Cisco Announces Winners for the fifth Annual Partner Innovation Challenge with Bold Bets

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Cisco Announces Winners for the fifth Annual Partner Innovation Challenge with Bold Bets


The basis of each nice innovation is the arrogance to be daring. For 5 years, Cisco has hosted the Partner Innovation Challenge, offering an thrilling alternative for associate groups, engineers, and builders to showcase how they’re constructing nice innovation on the Cisco platform – main with an API-first mindset.

When we launched the Innovation Challenge in 2018, we targeted on showcasing creators, strengthening associate providers practices, and serving to companions monetize options. Now 5 years later, we proceed to study from our companions simply how far they will go together with Cisco as a platform to create unimaginable options that assist prospects succeed.

Please assist me congratulate this 12 months’s Partner Innovation Challenge and Bold Bets winners!

Winner: Velocis (India) – $200,000

Congratulations to our associate Velocis on taking this 12 months’s Partner Innovation Challenge prime prize of $200,000. Increased demand on the fashionable community brings elevated community complexity and is a serious operational problem. To tackle this downside, many IT Management Tools are working in silos to offer visibility and Root Cause Analysis throughout a site. However, discovering a Root Cause Analysis requires extremely expert sources throughout a number of domains and is like discovering a needle in a haystack. Velocis BullsEye is a complete Root Cause Analysis Engine that focusses on causes and never signs. Congratulations Velocis!

2nd Place: Raya Integration (Egypt) – $100,00

Raya Integration submitted a really inspiring entry targeted on Webex with reside American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Raya’s i-talk resolution is an clever, on the spot and inclusive interpreter that helps humanity to beat communication boundaries as a way to seamlessly get linked. I-talk facilitates the interpretation for signal and vocal languages that suffer with listening to and speech impairments by means of the ability of rising expertise for a channel of autonomous communication. Integrating seamlessly with Cisco Webex to facilitate communication, i-talk supplies an inclusive, dependable, and safe interpretation expertise. This submission reveals how expertise can really be a catalyst that improves not solely the work expertise, but in addition the lives of people who find themselves doing the work. Well finished Raya Integration.

third Place: CAE (UK) – $50,000

Congratulations to CAE for his or her DNA Assure submission, a cloud networking resolution that fills the hole for outage threat administration and enterprise resilience. CAE’s DNA Assure is an API-integrated managed service targeted on the explosion in adoption and consumption of cloud providers and cloud-based networking and the essential want for an assurance layer to mitigate threat. CAE’s built-in resolution supplies steady information safety and information administration – delivering a Cloud BCDR finest apply for Cisco Meraki – decreasing enterprise downtime and the restoration course of from weeks to minutes!  Congratulations CAE.

And I’d like to focus on MasterSystem (Indonesia) with an Honorable Mention for his or her Sustainability Optimization software, which seeks to enhance Service Provider sustainability in community operation. Sustainability will proceed to be a magnet for Cisco, and we look ahead to working carefully with our companions on much more innovation on this space.

Bold Bets Prize Winner: CDW (USA) — $200,000

In collaboration with Cisco’s Emerging Technologies & Incubation group, we’re delighted to introduce a brand new Bold Bets particular prize. Bold Bets are concepts that stretch past our present merchandise to create new markets.

CDW’s successful Bold Bet really excited our workforce. Their Cisco Cloud Frontier is the how of Hybrid Cloud — offering management over the place and the way Cloud sources are provisioned, with visibility, reporting, and remediation capabilities. Cisco Cloud Frontier drives thought management on cloud administration and deployment and delivers value financial savings and useful resource efficiencies for the Hybrid Cloud setting.

In working with Sanjeev Mervana, Cisco VP of Product Management, and his workforce in Emerging Technologies & Incubation on the combination of Bold Bets into our Partner Innovation Challenge, I’ve stretched my considering on the position daring innovation performs at Cisco. We should at all times try to unravel challenges and discover new and higher methods to work with the ability of expertise, but it surely’s additionally about being brave and daring with massive concepts. Sanjeev advised me final 12 months boldness is each a technique and a attribute. Our job is to make sure companions are assured of their abilities and fearless of their innovation. With that mixture, our companions usually are not simply daring, however unstoppable.

Thank you to the entire groups that participated on this 12 months’s Partner Innovation Challenge with Bold Bets. We are already serious about the 2023 problem and look ahead to sharing particulars with you quickly.

Be certain you learn the weblog from the APJC workforce, which introduced winners from their regional innovation problem.

 

 


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