Drive Your Cloud Services Portfolio with Webex and the Jobs to be Done Framework

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How service providers (SPs) can use the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) framework to better engage with their customers and achieve superior results. In this post, we look at how JTBDs are applied for the Cisco Webex suite. We look at key elements of JTBD construction such as...

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Secure and Compliant Collaboration with Webex Teams

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Easy, Secure Collaboration In today’s modern and digital workplaces, teamwork transcends organizational and functional boundaries. Effective, secure, and compliant collaboration with your stakeholders, partners and customers is paramount to improving productivity. Compliance, administration security controls and policies vary greatly across organizations and industry verticals. For any modern collaboration...

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The Agility Quadrant

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Last evening, I had a lively discussion with my friend Paul on the state of agility in his organization, a midsize company of about 6000 employees. He mentioned that agile is the flavor of the year in his organization and that their executive Samuel had set a goal...

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Six Essentials for B2B Email Marketing Success

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“That might work in B2C, but we’re B2B,” said my client, as if B2B marketers are from Mars and B2C from Venus. And true, while it sometimes seems that way the good news is we’re both inhabiting planet Earth which is populated by human beings. Luckily human beings...

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VXLANv6 – VXLANv-what?

Virtual Extensible LAN (also known as VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to address the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. With the recent launch of Cisco’s VXLANv6, we’ve added the the Cisco overlay, and run it over an IPv6 transport network (underlay). Not...

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Network automation: offering choices now key

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Since that time, the approach has not evolved much. But some of the solutions available have, as well as moving past the SDN term towards network automation. So it’s a perfect time to revisit the subject and explore some of options now available for turnkey and open source...

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Cisco Co-Innovation Centers are Giving Connectivity a Health-Check

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Healthcare is something that, at one point or another, touches upon every single person – whether it’s their own health or that of older or more vulnerable relatives. Yet, across Europe, access to both reactive and preventative healthcare resources is being stretched as a result of people living...

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Cisco SX350X and SX550X 10GE Switches for SMB

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With cloud, virtualization, internet of things, 11ac and Wifi 6, businesses need a high-performance network to support the growing devices, applications and traffic. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) may sound like an overkill for small and midsize businesses (SMB) a few years ago, but today it has increasingly become...

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Managing your SAP Digital Transformation Journey

Digital Transformation. We’ve heard the words, but have you wondered what it is all about? Digital Transformation is a strategic directive to redefine your business practices and processes to gain competitive advantage. It is all about making the inevitable tide of change work for you, rather than against...

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Cybersecurity for Federal Networks: It All Starts with Visibility

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A configuration mistake or purposeful mis-configuration is no joke. But it does illustrate how a misconfigured network can quickly become a security event (or it may already be one and your team does not know it). But how do you distinguish normal network activity from abnormal? Without visibility...

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5 Types of Talk Triggers for Your B2B Strategy

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Customer experience is simple, right? Well, theoretically, the delivery of great customer experience is rooted in an easy-to-understand formula: Great customer experience happens when you exceed customer expectations. Every time you interact with a business of any type, you have an idea or an inkling of how that...

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