Cisco Spark and Webex Platform Convergence: More than a Rebrand – Cisco Webex Teams is the new Spark

Cloud Network Solutions is pleased to offer Cisco Webex Teams as part of our collaboration offering. This solution delivers on the complete continuum of collaborative experiences for voice, video, meetings, messaging, and mobility, which are hosted entirely in the cloud and are encrypted end to end. The end user experience is beautifully simple and designed to enhance the natural motions of team collaboration, while eliminating confusion and minimizing time lost by leaving voicemails, sending emails, and conducting unnecessary meetings.

Cisco Spark will be re-branded as Webex Teams

Webex Teams is an application for continuous teamwork with video meetings, messaging, file sharing and white boarding. For users already on Cisco Spark, expect an automatic update to Webex Teams as soon as it’s ready.

New Webex Meetings

Spark meetings are now Webex Meetings and come with features like: Roster, meeting controls, connectivity, and more.

All the features you enjoyed from Webex and Spark are coming together to deliver an optimized user experience. Join from anywhere, automatically pair with a Cisco video devices for meeting controls and screen sharing, and seamlessly switch devices when needed. You can also keep the conversation going after the meeting with chat tools, project spaces, file sharing, and easy meeting scheduling from the Teams app or your business calendar—even on your mobile device.

Cisco Webex Board and Collaborative White Boarding

Cisco Spark Board is now Cisco Webex Board. Tying the whole ecosystem together, Cisco Webex Board brings the intuitive nature of whiteboarding to your Cisco Webex Team applications. Users can co-edit from separate devices to make real-time changes to meeting whiteboard notes, diagrams, and sketches.

Secure Multi-Company Collaboration

Webex is the industry’s first Team Collaboration solution to deliver secure multi-company collaboration. All Webex Teams users reside in a single, shared cloud instance with just a single account per user (no guest accounts). Securely collaborate between businesses, both inside and outside of the company, from the same application. Company’s can ensure employees aren’t sharing confidential information outside of the company, and if they do, it will be detected and dealt with.

Improved Instant Messaging

Respond to time sensitive messages with secure messaging in Webex Teams. Send important information via direct and team messages, where they can be read and responded to right away or flagged for follow up later. With all your messages, files, records, being securely saved in the same space, it becomes easier to keep track of conversations and projects. And you can customize your notifications to only get alerts about messages that matter to you.