Did you attend or tune-in to WebexOne final week?  I hope you’re as excited as I’m concerning the innovation happening. An much more highly effective and complete expertise platform on the core of our enterprise fuels our channel technique and supplies companions with differentiated collaboration experiences to ship to clients.

Listed below are a number of key takeaways from final week

• Groundbreaking AI and hybrid work bulletins! 

We have now been innovating with AI for a number of years, bringing language intelligence, audio intelligence and video intelligence to our product suite. Final week we took AI management in collaboration to a brand new degree by asserting our plans to make AI pervasive throughout the whole platform with real-time media fashions, the brand new Webex AI Assistant, Webex AI Codex, and Tremendous Decision. We have now really reimagined and reinvented our portfolio to be AI-enabled, making Webex smarter, extra environment friendly, and simpler to make use of in each means.

• New merchandise and wonderful options throughout the portfolio.

To assist buyer reimagine workspaces our machine portfolio has been enhanced with Cisco Room equipment EQX, a dual-screen room expertise creating an easy approach to deploy nearly, in-person experiences in flagship areas, and the Bang & Olufsen Cisco 950, a brand new premium wi-fi ear bud resolution to enhance our already intensive headset portfolio. There are additionally twenty new function enhancements to reimagine work with Webex Suite, eighteen new Contact Middle and CPaaS options bulletins to reimagine buyer experiences, and safety and manageability options to assist buyer reimagine IT. For the total rundown and particulars test the Salesconnect Launch and Occasions web page.

• Our companions are AWESOME!

The depth and assist of our channel group was on full show with over 550 companions attending in-person and 4200 tuning-in nearly. I had the chance to interact with a lot of our companions throughout 1:1 conferences and devoted companion periods and the suggestions was wonderful. We additionally hosted an award session to acknowledge a number of of essentially the most modern Collaboration companions by our Webex Companion Awards. Try the 2023 award classes and please be part of me in congratulating the winners.

Our channel technique is constructed round our greatest on the planet Webex platform, and we’re intently targeted on driving simplicity, profitability, and incomes your mindshare. There’s a lot progress being made in these areas, I need to spotlight a number of key updates that may get you excited for Q2 and our subsequent occasion, Companion Summit.

Simplicity by Wholesale:

Our Wholesale provide is constructed to simply combine Webex Calling into Companion-led managed companies, by leveraging the market energy of Cisco’s suppliers around the globe. The companion suggestions has been wonderful, and curiosity continues to construct as a result of flexibility, predictable pricing, and frictionless progress that the Wholesale provide delivers. It allows all kinds of companion varieties to create use instances addressing a variety of buyer segments and verticals. In case you are on the lookout for a profitable collaboration engine to speed up your managed companies collaboration apply, it’s worthwhile to study extra!

Profitability with LCI 2.0

Lifecycle Incentives 2.0 was simply launched! It is a main evolution of our incentives portfolio which rewards companions for specializing in software program and recurring income streams. LCI 2.0 is now utterly telemetry-based, permitting companions to give attention to what actually issues, which is working with clients and never submitting claims. Webex Contact Middle is one in all three Collaboration use instances launching and can revolutionize Cisco Collaboration incentives.

Mindshare by enablement:

We all know that saying new options, gives and packages of this magnitude is just step one. To earn your mindshare, we have to prepare and allow your groups. As you skilled with FY23 Companion Gross sales Kickoff our channel groups are exhausting at work bringing collectively the packages, assets, instruments in your success. It doesn’t cease there. Make sure to keep plugged in to Companion Readiness web page on Salesconnect and attend our weekly regional enablement periods to maintain you within the know.

There’s a lot to be enthusiastic about and we’re going to tie all of it collectively at Cisco Companion Summit 2023!

In case you are becoming a member of us in-person in Miami Seashore, don’t miss our Enterprise Influence Session the place Javed Khan, and Brett Harrison, and I’ll talk about the most recent expertise bulletins, channel enablement technique, and profitability packages. Plus, we will likely be joined by Eileen Collins, the first-ever feminine pilot to command an area shuttle mission!

Add this session to your agenda at this time!
BIS11 – Cisco Collaboration Session: The Rocket Gasoline for Progress
Wednesday, November eighth
2:00 – 2:45pmET

Can’t wait to see you there!

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