Cisco Verticals

Explain to potential customers why their organizations need networking technologies. Clearly show how key applications -- that run on networks -- can help a specific industry reinvent its business process to cut costs and increase revenues.

Vertical solutions for today's industries and institutions have gone from being a business specialty to an absolute necessity. Utilize these resources to help prepare to describe Cisco solutions in vertical-specific terms that address customers' area needs -- providing you with powerful marketing and sales tools to accelerate your sales process.

For more information about Cisco products and solutions, call your Ingram Micro sales representative at (800) 456-8000, ext. 76471. For more information on the vertical markets listed below, visit www.cisco.com.

Vertical Markets

Financial Services

Retail banks, credit unions, insurance companies and capital market firms are turning to advanced voice, video and data technology. These resources address new economic pressures, regulatory compliance and an increasingly competitive market. Effective use of such technologies can turn branches into stores -- visualizing sales and customer service, cutting claims-processing times, reducing trade settlement times, and bringing business partners closer -- all while improving business resiliency.
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Healthcare

Rising costs and strict mandates to improve patient safety and quality of care place serious economic constraints on the modern healthcare industry. Cisco Medical-Grade Network solutions offer major benefits to healthcare, including fast and easy access to critical healthcare information at the point of care and rapid integration of the very latest medical technology and applications.
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K-12 Education

Cisco Connected Learning provides the Cisco vision to meet major challenges in K-12 employee productivity. Today's educators face new challenges in achieving academic excellence, administrative efficiency, technological innovation and equal opportunity for all students. Networked technology solutions help educators make better use of scarce resources.
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Legal

Law firms are increasingly expected to deal with clients' international or expanded domestic businesses, accommodating widespread locations in different time zones and needing instant visibility into important information assets. Cisco solutions enable lawyers and their clients to interact with efficiency and security, with instantaneous access to resources that streamline tasks, enabling fast decisions that lead to transactions settled on the spot.

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Manufacturing

Reduce lead times, improve turnaround times and deliver better services to increasing demanding customers. Today's manufacturing leaders are those who use technology to provide instant access to information and visibility across the entire supply chain of operations -- shifting from isolated proprietary systems to an integrated, collaborative environment.
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Real Estate and Construction

Cisco Connected Real Estate is an innovative solution framework for the construction, real estate and property services sector that creates value and opportunity for building developers, owners and tenants. An equipped building takes advantage of network power in many ways, such as:

• Reducing capital and operating expenses for the key stakeholders over the lifecycle of the building
• Allowing building owners and operators to develop new revenue streams or business models
• Creating more productive and flexible workplaces through scalable collaboration, mobility and remote connectivity tools
• Enhanced health, safety and security of building occupants

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Retail

The Cisco Intelligent Retail Network provides essential infrastructure and applications that enable retailers to achieve their primary business goals. Such objectives include driving increases in same-store sales, enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty, meeting regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., payment-card industry compliance), and improving employee productivity.
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State/Provincial and Local Government

Improve information management, enhance citizen communications and increase agency collaboration for better use of scarce resources. Cisco Connected Communities is the Cisco vision to enable networking technologies to connect citizens and government more efficiently, contributing to more harmonious relationships among citizens and government entities.
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IPv6
Cisco's wide spectrum of IPv6 solutions can support you in becoming compliant with the IPv6-transition requirements deadline of June 2008.
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Tourism

The Cisco Connected Hotel provides a flexible, cost-effective solution that can expand and scale as guest experience and operational requirements evolve. The solution enables hoteliers to deliver and support a continuously expanding suite of innovative amenities and guest services. They can also gain efficiencies in staff and property operations.
The Cisco Connected Hotel solution can be complemented by the Cisco Connected Real Estate solution, enabling property owners and developers to gain greater control and efficiency in managing the physical assets of their properties.
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