Get Trained
Start with Black Belt Partner Academy
Cisco Black Belt Partner Academy is a simplified and uniform education framework to acquire the skills you need to succeed, at no cost. Cisco Black Belt Academy for Partners covers all the Cisco architectures and solutions, with a focus on the solutions most applicable to Cisco customers. By becoming proficient in selling, promoting, and supporting Cisco’s latest solutions, you’ll be better positioned to assist your customers and expand their success.
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Get specialized
Specializations are designed to help you build and deliver services across your customer’s lifecycle by becoming an expert in specific areas. Earn more by taking advantage of incentives, digital marketing campaigns, sales enablement, and more.
Complete any of the six Express Specialization tracks to automatically achieve Select Certification.
Recommended specializations: Service Provider Express Track
This training will enable you to help customers bring new services to market faster, reduce their operating expenses, and enhance the end-user experience.
SMB Track
End-to-end solutions designed specifically for small and midsize business (SMB) customers. By selecting this track, you can expand your selling to SMB skills and increase your resources as your business grows.
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Bring new services to market faster with our Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP).
The Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP) is Cisco’s integrated go-to-market and business development program for partners that offer cloud, managed, or virtual managed services based on Cisco technologies.
The CMSP Express tier has been redesigned for Managed Service Providers to help you improve your profitability, get managed services to market quickly, and power you to do more of what you do best.
Cisco is investing more than ever in innovative technologies and is continuously expanding partners’ managed service offerings such as Meraki, Umbrella, Duo, Advanced Malware Protection (AMP), Stealthwatch Cloud, and Webex.
Learn more Learn about CMSP Simplified Pricing here.
Get certified
Cisco Partner Certifications are the foundation for our Channel Partner Programs. Certify your skill set to show customers that you have the expertise to help them succeed. A Select, Premier, or Gold Certification rewards you for becoming an expert in a specific technology or business area.
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Each certification level offers you a new wealth of benefits including incentives, digital marketing campaign assets, sales enablement, and more.
To qualify for Certified status, partners invest in one or more specializations, and meet certain service, support, and customer satisfaction requirements.
Incentives
Registered Partner
Select Certified
*Migrate customers to the latest solutions, return their old equipment to us and earn up to 64 percent in discounts when you sell eligible technologies. Also add on rebates when you sell certain technologies.
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Purchase discounted products, software, and services to use in demos, labs, and trainings.
*Get up to 62 percent in discounts when you displace the competitions products and replace with our solutions.
*Get up to 8 percent in discounts for bringing in new business or teaming with us early in the sales cycle on Cisco initiated deals. Attach services to product sales and get an additional 2 points discount.
Earn up to 74 percent in discounts when you introduce targeted technology into new accounts or that have been competitively held.
*Wake up dormant accounts and upgrade customers to newer solutions to earn up to 74 percent in discounts and also add on rebates when you sell certain technologies.
*Get up to 15 percent in rebates when you sell our architectures.
*Get up to 21 percent extra in rebates when you activate key features in software you sold.
*These incentives are all stackable with each other. This means you have the potential to get more discounts and rebates. Discounts can vary based on the regions.
