Cisco looks to facilitate enterprise smartphone functionality

Cisco said it plans to introduce software that links smartphone functionality deeper into the enterprise, by the second half of 2010.

During the company's Cisco Live conference, it introduced a set of features designed to enable more efficient enterprise collaboration on smartphones. These features include:

• Presence information that will allow an employee talking on a smartphone to answer incoming instant messages converted into a text message that can be retrieved without stopping the call.
• Speech-to-text engines that can convert voice mail messages into text so that a user participating in a WebEx conference via the smartphone can read it while on the conference.
• Location capabilities via WiFi that will, for instance, allow for employees to map out remote offices to find available meeting rooms.
• The ability to control conferencing from a smartphone.

Cisco wants to make these capabilities available on a number of smartphone platforms. Earlier this year, the company introduced an iPhone client for WebEx.

For more:
- check out this Techworld article

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