By providing partners with a path for certification in specific technologies, Cisco enables partners to plan, design, and deploy emerging technology solutions for their customers. After certification, the CENS program continues to provide tools, support, and methodology refresh to ensure partners' continued success. A. CENS will focus on enabling partners to deploy emerging technology from Cisco. A. CENS reduces risk and time to market for new services by providing partners with packaged and pretested methodologies, as well as technical training and mentoring for staff.
CENS authorization allows partners to leverage Cisco branding.
The program also recognizes partners who demonstrate proven capabilities and track records of success in specific CENS technologies. CENS-authorized partners will be promoted by Cisco as partners who have proven track records of success. Your first step is to identify a CENS technology that you plan to market, taking into consideration the human resource and capability requirements required. Next, you will assign marketing and engineering resources to lead CENS development for your organization. Once the appropriate technical leads are trained, you must identify a customer agreeing to an onsite implementation, during which a Cisco CENS consultant mentors you in service delivery.