Great blog! Analytics promising value for Enterprise and Service Providers (SP) business alike is a fantastic development. For SPs with large scale and complex networks, analytics may be one of the biggest business strategies game changer. It is also exciting that Cisco Advanced Services has focused on analytics to help its clients navigate and maximize the value from their data.

For many of us who are familiar with the SP business, we know that IT, network engineering, and operations investments are some of SPs biggest expenditures. Analytics may help SPs with targeted and timely investment decisions for infrastructure and support systems; competitive business policies and rules such as proactively notifying customers of network performance issue and bandwidth limitation, etc. The sky’s the limit when it comes to data analytics.