San Jose, California, Dec. 12, 2014: Cisco has announced a comprehensive data and analytics strategy and solutions portfolio, which essentially means it has decided to leverage on Big Data on behalf of its customers for the Internet of Everything (IoE).
The world’s largest network equipment maker has said the ‘Cisco Connected Analytics for the Internet of Everything’ portfolio will help customers extract value from data generated by a rapidly expanding ecosystem of connected people, processes, data and things that together forms the IoE).
The portfolios, eight sets of pogrammes, includes easy-to-deploy software packages that bring analytics to data regardless of its location. To date, analytics solutions have been designed to help organisations apply analytics and extract useful insights from data that was mostly created within the organisation’s four walls, and almost always resided in a centralised data store, said CISCO in a written statement.
But today, that model of analytics was severely challenged. Data generated by IoE is increasingly massive, messy, everywhere — and on the move. It’s coming from every imaginable source and often from the edge of networks from mobile devices and sensors. Thus, key decision makers were struggling to make sense of thall that data. Thus, a new approach was the need of the hour to get analytics to the data for instant insights.
Cisco has said it was combining intelligent networks and infrastructure with data virtualisation to enable customers to access highly distributed data, while adding analytics capabilities to extract valuable insights. This powerful combination would allow customers to correlate historic data at rest with real time streaming analytics at the edge, enabling customers to immediately respond to threats, dramatically improve business operations, and provide their employees and customers with the best experience possible. Through its leadership in the Intercloud, the world’s largest global network of Clouds, Cisco will enable organisations to bring together centralised and widely distributed data within the organisation and incorporate data created and stored in public and private Clouds.
The Connected Analytics for the IoE portfolio includes:
— Connected Analytics for Events: Uses insights from Wi Fi and device usage reporting to provide immediate visibility. For example, it can be used to evaluate sports fan behaviour.
— Connected Analytics for Retail: Correlates in-store video camera feeds and Wi Fi data with existing operational data such as inventory. Retailers can track in-store patterns and use existing video technology to determine, for example, where shoppers are spending more time in the store and which shelves need restocking, among other inputs.
— Connected Analytics for Service Providers: Provides intelligence based on patterns in networks, operations and customer data. End-to-end visibility helps service providers improve network planning and understand infrastructure investments in the context of service usage/adoption, and customer and competitive dynamics. These insights help service providers deliver a better and more personalised experience.
— Connected Analytics for IT: Provides business intelligence and insights to help align IT capabilities such as data management and data governance with business objectives. For example, analytics can be applied to align implementation of new IT capabilities such as deploying collaboration technology in new branch offices.
–– Connected Analytics for Network Deployment: Analyses the network for operational efficiencies, resolution of incidents and visibility into network deployment. It allows organisations to detect issues before they happen for proactive problem resolution and to make future strategic decisions on how to drive maximum network stability and
performance at the lowest possible cost.
— Connected Analytics for Mobility: Uses location analytics to analyse wireless networks and provide insights about Cisco Service Provider Wi Fi solution customers.
— Connected Analytics for Collaboration: Measures the adoption of collaboration technologies internally so a company can analyse Cisco Collaboration applications. For example, an organisation can track how many employees are adopting the collaboration technology, how they are using it and what kind of ROI they are seeing from collaborative selling or how the technology is helping reduce travel costs.
— Connected Analytics for Contact Center: Provides visibility across an organisation’s entire call center services to deliver actionable recommendations that help organisations understand their customers, provide better service, and improve customer satisfaction.
These offers build on Cisco’s innovative IOx platform, will allow customers and solution providers across all industries to develop, manage and run software applications directly on Cisco(R) industrial networked devices, including hardened routers, switches, and other devices.
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