Corporate executives increasingly look at cloud collaboration as a way to increase productivity, speed up business results and improve collaboration across functions.

Sixty-four percent of more than 500 executives in a Forbes Insight survey said that cloud-based collaboration helps their firms execute faster than would be possible otherwise. This can shorten time to market, quicken product upgrade cycles and lead to faster responses to competitive challenges, according to the Cisco-sponsored survey, “Collaborating in the Cloud.”