Ireland: Cisco invests in a workplace future that will make email prehistoric

Global networking player Cisco is to invest 400,000 to back Irish PhD researchers who will endeavour to create the internet-centric future workplace where social media, unified communications and the semantic web will make existing office systems seem prehistoric.

The San Francisco communications giant, which employs 200 people in Ireland and has a cutting-edge R&D operation in Galway, is to invest 400,000 to support two PhD researchers at the Galway University-based Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in creating future workplace tools.

The 400,000 project will develop new ways for the "enterprise of the future" to integrate information and make it easily accessible for employees.

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