Collaboration fell another 3%. How much longer can this last before? I can understand why routers and switching are falling but Collab appears to be a leadership issue and backing the wrong products. Spark board anybody?
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RT and the spark bandwagon will not end well I fear.
I wonder who pushed forward Spark in the 1st place, Its one of the most asinine things i have seen in the last few years, to think it would ever be considered on par with the on-prem collab stuff, and that customers would actually replace their collab stuff with spark. It lacks the most basic functionality like pstn calling in most countries, video quality s---s and there is no QOS because its internet based LOL.
CUCM and Jabber feature wise beat Microsoft by far, most of Microsoft stuff is low quality grade, Microsoft cloud is laughable and office 365 just s---s, so instead of developing their flag products to adapt to the cloud they go and develop something from scratch and start pushing unfinished software to clients that is not on par with their on prem stuff and hope to sell?!?
Cucm is pretty decent for the most part.
I honestly thought CUCM was one of the better products being built by Cisco
There goes your credibility.
I worked on the CUCM Engineering side before it was moved to India and I honestly thought CUCM was one of the better products being built by Cisco. Webex too I thought was really nice product that customers liked and were happy to pay for - this despite a challenging and creaky code-base. Spark on the other hand.... Well, if you have nothing good to say, then it might be best to say nothing. How somebody can be allowed to go all-in with SPARK when customers obviously dont like it is beyond me. Dont know if its the guy driving the train or the people allowing him to drive the train is more at fault.
I'll give my old manager credit for mandating the use of Spark, hounding us each and every time we missed 1 of the 30 different team threads flying around, measure us by how involved we were in these threads, all while trying to visit customers to drive sales. It was not his way to meet his team members face to face. He essentially sequestered himself in his office. A real "sales leader". I felt the Spark mandate was unproductive, lots of BS noise and kudos in the threads, and dangerous to stay on top of while driving in the car etc. I look back on it's use within this particular team as an unproductive tool and a platform for political correctness. It's my understanding that this prick of a manager has since been demoted yet remains within the fray as an individual contributor.
what is teamspace? we keep getting reminder mails from the top to use it, but it seems none do ...
SPARK ..... (LOL)
What a joke!!!
SPARK !! (LOL) ---- What a waste of money for Cisco.
Cisco is years behind and won't catch up to the competition. The WebEx leadership team is a joke. I willingly jumped ship as I saw the writing on the wall.
Yet th fearless leader of the group remains. How does that make sense?
Spark will win, until Microsoft buys Slack, then its game over
Cisco is cutting the funding to spark as no customer is buying it. It will refocus on the revenue generating products like cucm, WebEx etc. Spark is dead.
Funny guy. You do know that Cisco Meraki uses Slack rather than Spark.
Cisco is doing great with Spark for it cloud based collaboration business. It will be couple of years till the market matures. Competition is there from Slack but Spark will win due to enterprise grade features. lets wait and see how it goes.
Are any folks in Norway affected? It was just bad idea after bad idea from the Tandberg team.
Collaboration is a Microsoft winning the game issue. There is no point competing with them now everything is going to software and they can wrap it all in to a ELA with some Azure thrown in, makes no sense. Should have seen this after the DX80 flop.