Cisco Quad - enterprise social software + video

Late last year, Cisco introduced the social intranet system with a long name Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform and this solution hit the Top 10 Enterprise 2.0 products in 2009 by ReadWriteWeb. Now Cisco starts selling the system under the new name - Cisco Quad. The functionality of the system at first glance seems to be traditional for enterprise social software: user profiles, personal start pages, microblogs and communities (for group collaboration). But of course, Cisco added to the system its main feature - video. From anywhere in the system, where user's avatar appears, you can see his online status, send him an instant message or start a video conference. And, of course, Cisco Quad is closely integrated with Cisco Webex web conferencing service and Cisco Unified Communications .

The system can be installed on the own server or on a public cloud platform. And all that it's user need - is a web browser and a webcam. In the near future the iPhone / iPad apps will appear. Of course, the system fits the enterprise administration, security and safety requirements.

Another difference of this system could be the support for all popular content management systems - EMC Documentum, SharePoint, Salesforce and Oracle.

Cisco Quad main competitors on the enterprise social software market are Microsoft Sharepoint, Google Apps and IBM Lotus Connections.