Get the Most Out of Your Cisco Network

The Cisco Business Transformation Workshop helps you transform your business by using the Cisco Services Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) framework as strategy. This workshop allows you to explore, identify, and analyze the business problems and opportunities that are specific to your organization. Facilitated by a team of Cisco architects who are intimately familiar with your business requirements and network infrastructure, the net result is alignment between your IT resources and business priorities.

With Cisco, you can evolve your infrastructure to support new business capabilities to:

• Reduce complexity and management costs
• Enhance system resiliency and flexibility
• Improve network resource efficiency

A carefully planned architecture can also help you:

• Reduce the total cost of network ownership
• Increase revenue
• Focus more of the IT budget on innovation and strategic investment

To make the most of this solution, we recommend that you participate in a workshop to help you closely examine your business issues and determine the best way to apply the architecture.

Workshop Benefits

The Cisco Business Transformation workshop helps you:

• Get the most return on your network investment in this solution by collaborating with Cisco experts through a customized, targeted process
• Understand how you can implement new business opportunities using this framework
• Contain costs during subsequent preparation and planning by building:
  • Business cases
  • Technology strategies
  • High-level designs

Participating in a Cisco workshop also helps you explore, identify, and analyze business problems and opportunities that are specific to your organization. The Cisco engineers who facilitate the workshop are:

• Expert in this architecture
• Familiar with your business requirements
• Expert in network infrastructure

In a highly collaborative environment, the Cisco team shares its extensive networking experience, knowledge, and best practices. They guide you through mapping your business opportunities and challenges to Cisco SONA , and how you can align the architecture to an IT solution. The team then helps you identify the steps for implementing this network architecture over a practical time period.

This workshop is part of the prepare-and-plan phase of the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach, which helps companies accelerate their success with Cisco technologies, improving network business value and return on investment.

Workshop Deliverables

At the end of the workshop, Cisco provides a set of deliverables tailored to your specific business needs, such as:

• A business value proposition illustrating how Cisco SONA can help you address your company’s particular challenges and opportunities
• A technical white paper recommending initiatives through which you can apply this Cisco solution to your environment
• A proposal for taking the next steps toward implementing this Cisco architecture

The workshop provides a roadmap for IT departments that want a more flexible architecture to accommodate innovation and rapid change. The workshop shows how your network plays a crucial role in supporting your business needs and provides practical next steps for successful architecture deployment. With Cisco Busines Transformation Services, you can transform the power of your network to:

• Improve customer relationships
• Increase revenues and opportunity
• Boost business agility

These services also:

• Let you use the network as the only ubiquitous component in your IT infrastructure
• Help you ensure consistency and compliance throughout your network