I can't belive this ELT hasn't fired JP. The guy is a complete failure.
You might be right but the problems in Collab have been there much longer than JP. What did Amy achieve? What did Rowan achieve, apart from some nice hardware?
With respect to Webex, Cisco never saw MS Teams (or Lync for that matter) as a credible threat. Newcomers like BlueJeans were ignored.
The move to hosted PBX and call centre weren’t given credence. We launched rubbish like HUCS at multiples of competitor pricing. I remember hosting an EBC at Boxborough and the customer sharing their pricing from Avaya. It was embarrassing.
You can’t lay all the Collab issues at JP’s door. We made that market and then squandered it.
Honestly the only reason collab is even close to staying relevant is they made the right decision to put BS as the head of WW sales. The guy is a machine. If he leaves then The ship has officially hit the iceberg.
Buy Zoom, we have certainly made worse acquisitions, then Microsoft would have to take us seriously again, we should also partner with Google for tighter collab integration and Meta for VR headsets and a business meta-verse.
Get a new CEO
Fix the current licensing chaos and standardize the licensing philosophy across all portfolio. Provide pre-integrated solution. Come up with single platform connects all product portfolio. Make all SW products cloud based and partner with min 2 cloud provider. Stop crying and complaining. Do some work/magic at HQ, show progress and show growth to Wall Street.
BS. It still generates way more revenue than security and we aren’t selling off that sh-t.
Other than Zoom and Microsoft Teams, what other cool tech ki---d Cisco's Collab?
I can't belive this ELT hasn't fired JP. The guy is a complete failure.