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Deloitte and Cisco Enter Agreement to Enhance Business Process
Alliance Maps Network Intelligent Services to Business Processes to Help Improve Visibility, Control, and Responsiveness Across the Enterprise
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY and SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - June 18, 2008) - Deloitte and Cisco (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced a collaborative initiative that combines the
intelligence in Cisco's network platform with Deloitte's broad array of
business process and technology consulting capabilities. Deloitte and
Cisco have entered into a go-to-market agreement focused on developing
service offerings that take advantage of the intelligence of the network to
enhance business processes. The Deloitte and Cisco collaboration will map
business processes to network intelligent services, such as communication
and collaboration, user identification, and wireless location detection, so
businesses can achieve more visibility, control, and responsiveness across
the enterprise while leveraging their existing business applications.
The go-to-market agreement between Cisco and Deloitte includes
collaboration on service development, education, training, sales and
delivery. Deloitte and Cisco will initially focus their efforts on the
development and delivery of services aimed at risk, compliance and
performance management challenges.
"Rapid response capability has increased dramatically with the heightened
emphasis on risk management and the value of real-time information," said
Lee Dittmar, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP "The speed and
consequence of adverse events require capabilities that can be delivered
only when network services in the enterprise architecture are fully
utilized. We agree with Cisco that the network can be the backbone for IT
communications, and an important element in enabling better risk,
compliance and performance management."
"The ubiquitous nature of the network offers our customers the opportunity
to capture intelligence from every aspect of their organization and to take
advantage of that intelligence in the continued innovation of the business.
This go-to-market agreement with Deloitte will focus on practical solutions
that help our customers respond faster to operational and market dynamics
having an immediate impact on their business decisions," said Robert Lloyd,
senior vice president of U.S., Canada, and Japan for Cisco.
Deloitte and Cisco will also work together with SAP AG to combine
Deloitte's broad array of consulting, advisory and implementation related
services with Cisco's Network and Advanced Services in support of SAP®
enterprise business solutions to help joint customers in their efforts to
address their needs for governance risk and performance management.
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