeting room issues in real time.
- ThousandEyes integration for the Desk Phone 9800 Series and Webex Calling: Helps monitor and troubleshoot in real-time, reducing downtime by tracking where call issues originate.
Advancing Employee Productivity and Engagement
To advance collaboration and increase productivity, the Cisco AI Assistant will enable users to:
- Automate workflows through integrations with enterprise apps including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and more.
- Integrate with Glean, enabling mutual customers to enhance discussions and speed up decision-making with its knowledge graph and connectors including Outlook, Salesforce and ServiceNow.
- Choose the Large Language Model (LLM) that best fits their needs with Amazon Bedrock.
- Share summaries and recaps across third-party platforms including Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Copilot and Slack.
Additional new capabilities to enhance employee engagement include:
- Vidcast enhancements: New features like highlights, chapters and transcripts enhance asynchronous video capabilities. AI-generated Vidcast will soon allow users to upload a PDF or PPT and automatically generate a script and voice-overs in the language and tone of their choice. This is a major time-saver and will enhance the user experience.
- AI-generated Slido polls: Meeting participants can use AI to generate Slido polls during webinars and large meetings.
About Cisco
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About Webex by Cisco
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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