Cisco Unveils a First-of-Its-Kind Enterprise-Class Application and
Business Tablet Ecosystem for Cisco Cius
Customers Worldwide Are Redefining Mobility in the Workplace With Cisco
Cius
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 29, 2011) - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today
introduced AppHQ™, an application ecosystem built specifically for Cisco
Cius™ that provides new ways to create, manage and rapidly deploy tablet
applications in the enterprise. Cisco Cius, an Android-based tablet
created for the enterprise, combines voice, video, collaboration, and
virtualization capabilities unlike any other tablet on the market today.
With Cisco Cius, organizations can now deliver an optimized tablet with
enterprise-grade security, as a natural extension of the enterprise
network. The device provides customers with mobility, centralized
manageability, virtual content creation and computing capabilities, and
a comprehensive suite of collaboration applications.
AppHQ provides developers with tools and resources to create, test and
market applications for Cisco Cius, and allows IT managers to control
which applications can be used on the devices. Additionally, companies
can create private, custom-branded application storefronts for their
organizations where employees can find, publish and procure applications
that complement their business environments.
During a series of media events hosted today, Cisco highlighted that
CDW, Nervecentre Software, Nottingham University Hospitals, Palomar
Pomerado Health, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Verizon are
among customers using Cisco Cius to help employees remove barriers to
mobile productivity in the office, around campus, at home or on the
road.
Introducing Cisco AppHQ: A Trusted Source for Business Applications
Cisco AppHQ is a highly secure, cloud-based user storefront that
provides capabilities for end users and IT managers not found in other
application stores today. Some of these capabilities include:
* Testing and validation: IT managers want to know that applications
deployed in their environment are appropriate for the enterprise. Cisco
AppHQ provides IT managers and users with a "trusted source" for
applications, ensuring that every application within AppHQ goes through
Cisco validation testing, whether developed by Cisco, third-party
Android developer partners, or users within the enterprise. The
validation process includes interoperability testing both for the
application itself and in typical configurations within the device.
* Store-within-a-Store: Enterprises will have a Cisco hosted,
highly-secure and private application store within AppHQ. Businesses can
customize the storefront, following their corporate branding guidelines,
including use of logos, icons and color schemes. Beyond customization,
the store-within-a-store is a platform that customers can use to deploy
applications efficiently in their organizations. For example, a
financial services company could deploy applications pertaining to their
back office operations, such as human resources or payroll apps, and
populate those applications on the devices of relevant employees.
* Empowers IT management: With AppHQ Manager™, IT will have the ability
to allow (or deny) access to application marketplaces by user role or
device and to grant (or deny) access to applications by type, source or
category. This unique capability will let IT organizations balance the
individual freedom of users with the enterprise-class policies on
security and cost efficiency.
Additional Details about Cisco AppHQ and Cisco Cius
* The AppHQ ecosystem will include Cisco selected, industry-leading
business and consumer applications that deeply integrate Cisco
collaboration capabilities, as well as validated business-to-business
and business-to-consumer applications from developer partners. Cisco
will continue to add applications to AppHQ based on customer
requirements. IT managers can also select from approxim
ately 200,000
applications in the Android Marketplace.
* Cisco AppHQ offers a user-friendly interface to find and install
applications, and a platform for user feedback about applications. End
users can find information about an application, such as the publisher
and release date, and install or update apps and even sort by category,
such as most popular or new.
* Cisco Cius offers integrated access to the comprehensive suite of
Cisco® Collaboration applications, including Cisco WebEx® meeting
applications, Cisco Quad™ social software, Cisco Jabber® messaging, and
Cisco TelePresence™.
* Cisco Cius is scheduled for global availability on July 31, 2011. The
estimated street price is below $750 USD and Cisco has made available a
new promotion* called "Triple V" (for Voice, Video and Virtualization)
that could enable further price reductions below $700 USD. Pricing may
vary by country. Basic access to Cisco AppHQ is included with every
Cisco Cius device.
* With Cisco Cius, customers benefit from enterprise-class warranty and
support with a single number to call. If necessary, a replacement can be
obtained in 24 hours. There are also one, two and three-year warranty
options from Cisco Services available, which follow an enterprise
customer model.
Supporting Quotes
Barry O'Sullivan, senior vice president, Communications and
Collaboration Group, Cisco
"Cisco is the number one provider worldwide of telepresence and
telephony endpoints and with the Cisco Cius tablet and AppHQ ecosystem,
Cisco is extending its leadership in networked collaboration to the
mobile form factor in a highly secure and controlled way. Our customers'
positive response to Cius reflects how technology can change not only
when and how we work, but also the way IT will deliver collaborative
services to employees, and do so in a way that meets the needs of end
users and developers and IT managers."
Orlando Portale, chief innovation officer, Palomar Pomerado Health
"As the first health care system to develop its own mobile application
for Cisco Cius, we sought to help improve physician satisfaction and
patient care by giving our physicians a better collaboration tool with
access to real-time data, regardless of location, in order to help them
make more timely decisions. Our app, MIAA (Medication Information,
Anytime, Anywhere) not only pulls patient records from disparate
facilities on demand, but also lets multiple doctors consult via e-mail
and video conferencing while they all view the same patient information.
We chose the Cisco Cius because it allowed us to combine the flexibility
of the Android platform with enterprise-grade security and
virtualization, as well as access to important collaboration features
like HD video."
Mike Smith, vice president enterprise communications, network and
mobility, Verizon
"The promise of mobile Unified Communications and Collaboration for
decentralized, accelerated decision-making is coming to light with the
advent of intelligent 4G LTE networks, the cloud and enterprise tools
such as the Cisco Cius. Our sales teams and customers will continue to
benefit from cloud-based enterprise apps that help them get the job done
from virtually anywhere with greater collaboration and speedier service
delivery to their customers."
Elena Pokot, chief information officer, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
"One of the core values of our university is to prepare students to
deal with complexity, diversity, and change in the 21st century. To this
end, we strive to enable them to communicate and collaborate on multiple
levels within and outside of the organization, using a variety of means.
When we equip faculty and student project teams with the Cisco Cius and
its HD video capability with Cisco WebEx integration, we increase the
level of communication and reduce their dependency on location by
enabling a virtual presence. As a learning institution, we understand
that having such capability provides a powerful enhancement to the
collaboration
process. This is particularly relevant for students, whose
personal communication skills can further develop by observing and
learning body language, and experiencing visual awareness with others."
Terry Stepien, president, Sybase iAnywhere
"With the exponential growth of highly innovative personally owned and
corporate-liable devices, such as the new Cisco Cius Android tablet,
businesses are seeking a comprehensive platform to simplify and
centralize the development, deployment, management and security of their
mobile application landscapes across a widening array of device types.
We are pleased to partner with Cisco to develop collaboration-enabled
mobile applications that will leverage the unique capabilities of Cisco
Cius to drive exceptional customer value."
Ken Snyder, emerging technology solutions manager, CDW
"Call center supervisors are challenged with needing to be accessible
to their agents at all times, with the most up-to-date call center
performance and management information; however, the very nature of
their job requires that they are not tethered to a desk. CDW created an
application for Cisco Cius to extend the capabilities of CDW's Mobile
Wall Board to deliver a new realm of operational effectiveness and
productivity. The app provides call center supervisors with
instantaneous access to operational KPI data in order to take real-time
corrective action in their operations, to increase responsiveness to
their agents, and have a convenient all-in-one communication tool,
including video calling and presence."
Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, End-User Computing, VMware
"VMware and Cisco are committed to delivering full-featured,
user-centric solutions that enable people to work and collaborate freely
-- whether in the office or on the go. VMware View™ and the Cisco Cius
offer customers of all sizes a best-of-breed virtual workspace that
combines flexible and secure virtual desktops with unified collaboration
designed to support rich multimedia content, enabling universal access
to corporate applications and data."
Sumit Dhawan, vice president and general manager, Receiver and End-user
Services, Citrix
"New tablets like the Cius are an example of the expansion of
consumerization in the enterprise. Users want the flexibility to use a
variety of devices to do their work. Citrix is partnering closely with
Cisco, bringing virtualization and mobile collaboration together with
Citrix Receiver for the Cisco Cius, so both users and IT benefit from
this new and unique device."
Tags / Keywords:
Cisco Cius, Cius, enterprise tablet, Android, collaboration, unified
communications, intercompany collaboration, enterprise, social software,
Cisco Quad, Cisco WebEx, Cisco TelePresence, mobility, cloud computing,
security, application, Cisco AppHQ
Supporting Materials
* Access a variety of materials from a brochure, to whitepapers and
videos, to a 3-D animated model by visiting the Cisco Cius website.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11156/index.html * Cisco AppHQ
http://www.cisco.com/web/go/apphq/index.html * Cisco Cius Developer Program
https://sso.cisco.com/autho/forms/CDClogin.html * Press Release: Cisco Cius and Nervecentre Software help Nottingham
University Hospitals NHS Trust redirect 8,000 hours of nursing time a
year into hands-on patient care
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=264191 * More about Cisco Collaboration solutions
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns1007/index.html RSS Feed for Cisco:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/rss.html About Cisco Collaboration
From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, Web
conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable
telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together network-based,
integrated collaboration solutions based on open standards. These
solutions offered across on-premise, cloud-based or virtualized
platforms, as well as services from Cisco and our partners, are designed
to
help promote business growth, innovation and productivity.
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