Du announces a strategic partnership with Cisco

du today announced a strategic partnership with Cisco to offer Cisco WebEx collaboration solutions and launch cutting-edge business conferencing service. du invites visitors to its stand at GITEX to experience advanced conferencing and collaboration solutions.

The Cisco WebEx Authorized Program allows qualified companies to extend their collaboration offerings with the addition of on-demand solutions. Cisco WebEx solutions bring people and information together to speed the decision-making process and to accelerate innovation. The applications are delivered as software as a service (SaaS), helping to enable greater business productivity and faster responses to market changes while taking advantage of the Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud to provide highly secure, reliable, high-quality collaborative experiences.

“du is committed to providing its enterprise customers with state of the art tools to revolutionise business collaboration,” said Farid Faraidooni, EVP Commercial, du. “du Business Conferencing, based on Cisco WebEx, is a sophisticated suite of applications that facilitate online meetings, presentations, training sessions and customer support functions, just to name a few. In today’s challenging economic climate, these on-demand, online collaborative solutions will help our customers increase their productivity and market reach while reducing costs.”

"Cisco WebEx solutions, a key component of Cisco's collaboration portfolio, transform business communications and collaboration," said Ismael Hassa, director of WebEx Operations, Cisco Collaboration Software Group. "As a Cisco WebEx Authorised Partner, du has made a strategic investment to offer customers superior solutions that create synergy within organizations, drive costs out of existing business processes, and maximise resources by bringing people together more effectively than ever before."

With a proven track record of promoting its customers’ success and of using the transformative nature of collaboration solutions, du is bringing Cisco WebEx solutions to the market.

October 21,2009