Or perhaps CISCO will find fresh legs and seek out a mass market version of WebEx?
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That rosy outlook is reflected in its stock price: WebEx shares have gained 9.4% this year.
Tools such as WebEx and Skype are great for sharing information once a relationship has been established.
The 52-year-old Zhu's big ambitions for WebEx aren't farfetched, given some of the other adversity he has overcome.
Cisco's own WebEx service, designed for videoconferencing in the office, hosts up to 7 million minutes a month.
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WebEx does well winning business from cash-strapped new businesses but needs larger customers to reach Zhu's goal, he says.
So are videoconferencing systems and other substitutes for face-to-face meetings produced by firms such as Polycom, Picturetel and WebEx.
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He formed WebEx in 1996 with an Indian partner, Subrah Iyar , who today is WebEx's chairman and chief executive officer.
Outlook Email integration: Similar to the freemium version of harmon.ie, Cisco has created bi-directional connections from email to WebEx Social.
Chinese companies themselves aren't a big market for WebEx yet, but many of Zhu's U.S. and multinational customers do Web conferencing from China.
Ms. GRACE GAO (Human Resources Department, WebEx): (Through Translator) Hefei has many high-quality engineers from very good universities, so it's a very attractive city.
You can deploy WebEx Social either in the cloud or on-premise.
For example, Schulte was CFO for two high tech companies and served as Director of Finance for Western Digital (WDC) and WebEx before Cisco (CSCO) bought it.
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Designed with professionals in mind, the GALAXY M Pro offers extensive productivity through a variety of enterprise solutions, including Exchange Active Sync, Sybase Afaria, CISCO Mobile and CISCO WebEx.
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Leverage an inside sales approach, which is to say, build a team that sells primarily over the phone, using a remote meeting tool such as Webex, Go-to-Meeting or JoinMe.
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The star of course is WebEx and Cisco has charged it with leading a new social platform called Cisco WebEx Social that is a combination of Cisco Quad, WebEx and Telepresence.
Obvious examples of this include Box (you share files with someone who then signs up), and the WebEx, which at one point suggested that for every one presentation using the software, the company landed four sign-ups.
The erstwhile rice farmer went on to found Future Labs, a desk-conferencing forerunner of WebEx in 1991, in part on the belief that starting up a business was "the most noble thing" one could achieve in America.
It was Webex and GoToMeeting by Citrix.
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But the city already has a smaller high-tech park which has been incubating small companies for several years and is now attracting big hitters like Microsoft, which has opened a research center here, and US videoconferencing company WebEx.
With the excitement of newer communication mediums such as Skype and WebEx many companies have built the work-from-home movement on the premise that we can just as easily collaborate over a virtual medium as we can face to face.
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Of late, lesser-known yet winning entrepreneurs such as Zhu at WebEx and Feng Deng at NetScreen , which was acquired earlier this year by Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ), have advanced down the same path.
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