Cisco's Quad takes social networking to the enterprise

Cisco Systems is looking to take popular social networking tools and tricks and bend and meld them into a platform that’s focused on business.

It’s a social way of dealing with everyday business, according to Murali Sitaram, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform. Sitaram is overseeing the development of Cisco Quad , a Web-based collaboration platform for the enterprise designed to pull together Facebook -like update posts, instant messaging, document sharing, video communication, microblogging and communities.

“We’ve borrowed from the Web 2.0 world,” Sitaram said, noting that Cisco has been working on Quad for about three years. “It’s a manifestation of social capabilities.”

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