At-a-Glance
Cisco Connected
Processes
Compete Smarter by Efficiently Connecting
Business Ecosystems
Digitization in today’s hyper-distributed world requires interconnecting
growing systems of applications, infrastructure, and devices so you can
streamline and automate process workflows within your enterprise and
across your growing eco-systems.
However, organizations often struggle to manage this hyper connectivity
and new interactions that result. Picture a global manufacturer with
dozens of factories, and thousands of suppliers, vendors, retailers,
handling millions of products. How do they streamline interconnected
processes to keep pace with changing customer demand?
Benefits
• Collaborate and build better
relationships with your partners,
customers, vendors and service
providers by securely sharing
systems and data
• Operate more efficiently by
integrating disparate processes
that span a broad ecosystem of
partners
• Reduce time and costs
associated with integrating
business and IT processes,
creating new applications and
scaling your partner ecosystems
• Improve innovation and deliver
new user-centric experiences
Cisco Connected Processes software platforms and solutions provide a
secure, cloud-based, environment that bring together data, applications,
infrastructure and new connected things.
Solutions That Integrate Disparate Processes
With Cisco Connected Processes offerings, you can deliver IT-OT
convergence, drive fast IT, efficiently deliver IT services and manage your
multi-sourced environment more efficiently. Networked within the cloud and
across the organization, they offer flexible connectivity based on Cisco’s
industry-leading security, governance, and performance capabilities.
Our Connected Processes offerings include Cisco Automation
and Integration Platform and Cisco ServiceGrid™. These software
capabilities help you interconnect a growing network of people,
processes, data, and things to achieve business-changing outcomes.
Automation and Integration Platform
The Cisco® Automation and Integration Platform enables organizations
to expose, compose and govern digital assets quickly and with simplicity
to integrate and automate your business processes for both internal and
partner use.
• Expose: Catalog your information assets, and securely expose them
as services via APIs and portals
• Compose: Create new services by connecting legacy and modern
applications and data.
• Govern: Create policy-based access and controls via fully federated
single sign-on and identity management via application programming
interfaces and portals
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At-a-Glance
Next Steps
The Connected Processes offerings
are an important part of
Cisco’s software strategy, designed
to promote digital transformation
in today’s hyper-distributed
business environments. Along with
Connected Analytics and Connected
Experiences, Cisco Connected
Processes offerings helps you take
full advantage of the power of the
Internet of Everything to achieve
optimal use of data and applications
across the network.
For more information, visit
www.cisco.com/go/ioesoftware.
Unlike legacy core technologies and architectural tools that hinder
speed and cost to meet business and customer expectations, or are
just parts of the whole solution, the Automation and Integration platform
provides an open, extensible, and cost effective secure end-to-end
platform to speed up time to market for innovative applications and
create new customer experiences.
Use Cisco Automation and Integration Platform to:
• Drive down your total cost of data and application
infrastructure ownership
-- Simplify IT to lower costs, modernize services, and accelerate
delivery of new capabilities
• Speed time to market of new applications and services
-- Develop and deploy in weeks, not months, using an open,
extensible platform to reuse your existing assets
• Increase employee and partner satisfaction
-- Extend the reach of business information to partners, suppliers,
and customers, on any device across platforms, regardless of
data origin
ServiceGrid
Cisco ServiceGrid is a specialized cloud-based platform designed to
connect IT organizations and service providers to improve customer
satisfaction. Highly secure and scalable, it automates sharing of
processes, data, and workflows for your service ecosystem. Studies
show that ServiceGrid takes 88 percent less effort to integrate with your
vendors, compared with point-to-point integration approaches.
Use Cisco ServiceGrid to:
• Seamlessly build and scale service ecosystems with
end-to-end visibility
• Streamline management of vendors, tools, and service tickets
• Reduce cost, complexity, and risk of sharing information
and applications
• Take advantage of faster application provisioning and
problem resolution
• Pre-approve access to allow issues to be resolved before they
become a more serious problem
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