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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Jan 24, 2017 - At Cisco (NASDAQ:
CSCO), we want to end miserable meetings. That means we need to clean up the cacophony of dongles, wires, and outdated hardware in most conference rooms today. We also need to solve problems that people experience as they get ready to meet (
Where's the agenda? Who has the latest presentation?) and when they need to follow up after. To put an end to miserable meetings, you can't just bolt on a new device or create a new app. Solving the pain of meetings means building breakthrough new hardware that is designed, developed and deployed
together with new software in the cloud. It must all be dead simple to use, comprehensive, and priced affordably so more people can use it. Today, Cisco delivers exactly that with
Cisco Spark™ Board and
Cisco Spark Meetings.
Cisco Spark Board: New All-in-One Meeting Room Product While we're more connected than ever, surprisingly many meeting rooms have just an old speakerphone. When they
do have more technology, it often doesn't work, is hard to use or breaks down. Wires and remotes litter the table. No wonder meetings can feel like a waste of time -- we can't fully engage and get things done with all of the disconnected technology getting in the way. We created the Cisco Spark Board to clean up the conference-room chaos and connect physical rooms to the virtual spaces where so much work gets done. The Cisco Spark Board is an incredible, cloud-powered all-in-one device. It gives you:
1. A wireless presentation device that works for everyone,
everywhere
. Walk up to any Cisco Spark Board in the world -- yours or not -- and with one click you can share. This is unprecedented; we are creating a global, worldwide network of workspaces, which you can access from anywhere. As you approach, the board will recognize and greet you. No Bluetooth or special WiFi or network connection required. You control it all from your PC, Mac, tablet or mobile phone. This is screen sharing that just works. We achieved it through a tight integration with the
Cisco Spark platform plus groundbreaking new
ultrasound wireless pairing technology. Remote controls are a thing of the past.
2. An interactive digital whiteboard that everyone can edit. Whiteboards are where some of the best ideas take root. But there are a lot problems with traditional whiteboards. Beyond snapping a photo, it's difficult to save and share your work. And that photo doesn't do much good if you want to go back and change something later. Past attempts at digital whiteboards have tried to solve such problems. But the experience has been terrible, so adoption has not been great. Cisco Spark Board sets the bar high. It makes sure your content is shareable, editable, and safe. Top features include:
- Working remotely? Not a problem. Anyone can make her mark in real time -- even from a mobile phone. In fact, as long as they have the Cisco Spark app, all participants can simultaneously whiteboard.
- It automatically saves your hard work to a space that the whole team shares. Take a break and pick up where you left off later -- you can keep iterating.
- Want to all be on a video call while you whiteboard? You can do that, too.
- Thanks to Cisco Spark's industry-leading crypto, every stroke you make is safe from prying eyes.
- Cisco Spark Meetings is your Cisco Spark Board in your pocket. You can whiteboard together -- even if no one has a Cisco Spark Board. We've built it right into all of our Cisco Spark apps.
- Schedule a meeting in the app, and you'll automatically get what you need to prepare for the meeting. It creates a team space so you can create the agenda, get all the right people involved, share content, and chat back and forth. Chances are good that the meeting itself will be shorter and better; in the end you may not even need to meet at all.
- We've designed it to be incredibly simple -- one touch starts the meeting.
- Brainstorming throughout the meeting can be captured and easily saved within the Cisco Spark space.
- Post meeting comments, follow-up action items or notes from the meeting in the same space. Everything needed for continued collaboration is in one place.
- We have also totally changed the way you navigate in the Cisco Spark app. Take a tour of our new activities-based user experience to see how it makes it easier than ever to get things done. The activity-based workflow will be the same on all of your devices: desktop, mobile phone, tablet, Cisco Spark Board. Use one, know the other.
