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Why invest in Cisco Support?

Cisco Support, now powered by Cisco IQ

​​Cisco Support has evolved. Powered by Cisco IQ, partners and customers gain continuous, AI-driven intelligence to surface risk earlier, prioritise action and transform infrastructure telemetry into practical guidance.
​Over 16,000 customers and nearly 20 million connected devices are already running Cisco IQ globally.

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​Proactive Risk Management

​Automatically surface assets affected by security advisories, outdated software, and approaching end-of-support milestones. Enable data-backed customer conversations before vulnerabilities cause outages.
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Faster Problem Resolution

Accelerate fault investigation with the Cisco IQ AI Assistant. Combine real-time device diagnostics with Cisco TAC case context to resolve complex issues with less manual effort.

A Single, Unified View

​ Consolidate installed base assets, contract status, lifecycle milestones, and security advisories into one dashboard. Spend less time digging through spreadsheets and more time delivering advisory value.

2.1x Greater Partner Profitability


​ In early field trials with 38 partners, Cisco reported that partners using Cisco IQ achieved 2.1x greater profitability by building recurring customer engagements around proactive infrastructure management.
​Source: Cisco. 

 

Your customer's needs...

Business continuity is at risk from changing technological and business requirements. Customers are asking how they can:

  • Resolve problems quickly to minimise downtime, and prevent issues
  • Increase network utilisation, extend the life of IT, and extract more value
  • Improve staff knowledge and operational processes, and unburden overextended operation resources
  • Deliver new capabilities quickly and efficiently or make changes to existing services with minimum disruption

 

As IT ecosystems become multi-product and multi-vendor, customers face new challenges

Complex technology

69% of IT Leaders think technology has become more complex. Too complex to manage every aspect in house.

Skills training

93% of IT Leaders face a skills gap that is hard to close as technology evolution outpaces capacity for continual training.

How Cisco Support eases customer difficulties

Cisco Support helps customers get the most out of their Cisco investments, plus smart capabilities that extend the value even further

 96x Faster

Cisco IQ identifies devices affected by a security advisory 96 times faster than historical methods.
​Source: IDC White Paper, Business Value of Cisco IQ, sponsored by Cisco

 

5.7x Faster

​Cisco IQ turns raw infrastructure data into a prioritised action plan 5.7 times faster.
​Source: IDC White Paper, Business Value of Cisco IQ, sponsored by Cisco. 

 

Cisco Support: reduce risk and ensure compliance

Faster problem resolution

Identify issues quickly through proactive alerts, automated diagnostics, up-to-date contract coverage data, and product information

Risk mitigation

Installed-base visibility in the portal helps ensure that your critical Cisco products are covered by the correct service contracts. The portal also makes it easy to proactively plan and budget for technology refresh of the Cisco products that are expected to reach End-of-Life (EoL) or Last Date of Support (LDoS).

Operational efficiency

The automated inventory and contract management highlights changes and provides budget and planning foresight in order to minimise the effort that is required to maintain an up-to-date view of your network.

Cisco Partner Experience Platform (PXP)

Faster innovation

Better intelligence speeds up your response to change and drives selling and co-selling.

Clear path to growth and profitability

You will be able to identify:

  • the most promising renewal and upsell opportunities
  • the customers with the highest growth potential
  • the capabilities your teams need to sell new architectures

Continuous planning

We track performance against targets in real-time, year-round, and correct course as needed.

Connectivity and benchmarking

Connect with partners globally and display your performance compared to your peers.

Why Comstor?

A team dedicated to the renewals

With Comstor, you can engage every customer quickly. We notify you about every opportunity in time so you don’t miss any deal.

33% partner revenue

Renewals represent 33% of partner revenue.

75% increased profits

By retaining 5% of customers.

60% incremental sales

The chance of selling to an existing customer vs a new prospect.