The Empowering Companion Success weblog sequence highlights the African American Cisco Companion Neighborhood (AACPC), supporting channel companions, and people positively impacting accomplice variety and the communities they serve.
Celebrating Ladies’s Historical past Month lately impressed us to kick off the primary installment on this sequence by that includes three African American Cisco Companion Neighborhood (AACPC) members which might be women-led. Cisco dedicated $50 million to the AACPC to diversify our accomplice ecosystem as a part of its dedication to social justice.
Expertise Group Options, KeepWOL, and Turia Expertise are Cisco companions that present a variety of expertise options and providers—and every has a feminine founder/CEO on the helm.
Expertise Group Options: Full Service Consulting and Giving Again to Communities
Expertise Group Options—higher referred to as TGS—is a Cisco Integrator Companion. A full-service IT consulting agency, TGS manages all elements of a consumer’s IT atmosphere, together with knowledge facilities, software program, safety platforms, and end-user gadgets.
When CEO Lenora Payne based the corporate in 2005, she dedicated to a customer-centric, holistic strategy that facilities on integrity, honesty, and dependability. It’s a approach of doing enterprise that aligns to Cisco’s objective, to energy an inclusive future for all.
TGS’s progress has been fueled partially by their work with Cisco. TGS was an early member of the African American Cisco Companion Neighborhood.
Because of TGS’s relationship with Cisco, TGS has been in a position to broaden their enterprise into reselling, logistics, delivery, and buyer expertise. They’ve additionally strengthened their function of their prospects’ provider variety applications with main corporations starting from monetary providers to consumer-packaged items to retail.
Whereas rising their enterprise, TGS additionally all the time seeks to offer again to their communities. One of many methods they’ve achieved that’s by means of their philanthropic SHIPs program. SHIPs empowers college students by means of six applications targeted on partnership, mentorship, scholarship, internship, apprenticeship, and management.
Since TGS first turned a Cisco accomplice, the corporate has grown tremendously. Within the early years, Payne may solely dream of reaching $1 million in annual revenues. Since then, they’ve seen that variety of $100 million and the corporate boasts a formidable roster of consumers, together with being the Official Data Expertise supplier for the Nationwide Soccer League’s Kansas Metropolis Chiefs franchise.
KeepWOL: Fostering Connections and Bettering Workforce Efficiency
As a Cisco Developer Companion, KeepWOL took its crew effectiveness platform and turned it right into a Webex integration designed to boost communication and collaboration for digital groups.
KeepWOL—quick for Hold Questioning Out Loud—is an AI-powered platform that addresses the pervasive challenges of collaboration and communication in as we speak’s enterprise panorama.
Whereas working as an engineering and expertise improvement individuals chief, Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks needed to effectively get to know the individuals on the groups she led. So, she constructed a instrument to assist individuals join, pay attention, and be taught. She gamified the strategy, making it easy and entertaining. It was a technique to break down partitions and jumpstart significant relationships—and that led on to her groups delivery merchandise sooner than others.
She turned her resolution into one thing all groups can use and based KeepWOL, the place she serves as CEO.
Now, prospects can use KeepWOL instantly from Webex. By integrating KeepWOL into video conferences, groups get pleasure from extra collaborative digital conferences that improve human connectivity amongst globally dispersed groups.
“In a world the place 86% of office failures stem from ineffective communication and collaboration, KeepWOL ensures that each worker’s voice is heard and understood,” Shanks says. “On the identical time, it tracks key efficiency indicators throughout six important areas, enabling a steady knowledge stream for decision-makers.”
That’s a robust instrument for corporations to combine into the video assembly platform their staff use day-after-day.
Partnering with Cisco made sense for KeepWOL. First, as a result of KeepWOL’s strategy to communication and collaboration is designed to turn out to be a pure a part of an worker’s common workflow. With Webex changing into an more and more integral a part of staff’ workdays, an integration maximizes the effectiveness of each Webex and KeepWOL. Second, as a result of KeepWOL’s mission is to create a world constructed on a basis of all the time searching for to grasp as an alternative of a world constructed on assumptions and judgments. That strongly aligns to Cisco’s Aware Tradition the place our objective is to energy an inclusive future for all.
The proof of their strategy is in not solely the expansion of their buyer base, but additionally the outcomes KeepWOL delivers. At one multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences firm, for instance, crew engagement improved by 49% and job satisfaction went up 20%. That resulted in a 20% improve in retention probability, which is saving the corporate almost $200,000 in hiring prices per crew. It’s no shock, that 94% of customers advocate KeepWOL.
Turia Expertise: Innovating on the Intersection of Expertise and Sustainability
As a Cisco Integrator Companion with an Environmental Sustainability Specialization, Turia Expertise helps private and non-private sector prospects navigate the intricacies of cloud migration whereas considerably lowering their carbon footprints by means of eco-friendly practices.
“We ship scalable, safe, user-friendly cloud options that increase operational efficiency and optimize digital infrastructure whereas leveraging Cisco’s applied sciences and experience,” says Co-Founder and CEO Binta Kindle. “Partnering with Cisco positions us to supply cutting-edge options aligned with social impression targets.”
There are many corporations providing to assist prospects with cloud migrations, however Turia takes their providers to the following stage with eco-friendly practices, together with energy-efficient {hardware}, virtualization, and cloud computing.
Like Cisco, Turia believes that operating a enterprise doesn’t must be at odds with caring for and contributing to our communities and our planet. Their options each contribute to environmental conservation and end in price financial savings for his or her purchasers. Turia’s dedication to leaving a optimistic environmental legacy for future generations aligns strongly with Cisco’s objective to energy an inclusive future for all.
Partnerships Powering an Inclusive Future for All
Payne, Shanks, and Kindle every noticed a necessity and a possibility and based a expertise firm primarily based on that imaginative and prescient. By partnering with Cisco, they’ve been in a position to speed up their corporations’ progress whereas additionally making the world a greater place for corporations, staff, their communities, and the world.
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