From InfoWorld: The closely watched launch on Wednesday of Microsoft's Teams, a rival to chat platforms Slack and HipChat, shows how important this kind of collaboration is for any company that wants to dominate workday life. Cisco Systems is no exception.
On Tuesday at Cisco's conference for channel partners, the company laid out an ambitious goal for its Spark chat platform and announced two moves to make it more attractive to enterprises.
Spark is now the centerpiece of Cisco's collaboration portfolio, which spans voice calling, videoconferencing, document sharing, and other capabilities. Like Slack or Microsoft Teams, the messaging platform is designed to be the virtual home base for teams of employees, from which they branch out into other collaboration tools and productivity applications.
There are already 60 third-party applications integrated with Spark, but Cisco is aiming higher, particularly with SaaS integrations like the one it announced last month with Salesforce.
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