Can anyone speak to how sales for WebEx are REALLY doing? Besides just saying that Zoom has eaten its lunch... surely there is an advantage to Cisco in being able to sell to existing customers? Just tired of reading all the negativity about Zoom v WebEx, and wondering if it’s even founded.
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Jeetu came in with a roar and seemed more than ready to make many of the hard decisions that clearly need to be made here, but seems to have settled for a talk-track approach of late.
Concerned.
I admire Jeetu Patel, Cisco SVP and General Manager of Security & Applications, and foresee that he will get away without delivering any of his promises and commitments.
Innovation to existing large enterprise customers may be. That is nice. Not a bad thing. There wont be a net new customer and net new dollar. That is all gone to Zoom, Microsoft and Slack in some cases.
"Jeetu Patel, Cisco SVP and General Manager of Security & Applications, says Webex users can expect 'innovation every month'.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/cisco-svp-says-webex-users-142501345.html"
The first thing they should do is change the name :)
Jeetu Patel, Cisco SVP and General Manager of Security & Applications, says Webex users can expect 'innovation every month'.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/cisco-svp-says-webex-users-142501345.html
Webex is a loser .... End of story
all my customers were testing MSTEAMS when this happened, didnt like it, but webex was slow to roll and wanted to dollar them to death, so they are going 100% teams, Cisco missed the boat, sad cause teams is painful, and no unified client maybe the nail cause its too late.
Webex may be spun off ? What does it mean? Will it run like an independent company? Or the hope is there will be gold rush to buy it. There wont be any rush to buy it. Product is not the problem with it. People are the problem with it. Oh my....it is beyond repair in that regard unless they cut it to bare bones, keep essential eng and ops folks who can keep services on and let go off every one else.
Rumor is Webex may be spun off. Not sure if they want all the Call Manager and phones legacy with the deal.
"Just saw an ad on TV for Webex, and found this thread looking it up. I didn’t know it even existed. but seems a little late in the COVID game to just now think about non-business consumers. Plus the employee comments about Cisco on here... just wow. Does Cisco really treat its employees this badly? I’ll stick to free 40 min Zoom calls and hangouts (free) "
I love Cisco Webex , I have used Zoom and MS Teams and Webex is one of the best in terms of simplicity ,security and quality. It is a very good product actually. If you come to a site like "Layoffs.com" what do you expect ?
Just saw an ad on TV for Webex, and found this thread looking it up. I didn’t know it even existed. but seems a little late in the COVID game to just now think about non-business consumers. Plus the employee comments about Cisco on here... just wow. Does Cisco really treat its employees this badly? I’ll stick to free 40 min Zoom calls and hangouts (free)
Sri has been gone for ages. Pay attention.
Zoom got a huge direct to consumer base and increased their market cap . MSFT teams bundled teams with their office suite of products.
Cisco ignored the B2C customers for webex favoring big ticket customers which as a strategy bounced back big time. Cisco focused on a few products with the largest customers while the ship sailed at the back.
Amy , who founded Accompany was made the head of Collab , Accompany is not even remotely connected to video conferencing .How was she thought to be the right leader for Webex? ( Side note: Is anyone using accompany now? Is it effective ) Now it is Sri Srinivasan who is from MSFT .He has again played a bunch of roles not connected to collaboration. Someone with a strong B2C experience along with B2B has to be heading the Webex division
Webex could have eaten Zoom's lunch, but Cisco was too busy trying to spout "we're more secure", and not irritate their enterprise customers by offering a "Webex lite" free consumer option. Cisco was asleep at the wheel....they could have had it all. It would have been so easy also......all they had to do was repackage what already existed.
WebEx was the leading collaboration tool. It's fascinating how layers of bureaucrats and used car salesmen absolutely destroyed Cisco's collaboration business.
so webex is like switching and routing without the massive contribution to revenue
from what i have heard Webex is dropping 10% q/q
competition from both zoom and ms teams is taking a significant bite while nascent offerings like chime are growing rapidly as well
The good thing about Zoom is that is displayed how flawed and way behind technically Webex is. Competition is always good since Webex has improved this year then the last 5 years. Another note to make is that people who did not drink the kool aid of Cisco wouldn't be surprised in Zooms rise.
from what i have heard Webex is dropping 10% q/q
competition from both zoom and ms teams is taking a significant bite while nascent offerings like chime are growing rapidly as well
This is not a “good question”. Do some internal research. There’s plenty available on seats and licenses and revenue by quarter you can check out if you’d just ask. Stop posting stupid sh– and making us all look like id–ts.
WebEx or Webex (or Spark lol) ?
Cisco should bring Rue Paul back as a spokes person. So WOKE! Rue could tell people that if they aren't using WebEx they are racists homophobes! Where's Cisco's marketing?
It's very difficult to determine actual sales. To boost WebEx metrics, the tactic used to be bundling Catalyst 6500s with WebEx subscriptions.
Good question.
On another note and as dumb as this might sound, I think the name Web Ex needs to go. I have thought this for 10 years now. It is boring.
Zoom at least makes people think it is fast. Seems basic to me.