Partner

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Wow! It’s been a whirlwind beginning to Cisco Live 2014. I’ve already met many partners and customers and we’re only about halfway through the week!

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As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Cisco Live in San Francisco this week, it’s an exciting time for Cisco and our partners. Customers are embracing the opportunities around the Internet of Everything and looking for us to help them realize the benefits and manage the transition.

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Cisco Collaboration’s mission is to put exceptional, easy-to-use collaboration in every room, on every desk, and in every pocket. You’ve seen us start to deliver on this mission for every room.

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It’s important to distinguish that the CDN has evolved to become the Solution Partner Program; this was not an overnight switch. The former Developer Network community was comprised of individual developers and partner companies developing integrated Cisco solutions. The new Solution Partner Program brings the partner company component of CDN into the Cisco Partner Ecosystem.

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I spent a great week in Chicago at Cisco Marketing Velocity and, as promised, now I’m back to share one last quick recap of the event, including the replays of the speakers’ sessions. Hopefully you had a chance last week to take a look at my entry on Velocity about the partner award winners and Sherri Liebo’s wrap up interview last Thursday.

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Nick Earle announced the newly formed Cisco Cloud and Managed Service Organization (CMSO) and his new leadership team to our internal stakeholders. I am excited to be part of that leadership team and will be transitioning to my new role, to lead this new Cloud and Managed Services Partner Organization, over the next few weeks.

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Over the last few years we’ve witnessed a major industry shift toward integrated infrastructure as CIOs look to simplify IT and focus on delivering business outcomes. The opportunity is huge, with the market expected to grow to more than $14B in 2016.

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At this year’s Cisco Partner Summit, Chuck Robbins announced the upcoming availability of SalesConnect. SalesConnect was originally announced at Cisco Partner Summit 2013 in Boston and we promised then that we would have a functional version within 18 months.

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In the last blog on revenue generation marketing, I took some time to discuss how our operational implementation was working at Cisco. As part of that, I shared the four main best practices we discovered during our revenue generation marketing journey. Of course, if you missed that post, please give it a read.