Monday 31 August 2015

Apple, Cisco Unveil Business Partnership

Apple and Cisco said they plan to help workers with iPhones and iPads better exploit Cisco’s video- and Web-conferencing services.

Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are working together to help bring more iPhone and iPad users.The business association, announced Monday, is aimed at helping Apple mobile devices more effectively communicate corporate networks where gear Cisco is widely used, the company said.

They also plan to work together on technology to help workers with the iPhone and iPad to make better use of Cisco collaboration products, including video conferences and web-services.Apple CEO Tim Cook and President of Cisco, John Chambers, said his company has been 10 months working in collaboration, which exposed thousands of Cisco sales representatives Monday at a meeting in Las Vegas.

"It is clear to me that the collaboration with Cisco produce results that allow us to transform the work," Cook said in a interview.The announcement comes as Apple, a power in devices sold to consumers, it has taken measures to build greater presence in the business world.

Last year, Apple has reached an agreement with International Business Machines Corp. to jointly create applications for their jobs, while IBM employees help sell and support Apple devices with business momentum is clients.One tablet slowing sales. IPad sales have fallen for six consecutive quarters; Revenue for the iPad fell 24% in the nine months ended June 27 compared with the same period last year.

Cisco, meanwhile, has tried to limit its focus on the most profitable businesses by Chuck Robbins took over as CEO by Mr. Chambers in late July. Mr. Chambers, who relied heavily on acquisitions to become the largest supplier of Cisco networks, Apple said the deal underscores the shifting alliances for major operators.

"Let's talk about a new generation of alliances," Chambers said.


The pact Apple by Cisco comes as companies seek to use smartphones and tablets to make workers more productive. IPhone and iPad are popular within companies, especially through purchases of individual employees, rather than business technology buyers. Few companies can effectively integrate mobile devices with their PC networks and landlines.

Employees with big problems, gentlemen. Cook and Chambers said, is to ensure they receive proper network performance in the workplace. Apple and Cisco said its goal is to establish a "fast track" for iOS devices in the corporate world, focusing on wireless and Web business applications critics are not committed by streaming videos of cats and other dishes that are not working.

Another problem, they said, is that many workers now have your phone address books on your iPhone, not on their desk phones, which can be supplied by Cisco. The integration of these lists is an objective of the association, Cook said.

Cisco, best known for the routing and switching hardware, has diversified into other products used by businesses. $ 1200000000 acquisition of Meraki Inc. in 2012, for example, Cisco has made a bigger management of wireless networks for enterprises player. WebEx service is widely used for conducting online meetings.

Although they are now partners, Cisco and Apple were opponents of the law once. Cisco sued Apple registered the name iPhone in 2007 mark, the name of a Cisco product had acquired. The case was quickly resolved in an agreement that has allowed both companies to use the name.

Apple, now the most valuable companies in the world, has been struggling in the PC era to establish a presence in what is now an annual market 2000000000000 $ for the costs of business technology. Many applications are written only for PC software with Microsoft Corp. Windows, not Apple Mac machines. Now, Apple is using the popularity of their phones and tablets to regain a foothold.

Among other recent moves, Apple has come up with a marketing plan with technology companies to create business-oriented applications. Apple is playing matchmaker to help companies to group applications together for small business of mating, for example, an application with a digital cash register programming application in the workplace.

Apple is expected to introduce the next wave of iPhone at an event in San Francisco on Sept. 9, the company has been working on a larger 12.9-inch tablet iPad which should help attract more business customers.

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