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Cisco portfolio for financial services: What can we help you solve today?
Customer experience
Workplace transformation
End-to-end security
Intelligent operations
- Explore the use cases
- Explore the architectures
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Customer experience
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Intelligent operations
Digital-first engagement
Modern financial customer journeys frequently start on mobile or online channels supported by integrated, intelligent self-service and agent-based customer interaction capabilities.
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Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Consumer expectations for digital banking experiences
- Rise of fintech, insurtech, and big tech competition
- Digitization of financial services product sales and service
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Engage customers over their preferred channel
- Increase product availability on digital channels
- Drive organic growth through extended reach
- Accelerate sales with lower cost
- Enable sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Embed AI-driven contextual chatbots into digital channels
- Integrate two-way collaboration into digital channels
- Enable customers to schedule virtual appointments
- Enable systems workflows to trigger client messaging
- Escalation to contact center agents with context
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Business outcomes
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Capture greater product wallet share
- Expand customer base footprint
- Improve product profitability
- Less customer travel resulting in lower carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- Chief digital officer
- Chief marketing officer
- Chief financial officer
- Chief sustainability officer
- SVP of digital channels
- Head of mobile banking/wealth app development
- Head of contact center
Technical overview
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Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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Collaborative branch
The modern branch improves efficiency, sustainability, and business execution, delivering interactive and engaging customer experiences that rely on applications and branch services enabled by a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Customer-centric branch transformation and engagement
- Customer desire for greater access to advisory services
- Streamline sale of more complex financial products
- Branch integration into an omnichannel delivery strategy
- Less foot traffic into branches
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Improve visibility and understanding of branch activity
- Proactive opportunity identification and engagement
- Digital engagement with in-branch customers
- Business continuity across branch footprint
- Enable sustainable business practices
- Deliver full value of the institution in customer interactions
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Capabilities
- Deliver personalized contextual information and self-service capabilities to branch customers
- Reduce sales execution cycle times through team collaboration
- Address on-demand customer advisory needs thru virtual SME over video
- Enable branch staff to use secure mobile devices
- Integrate team collaboration into branch staff and customer-facing applications
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Business outcomes
- Grow advisory-led sales of higher-margin financial products
- Seamless integration of customer journeys across physical and digital channels
- Capture revenue faster by shortening sales cycle times
- Increase NPS and customer loyalty through high-value interactions
- Efficient, sustainable branches with a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) operating model
- Less staff travel resulting in lower carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- CIO/CTO
- Chief financial officer
- Chief sustainability officer
- SVP of branch strategy/branch operations
- SVP of branch applications
- Head of customer experience/banking channels
- Line-of-business leaders (mortgage, wealth, insurance)
Technical overview
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Hybrid workforce
Enable financial services employees to connect securely to corporate and cloud resources and to collaborate with colleagues and customers from the office, home, or remote work locations in a sustainable manner.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Improve business resiliency
- War for talent
- Deliver desired employee experiences at a lower cost
- Remove silos and improve operational efficiency
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Ensure business continuity
- Increase business agility
- Attract talent and expertise
- Deliver the full value of the financial services institution in customer interactions
- Simplify processes and remove friction
- Enable sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Verify identity and establish trust
- Enable work from any location with any connection on any device
- Secure access to company applications and data
- Protect data from threats
- Simplify security with a single, integrated platform
- Accelerate digital transformation using collaboration to break down organizational silos
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Business outcomes
- Digitization of a greater percentage of financial services offers
- Increase customer satisfaction through more flexible interactions
- Lower real estate and branch costs
- Less staff travel resulting in lower carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- Chief digital officer
- CIO/CISO
- Chief HR officer
- Chief financial officer
- Chief sustainability officer
- Chief experience officer
- EVP of retail and commercial banking
- SVP of collaboration technologies/contact center
- Head of IT operations
- Head of telecommunications
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
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AppDynamics |
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
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Smart and sustainable facilities
Understand time-of-use patterns and deliver sustainable operations for corporate buildings, branches, and workspaces--individual or shared--to meet the rising green expectations of employees and clients.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
- WELL standards for safe and healthy workplaces
- Reduce and optimize the ongoing cost and operation of buildings and branches
- Keeping on trend with people's needs and expectations in an ever-digital, smart world
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Business needs
- Secure or maintain WELL and/or LEED certifications
- Optimize building and branch energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprint
- Create a productive, intuitive, and inviting workspace
- Enable on-site electric vehicle (EV) charging and outdoor environmental/asset monitoring
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Capabilities
- Support both wired and wireless connectivity
- Context-aware collaboration room automation and availability
- Detect and manage building occupancy and available resources based on real-time needs
- Insights into on-premises versus off-site work patterns
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) enables reduction in energy waste
- Connectivity for EV charging and IoT asset monitoring
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Business outcomes
- Lower operational costs and improve efficiency
- Minimize real estate costs while optimizing staff and space utilization
- Attractive user experience and increased employee satisfaction
- Reduce energy consumption, water usage, and waste, yielding a lower carbon footprint and meeting sustainability goals
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Stakeholders
- COO/CTO/CISO
- CIO of infrastructure
- Chief financial officer
- Chief sustainability officer
- SVP of IT operational risk
- Facilities management
- Verticalized stakeholders (groups that can see improvements in their business)
Technical overview
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Cyber risk management
Block threats, contain intruders, and improve visibility to protect your systems, customer information, and financial data from cyberattacks with an integrated security portfolio.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Increased operational and cyber risk resulting from shift to hybrid work
- Most targeted industry for cyber attacks
- Brand impact and loss from cyber breaches
- High operational cost to maintain sophisticated security operations
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Business needs
- Ensure security concerns do not hinder business continuity or innovation
- Protect a cloud-connected extended enterprise
- Provide greater visibility, intelligence, and responsiveness to cyber threats
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Capabilities
- Secure access service edge (SASE) protection capabilities for financial branches
- Comprehensive protection for remote employees including MFA, DNS, VPN protections, and secure cloud on-ramp
- Extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities with integrated automation
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Business outcomes
- Confidence to accelerate innovation
- Faster onboarding of third-party SaaS fintech solutions
- Consumer confidence and brand loyalty
- Avoidance of loss and regulatory fines
- Cisco security solutions are virtualized on existing servers or built into switches, removing the need for additional security appliances and enabling more sustainable outcomes
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Stakeholders
- COO and chief risk officer
- CIO and CISO
- Chief financial officer
- Head of IT operational risk
Technical overview
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Video surveillance and safety
Help protect your employees, customers, and assets with connected intelligent cameras and analytics that monitor facilities, analyze movement patterns, and detect threats faster.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Customer and associate safety
- Protect brand value and physical assets
- Customer video analytics
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Business needs
- Improve detection of visual events, including fraud detection, safe/safety box activity, and ATM monitoring
- Correlate surveillance video to events, including transaction stamping, building entries, and sensor events
- Provide comprehensive surveillance for dynamic business execution within the branch or office
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Capabilities
- Provide easy-to-deploy IP cameras
- Support cloud-based management
- Deploy both indoor and outdoor physical security
- Reduce ongoing costs
- Enable smart detection of queue growth, dwell time, and loitering
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Business outcomes
- Increase customer and associate safety
- Reduced operational costs, risk, and liability
- Evidence for compliance and criminal prosecution
- More responsive and effective internal/external emergency communications
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Stakeholders
- Chief financial officer
- VP of facilities
- VP of loss prevention/security
- VP of branch strategy
- VP of branch operations
Technical overview
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Application performance management
As more financial services are delivered and consumed through applications, every touchpoint matters more than ever. Perfect the moments that breathe life into relationships and brand experiences with precise, actionable insights that guarantee optimal app experiences.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Digitization of financial services
- Open banking and cloud-native fintech applications
- Next-generation data centers and cloud adoption
- Revenue creation
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Business needs
- Ensure application performance doesn’t impact customer and employee experiences
- Increase speed of application feature delivery
- Improve application integration and availability of APIs
- Accelerate sales and service with lower cost
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Capabilities
- Business intelligence informed by application usage and performance
- Visibility into application and service performance conditions
- Architecture to run, manage, and secure modern applications
- Efficiencies in managing hybrid cloud integration and data center aggregation
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Business outcomes
- Improved customer and employee satisfaction from consistent application experiences
- Revenue growth resulting from faster updates to digital channels
- Faster integrations with third-party and fintech applications
- Streamline business processes resulting from digitization
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Stakeholders
- Chief financial officer
- Head of digital channels
- Head of cloud application development
- Head of cloud application security
- Head of application architecture
- Head of DevOps practice
- Head of cloud engineering
Technical overview
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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Hybrid and multicloud
Managing distributed financial applications and data across multiple clouds and the data center requires intelligent cloud-neutral operational capabilities that provide reliable performance, security, compute, and connectivity.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Continuity of financial services
- Digitization and fintech partnerships
- Shift to SaaS and IaaS consumption models
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Business needs
- Accelerate capture of digital business
- Partner and on-board cloud-native fintech solutions
- Provide workforce with access to applications from any location
- Lower data center operational costs and reduce CapEx
- Modernize application portfolio
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Capabilities
- Multicloud connectivity and cloud user on-ramp
- Security for clouds, applications, and workloads
- End-to-end zero-trust security
- Converged visibility for application, security, and network operations
- Application migration assistance
- Infrastructure-as-code for DevOps
- Flexible edge and hybrid hosting
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Business outcomes
- Revenue growth resulting from faster updates to digital channels
- Improved time-to-market via fintech partnerships
- Streamlined business processes resulting from digitization
- Greater business agility from cloud computing and consumption
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Stakeholders
- CIO/CISO/CTO
- Chief financial officer
- Heads of cloud engineering and cloud operations
- Head of cloud application development
- Head of fintech and ISV partnerships
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
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Integrated Services Router (ISR) Aggregation Services Router (ASR) Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series SD-WAN powered by Viptela Secure Firewall |
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CloudCenter Suite |
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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High-performance trading
High-frequency trading requires a next-generation platform that can deliver ultra-low latency, high availability, and security with ease of management.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Speed of trading business continues to accelerate
- Delays between receiving market data and executing a trade result in lost revenue
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Business needs
- Ensure transaction processes remain lightning fast from beginning to end
- Minimize network-related latency and accelerate efficiency
- Identify opportunities for competitive advantage inside of financial exchange data centers that were designed to provide a level playing field
- Make rapid changes to algorithms and applications as easily as possible
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Capabilities
- Delivers the lowest possible latency in a high-performance nanosecond switch
- Time-stamping functions that deliver the highest-precision network aggregation and monitoring available today
- Extends intent-based networking (IBN) model to HFT environments for efficient orchestration
- High-performance, FPGA-based NICs for high-performance computing solutions in a trading environment
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Business outcomes
- Maximize potential for revenue capture through a network platform optimized for high-speed trading environments
- Adaptability to market dynamics resulting from the ability to make rapid changes to algorithms and applications
- Remain compliant with regulations requiring precise accuracy and transaction time-stamping
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Stakeholders
- Head of trading technology and infrastructure
- Head of trading application development
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
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Integrated Services Router (ISR) Aggregation Services Router (ASR) Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series SD-WAN powered by Viptela Secure Firewall |
Meraki MX Cloud Managed Security Portfolio |
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Nexus 9500 Series Modular Switches Nexus 9300 Series Switches (40/100/400GE) Nexus 9300 Series Switches (1/10/25GE Fiber) Nexus 9x00 Series Switches (1/10GBaseT) Nexus 3550 Series Switches (ultra-low latency) |
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Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series |
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HyperFlex HX-Series hyperconverged infrastructure Unified Computing System (UCS) S-Series |
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Unified Computing System (UCS) Fabric Interconnects MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches |
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Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Intersight |
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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Optimized branch connectivity
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
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Provide reliable, secure LAN/WAN connectivity in the branch and to the data center and cloud environments over public and private networks.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Customer-centric branch transformation
- Shift from transactional to advisory services in the branch
- Ensure future profitability of the branch channel
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Business needs
- Ensure "brand uptime" and the ability to transact business
- Improve performance of an increasing number of branch applications and bandwidth-reliant services
- Enable greater mobility inside the branch to conduct business
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Capabilities
- Introduce new branch apps and services with greater agility
- Support the use of rich media and video (digital signage, virtual experts, video teller/ATM, etc.)
- Secure connectivity from branch to public/private clouds
- Provide more engaging customer interactions via wireless-connected devices
- Reduce revenue-loss events from branch outages
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Business outcomes
- Faster capture of new market opportunities
- Lower branch operational costs
- Improve branch operational flexibility
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Stakeholders
- CIO/CTO
- Chief financial officer
- SVP of omnichannel/channel experience
- SVP of branch operations
- SVP of networking
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
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AppDynamics |
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DevNet + Fast Lane |
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Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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