Webex is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems that develops web conferencing, videoconferencing, and contact center software, with products including Webex App, Webex Suite, Webex Meetings, Webex Messaging, Webex Calling, Webex Contact Center, and Webex Devices. It was founded as WebEx Communications, Inc. in 1995 by Subrah Iyar and Min Zhu, and Cisco acquired the independent company in May 2007 for 3.2 billion dollars. Webex remains headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Entity identity for the business product-service.sector GICS enum value this member already carries, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket pilot (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decision 2026-09-28 on business product-service.sector, w-bucketpilot-gics-0929). The sector fact itself, with its own citation, remains on the member entity unchanged; this edge only adds the durable entity identity the enum value already names.
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1. Webex
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subsidiary of Cisco Systems
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Webex by Cisco is an American subsidiary of Cisco Systems that develops and sells web conferencing, videoconferencing and contact center as a service applications.
Introduction, offering kind classification
Webex by Cisco is an American subsidiary of Cisco Systems that develops and sells web conferencing, videoconferencing and contact center as a service applications.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Cisco Webex
Wikidata Q498944 P571 (inception), matched by label plus product/brand/service class (w-bbfill-business-other-0926, manual resolve after WDQS 504 timeouts)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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