We see our customers across a range of industries are striving to become digital enterprises. Easier said than done in today's hyper distributed environments. With over 14 billion devices online today and 50 billion expected by 2020, the exponential increase of data is being created by people and processes connecting from everywhere. It is becoming harder to reach that data,secure that data, and much less draw an insight and enable a person or process to take action on the data. The ability to secure, aggregate, automate, and draw insights from an organization's own data -with speed -will define value for that organization.

At Cisco, we are making investments in software for analytics and automation to enable our customers to pull data from everywhere for real-time insights, integrate and automate increasingly complex systems and processes, and engage people in context. This is what it means to be a digital enterprise. This new blog platform will serve as an open forum for discussion on multiple topics related to analytics and automation, news and updates from Cisco as well as stories of success from our customers and partners.

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