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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/mother99/jacksonholdingcompany.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Join us as we dive deeper into Cisco and Cisco partner technology deployed at the Cisco Store! We asked Ali McKeand (Chief Technologist for Innovation at CAE Labs) to discuss how their technology\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n
We want to expedite how quickly we can deliver the value of new technology to both the retailer and their end customers. CAE Labs\u2019 innovation enables and provides capabilities that deliver rapid adoption of Cisco technology, which in turn drives down project costs and time. We\u2019ve built up deep domain knowledge and experience over the last three decades in retail and can effectively provision a new store location of Cisco technology in a couple of seconds rather than what traditionally might have taken numerous hours.<\/p>\n
Buyers are far more conscious about the products and services they purchase, especially with brands that are driving decarbonization. Utilizing powerful programmatic platforms, such as Cisco Meraki (Cisco Networking Cloud), and solutions such as WiserWatts from CAE Labs help to optimize network services to only be delivered during core operating hours, powering them off for the remaining parts of the day. It really is making an impact in the sustainability space: so far, we are saving over 10,000 kWh of energy waste per 30 days across our customer base and saving many metric tons of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n
CAE Labs dashboard<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love people to know how the blend of Cisco technology with API programmability, through solutions such as WiserWatts, can lead to a much more carbon-friendly, energy-conscious approach to powering the Cisco Store\u2019s technology \u2014 only when it\u2019s needed during core hours as opposed to a typical always-on approach.<\/p>\n
We saw WiserWatts showcased at Cisco Live:<\/a> through the combination of its use with smart power controllers (Meraki MT40), power consumption can be tracked and device usage can be live scheduled, supporting the retailer to only power \u2018on\u2019 their devices during core operational hours. WiserWatts has also been implemented in a live environment at Cisco\u2019s San Jose campus, realizing a 66% reduction in power consumption.<\/p>\n
The areas we\u2019re focused on are looking at how we provide retailers with service assurance when navigating their store infrastructure to the cloud \u2014 certainly Cisco Networking Cloud for Meraki and Catalyst devices. A lot of the capabilities we\u2019ve been developing over the years have been around service assurance and sustainability, as well as refined automation and orchestration, which are looking at how we can make changes at scale with a store-as-code approach.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got great co-innovation experience with a large national retailer in the UK over the past 5+ years, where, for example, we were able to execute a change at scale across thousands of locations within an hour; it would have traditionally taken them around 3 months to implement such change and at a much higher cost. From an e-commerce business perspective, that rapid change helped them onboard new business partnerships far quicker with the likes of Amazon and Deliveroo.<\/p>\n
We take this hyper Cisco focused programmatic codified approach to be able to manage, maintain and deliver value to large or small store estates. CAE Labs is trying to productize that approach, making it really easily accessible to consume and adopt.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where I see our API-integrated value deliver at its best for customers: large multi-site customers that can be retail, but can equally benefit healthcare and schools with hundreds of locations. In retail, it\u2019s about leveraging platforms like Cisco Meraki that help retailers adjust and adapt to forever-changing challenges as well as innovate quicker; the key to this is having a unified networking solution and foundation throughout all locations that enables a programmatic API-first approach.<\/p>\n
Frictionless experiences. We\u2019ve seen that over the last few years with several retailers we\u2019ve worked with: they\u2019re spending significant amounts of energy, time, and money figuring out what great looks like in the form of frictionless consumption. One example is that self-checkout experiences have continually expanded, and a lot of our retailers have far fewer manned checkout lanes. We\u2019re figuring out new ways in how we can leverage technology such as smart cameras and IoT sensors to improve the overall customer journey \u2014 from when they come in to when they leave \u2014 and we want to see how we can remove those friction points that hinder their experience.<\/p>\n
Over the next 5 years, I can foresee there being less human presence in store estates, and more refinement on how we can get from A to B as quickly as possible using technology as the enabler. The Cisco Meraki platform is one of the best networking platforms out there to do that, as it combinates in solving many problems for retailers outside of just pure network connectivity like other competing vendors.<\/p>\n
Simplification of their technology stacks. Retail has gotten complex over the last five years, and especially over the pandemic a lot of \u2018temp-tech\u2019 was deployed to solve a pertinent timely problem, but not necessarily fully utilized and adopted. The bedrock and foundation of any retailer is the underlying infrastructure on which different colleague and customer experiences (and other retail technologies) operate and layer on top. The dawn of more easily attainable automation potentially helps this simplification as well.<\/p>\n
We also can\u2019t ignore security. The programmatic, scalable, and secure architecture from Cisco has been the winning platform for a lot of retail projects that we\u2019ve done over the past decade.<\/p>\n
Interested in learning more about CAE Labs? Visit our page<\/a> or reach out<\/a> now.<\/p>\n
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Join us as we dive deeper into Cisco and Cisco partner technology deployed at the Cisco Store! We asked Ali McKeand (Chief Technologist for Innovation at CAE Labs) to discuss how their technology\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n
We want to expedite how quickly we can deliver the value of new technology to both the retailer and their end customers. CAE Labs\u2019 innovation enables and provides capabilities that deliver rapid adoption of Cisco technology, which in turn drives down project costs and time. We\u2019ve built up deep domain knowledge and experience over the last three decades in retail and can effectively provision a new store location of Cisco technology in a couple of seconds rather than what traditionally might have taken numerous hours.<\/p>\n
Buyers are far more conscious about the products and services they purchase, especially with brands that are driving decarbonization. Utilizing powerful programmatic platforms, such as Cisco Meraki (Cisco Networking Cloud), and solutions such as WiserWatts from CAE Labs help to optimize network services to only be delivered during core operating hours, powering them off for the remaining parts of the day. It really is making an impact in the sustainability space: so far, we are saving over 10,000 kWh of energy waste per 30 days across our customer base and saving many metric tons of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n
CAE Labs dashboard<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love people to know how the blend of Cisco technology with API programmability, through solutions such as WiserWatts, can lead to a much more carbon-friendly, energy-conscious approach to powering the Cisco Store\u2019s technology \u2014 only when it\u2019s needed during core hours as opposed to a typical always-on approach.<\/p>\n
We saw WiserWatts showcased at Cisco Live:<\/a> through the combination of its use with smart power controllers (Meraki MT40), power consumption can be tracked and device usage can be live scheduled, supporting the retailer to only power \u2018on\u2019 their devices during core operational hours. WiserWatts has also been implemented in a live environment at Cisco\u2019s San Jose campus, realizing a 66% reduction in power consumption.<\/p>\n
The areas we\u2019re focused on are looking at how we provide retailers with service assurance when navigating their store infrastructure to the cloud \u2014 certainly Cisco Networking Cloud for Meraki and Catalyst devices. A lot of the capabilities we\u2019ve been developing over the years have been around service assurance and sustainability, as well as refined automation and orchestration, which are looking at how we can make changes at scale with a store-as-code approach.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got great co-innovation experience with a large national retailer in the UK over the past 5+ years, where, for example, we were able to execute a change at scale across thousands of locations within an hour; it would have traditionally taken them around 3 months to implement such change and at a much higher cost. From an e-commerce business perspective, that rapid change helped them onboard new business partnerships far quicker with the likes of Amazon and Deliveroo.<\/p>\n
We take this hyper Cisco focused programmatic codified approach to be able to manage, maintain and deliver value to large or small store estates. CAE Labs is trying to productize that approach, making it really easily accessible to consume and adopt.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where I see our API-integrated value deliver at its best for customers: large multi-site customers that can be retail, but can equally benefit healthcare and schools with hundreds of locations. In retail, it\u2019s about leveraging platforms like Cisco Meraki that help retailers adjust and adapt to forever-changing challenges as well as innovate quicker; the key to this is having a unified networking solution and foundation throughout all locations that enables a programmatic API-first approach.<\/p>\n
Frictionless experiences. We\u2019ve seen that over the last few years with several retailers we\u2019ve worked with: they\u2019re spending significant amounts of energy, time, and money figuring out what great looks like in the form of frictionless consumption. One example is that self-checkout experiences have continually expanded, and a lot of our retailers have far fewer manned checkout lanes. We\u2019re figuring out new ways in how we can leverage technology such as smart cameras and IoT sensors to improve the overall customer journey \u2014 from when they come in to when they leave \u2014 and we want to see how we can remove those friction points that hinder their experience.<\/p>\n
Over the next 5 years, I can foresee there being less human presence in store estates, and more refinement on how we can get from A to B as quickly as possible using technology as the enabler. The Cisco Meraki platform is one of the best networking platforms out there to do that, as it combinates in solving many problems for retailers outside of just pure network connectivity like other competing vendors.<\/p>\n
Simplification of their technology stacks. Retail has gotten complex over the last five years, and especially over the pandemic a lot of \u2018temp-tech\u2019 was deployed to solve a pertinent timely problem, but not necessarily fully utilized and adopted. The bedrock and foundation of any retailer is the underlying infrastructure on which different colleague and customer experiences (and other retail technologies) operate and layer on top. The dawn of more easily attainable automation potentially helps this simplification as well.<\/p>\n
We also can\u2019t ignore security. The programmatic, scalable, and secure architecture from Cisco has been the winning platform for a lot of retail projects that we\u2019ve done over the past decade.<\/p>\n
Interested in learning more about CAE Labs? Visit our page<\/a> or reach out<\/a> now.<\/p>\n