Huawei is expected to receive another 90-day reprieve to purchase goods from U.S. -based companies. This brings answers, but perhaps more questions.
Cisco Posts Solid 4th Quarter, But Waves Caution Flag: Why Investors Shouldn’t Worry
Cisco had a strong quarter beating earnings and revenue numbers, but took a hit as their guidance was seen as weak. Why investors need not worry about Cisco.
Cisco’s Marketing Velocity: New Capabilities Ready Partners for Digital Marketing Breakthroughs
Cisco’s Marketing Velocity was recently released and it meets the burgeoning across-the-vertical board demand for smarter, personalized digital marketing.
Voicea Acquisition Makes Cisco Webex Even More Formidable
Cisco acquires Voicea to drive forward their Webex porftolio. How will this acquisition enhance Webex and why is Cisco gaining momentum in collaboration.
Microsoft Teams Evolves — Collaboration Tech Moving Digital Transformation Beyond the Desk
The latest upgrades to Microsoft Teams’ collaboration platform is moving collaboration beyond the desk, and they are not alone on that front. Cisco is innovating in exciting ways, with myriad integrations and cognitive collaboration. Slack is fine-tuning and working to woo the enterprise customer. Dropbox is getting in the game—and those are just a handful of the many players in the $30 billion dollar market for workplace collaboration services.
Intel Q2 Earnings: Strong Performance Should Quash Negative Sentiment
Pre-earnings call, many analysts were betting against Intel (INTC) this quarter based upon competition, china and chip shortage, but results are in and the company is up versus expectations and continuing to show strength. A look at the earnings and what’s ahead for Intel.
Medallia Surges 70% Day 1, Is It Time to Put It On The Watch List?
Medallia shot up more than 70% on its IPO debut. The customer experience management company has launched into the market gaining a 4.5 billion dollar valuation, however, has had little press compared to big IPO’s like Slack and Zoom.
Cisco Prioritizes Re-Skilling the IT Workforce in a Prime Directive
As Cisco announces a major initiative at re-skilling the IT workforce with upgrades in education programs and new certifications, the company boosts its strategic business growth objectives by taking a proactive approach to the IT workforce. The approach bolsters its overall differentiation as digital transformation rivals like Juniper, Ericsson, and Nokia have not proactively developed re-skilling initiatives or programs.
Zoom Earnings — Crushing It, But There Are Big Hurdles Ahead
Zoom’s growth should be commended, as for the simplicity that they have brought to point-to-point desktop and mobile video. But I think their next hurdle is a big one and it will lead to slowed growth and a requirement to build more 3rd party integrations, improve their hardware stack and look beyond video for their ecosystem.
Cisco Live — Collaboration Goes Cognitive and Interoperable
Cisco Live 2019 was about the future of collaboration, which is all about cognitive collaboration and interoperability. The Cisco ecosystem has always had vastly more collaboration tools (contact center, VoIP, on and off-prem) than many of the upstart cloud players, but in the age where less is more and simple wins hearts, Cisco has needed a wildcard to differentiate their meeting tools.