It was web conferencing, or the ability to demonstrate products remotely that put inside sales on the map.
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The new features include activity feeds, personal profiles, status updates, discussion forums, document sharing, messaging, email, and web conferencing.
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Chinese companies themselves aren't a big market for WebEx yet, but many of Zhu's U.S. and multinational customers do Web conferencing from China.
The fastest growing category of enterprise software will be Web Conferencing and Team, growing at a 12.4% CAGR through the forecast period.
For example, there is web conferencing with video and web chat.
Nobody questions the viability anymore of the sales department that uses web conferencing tools like GoToMeeting or the cool new multi video and web conference tool iMeet.
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This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).
Moreover, new technologies, such as video or Web conferencing, can support workers who want to work with more privacy off site yet still be accessible to others.
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From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, Web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together integrated network-based collaboration solutions based on open standards.
Applications that have been or are being moved to the cloud include email and Web services (77%), storage (74%) and collaboration solutions such as Web conferencing and instant messaging (72%).
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In a commercial for Placeware , the privately held Web conferencing company, an agitated infant on a crowded plane suddenly upchucks in the face of a businessman who's sitting in an adjacent seat.
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Gartner tracks ten different categories of SaaS applications in this latest forecast with CRM, ERP, and Web Conferencing, Teaming Platforms, and Social Software Suites being the three largest in terms of global revenue growth.
Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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As a result, operators can more effectively ensure a carrier-grade quality of experience for end users of High Definition voice and video, Web conferencing, instant messaging and presence, and other broadband-intensive mobile applications that go beyond the reliability of Skype, Apple FaceTime and other services suited for consumers but inadequate for the rigors of enterprise use.
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With the acquisition of DimDim, the company will likely add web-conferencing capabilities to the Chatter application.
The plan has set a goal of 4 Mbps (megabits per second) download of universal coverage around the country by 2020, which it says would support the basic usage of e-mail, downloading web pages and simple video conferencing.
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It provides for secure and virtually anywhere access to email, calendars, Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing and file sharing, allowing employees to work on the go, on nearly any device.
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He believes that particular users, like frequent travelers, bloggers, citizen journalists and young people who have grown up watching Web video, will embrace mobile video-conferencing first, with greater adoption following in 2010.
The basic technology underneath Skype is available to anyone putting in a minimal amount of engineering effort, and so the Web is now seeing second- and third-generation video conferencing products, like the Facetime built into the new Apple iPhone.
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