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Cisco Equips Partners to Own New Opportunities Through Programs and Innovation Introduced at 27th Annual Cisco Partner Summit
31 Oct, 2022

News Summary
- Annual event gathers thousands from global partner community to hear from Cisco leaders about partner program updates, new technology solutions, and opportunities to scale growth and impact.
- Cisco will unveil innovations around security, API strategy and partner programs, enabling partners to provide even more value to customers.
- Cisco will invite the partner community to share and learn from each other as it collectively “partners for purpose” to drive an inclusive future for all.
- Security: Continued progress towards Cisco’s Security Cloud vision, setting partners up to provide meaningful value and grow long-term, profitable relationships with integrated solutions to secure work wherever it happens.
- Applications: Commitment to an API-first strategy across Cisco's portfolio to drive API quality and empower developers and partners in the digital economy. Cisco has begun rolling out backward compatibility for strategic Cisco APIs with more to follow.
- Customer Experience (CX): Updates to the Partner Lifecycle Services (PLS) portfolio that will equip partners to build and market their own services for Cisco technologies. Forthcoming availability of PLS-Success Tracks which will allow partners to create their own branded solutions that go across customer’s full solution and take advantage of Cisco Insights & Analytics to deliver superior customer outcomes to problems.
- Hybrid Work: Building on partnerships and innovations announced at WebexOne, Cisco will leverage its partner ecosystem to sell its expanding portfolio of as-a-Service collaboration solutions.
- Cloud-Scale Networking: With new solutions to help enterprise, webscale and hyperscale companies deliver cloud applications and services, Cisco partners can play a vital role in leading customers on their journey to 800G while still meeting their sustainability goals. Cisco’s new platforms can deliver a 77% reduction in power and save nearly 9,000 kg of CO2 emissions per year.