New Webex innovations include a new Whiteboard app whereby anyone can start or join a whiteboard and work together from a browser, the Webex App, or a Cisco device. Whiteboards can be combined with Slido polls, and can be saved and shared in a Webex space.
Webex Calling includes a new integration with Microsoft Teams, enabling users to easily make enterprise-grade Webex Calls in the Teams interface for a more flexible workflow. Cisco’s partnership with Microsoft will also enable the Microsoft Teams Rooms experience on Cisco’s collaboration devices.
In addition, a new partnership with Apple means iPhone and iPad users can now share content from the rear-facing or front-facing camera via the Webex Meetings app and annotate over what they’re seeing with Mobile Camera Share.
Group Call Management is also now available for Webex Calling, making it easy for businesses to activate informal call centre services.
Jeetu Patel, EVP and GM for security and collaboration, Cisco, explained, “Hybrid work is both different and harder than how we worked before. Regardless of job function – frontline worker, knowledge worker, IT admin or contact center agent – people expect and deserve an amazing experience no matter where or how they work.
“This requires a holistic solution that only Cisco can deliver with its integrated platform across collaboration software, devices, networking and security.”