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Cisco Introduces Six New Partner Solution Specializations to Meet Customer Demands
1 Nov, 2022

News Summary
- Next step in Cisco partner program evolution to support partner competitiveness and recognize deep expertise
- Six new solution specializations focus on the biggest market opportunities for partners, including hybrid cloud, hybrid work, secure access service edge (SASE) and full-stack observability
- By tying solution specializations to customer buying criteria, Cisco makes it easier for customers to identify which partners to work with
- Showcases expertise in centralizing and correlating application performance analytics across the full IT stack, including integrations across AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, Intersight, and Secure Application.
- Demonstrates expertise in prioritizing actions to deliver superior customer experiences, drive revenue streams, and accelerate digital transformation.
- Recognizes Cisco partners for their skills and experience helping customers evolve traditional on-site and off-site work models, with solutions that power hybrid work, enabling people to work safely and securely from home, the office, and anywhere in between on any given day or time.
- Highlights partners’ ability to help customers to securely enable the growing universe of roaming users, devices, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps without adding complexity or reducing end-user performance.
- Showcases partners that provide customers with simple, secure hybrid cloud computing experiences at home, in the office, or anywhere.
- Recognizes partners that securely and efficiently connect and manage customers’ data, workloads, and applications across data centers, edge, and multiple clouds.
- Demonstrates expertise in managing operational complexity by helping customers streamline and unify IT operations with secure, hybrid cloud management software.
- Architecture specializations: demonstrate deep product expertise in specific technology areas.
- Solution specializations: demonstrate that a partner excels at delivering value with Cisco solutions, including cross-architectural offers prioritized by customers.
- Cisco Powered Service specializations: convey partner proficiency in delivering managed services and as-a-service offers.
- Business specializations: focused on horizontal business practices that are essential to supporting customers’ business goals.