Lifecycle Financing from
Cisco Capital
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Align technology investments with
operational imperatives
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How Strategic Is Your Funding Approach?
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Deciding how to acquire technology is every bit as
important as deciding what to acquire. The smartest
acquisition strategies allow you to proactively manage
equipment lifecycles:
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• Aligning your IT priorities with operational initiatives
• Accelerating the success of IT projects
Helping you
proactively manage
technology lifecycles
• Planning for operating flexibility and establishing
technology refresh opportunities up front.
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Leading industry analysts agree that the optimal refresh cycle
lies between 3 and 4.5 years — with shorter IT lifecycles and
proactive management delivering significantly lower costs as
well as improved productivity.
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Flexibility and Predictability
Lifecycle Financing from Cisco Capital® gives you the financial
flexibility to systematically renew your technology assets in line
with both your current strategy and future vision, and to do so
within the confines of existing budgets.
Realize Technology Alignment
Our end-to-end, affordable, and competitive financing
solutions allow you to:
• Design a customized funding solution that will address
your evolving operational challenges
• Bring investments forward to accelerate competitive
advantage and ROI
• Get the most out of your Cisco® investment and optimize
the technology lifecycle
• Lower the total solution cost with regular technology
refresh milestones
• Protect capital and alleviate budget pressure
• Spread your total costs over time by incorporating
implementation, service, and maintenance overheads
into one financing solution.
Take a More Strategic Approach to Acquisition
With Lifecycle Financing, technology acquisition can be treated
not as a cost, but as an opportunity to add operational value
and deliver against your evolving organizational imperatives.
Acquire: We start by mapping your business and IT vision
against your financial realities and see how we can help
you bridge any gaps to deliver strategic excellence.
Deploy: Setting up a master financial agreement comes
next. This provides a flexible contractual foundation
designed to evolve over time, containing details of financial
schedules, the Bill of Materials, serial numbers and
payment terms.
Maintain: Technology maintenance can also be included
in one, all-embracing agreement, so you can pay for your
maintenance services over time, as you use them.
Upgrade/Refresh: We’ll restructure your financial
capabilities to meet your changing IT requirements so you
can keep the acquisition cycle moving ahead strategically,
with speed and ease.
Dispose: Cisco Capital will help ensure that any
equipment that is no longer needed is refreshed in an
environmentally conscious way, compliant with industry
directives and our own detailed eco-policy.
Visit www.ciscocapital.com to learn more,or
contact your account manager to see how
Lifecycle Financing from Cisco Capital can
benefit you.
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