Dialog joins hands with Cisco to bring WebEx media conferencing application to the Sri Lankan corporate sector

Dialog today announced that it has joined hands with Cisco Systems to bring Cisco WebEx, the world’s leading platform for Rich Media conferencing and collaboration. The venture will help Dialog’s customers to streamline and expand their reach in business communications.

Cisco WebEx provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and video conferencing applications for medium to large scale organisations, helping to fulfil B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) communication needs of companies.

Dialog Axiata PLC will be the exclusive telecommunications service provider in Sri Lanka to offer this service, over the next two years

“We are excited to collaborate with Dialog Axiata to bring enterprise services to customers in Sri Lanka. With an industry leading portfolio of technology solutions and services, Cisco will work to enhance its relationship with Dialog to bring a wider set of managed services to the market, in the future,” said Sanjay Rohatgi, Senior Vice President and Head – Service Provider business, Cisco India & SAARC.

Sandeep Mehra, Vice President, Cisco WebEx said, “This is a significant opportunity for businesses in Sri Lanka looking to address the changing needs of workspace collaboration as well as to enhance interaction and collaboration with their customers and partners. Through Dialog, customers will have access to the world’s most preferred Rich Media Conferencing Application, enhancing productivity and reducing costs associated with lost cycles, deferred decisions, and unnecessary travel. We congratulate Dialog on the launch of this new offering”.

The Rich Media solution integrates audio, video, and web conferencing capabilities to give remote meetings a natural and effective in-person quality which will help reduce travel time and costs. Cisco WebEx is the current market leader in providing conferencing solutions with over 6 million registered hosts’ worldwide and an average of 7.6 million meetings hosted each month. The Cisco Webex Meeting Centre recreates face-to-face meetings with real-time data, application, voice and video-sharing capabilities. Its features include voice and video conferencing, presentation and document sharing, whiteboard, desktop sharing, application sharing, instant public and private chat, live poll-in and Microsoft Outlook plug-in.

With Cisco Webex, businesses can increase their reach and meet instantly with customers, partners and colleagues from any location and through any browser or web-enabled phone. Users can conduct impromptu meetings at any time and any location and helps provide greater support to a workforce that is on the move and in dispersed locations.

“We are pleased to collaborate with Cisco, a global leader in networking and communications technology. Cisco WebEx will enable Dialog to offer emerging communications strategies and solutions to Sri Lankan businesses; giving them the edge to compete not only domestically but also globally” said Jeremy Huxtable, Chief Officer – Dialog Enterprise.

Dialog Axiata is Sri Lanka’s largest mobile service provider with the greatest number of subscribers and a growing base of over 2,000 GSM and 1,200 3G base stations.