Though Microsoft and Zoom both earned a spot for themselves in the "leader" category for this year's Gartner "meeting room solutions" Magic Quadrant, it's Cisco that's truly leading the way. Designed to provide customers with an insight into some of the most innovative and reliable vendors in the current market space, the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant sorts a handful of the world's most intuitive brands into four key categories of success.
As the name would suggest, the "leader" category is by far the most coveted of them all, indicating a vendor's performance in both "completeness of vision", and "ability to execute." In other words, if you want to be a leader in Gartner's books, it's not enough to have a great idea, you need to be able to bring that idea to market too. Cisco's impeccable range of meeting room solutions earned them the top spot this year, but what is it that makes the brand such a powerful competitor?
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How Did Cisco Become a Leader?
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According to Gartner, "meeting room solutions" are services that blend collaboration and communication to streamline and enhance workstream experiences. This is an area that Cisco has specialised in for some time now, with developments like Cisco Webex, Cisco Meeting Server, and Cisco Spark.
In order to establish Cisco as a leader in the space, Gartner looked at a range of criteria for their top fourteen vendors, including things like "ease of use", and innovation. If you look at the success behind Cisco's meeting room services, it's clear to see how they've earned their place at the head of the crowd, with over 50 billion annual meeting minutes to their name.
