While Slack is a fantastic Persistent Group Chat tool (and an LDV favorite), Spark is a true enterprise-ready collaboration platform. Rowan is making it increasing clear that Cisco Spark is far more than Cisco’s attempt to build upon the Slack phenomena. Just as Eddie changed the way we think about playing guitar, Rowan is changing the way we think about selling and consuming business collaboration. ![]() Every time I got the same reaction a laugh, followed by a thoughtful look, followed by someone saying, “You know David, that’s really accurate, he really is Eddie Van Halen”. I joked that it was no surprise, since Rowan Trollope is the Eddie Van Halen of our industry. Throughout the show, whenever I was asked what I thought of the keynotes, I said that Cisco knocked it out of the park. How this will effect Microsoft’s Skype for Business interop partnership strategies remains to be seen.įor the rest of what I learned at EC, including coverage of 28 vendors/providers, please keep reading! As my nephew would say, “They’re in a fight”. Cisco’s purchase of Acano, among other things, has apparently recreated the rift and things are no longer friendly. Last year the story was that the two were starting to flirt and if they truly formed an alliance, the collaboration world as we know it would end. While there were no revolutionary announcements at the show this year (I think vendors save the biggest releases for InfoComm in June), there was definitely a lot to like and plenty of good surprises.īehind the scenes, there was much talk about the latest developments in the Cisco/Microsoft relationship. Things are certainly remaining interesting in our industry. ![]() Let’s Do Video is pleased to bring you our coverage of the 2016 Enterprise Connect Show. Sign up for our newsletter to receive insights and analysis of trends in the industry, plus information on the hottest visual collaboration technologies. ![]() This article is cross-posted on Let's Do Video.
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