Telstra and Cisco aim to consumerise how corporate teams to communicate, bringing the collaboration of the platform team Spark Cisco service cloud.The Australia Telstra announced by Cisco in Florida on Tuesday was formerly known as Squared and is under the platform unified Communications Cisco WebEx.
It is designed for office use email for collaboration and adopt a chat service that can be used on mobile devices and desktop through the member of the Spark app.Any team can create chat, voice calls and video, and hold virtual meetings. He also shared the screen, and supports calendar and contacts mobile integration. It can handle up to 25 users on a video call at this stage.
Telstra has tested the platform in the last six months, using the service as a unified product development director team.Telstra communication Boris Corluka said the platform was designed to have the appearance of a consumer platform, because it is this that employees are demanding.
Vice president of Cisco Collaboration Cloud for Asia-Pacific and Japan, Peter Hughes, said the Telstra cloud hosting service in Australia, would also prevent data sovereignty issues held by businesses.Individuals Australians can register for free Spark, but Telstra said it would also try to sell the Spark service to its business customers.
Corluka said Telstra would offer the service as soon as next month, after additional testing internally.We've already installed a proof of concept in Australia. We begin to understand what is possible here, 'said
