Cisco has acquired Synata, a start-up based in San Francisco that developed search tools that work within Cisco Spark, the company’s business collaboration service. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Synata’s technology allows users to search both on-premise and cloud-based applications simultaneously from one platform.
Cisco said the Synata search technology works within Spark’s end-to-end encryption in the cloud. Cisco plans to integrate the technology into its Spark platform.
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