Cisco Announces Acquisition of Versly
Cisco today announced its acquisition of privately-held Versly.
Versly is a San Francisco based company that integrates collaboration capabilities via a pug-in into Microsoft Office applications.Versly simplifies the way people work by enabling more effective collaboration around content in docucuments, spreadsheets, presentations and emails.
“Collaboration is a top priority at Cisco. With this acquisition we’re enhancing our collaboration offerings and improving the user experience by integrating social technologies within the business applications individuals and teams use at work,” said Murali Sitaram, vice president and general manager, Collaboration Software Group, Cisco. “Furthermore, the integration with Versly will drive productivity improvements for organizations and their knowledge workers, many of whom are among the 600 million Microsoft Office users.”
According to Cisco, the acquisition will provide more opportunity for Cisco partners to provide enahanced collaboration solutions to customers.Versly’s software will be integrated into a variety of Cisco’s collaboration offerings including Cisco Quad, Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx.
The collaboration of these systems will result in notifications when content of a document has been changed in Cisco Quad, escalate from simply reviewing a document to an instant messaging session through Cisco Jabber, or initiate a web conferencing session from a presentation through Cisco WebEx.
“With this acquisition we are gaining strong talent and innovative technology that builds on Cisco’s successful collaboration platform,” said Ned Hooper, senior vice president and chief strategy officer, Cisco. “We continue to expand our collaboration architecture to change the way businesses work.”
Upon the close of the acquisition, Versly employees will be integrated into Cisco CSG.
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