Cisco Partners

With more exciting prizes and recognition opportunities at Partner Summit and other Cisco events, I’m really looking forward to seeing how all of you in our partner community will continue to address to the changing needs of business with a mindset of innovation.

I hope you’re ready for some good news. CRN published their annual Partner Program guide this week. Thanks to you, this is the ninth straight year we have won one of their prestigious Five Star awards. I’m proud to say, for the first time ever, we won three awards.

Cisco Global Partner Marketing (GPM) has accelerated our Partner News Hubs transformation. In addition to delivering partner news, updates, and business-as-usual information, we are also using the hubs to ensure you have access to the single source of truth for critical news around business continuity concerns and important COVID-19 updates.

Cisco’s Partner Consulting and Innovation (PC&I) team offers confidential financial benchmarking analysis for partners’ complete business operation. Here, we share examples of our most profitable partners from an aggregate study, to see what separates them from the rest.

Partner managed technology services provide an ideal path for customers to accelerate their digital transformation and get the business outcomes they need. Find out how Cisco Capital comes into play.

Many of us and our partners will be working from home for the foreseeable future. Here are my five best practices (and lessons learned) for making the most of your work situation.

Enter BCS 3.0 and a completely new approach that is more partner-friendly and also more consumable for customers. Here are the highlights:

See how Cisco SVP Oliver Tuszik is helping partners navigate uncertainty with updates on collaboration tools and the Cisco supply chain.

Here are a few examples of how channel partners and their customers benefit from the Cisco-Microsoft partnership.