Cisco Enterprise Agreement

Cisco is launching its third-generation Enterprise Agreement, and there’s a lot to like about it. For the first time, Cisco’s full portfolio will be available under one contract. The new agreement features standardized terms and conditions across the portfolio, with all our software and services available via one pricing platform.

Enterprise Agreements help us accelerate the customer’s digital journey, enabling Cisco and our partners to deliver innovation and value through software that can be continuously updated and upgraded.

Customers are looking to transition to a subscription model with the current CCAP platform and gradually move to the cloud.  To help ease our customers' migration to the cloud and software-centric architecture, we have created a simple buying program called Service Provider Network Agreement (SPNA) across mobile, cable, routing, and automation.

While other portfolio vendors have enterprise agreements or security platforms, what each offers pale in comparison to Cisco. Let’s highlight three huge differentiators that enable the Cisco Secure portfolio to be the simplest to buy and use – ultimately, helping you over time to consolidate security vendors without compromising security efficacy or causing vendor lock-in.

Security is difficult. Detecting and stopping constantly evolving attacks is a never-ending (and often thankless) challenge. And worse, the current state of security finds companies working with many products that...

Cisco knows what it takes to transform businesses. Our simple buying programs, security portfolio, and collaboration and networking solutions are accelerated by our services and partner ecosystem.

Security breaches dominate headlines. From TechWorld's list of infamous data breaches to Wired Magazine's story about thrill-seeking teen hackers, evidence exists that it's difficult to secure everything.

With the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA), a single, simplified agreement offering broad access to Cisco’s software portfolio, we have a clear strategy to make the process simpler, more flexible and more compelling for customers.

Cisco recently commissioned IDC to identify the top IT challenges with infrastructure software management. Check out this #CiscoChat podcast to hear about what they found!