3. What is Cisco Quad? The word Quad comes from College Quad which is a place for learning Cisco Quad combines social networking with real time communications for businesses to talk between each other inside the business, to other businesses, and experts within in the Quad community. It integrates voice, live video, video, email, and social networking into one place for businesses and experts.
4. Overview Improve productivity by optimizing all aspects of the employee lifecycle, quickly and efficiently attract, hire, and train new employees, scale expertise and encourage engagement, and transfer knowledge once employees leave. Enhance innovation by improving product development. Build environments to encourage employee participation, foster new and better ideas, protect sensitive documents and materials, and move products to market faster. Generate growth by accelerating sales cycles. Customize communities and content around specific sales opportunities, make specialists and other subject matter experts more available and accessible to people in the field, share best practices, and drive a collaborative sales culture.
5. Features Profiles Let people know about you and your interests. Find and stay connected with your network of contacts. Communities Collaborate dynamically with others who share your interests. Search communities for relevant content. Manage team projects and share best practices. MyView Customize the MyView homepage to suit your needs. Subscribe to content sources. Manage your workflow. Participate Easily communicate and share your knowledge and expertise with others. Post, publish, and distribute content. Click to call, chat, or participate in videoconferencing.
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9. Information Technology Benifits Save time and resources, through pre-integration with common IT infrastructure platforms from Microsoft, Documentum, Salesforce.com, and Oracle. And for other business applications, Quad supports OpenSocial so you can easily bring in other business systems. Deliver social networking without the risk, through built-in roles-based policy management that provides control of any data and operations deemed sensitive whether a community, wiki, video or document. Simplify content management for IT and end users, with streamlined content sharing and search capabilities that let users easily post, edit, distribute, and search for content - including across existing Sharepoint or Documentum implementations - regardless of type, transforming how people collaborate, share and find information. Deliver real-time communications, through integration with voice, instant messaging with presence, Cisco WebEx conferencing, and video for instant, click-to-collaborate communications with anyone inside or outside the organization. Meet the needs of the mobile workforce, with Cisco Quad for the iPhone and the iPad.
10. How it would benefit us Faster and communication between everyone in the business. Access to videos or documentation for new users to easily find and view. Integration of software on the web benefits us with easier access from anywhere and no need to install applications such as webex, videos, and the unified communications manager.
