I’d like to give you an inside look at our Allen Data Center and go over how Cisco IT is adopting new technologies and capabilities while at the same time running the business. I’ll answer your top of mind questions and cover topics such as: Read More »
Tags: ACI, allen data center, application centric infrastructure, Cisco IT, Cisco Nexus 9000, cisco on cisco, Cisco UCS, coc-data-center, data center, Fast IT, internet of things, UCS
The contact center is the front line for handling customer inquiries. Corporations large and small understand that it’s important to respond to inquiries quickly and effectively. A lot of money is budgeted for customer care departments to meet this growing need and respond via one or more customer contact channels. As evidenced by many stories in the news recently, one small, wrong move and your company could end up on the wrong side of a social media story gone viral. How many times have you heard of someone tweeting about being stuck in a plane on the runway for a few hours? It can make the nightly news and stir up bad publicity for the airline, potentially resulting in customer service headaches for months or years to come.
Many variables affect a contact center ecosystem including the underlying technology, staffing resources, real estate, etc. If your corporate contact center infrastructure is transforming or needs to transform, here are ten top issues you should consider: Read More »
Tags: Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, coc-collaboration, collaboration, contact center, Customer Care
CiscoLive! Milan 2015 kicks off on the 26th January and five Cisco IT graduates have been given the opportunity to attend the event as members of the IT Management (ITM) Program. On-site responsibilities will revolve around showcasing the impact & outcomes of Cisco IT to event attendees. We will also aim to reduce IT cost of delivering the ITM Program by assisting with operational activities, whilst gaining exposure to Cisco technologies, customers & partners.
Meet the team… Read More »
Tags: #CLEUR, 2015, business of it, cisco live, coc-business-of-it, Europe, IT management, itm, milan, Millennial
This is part 2 in a 2-part series about our API-based architecture. Part 1 explains how we provide content as a service to sellers.
Federated identity is central to cloud computing. You can’t have a useful hybrid cloud service without it. Read More »
Tags: API, architecture, Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, cloud, cloud services, data center, identity, identity as a service, salesconnect
This is part 1 in a 2-part series about our API-based architecture. In part 2 I’ll talk about the advantages of identity as a service and data as a service.
Before the cloud, applications had a web interface that connected to a back-end database. Each application authorized its own users.
Today, that monolithic application architecture is going the way of dinosaurs. Cisco employees use more than 400 cloud services. So even after we added single sign-on for Cisco applications, users still had to separately sign on to cloud applications like Salesforce. Not a good use of time. Read More »
Tags: API, architecture, Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, cloud, cloud services, content as a service, data center
