Cisco Re-Packages Webex, Reduces Price by up to 40 Percent
Cisco Systems has lowered the cost of its recently optimized Webex Suite. The company has simplified the sale of collaboration technologies through offering an all-inclusive package, Webex Suite.
Cisco is repackaging Webex Meetings, Events, Calling and Messaging into Webex Suite, a new buying option rather than customers purchasing the separate pieces of the portfolio a-la-carte. The new offering, which includes software, all the way down to the devices, will save customers up to 40 percent.
The company has rolled out more than 800 new features, functionality and devices for its popular collaboration platform in the last nine months. Cisco is making use of its recently acquired technologies to further Webex’s ability to provide an end-to-end collaboration solution. For example, Webex now offers in-meeting polling, quizzes, and Q&A powered by Slido, which Cisco acquired in May. In addition, it offers noise removal and speech enhancement.
80 percent Citizens Feel Technology Used Effectively to Combat Covid-19: EY Survey
About 80 percent of Indian citizens feel that the government and public services in India have been effective in using digital technology to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a recent EY Survey. The survey was conducted by market research firm, Ipsos MORI, with 1,000 respondents from India between the age 18 and 50, and globally 12,100 respondents across 12 countries.
According to the survey, 73 percent of the Indian respondents believe technology will change public services for the better, and 71 percent think the pandemic will lead to greater use of technology in their daily lives in the future.
Compared with other countries, there are fewer concerns about data privacy in India. Almost 63 percent Indians feel comfortable in sharing their personal data with the government online to access a service, while 34 percent do not feel comfortable in sharing the same. Similarly, 57 percent feel comfortable in sharing their personal data with a company to perform a transaction and 48 percent feel comfortable in sharing their personal data through social networking services.
In the future, 81 percent of the respondents believed that technology would change the way they bank and shop, 80 percent of the respondents believed that it would change the way they work/study, and 79 percent of the respondents felt that it would change the way they entertain themselves.
Capgemini Launches Sustainable IT to Reduce IT Carbon Footprint
Capgemini has unveiled a new Sustainable IT offering, designed to help clients reduce their IT carbon footprint. Sustainable IT is a building block of Capgemini’s global sustainability offering framework. The Group is in a unique position to support clients on their sustainability journey through its technical expertise, customized approach, and strong partner ecosystem.
Capgemini’s new offering goes beyond structurally transforming IT in terms of consumption habits and ways of working, to empowering clients to create a culture of sustainable IT that is organization wide. Capgemini works with clients to provide qualitative and diagnostic tools that establish baseline business approaches to sustainable practice. Across business functions, Capgemini takes a holistic approach to identifying a company’s emission hotspots and reducing their environmental impact. The offering is based on a holistic, four-pillar framework focusing on Sustainable IT strategy, Sustainable IT transformation, Sustainable IT employees, and IT for sustainable business.
