Capgemini Super Techies Show Season 2: The CISCO Challenge

1. The CISCO Challenge
Create an Actionable Solutions Architecture Blueprint while
ensuring a rich, web-enabled experience for customers

2. The Facts
• An American multinational corporation headquartered in San
Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment
• Cisco's current portfolio of products and services is focused upon three market
segments—Enterprise and Service Provider, Small Business and Home
• The solutions for each market are segmented into Architectures, which form
the basis for how Cisco approaches each market
• The Cisco stock has been added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Cisco is listed in the S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index, NASDAQ-100 Index
and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index
• A recipient of the Ron Brown Award, a U.S. presidential honor to recognize
companies “for the exemplary quality of their relationships with employees
and communities”
• Cisco commonly stays on top of the Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to work for’
list

3. • Internet of Everything is all about connecting People, Process, Data and Things
• Information in the 21st century is pervasive and needs to be accessible
everywhere, irrespective of the end device used to access it
• Corporate IT organizations across the world are challenged with building
services, which make the vision of any information on any device a reality,
maintaining the same experience
• Technology trends, such as Social, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data among others, are
driving even more disruptions…
Background on Challenge

4. Background on Challenge
• There is a constant movement towards Cloud Computing (Applications and
services on the cloud)
• Information may have to be sourced from multiple backend touch points
(Source of truth/records)
• IT organizations are grappling with Evolution from ‘Application Development’
to ‘Application Composition’, leveraging multiple services
• The BYOD revolution is leading people to access information from different
endpoints such as mobile, social , touch pads, etc.
• Consistent and rich user experience coupled with high levels of performance is
becoming a challenge with the complexities of delivering across multiple
endpoints

5. • Application development is abstracted from the complexities of
deployment on the Cloud
• User experience is fragmented, depending on the end device
• There are many requirements to straddle across multiple paradigms
such as Public/Private/Hybrid cloud, ERP, DW, etc.
• There is a lack of standard frameworks and components to build
Cloud-based services, which have a consistent and rich user
experience coupled with world-class performance
The Problem

6. Create an Actionable Solutions Architecture Blueprint while:
• Ensuring a rich, consistent, scalable, web 3.0-enabled experience
for our customers and partners when they access different
services offered across multiple endpoints (E.g. Mobile, social,
touch pads, laptops, etc.)
• Conceiving an abstraction layer that allows IT organizations to
rapidly deploy to cloud and enables integration across other
traditional systems (E.g. ERP, data warehouse, etc.)
The Challenge Statement