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Graduating to a Next-level Network
At the American Embassy School in New Delhi, kids from ages 3 to 18 come together from 60 countries to get an American-style education. The school’s classrooms, libraries, and other amenities span across a lovely 13-acre campus that bustles with more than 1,500 students, staff, and teachers. Not onl…
In Sydney, A Futuristic Workspace Demos Best Tech Practices
When your goal as a company is to guide clients on their digital transformation journey, it helps to set an inspiring example. That’s just what NTT set out to do with their new office headquarters. Having outgrown their former, more traditional workspace in Sydney, NTT—a global provider of IT soluti…
Setting up a Smarter Factory
Most factories were built well before the word digital was even a thing. So it can be a big challenge to bring a factory floor up to speed with the digital era. But it’s also well worth the effort. Such was the case for DECO Industrie in Italy. They opened their first factory in 1951 to make a rain…
Stepping in to Help Strays Out
Fifteen years ago, more than 70,000 stray dogs roamed the Thai island of Phuket. You could hardly walk without having to step around animals, many of them mottled with mange or limping from a run-in with a vehicle. That is, until the founders of Soi Dog International Foundation decided to do somethi…
Taking your Marketing practice to the next level in 2020
Last year, you told us that you need simple yet powerful tools that make it easy for you to market with Cisco. So, we revamped Marketing Velocity back in July to help you do just that. Now we’re going to take that to the next level! As we head into the new year, I wanted to share the key updates we’…
Leveraging Partnerships for Stronger Connections
As a Principal Architect at Cisco focusing on partner GTM (go-to-market) strategy, I work every day to realize the value proposition of Cisco’s portfolio for our partners, both in terms of helping with customer outcomes and partner profitability. In my time with Cisco, I’ve learned that to be…
An Update on the Evolving Cisco and SAP Strategic Partnership
As Cisco’s SAP ambassador, I’m often asked, “Tell me about the Cisco and SAP partnership.” Many may not know, but in 2019 we celebrated twenty years of Cisco and SAP working strategically together—always with the objective of benefiting our mutual customers. Innovation has been an intense focus for…
Connecting the dots (and the data) for a better retail environment
One of the critical themes that came up repeatedly from customer and partner conversations at #NRF2020 is how to connect multiple points of data across a customer journey. Although the shift to Ecommerce has grown immensely, we know that the brick-and-mortar store remains an important engagement poi…
Partner Services Opportunities in Enterprise Networking
Customer success and technology lifecycle are top of mind topics for our partner community. How we engage with our customers and support them through their customer experience journey are as important as ever. With increasingly complex technology choices across so many different architectures, it’s…