To meet customer needs and help you capture this dynamic growth opportunity, Cisco Channel Partner Program has evolved to help you accelerate growth, differentiate your business and increase your profitability with certifications, specializations and incentives.
Expanding skill breath: developing broader, integrated technology skills -> Certification, the program consists of 5 levels of Certications
Enabling the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach: will help you to define the activities you need to successfully deploy and operate Cisco solutions, to optimize the technology performance and to deduce deployment risk.
Benefits
Registered
Select
Premier
Silver
Gold
Cisco Registered Partners enjoy access to a wide variety of Cisco channel partner tools.
Select partners have a primary focus on small and medium-sized business customers that have fewer than 250 employees.
Premier partners have gained technical competency in the integration of routing and switching, wireless LANs and security
Silver partners have gained expertise in any 2 specializations and have achieved a measurable level of customer satisfaction.
Gold partners deliver the right level of support, gave gained expertise in 4 specializations, including Lifecycle Services and have achieved a measurable level of customer satisfaction.
Certified Partner-Level cisco.com access
Certified Partner-Level cisco.com access
Certified Partner-Level cisco.com access
Certified Partner-Level cisco.com access
Certified Partner-Level cisco.com access
Partner Development 1% on Core, 2% on AT, 2% on Services
Partner Development 2% on sales of selected SMB products, 8% on UC
Support 8x5, 24hrs call back, pre-sales and post sales support
Support 8x5, 1hr call back, pre-sales and post sales support, escalation process, demonstration capability and Lab purchase
Support 24x7 1hr call back, pre-sales and post sales support, escalation process, demonstration capability and Lab purchase
SMB Specialization
Express Foundation Specialization
Any 2 Advanced Specializations or 1 Express Unified Communications + 1 Advanced Specialization (no UC)
Advanced Unified Communications, Advanced Routing and Switching, Advanced Security, Advanced Wireless LAN
Personnel
Career Certified Individuals:
1x AM (CSE), 1x SE (CCDA), 1x FE (CCNA)
1 person can fulfill both roles
Career Certified Individuals:
1x AM (CSE), 1x SE (CCDA/CCNA), 1x FE (CCNP/CCVP/CCSP/CCNA)
Career Certified Individuals:
Advanced Unified Communications: 1x AM (CSE), 1x SE (CCDA), 1x FE (CCVP)
Advanced Routing and Switching: 1x AM (CSE), 1x SE (CCDA), 1x FE(CCNP)
Advanced Security: 1x AM(CSE), 1x SE (CCDA), 1x FE (CCSP)
Advanced Wireless LAN: 1x AM (CSE), 1x SE (CCDA), 1x FE (CCNA)
Participation in the Customer Satisfaction Survey
Participation in the Customer Satisfaction Survey: 15 responses, 95% satisfaction
Participation in the Customer Satisfaction Survey: 15 responses, 95% satisfaction
Specializations The program consists of 3 levels of specializations : Express, Advanced and Master. These levels have been established to directly reflect your sales, technical and services expertise in a particular technology. There are 7 Base specializations that will count toward your achievement of certification, besides those there are 5 optional Specializations.
Partner Enablement for Certified Partners: Sell – Deliver – Support Partner Enablement makes it easier for Cisco Partners to more effectively sell, deliver and support Cisco technologies and solutions by focused tools, training, selling & marketing offerings to help scale the Channel to effectively Support Cisco Growth, promote Absorption of New Technologies and develop Increased Productivity through focused offerings.
