Pepsico strengthens cross-company collaboration with BT and CISCO telepresence

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style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">New Delhi, India: BT and Cisco today announced that PepsiCo,

one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, will be

deploying Cisco TelePresence systems across PepsiCo's major offices

worldwide. The technology includes fully managed �concierge-level�

services from BT, including inter company capabilities that will help

enable cross-company href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/topstories/2010/110020106.asp"> style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">collaboration between PepsiCo and key distributors and

retailers.

style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">Cisco TelePresence systems create immersive virtual meeting

experiences that make participants feel as though they are in the same

room though they may be thousands of miles apart. This combination of

high-definition video and spatial audio provides an alternative to

in-person meetings.

style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">�This new collaboration strategy with BT and Cisco will

reinvent the way we work,� said Robert Dixon, senior vice president and

global chief information officer for PepsiCo. style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal;">  style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2"> "Global virtual meeting collaboration will enable us to

travel less, which will allow for greater productivity and a smaller

environmental footprint. In this day and age, it's simply a smarter way

of going about our business.�

style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> size="2">�We look forward to providing PepsiCo with an easy-to-use,

reliable, cost-effective TelePresence experience,� said Michael

Boustridge, president, BT Global Services Multi-National Corporations.

�This game-changing technology provides live, face-to-face virtual

interaction that allows people from different locations to come

together and collaborate as if they were all seated in the same room.

This contract builds on BT's existing relationship with PepsiCo, which

we look forward to expanding worldwide, leveraging BT's global reach.�