Cisco and WebEx

Ten years ago, we founded WebEx with a vision of enabling collaborative communication over the web.   Since we launched WebEx, we’ve achieved some important milestones. 

Today we serve more than 28,000 customers in 85 countries worldwide. Our 2.2 Million registered users are fully equipped to use the web as a rich real-time web-collaboration medium.  These knowledge workers communicate and collaborate across geographic, organizational, and platform boundaries.

Over the last decade we’ve witnessed a significant shift in business. Success is no longer based on company size and scale, but on speed, agility and reach. Efficient web collaboration is critical to succeeding in the new “flat world” economy.

WebEx has played a key role in helping companies succeed in this new world. I am proud to note that 80% of the companies on Business Week magazine’s 2006 list of innovative companies are our customers. Similarly, 90% of Wired magazine’s 2006 most wired companies are WebEx customers.

Today’s news marks another milestone.

It is a testament to the hard work and dedication of all WebEx employees that our services will become part of the Cisco family of offerings. 

This merger combines WebEx’s SMB customer expertise with Cisco’s leadership in the global enterprise and means businesses of all sizes can leverage the full suite of unified communications products and services.  Small businesses will benefit immensely from Cisco’s backing of WebEx’s services and enterprise customers will get the full benefit of a complete product and service suite for doing business over the web.

This is an important and exciting milestone for WebEx and web collaboration.

Subrah S. Iyar
Chairman and CEO
WebEx Communications

Comments

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As collaboration in the workplace becomes increasingly important, companies are looking for rich communications tools to help them work more effectively and efficiently

[Todd Manley]

I can't wait to use WebEx here at Cisco! As a former WebEx'er I've always had a soft spot for the best web conferencing product out there...and now that we're both on the same team it will be fun to see where the things will go with the WebEx/Cisco endeavor.