Get on the same page Collaboration challenges exist everywhere, but finding a solution is no easy task

In a world where your company has workers spread across many time zones, effective collaboration is essential. your teams need to be connected so they can create, innovate, and execute anytime, anywhere, from any device. Truly effect collaboration improves efficiency and breaks down information silos, allows your company to hire from a global talent pool, and increases reliance on external team members such as partners, suppliers, and experts.

Complete meeting solutions enable richness of information and interaction by combining messaging, content and screen sharing, video and audio.¹

^{1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Meeting Solutions, Adam Preset, Mike Fasciani, Tom Eagle, 18 September 2017. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rankings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research including any warranties, of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.}

Yet far too often, a day in collaboration life is marred by logins that take forever, frozen screens, fuzzy audio, file sharing and teamwork limitations, meeting room devices that don't connect easily, and apps that won't play nicely together.As a result, your teams end up more frustrated than productive.The frustration extends to IT, faced with the challenge of managing apps, experiences, and Quality of Service commitments--all as user complaints mount.

What is your largest collaboration hurdle currently?

Lack of security across devices.
Difficulty of integration with different applications.
Too many different choices in the collaboration space.

Cisco has the widest range of meeting solution features on more types of endpoints --- from the desktop to the boardroom -- than any other vendor in [Gartner's] report.¹

A wide variety of collaboration solutions claim to solve
these challenges, but claims are one thing, and reality is another. Finding the "best fit" solution for your unique company is no easy task, and doing so without creating a vendor Jenga tower is even tougher.

Looking for the right solution?

Read on to identify the collaboration challenges your team faces. At the end, we will provide you with a full comparison of offerings and claims.