I collaborate hand-in-hand with partners that are going through the audit process to become CMSP/Cisco Powered. I've seen first hand, the great level of partner commitment from operations to engineering and marketing teams to collect all the information needed to successfully pass the audit. Once completed, CMSP partners shared that the pre-audit process actually uncovered processes that needed improvement, or revealed potential strengths that could easily be highlighted as a market differentiators.

All in all, the in-depth inspection of the cloud platform and underlying architecture as well as product delivery processes (marketing, billing, operations, etc) adds great value to the provider and confidence to the end customer. Cisco Powered is nothing but Enterprise Cloud solutions!

Finally, all the CMSP go-to-market benefits are just the next step in which Cisco supports/collaborates with providers that invested in becoming Cisco Powered. Great tangible benefits to accelerate time to market, ignite innovation, tap into Cisco's partner ecosystem, and capture more market share..