All Research Sponsored By:Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Watch It: How to Do Video Surveillance for a Higher ROI
Video surveillance helps keep an eye on things. But what is its return on investment (ROI) at your business? The technology that you use determines the value you can get. In comparison to cloud-circuit television (CCTV), the increasingly popular digital IP video surveillance offers more ROI. Continue reading this paper to find out why.
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How to Make Magic with VoIP: Weighing the Options
VoIP with UC can transform a business across four dimensions: lower costs, higher productivity, better customer service, and higher revenues. It can make a small business appear big, and help it outperform larger competitors. There are several ways to implement VoIP. Read this paper to determine which way is best for your business.
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How to Get the Cisco Tech Support You Need, Online
IT and telecom staff in small businesses (up to 250 employees) meet up at what Google Analytics reports is one of the most popular support sites of its size—the Cisco Small Business Support Community. Whenever you need technical support, or want to learn more about your technology, connect with the community and get support. Read on to learn more.
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Investing in IP Phones: How to Control Costs, Now and Later
Businesses that use voice over IP (VoIP) service and IP phones gain many advantages. No wonder desktop IP phones are used by more than a third of small and medium-sized businesses surveyed in Europe and North America. Continue reading to learn more and discover how to make the best investment through seven key questions.
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Make a Match: Four Tips for Picking a VoIP Partner
When your business wants to gain the advantages of voice over IP (VoIP) and unified communications (UC) technology, where will you find the expertise to do it? How do you choose a partner that’s right for you? Continue reading to gain advice from four small businesses.
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How to Get Better and Faster with Wireless-N
When will your business begin using next-generation wireless technology? Wireless-N (802.11n technology) is already in users' newer devices—laptops, desktops, IP phones, and smartphones. Continue reading to learn more about Wireless-N, it's business advantages and best practices.
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Six Ways to Rev Up Your Revenues, Using VoIP
How can you raise revenues without raising prices? You can gain new customers. Or you can make new sales from your existing customers. There’s a network technology that helps you do both: voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Read this paper to learn six ways to raise revenues with voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
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Dialing for Dollars: Nine Tips on Call Prospecting
The truth about effective call prospecting is that it’s a numbers game: the more calls you make, the better your chance of attaining customers. Just one customer could be enough to make your sales numbers. Continue reading this paper to learn nine tips for effective calling.
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E-Book: Unlocking the value in SAP Solution Manager
In this e-book, readers will learn how to uncover the value in Solution Manager, and use the tool not only to benefit IT operations, but help advance business goals as well.
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Demonstrating the Value of a Foundation Network
This white paper details how you can future proof your network and be well position to take advantage of the increased functionality provided by new and ever evolving applications and computing models, including SaaS and virtualization.
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IT Automation: Evaluate Job Scheduling and Run Book Automation Solutions
Businesses increasingly use IT automation tools to meet the challenge of managing their data centers. This document describes two types of IT automation software: enterprise job scheduling and run book automation (RBA). It explains how each solution helps to improve efficiency and reduce risks and when to use each solution and when to combine them.
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Consider the User Experience and Operational Efficiency
Cisco Services presents a series of four white papers to provide a framework for discovering compelling business cases and identifying the necessary services needed to deliver the desired experience. The second white paper in the series covers critical knowledge areas in the successful planning and design of a medianet or media-optimized network.
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The Power of Participation
Join us from 10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. PT (1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET) on October 5 for a live online event and the Cisco 3D Borderless Challenge.
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IT Connects Customers to Brands
Paul Gillin, author of three social media marketing books, reveals how CIOs are becoming the designated guardians of intellectual property. As the use of social media tools grows, Gillen recommends how a CIO can stay in front of the widespread access and create enhanced customer experiences.
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A Systems Approach to Networking Improves Availability, Lowers TCO
This report examines the drivers of network change, defines a systems approach to networking and then details the strategy used by Cisco, the market leader in enterprise networking, to deliver on this vision.
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Future-Proof Networking: Making Decisions That Last
To succeed in tough economic times, a business must be able to make strategic plans for growth while running a lean operation. The following paper presents seven primary areas where businesses can maximize IT opportunities and describes how Cisco can help build a sustainable network infrastructure to help you realize your strategic vision.
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Evaluating and Enhancing Green Practices with Cisco Catalyst Switching
This document describes the Green Operations and Characteristics of the Cisco® Catalyst® Series Switches. These Cisco Catalyst switch families offer the latest technologies to enable organizations to meet the green requirements of today while providing flexible architectures to address the necessities of tomorrow.
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Presentation Transcript: Common BI and ETL Process Management Pain Points and How to Handle Them
This presentation transcript discusses the most common BI and ETL process management pain points experienced by BI operations staff as well as strategies for addressing them. Learn how to face process issues, design processes that are efficient and resistant to common problems, and learn real-life examples of successful implementations.
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Presentation Transcript: Maximizing the Value of SAP Solution Manager & CCMS with Task Automation
Experts from Cisco will discuss and demonstrate how organizations are meeting and exceeding their objectives of increase efficiencies, improve performance, minimize risk, and reducing the TCO of SAP through operational performance automation of SAP using a combination of SAP Solution Manager and Tidal Intelligent Automation for SAP.
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Cash In On Your Old PBX System
Learn how this offer can help your organization to: Reduce monthly operational and management expenses, improve your customers' experiences and staff productivity, and add new voice services that enhance your business. View this now to learn more about Cisco Unified Communications.
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Data Center Servers and Storage E-Book Chapter 2: Monitoring and Managing Virtual Servers
Once your hypervisor is installed, what's next? You need to implement virtualization that's actually going to benefit your organization. Read in Chapter Two about how to get the most out of your hardware investment.
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Borderless Networks: Innovation is Everywhere
Cisco Borderless Networks includes video, trusted security, and mobility solutions that integrate wired and wireless technologies. Learn about the latest enhancements to Cisco Borderless Networks, including Catalyst access switches, the TrustSec network security solution, and 3900 Series ISR G2 routers.
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Borderless Network Access
Borderless Networks, a Cisco® next-generation architecture for agile delivery of services and applications, delivers a new workspace experience, connecting anyone, anywhere, using any device, to any resource: securely, reliably, and seamlessly. Read this paper to learn more about the Cisco Borderless Networks architecture.
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Web Seminar: Routers Are Dead. Long Live the Router!
Go "under the hood" of the revolutionary Cisco integrated services router. See the technological advances that will enable you to create a truly borderless network, while giving you the convenient, powerful network management features you crave in today's resource-challenged IT environment.
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Cisco Nexus 5000 Unified Fabric TCO Calculator
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Unified Fabric Calculator helps you compare the costs of unified fabric implementation vs. unconsolidated input/output (I/O) technology.