Cisco has chosen Cisco Spark as the product name for the Project Squared, a collaborative cloud application launched in beta in November, and said price would work up to $ 25 per user per month.The company announced the networking name change this week in his speech at Enterprise Connect, which Cisco also introduced a feature called context of contact center services and a version with two screens TelePresence MX800.
Cisco Spark offers unlimited virtual rooms and safe for the ad hoc team collaboration. The service is accessible via a mobile application available on Google Play or App Store. A Windows desktop application is also available.Virtual rooms allow staff to work together through a combination of messaging, file sharing, screen sharing and video conferencing, Ross Daniels, director of marketing of Cisco products, said. Users can integrate the service with their mobile contacts to communicate with people outside the organization.
The latter can access the service via a browser plug-in, unless you are using Firefox, which does not require additional Spark is on.Cisco help sellers keep his promise last year to Enterprise Connect to maintain the simple collaboration has said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Collaboration.
A freemium version of Cisco Spark is available with two options. The free version provides access to messaging, file sharing, video calls and screen sharing with up to three participants. It also includes mobile and integration of contact, self-service online and encryption of the content.
For $ 13 per user per month, subscribers receive the same features in the free version with single sign-on, direct support, and the ability for moderators to launch private rooms. The $ 25 per user per month subscription supports meetings with up to 25 users and provides access to WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco WebEx Enterprise Edition, Daniels said.
Cisco Spark is now available exclusively through Cisco channel partners.
