Analysis of Cisco's Enterprise Systems Implementation and Challenges

This report provides an analysis of Cisco's Enterprise Systems implementation. It begins with an overview of Cisco, its products, and services, followed by an identification of the problems and opportunities the company faces, including competition and growth in the clouding industry. The report then describes Cisco's digital networking architecture and its four enterprise solutions, including SD-Access, Cisco DNA Analytics, Enterprise Network Security, and SD-WAN Solution. The report also outlines an Enterprise Systems Implementation Plan, detailing the steps involved, and discusses potential difficulties organizations may face, such as fundamental issues, organizational change, implementation costs, and employee morale. It concludes with an assessment of the success of Enterprise Systems adoption, considering factors like project objectives, scheduling, budget, and performance targets. The report uses references to support its arguments, providing a comprehensive overview of Cisco's enterprise systems implementation and its implications.

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CISCO INDUSTRY
ANALYSIS

CISCO - Overview
 Cisco System is an American multinational company which
is based on technology. The organization is headquartered
in San Jose, California.
 The organization is known to manufacture, and develop
various types of networking hardware, telecommunications
equipments and other types of high technology related
products and services (Raju and Mukun 2018).
 Few of the subsidiary brands owned by the company are
OpenDNS, WebEx, Jabber and Jasper.
 The organization came into existence on 2nd December 1984
by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner who were computer
scientist previously.
 In the present days the company has gained a market
capitalization of $224 million dollars

Cisco Products and Services …
Cisco Modem
Voice over IP services
Hosted Collaboration
Solution
Network Emergency
Response

CISCO – Problem statement
 Competition – Cisco is facing various problem with the intense
competition from Alcatel-Lucent, Amazon Web Services and few other
companies.
 Volatile Market – The sales in the field of data centre and service
providers are not consistent with every quarter of the year. Also the
sales of routers and telecommunicating devices are attributing to the
change in business and economic conditions.

CISCO – Problem statement …
 Litigations – The organization is also facing different types of
problems with the Brazilian federal Tax authorities according to the
author *********** . The present authorities claim that approx $262
million dollars loss was charged to the company as a penalty.
 All these factors ha harmed the business organization’s brand image

CISCO – Opportunity faced …
 Growth In the Clouding Industry - According
to the author Raju and Mukun (2018)the
global cloud traffic is forecasted to have
grow three time from the year 2016. The
forecast has increased from 2.1 Zettabyte to
8.6 Zettabyte. By 2019 the cloud data
service is known to exceed to 83%. If the
organization is able to catch up the sector it
will be able to catapult the revenue and
profits earned.

CISCO – Opportunity faced …
 The tangible growth in the software market – The software defines networking
or the SDN and the network function virtualization NFV is expected to grow in
the recent years.

Enterprise Systems OF CISCO
 CISCO digital networking architecture or the CISCO DNA is a unified,
intent based networking systemor architecture that is known to
deliver advanced solutions for the enterprise networking
requirements The four Enterprise solutions which are adopted by the
company are :
 SD – Access
 SISCO DNA Analytics and Assurance
 Enterprise Network Security
 SISCO SD WAN Solution

An Enterprise Systems
Implementation Plan
 Step 1 – Managers must conduct a
feasibility study of the current scenario
to assess thee organization’s needs so
as by analyzing the hardware and
software's, the database and in house
computer experiences.
 Step 2 – The next activity involved is by
educating and recruiting the members
of the organization.
 Step 3 – Managers and other leaders

An Enterprise Systems
Implementation Plan
 Step 4 – After further discussion the
channel should form board of members
to handle the task (Aweya 2018).
 Step 5 – Adequate amount of training
and development should be provided
to the team members.
 Step 6 - The system installation
process should be discussed and the
issue should be derived

Difficulties the organisation may
have faced
Fundamental issues –
• Role of the manager
• Role of the auditor
• Top management Commitment