Cisco Powered Services Specializations
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Overview
Cisco Powered Services specializations are the cornerstone of the Provider role in the Cisco Partner Program. They help you to unlock enhanced benefits that increase profitability, offset costs, and differentiate your managed service offers.
Why get specialized?
Cisco Powered Services specializations are an eligibility requirement for the Gold and Premier levels in the Provider role. They unlock more benefits and value to help you build your managed service practice.
Proven blueprints
Each specialization includes a detailed blueprint that provides a complete picture of service requirements and the user experience.
Addressing customer outcomes
Combine your managed service expertise with Cisco technology to solve your customer’s most pressing challenges.
Enhanced differentiation
Differentiate your brand with Cisco Powered logo, visibility in the Partner Locator, and more engagement with Cisco sellers.
Increased rewards
Unlock enhanced benefits and rewards and offset costs with Market Development Funds and increased incentives.
Market opportunity
$161B
Total Addressable Market (TAM) opportunity for products bundled with managed services.
Source: Cisco market model with leading research firm, 2023.
46%
potential share of Cisco products sold with managed services, making it our largest route to market opportunity and key to the shift to as-a-Service.
Source: Cisco market model with leading research firm, 2023.
45%
of customers say they are utilizing managed services more frequently in the last 3 years
Source: Gartner 2023
Steps to Success
Explore Provider role benefits
Capture the rewards that accelerate your growth. Review the advantages you can earn.
Showcase your achievement
Differentiate your value in the market with Cisco Powered Services specialization logo.
Drive demand
Accelerate your time to market with ready-to-use content, customizable campaigns, and other marketing services.
Specializations to power hybrid work
Cisco Powered Cloud Calling
Deliver a robust cloud unified communication service with a flexible consumption model.
Cisco Powered Webex Contact Center
Offer a native contact center solution that enables security, visibility, flexibility, and scalability.
In addition to the two specializations above, you may be interested in viewing the requirements for Cisco Powered Business Communications, Cisco Powered Contact Center as a Service Based on HCS, Cisco Powered Unified Communications as a Service Based on HCS, Cisco Powered Unified Contact Center, and Cisco Powered Webex for BroadWorks.
Specializations to secure the enterprise
Cisco Powered Cloud Managed Security
Provide a multitenant, subscription-based security service for hosted and managed models.
Cisco Powered Meraki Security
Cisco Powered Meraki Security service gives customers powerful security with flexibility and efficiency using Meraki cloud.
Cisco Powered Intelligent Workspace
Build a portfolio of smart cameras and environmental sensors to secure any premise.
Cisco Powered Managed Firewall
Build end-to-end firewall solutions to quickly resolve, preempt, and prevent security software issues.
XDR
Deliver XDR as a managed service detecting and responding to the most sophisticated threats.
Specializations to transform infrastructure
Cisco Powered Catalyst SD-WAN
Connect dispersed locations and multicloud environments securely and redundantly as a cloud-managed service.
Cisco Powered Meraki SD-WAN
Deliver automated, hybrid WAN services with a cloud-based, multitenant solution.
Cisco Powered Meraki Access
Deliver a managed LAN service and/or a managed WLAN service to connect users and devices.
Cisco Powered Campus Access
Deliver a managed LAN or managed WLAN service built on Cisco Catalyst Center.
Campus Access Sustainability add-on
Deliver a managed service based on Cisco Powered Campus Access that helps organizations meet their sustainability goals.
Cisco Powered SASE
Deliver a rich, integrated set of cloud-based networking and security services.
Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud
Provide an on-premise private cloud or hybrid cloud service that can be centrally managed.
Cisco Powered Sovereign Cloud
Provide an on-premise private or air-gapped cloud service that maintains compliance and a public cloud-like experience.
Cisco Powered Private 5G
Build ultra-low-latency and highly available access for networks or devices (coming soon).
Specializations to reimagine applications
Cisco Powered Full-Stack Observability (FSO)
Deliver managed services that take advantage of data-driven user experience and insights to build better business outcomes.
Get a Cisco Powered Services specialization
1. Create service: Decide which managed service offer you want to pursue.
2. Prepare: Review the Cisco Powered Service specialization requirements.
3. Demonstrate: Showcase your capabilities to Cisco or a third party.
4. Apply: Go to Program Management and Application (PMA) to submit your Cisco Powered Service validation.
5. Generate demand: Take advantage of resources to accelerate demand.
Looking for training?
To find training for a specific specialization, go to the page for that specialization and view the requirements document.
For training in general, see the Cisco Training page.
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