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Cisco certifications reflect a partner's breadth of technology skills across certain technologies. The Cisco Channel Partner Program is an easy way to determine the dedication of a Cisco partner. Digica is now a Cisco Premier Certified Partner with core competencies in Express Unified Communication, SMB Specialization, and Express Foundation Specialization.
These three specializations layered on top of our Premier status is a demonstration of Digica's strong dedication to our Cisco relationship.
Premier Certification
Cisco Premier Certification recognizes and rewards partners that have achieved the Express Foundation Specialization. This foundational specialization expands technical competency in the integration of basic routing and switching, wireless LANs, and security technologies. In addition, Premier Certified Partners have integrated a basic level of Cisco Lifecycle Services into their offerings and have demonstrated a measurably high level of customer satisfaction.
Cisco Premier Certification helps partners deliver the following benefits to our joint customers.
- Value: Cisco Premier Certified Partners have access to sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and resources, which help them more effectively sell, deliver, and support Cisco solutions to our joint customers. By combining this leading-edge Cisco expertise with a partner's value-added services portfolio, Cisco Premier Certified Partners are able to strategically position their company as a customer's trusted technology advisor.
- Proven technical expertise: Maintaining the Express Foundation Specialization required enables partners to offer integrated solutions in routing and switching, WLAN, and security technologies that customers demand.
- Focus on customer satisfaction: Independently audited customer satisfaction surveys - the same ones Cisco uses to audit itself - help customers feel confident that Cisco Certified Partners have the capabilities and proven success to meet their needs.
Express Unified
Communications Specialization
The Cisco Express Unified Communications Specialization recognizes partners for their knowledge and expertise in selling, designing, installing, and supporting a Unified Communications solution for small and medium-sized businesses, particularly enterprise autonomous branch offices. These solutions focus on single-site and limited-site entry-level converged network opportunities that have a low degree of complexity. Achieving a Cisco Express Unified Communications Specialization can boost your company's credibility with customers by enhancing your ability to deliver advanced voice applications using IP as the transport technology that spans the distance from the customer premises to the network core.
Express Foundation Specialization
Industry analysts agree that today's networks will face significant new requirements over the next few years, including the need to scale and optimize network operations, support improved levels of business resilience, and prepare the network for the rapid adoption of new services, such as:
- Advanced security
- Unified communications
- Wireless LANs
The Express Foundation Specialization is the first technology specialization that integrates key solutions for Cisco routing, switching, wireless, and security products. Specifically designed to focus on the customer network infrastructure and supporting new network capabilities, primary benefits of the Express Foundation Specialization include the following:
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Improving business resilience through integrated security and high-availability
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Increasing readiness and flexibility to support new applications and services
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Raising technical competency in integrated Cisco solutions
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Gaining competitive advantage through understanding how Cisco offerings compare to other point product and technology offerings
SMB Specialization
Industry analysts agree that today's small and medium-sized business (SMB) partners face a changing competitive landscape. Customers expect their SMB partners to stay current on technology in their fast-moving market.
The SMB Specialization is the first Cisco Partner Specialization that addresses high-level skills required to successfully design and deploy Cisco SMB (fewer than 250 employees) solutions. The SMB Specialization gives you the skills to identify customers' routing, switching, security, and wireless network needs and recommend and implement proven solutions. Its primary benefits include:
- Gaining competitive advantage through your understanding of and access to Cisco SMB offerings
- Role-based requirements that specifically qualify you as an account manager and an engineer for the SMB market
- Raising your technical competency in deploying integrated Cisco SMB solutions
- Increasing your readiness and flexibility to support Cisco SMB applications and services
- More opportunities to strengthen your customer relationships and profitability
- Integrated service concepts, including Cisco Lifecycle Services
The SMB Specialization reflects your technology and business expertise specific to the SMB market and can help you build customer satisfaction and loyalty while increasing your exposure to new customers. Achieving the SMB Specialization qualifies you for Select certification in the Cisco Certified Partner program.
