思科“Cisco Designed 中小企业商务优选”解决方案
激发中小企业创新发展新动能
December 3, 2020, Beijing-In 2020, a sudden epidemic will have a strong impact on the survival and development of global companies. In the context of the new normal of epidemic prevention, telemedicine, online education, and collaborative office have been widely used, and the Internet has played an important role in promoting the recovery of the global economy.
In recent years, with flexibility and innovation, SMEs have become a source of economic growth. According to Cisco's "2020 Asia-Pacific Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Digital Maturity Report", by 2024, the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises will contribute US$1.5-1.8 trillion to China’s GDP and promote the overall GDP of the Asia-Pacific region to reach US$3.1 trillion. Growth has injected strong impetus into economic recovery. Compared with large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises have unique digital advantages. They are not limited by traditional old-style infrastructure and operations, and are easier to use new technologies to quickly and intelligently carry out work and enhance their core competitiveness.
As a global technology leader, Cisco combines global vision with local innovation and deep experience in serving large enterprises to launch the "Cisco Designed SME Business Optimization" solution, which aims to tailor a simple, efficient, and collaborative solution for SME users. The product mix helps it grow against the trend in the post-epidemic era. The solution integrates Cisco’s cutting-edge technologies and products in networking, security, computing, and collaboration, and covers overall solutions such as simple IT, smart office, home/remote office, etc., and brings excellent IT service experience to small and medium-sized enterprises. Leading companies enjoy the technological dividends of the new era.
Turn the complex into simple: Shaping a simple and efficient network
In the post-epidemic era, strong and reliable business continuity is the primary requirement of SMEs. Cisco preferred simple IT solutions can help small and medium-sized enterprises manage network IT facilities flexibly and agilely, without excessive training and professional IT staff support. The solution is highly flexible and easy to install and deploy, reducing redundant office space and employees, helping companies reduce costs and increase efficiency, and ease the pressure of operation and maintenance.
Cisco Meraki network products provide remote management solutions, allowing enterprises to manage and deploy networks graphically through a centralized Chinese control panel. There is no need to enter professional command line operations, and remote advanced settings can be performed through any browser, even for non-professional IT professionals. You can easily complete the operation through the interface guidance. For small and medium-sized enterprises that need to consider the business expansion needs of multiple branches, the solution supports the configuration of equipment in advance. After reaching the customer, it can be used only by plugging in and connecting to the network, helping enterprises to truly achieve rapid deployment. With the advantages of high flexibility, high reliability, and high scalability, Cisco Meraki has won the trust of a wide range of small and medium-sized enterprises.
EVOC Group is China's largest high-tech enterprise integrating research, development, manufacturing and sales of special computers, providing personalized solutions for various industries around the world. Taking into account the needs of technology research and development, the group puts forward strict requirements on network stability, transmission rate and data security. Cisco assisted EVOC in deploying a campus network solution that integrates access, wireless, and security, which has greatly improved its network transmission speed, stably and quickly transmits a large number of 3D pictures, and truly achieved gigabit to the desktop. At the same time, the solution significantly reduced the pressure on its IT department. Before, the IT department needed to maintain thousands of devices, but now it only needs to maintain dozens of servers. The company has reduced the workload of IT staff through centralized management, and reduced the cost of use, saving a lot of electricity bills on average every year.
Tianyou Architectural Design Co., Ltd. is an architectural design consulting company specializing in comprehensive design and consulting for urban and regional development, and is committed to creating a better environment, city and residence for people. Tianyou's business collaboration and enterprise management are inseparable from the network, but its IT department has limited manpower and requires simple and reliable network deployment to reduce the pressure of operation and maintenance. Therefore, Tianyou adopted the Cisco Meraki technology to simplify the complexity of network deployment and management, and quickly deployed hundreds of devices. The device access to the network, automatic discovery and push only took a few minutes to complete. Zhang Miao, Director of the President Office of Tianyou Design, said: "Cisco Meraki is a charming platform. Through automated management, it has greatly eased our operation and maintenance pressure and allowed us to maintain business excellence. In the future, we look forward to further in-depth cooperation."
Super collaboration: creating a hybrid office experience
An epidemic has spawned a large-scale telecommuting revolution. In the future, working methods will tend to be mixed. People can work at home or in the office. Recently, Cisco has completed a new "Future Worker Survey". This survey involves more than 14,000 respondents in 14 markets in the Asia-Pacific region and aims to predict employee expectations of employers after 2021. The survey shows that 88% of employees in the Asia-Pacific region tend to work in a mixed style. They hope that the company can empower employees and provide more flexible office options, either working in the office or working at home/remotely. It can be seen that hybrid office will become an unstoppable trend and require companies to further reshape the office environment.
In a mixed office space, technology plays an important role. For a team, some members may choose to work at home, some members work in the office, and some members need to work in other places. Today, leading collaboration technologies can help these three types of workers achieve a seamless and collaborative work experience. After continuous technological innovation and user experience optimization, Cisco's preferred home/remote office solution combines the Cisco Webex Room series and Cisco Webex Desk Pro and other award-winning star collaboration products such as Cisco Webex Desk Pro, supporting small and medium-sized employees to access securely in any place Enterprise internal resources to obtain a simple, efficient and safe new office experience.
Cisco Webex has recently been upgraded across the board, aiming to achieve a "ten times better remote work experience." For example, Cisco relies on video core technology to reduce bandwidth consumption by 40%; uses AI technology to separate and eliminate noise, and strengthen human voice; add virtual background functions to prevent messy home environments from interfering with communication and other functions.
With the gradual recovery of the economy, Cisco has also introduced the optimal smart office solution to help employees return to the office safely. Cisco uses AI image recognition technology to ensure that employees maintain a safe social distance. The meeting room maintains no more than 15% of the work space utilization rate. Once the staff is crowded, the system immediately issues a reminder. Moreover, people can control Cisco's collaboration system through voice, such as joining meetings, adjusting the volume, turning pages and other automated operations, reducing the risk of virus transmission that may be caused by touching the device with their hands.
"Zero Trust": Build comprehensive protection
According to various investigations, since the outbreak of the epidemic, global companies have experienced more cyber attacks than ever before. In this context, SMEs urgently need to use comprehensive security solutions to resist unpredictable survival risks and maintain stable development. As the world's largest network security company, Cisco has built a world-leading security research team "Cisco Talos" with its unique advantages and resources, and launched an integrated and open "zero trust" security solution.
Through Cisco Meraki Enterprise, you can easily connect remote employees and devices to create a fast, secure, and reliable network. At the same time, Cisco's next-generation firewall (Firepower1000), advanced malware protection (AMP) and advanced email security protection series of solutions can work together seamlessly to protect network access and prevent bad network requests, malware and viruses. Through globalization of technology and service capabilities, Cisco is able to extend its network security capabilities to any region, providing small and medium-sized enterprises with efficient, consistent, and unlimited security protection.
Lin Xiangyang, Senior Vice President of Cisco Greater China and General Manager of Emerging Business in Greater China, said: “When designing the'Cisco Designed SME Business Optimum Solution', we considered the problems that SMEs may encounter during application and deployment. There are many difficulties, and the product selection of the Cisco Designed solution is completely designed for these pain points. We hope that through the Cisco Designed solution, small and medium-sized enterprises can obtain the same high-quality technological innovation experience as enterprise-level users, and help users quickly adapt to the post-epidemic situation. In the business environment of the period, maintain productivity, brave the wind and waves, and move up against the current."
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