
Explore the foundations of customer success, roles of a CSM, and how to map customers to lifecycle, build a success plan, and navigate licensing within a three-lesson framework.
Understand the Cisco success portfolio, recurring revenue focus, and four customer success roles to drive value across the customer lifecycle from awareness to renewal.
Explore the Cisco success plan, its components and roles, and learn how to align initiatives, track milestones, KPIs, and health metrics to deliver customer value.
Explore the health index framework used by Cisco to drive customer value, including utilization, quality, financials, and sentiment, plus a dashboard for actionable insights.
Discover how Cisco architectures, including data center, enterprise networking, security, and collaboration, drive customer success in a hybrid cloud with secure data access across locations.
Discover Cisco's success portfolio, blending expertise and digital intelligence with partners to accelerate outcomes through tracks, advisory services, and proactive analytics-driven insights.
Trace the customer life cycle from pre-sales to renewal, covering need, evaluate, select, ally, and purchase, plus onboarding and adoption. See how Cisco aligns roles, assets, and customer-centric value.
Explore how adoption drives customer value across the life cycle, led by the customer experience team with the CSM and the customer success specialist, addressing barriers and measuring health.
Map customers through the life cycle with data streams that reveal product usage, health index components, sentiment, and financial data to realize value across implement, use, engage, adopt, and optimize.
Use the customer success plan as a single source of truth to drive value through conversations with the customer. Track KPIs and milestones and align stakeholders across the life cycle.
Explore Cisco software licensing models, including perpetual, subscription, and utility licenses, plus embedded, Alacarte, and bundled offerings like Cisco DNA, and how enterprise agreements support recurring revenue.
Explore how the smart account and smart licensing centralize Cisco licenses in Cisco Software Central with smart cards. Enable enterprise-wide visibility and streamlined license inventory management.
Discover how ask-the-experts sessions accelerate value from Cisco investments through live Q&A, targeted use cases, and lifecycle guidance within the Cisco customer experience portfolio.
Explore accelerators within Cisco's customer experience portfolio to boost time to value, reduce risk, and enable faster adoption through adoption and success tracks.
Explore the customer life cycle stages, define customer success roles, align with internal stakeholders, and build a strong success plan to leverage health index insights for better outcomes.
The Cisco Customer Success Manager: A Basic Course is a foundational training curriculum that allows an aspiring Customer Success Manager to understand the role as part of a high performing Customer Success practice. It teaches the customer lifecycle stages, success plan, health index and adoption of Cisco architectures.
Customer Experience Overview
In this video, you will learn what customer experience is, why it’s important, and how Cisco is transforming its business model to align with the customer lifecycle.
Customer Lifecycle Overview
This module will show you how Cisco Partners help customers realize the value of their technology solutions, accelerating customer success, and driving partner profitable growth.
Lifecycle Stages Explained
In this video we’ll go through each stage of the customer’s lifecycle journey.
Success Plan Overview
In this module, we review the Success Plan and how it benefits the customer, our partners, and Cisco, including Success Plan components, basic functions, and role responsibilities.
Health Index Dashboard Overview
In this video you will become familiar with the Health Index, and how this information is used by the Cisco account team to bring tangible benefits to their Customer base.
Cisco Customer Experience - What is Adoption?
In this module, we’ll review what adoption is and why it plays an important role in the customer lifecycle. We’ll see who is responsible for driving adoption in the Customer Experience team, and we’ll see how you can help your customers achieve greater value.
Customer Mapping in the Lifecycle
In this module, we will review: (1) Why mapping the customer within the lifecycle matters to you and how it benefits your customer. (2) How to identify data streams that support customer mapping. (3) What types of questions you can ask to drive value conversation.
CX in Action - Success Plan
This video describes creating the customer success plan with customer data and insights from conversations.
Business Architectural Value Overview
In this module, we’ll illustrate the business value of Cisco architecture to the customer and explain how new market trends shape our value proposition.
Licensing and Enterprise Agreements
In this module we’ll review Cisco’s software business and how it fits into recurring revenue. We will review the three types of licensing and five ways Cisco makes software available to our customers.
Smart Accounts and Smart Licensing
At the conclusion of this module, you should have an understanding of three key areas: (1) The Smart Account (2) Licenses (3) And the central website used for Smart Accounts, called Cisco Software Central.
Cisco Success Portfolio Overview
The Cisco Success Portfolio brings together the right expertise, best practices, and insights, from Cisco and our partners, based on our experience of leading large-scale technology implementations and innovations.
Cisco Customer Experience - ATX Overview
In this module we'll review what Accelerators are, how they're structured, and where they fit in our Cisco Customer Experience portfolio. We'll also explain how our partners and customers can benefit from using them.
Cisco Customer Experience - Accelerators Overview
In this module we'll review what Accelerators are, how they're structured, and where they fit in our new Cisco Customer Experience portfolio. We'll also explain how our partners and customers can benefit from using them.