The remote working revolution is here.

While flexible working is often credited with great swathes of benefits — from attracting top talent to improving employee wellbeing — it also presents fresh challenges for businesses. Not least in the form of maintaining effective collaboration and communication.

Teams that are used to working closely together in an office environment can often struggle to replicate this connection online. When this happens, collaboration and productivity can invariably suffer.

Webex Calling helps mitigate these issues and keeps your teams connected to each other and to your customers, regardless of where they choose to work from.

What is Webex Calling?

Cisco Webex represents the latest advancement in remotely-managed communication technology.  A virtual, cloud-based phone system, Webex Calling enables employees to work and communicate how and when they want — no longer confined by traditional desk phones or second work mobiles.

Because it utilises cloud technologies, Webex Calling is able to deliver the full breadth of capabilities you would expect from a traditional PBX service, only without the need for a complex network of expensive hardware and cables.

Likewise, by migrating this network to the cloud — and harnessing the latest advancements in Voice over the Internet (VoIP) protocols — Webex Calling facilitates instant communication, from anywhere in the world.

How Webex Calling can meet your remote working needs

Remote working demands novel changes from organisations. From video conferencing to instant messaging and everything in between, getting to grips with the reality of communicating and collaborating online can be a challenge for even the most tech-savvy employee.

Thanks to its unified approach, Webex Calling can help make this transition that little bit easier.

 

One application, all of your tools

Webex Calling enables staff members to make and receive calls, send messages, and conduct virtual meetings, all from a single app that team members can download to their preferred device — be it desktop, mobile or tablet.

By integrating these multiple functions into one app, team members have the freedom to communicate in the manner that suits them most depending on the task or time, without having to navigate multiple platforms or interfaces.

Not only does this facilitate flexible communication on-the-go, it also minimises reliance on expensive hardware and helps get team-wide buy-in for new remote ways of working.

Collaboration tools built-in

Webex Calling doesn’t just facilitate communication, it fosters collaboration. After all, sometimes it’s easier to demonstrate by showing.

That’s why with the Webex Calling app, users are able to upload and share files with each other, comment and discuss, and even annotate each other's work. There’s also the option to whiteboard as a team. Users are able to create a shared whiteboard and draw out their ideas collaboratively. Changes save automatically and any invited user can edit and add to the whiteboard.

Integration as standard

Webex Calling integrates seamlessly with the majority of industry-leading apps, meaning your teams can collaborate without interrupting their workflow.

By integrating Webex Calling into the productivity apps that you work with every day, your team can schedule, host and join video conferences right from within these apps themselves.

Alternatively, thanks to Webex Teams integrations and bots, those apps can be pulled through into your Webex Calling workflow, allowing your team to access everything from one single place.