DALLAS, Texas, Cisco Partner Summit November 1, 2017 Today, at Partner Summit 2017, Cisco announced it is evolving its channel programs to help partners capture new opportunities, refine software and services skills sets, and differentiate themselves in the market. As part of this evolution, Cisco is making three key changes to its programs: simplification, building capabilities, and increasing the partner value exchange in order to help partners adapt to the fast moving market trends and customer needs while making it easier to work with Cisco.
The power of Cisco's partner ecosystem is grounded in our close working relationship with our partners. To keep pace with the changing technology landscape, Cisco needs to be in lockstep with our partners if they are to operate effectively, said Marc Surplus, Vice President of Strategy, Planning and Programs, Cisco Global Partner Organization. The evolution of our partner programs is a reflection of our continued commitment to improving the overall partner experience, strengthening our joint go-to-market initiatives, and ultimately ensuring our partners succeed in owning the digital transformation space.
Cisco's new program updates will fall in three core areas: building and recognizing capabilities, refreshing to digital, and moving to lifecycle and recurring revenue. The changes to the programs are designed to help Cisco and its partners more effectively shift business to software and recurring revenue and reward partners who drive growth and profitability.
Build and Recognize Capabilities: Cisco is dramatically simplifying its Specializations portfolio, transforming what it means for partners to have a Master Specialization, and recognizing partners' industry expertise.
Simplification of Specializations: Cisco is simplifying its Specialization program portfolio to deliver more value to Cisco's ecosystem of partners. In August 2017, Cisco began the simplification process by reducing the 10 express-level specializations to one Express Specialization with tracks that cover all Cisco architectures. Advanced Specializations are also being reduced from 13 down to five Advanced Architecture Specializations. In an effort to streamline, Cisco is retiring all Advanced Technology Specializations (except Advanced Video) and embedding technical adoption capabilities throughout the remaining Advanced Architecture Specializations, providing a path to differentiation and ensuring the same quality and level of capabilities exist across the Advanced Specializations portfolio.
New Master Networking Specialization: With Cisco unveiling its intent-based networking solutions in June, networking has never been more imperative. This new specialization will help Cisco partners enhance their networking capabilities to deliver solutions that customers will need in the new era of networking. The Cisco Master Networking Specialization will be available starting in March 2018 and will include new software and services skill development, which other Master Specializations will later look to model.
Recognizing Industry Expertise: Cisco is ramping up its industry expertise recognition to allow partners to demonstrate their unique knowledge in specific areas starting with retail, healthcare and manufacturing. Finding a partner who already knows the industry challenges, requirements, and can customize solutions to meet those fundamental needs is absolutely critical and this new recognition will allow partners to differentiate themselves. Beginning November 1, 2017, Premier Certified, Gold Certified, and Master Specialized partners who meet specific criteria may begin enrolling. Upon achieving this industry recognition with Cisco, the partner will be identified as such in Cisco Partner Locator making it easier to differentiate themselves for customers and other Cisco partners.
Incent to Refresh:. According to IDC, over the next two years, 45% of organizations worldwide are planning to rapidly adopt a more automated and self-driving network that better aligns with digital business. With this opportunity, Cisco is introducing new incentives and simplifying deal registration to assist partners in enabling their customers to refresh to the digital ready networks of the future.
Migration Incentive Program (MIP): Cisco introduced the Migration Incentive Program (MIP), designed to offer partners a compelling offer to migrate customers with legacy or competitive products to new Cisco technologies. MIP provides partners with an incremental discount on all qualifying hardware, software, and services migration opportunities. The program includes valuable additional accelerators on specific technologies. In addition, MIP promotes market integrity by redirecting used equipment from the gray market. It also supports Cisco's commitment to social responsibility by diverting used equipment from landfills and ensuring it is recycled or otherwise responsibly disposed.
Deal Registration Evolution: Cisco continues to evolve the deal registration process by three key elements: simplifying registration by consolidating 15 hunting and teaming program tracks into two, streamlining the approval process, and improving usability by allowing allowing partners to focus on selling rather than managing deal registration. This improved usability allows partners to focus on selling rather than managing deal registration. All of this results in giving time back to partners to focus on selling and reducing their operational overhead in managing deal registrations.
Lifecycle and Recurring Revenue: Cisco's vision is for partners to transform their practices of the future to focus on a lifecycle selling motion of Land, Adopt, Expand, and Renew. This sales model supports Cisco's transformation as a software company and facilitates partners' recurring revenue streams and
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DALLAS, Texas, Cisco Partner Summit November 1, 2017 Today, at Partner Summit 2017, Cisco announced it is evolving its channel programs to help partners capture new opportunities, refine software and services skills sets, and differentiate themselves in the market. As part of this evolution, Cisco is making three key changes to its programs: simplification, building capabilities, and increasing the partner value exchange in order to help partners adapt to the fast moving market trends and customer needs while making it easier to work with Cisco.
