Cisco Systems, a prominent information and communication technology (ICT) vendor, relies on a network of sales channel partners to sell and distribute its offerings across its customer base, without relying on direct sales. According to proprietary analysis in GlobalData’s Cisco Systems Partner Ecosystem Profile, the networking, communications and collaboration, and security categories account for 57.5% of the total partner engagements, as of March 2024. Buy the profile here.Buy the profile here.
Cisco Systems Inc (Cisco) is an integrator of technologies across networking, security, collaboration, applications and cloud. The company offers switches, modules, wireless products, controllers, access points, routers, and interfaces. Its products and technologies help the clients in managing more users, devices and things connecting to their networks. Cisco serves a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, education, financial services, government, healthcare, mining, sports, media, entertainment, retail, utilities, and transportation. The company markets solutions through direct sales force and channel partners, including service providers, system integrators, distributors, and resellers. It has business presence across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, California, the US
As depicted in the chart above, Cisco Systems's partner engagements are focused on serving clients across Western Europe, which accounted for 35.6% of their overall partner engagements, followed by Asia-Pacific with a share of 17.8%, according to GlobalData's report.
Financial markets, government, and manufacturing emerged as the top three industry verticals, that Cisco Systems is focusing on serving via its partners. These verticals together contributed 26.9% of the total vertical-specific partner engagements, with financial markets leading the partner engagement distribution with a share of 10.1%.
The table below covers prominent partners of Cisco Systems based on GlobalData's proprietary scoring framework, which analyzes partner engagements on multiple parameters including revenue band, employee band, partnership certification, partner vertical and geography focus, among others. The majority of Cisco Systems 's partners belong to the "System Integrator" application category.
GlobalData's Partner Network Database tracks and evaluates the partner ecosystem for over 450 ICT vendors, across 29 industries, 18 ICT solution areas, and 7 regions using a proprietary partner scoring framework. To uncover and analyses the partner network for other leading ICT vendors, access GlobalData's proprietary partner ecosystem profiles below:
- Nokia
- Telefonica Iot & Big Data Tech S.A.
- Inseego
- Bell Canada
- Telstra
- Ericsson
- Singtel
- Vodafone Idea Ltd
- Comcast oration
- NTT Communications
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