She is now putting those capabilities to work at Cisco, in a bid to upgrade its enterprise collaboration tool, known as Webex. Cisco in February reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of $2.82 billion, with revenue rising 4.7% to $12.45 billion. Cisco’s other fast-growing rivals in the collaboration market include Slack Technologies Inc., which launched in 2013. As a result, she said, adding a few million new users appears only as a small percentage growth. “Last year we grew an entire Slack in 10 months,” Ms. Chang said.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 15, 2019 23:48 UTC