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Profitably Expand Your Professional-Services Practice

Cisco Collaborative Professional Services (CPS) are designed to provide qualified Cisco channel partners assets that can be used for building a range of new services to profitably expand their professional services practice.

Gain access to Cisco engineering expertise, Smart Services innovation, best practices, and proprietary methodologies to cost-effectively develop and deliver high-value services for planning, designing and optimizing Cisco technologies for your customers.

Win a $1,500 AmEx Gift Card

Early Adopter Incentive
Now through Nov. 30, 2011, the first 10 partners to place a CPS order will receive a $1,500 AmEx gift card.

CPS provides:

  • Automation to embed Cisco's knowledge, experience and expertise into services that we sell directly to you -- deliver professional or managed services to your customers
  • Service delivery available through a scalable infrastructure -- access CPS no matter where you are in the world
  • Intellectual capital with smart capabilities -- market faster and deliver services more profitably and with less risk

Delivered by specialized partners with a strong professional services practice, CPS solutions enhance your business practice across a compelling portfolio that includes offers for:

  • Routing and switching
  • Security
  • WLAN
  • Unified communications
  • Telepresence
  • Data center
  • Virtualization

These offers span the Cisco Borderless Network, Collaboration and Data Center/Virtualization Architectures, with four distinct categories of services that align to your practice:

  • Assessment services: Software tools that help partners analyze and collect data and deliver customer assessments more quickly with automated service capabilities
  • Development services: Help in building high-level, detailed designs, as well as migration and implementation plans
  • Guidance services: Assistance from Cisco engineering resources in reviewing or creating technology design and implementation plans
  • Practice accelerators: Cisco Services best practices for new technologies or architectures, to help partners design or expand a professional services practice

CPS for UCS Incentive -- Up to $7,500

Now through Nov. 30, 2011, get 50% back (up to $7,500*) on a Cisco Collaborative Professional Services (CPS) order, with the purchase of a UCS C-series product.
Collaborative Professional Services Portfolio Overview 579K, PDF
CPS Virtualization Quick Reference Guide 425K, PDF

* Awarded in the form of an Ingram Micro credit memo.

New Service Offers Available

The Collaborative Professional Service (CPS) portfolio will now include:

  • Network Readiness Assessment (NRA Voice)
  • Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing System--Guidance Service
  • Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing System--Development Service
  • ATP Immersive Shadowing Service
  • Practice Management Foundation

Partner Eligibility for CPS:

Partners must have a Cisco Gold, Silver or Premier Certification, and have achieved an Advanced-level or Master-level specialization from Cisco in the technology to be ordered by the partner.

Cisco may also require that the partner have a Cisco Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) designation or other partner designations in order to meet the requirements for purchasing certain CPS offerings.

Learn more about Collaborative Professional Services at Partner Central.

For more information, email Andrew Gates or call (800) 456-8000, ext. 66486.

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