Cisco purchases cloud-based Collaborate.com

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.

Cisco has moved to boost its mobile collaboration efforts with the acquisition of Collaborate.com. The terms of the deal were undisclosed. The deal is part of Cisco’s bid to bolster its presence in mobility and cloud computing with Collaborate.com’s mobile collaboration platform. The platform provides unified document sharing, task management and team communication capabilities.

The firm said this platform allows the mobile workforce to collaborate with team members on projects. It enables users to instantly create virtual collaboration rooms where they can chat and share documents, notes, photos and videos. The platform integrates messaging, document sharing, and task management in a mobile app for iOS, Android and web…

Cisco business development senior vice president and head Hilton Romanski said that the acquired company has a "unique collaboration technology and a strong team of engineers with deep cloud, mobile, and web expertise that will help accelerate Cisco’s innovation in collaboration."…

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