This document discusses collaboration as the new platform for business. It notes that businesses face increasing complexity from employees, partners, and customers who demand better access and service. New technologies like mobility, video, social networking and virtualization are changing the way people work. The document advocates that businesses combine the best of on-premises and cloud-based collaboration technologies to empower employees and improve productivity and customer intimacy. Cisco's collaboration strategy is to offer solutions that provide the security, reliability and scalability of traditional enterprise technologies along with the flexibility, ubiquity and user experience of consumer technologies.