Meet the 2022 Cisco Customer Experience Heroes

At Cisco CX, our customers are our heroes. We are honored to work with change makers, innovators, and trailblazers who have partnered with our teams to achieve industry-leading and transformational outcomes for their businesses. We value the opportunity to help our customers embrace their possible.  

Today, we want to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of our customers by highlighting three who were selected to receive the 2022 Cisco CX Customer Hero Award. This award is presented to CX Customers to celebrate their stories of innovation and inspire the industry with their incredible successes. Congratulations to our winners! 

Americas: Carnival Corporation

John Harshaw and his team at Carnival partnered with Cisco CX to launch their technological transformation and to become the first cruise line to get all ships back in service after they were halted due to the pandemic. While the ships were out of service, the Carnival and Cisco teams focused on developing and executing Carnival’s “Return to Service” strategy, getting ships ready to sail again to guarantee guests the outstanding experience they expect. The teams worked together to achieve an integrated communications network for each ship by reducing downtime risk, simplifying network operations, and reducing complexity. They also created health scores to allow for data-driven decision-making and to enable proactive scaling and automation of IT operations. This partnership helped Carnival successfully return ships to service and continue to deliver an exceptional experience for their customers and crew. 

John Harshaw, Vice President, IT 

 

APJC: Rakuten Mobile

Rakuten Mobile is Japan’s fourth and newest mobile carrier. Cisco Business Critical Services has been a trusted partner for Sharad Sriwastawa and his team in their innovation journey to provide low-cost, high-quality services, including 5G and IoT. Rakuten Mobile was able to accelerate time to market for applications and services through collaboration with Cisco Customer Experience (CX) in planning and management of the architecture design for upgrading their network. Through this initiative, Rakuten’s entire network has accelerated their automation, allowing them to deploy services faster and reduce latency. Through their continued strategic partnership with Cisco, Rakuten Mobile can grow and innovate in new ways, as they work towards their goal of revolutionizing the way people live and work in the 5G era. 

Sharad Sriwastawa, Chief Technology Officer 

EMEAR: Société Générale

Vivien Strady and his team at Société Générale set out to migrate the IT infrastructure to private cloud to deliver even more reliable and secure services to their customers. Cisco Business Critical Services provided the team with expert training to equip them with the skills to complete the transformation themselves, resulting in the majority of the bank’s workload migrating to private cloud. As a result of this initiative, Société Générale was able to reduce operating costs as well. Through their partnership with Cisco CX, Vivien and his team can continue delivering the outstanding service that customers have come to expect from Société Générale.  

Vivien Strady, Global Head of Data Center and Network 

Celebrating Our Customers’ Innovation

We created the CX Customer Hero Awards to recognize the incredible work our customers are achieving in their industries. We thank our 2022 winners for their continued support and partnership with Cisco CX, and we’re looking forward to seeing what else can be accomplished—together as we embrace the possible. 

Looking to learn more about the stories behind our 2022 CX Customer Heroes? Over the next few months, we will be working with our winners to tell their stories in a variety of ways to showcase their accomplishments. These stories will be featured on Cisco’s digital channels and platforms. Stay tuned and follow @CiscoCX on Twitter for more CX updates! 

Explore our Cisco CX Superheroes Today

To read more about our customer hero’s Cisco CX Customer Stories Look Book—a catalog of stories highlighting how Cisco customers are transforming, pioneering, and innovating to drive impact in their organizations and across the world. 

Our most recent stories include:

• Repsol (Networking): Achieving net-zero emissions through digital transformation and a cloud-first strategy.  
• Repsol (Security): Securing the network of a global multi-energy provider through proactive, automated threat detection. 
• Aeroports de Montreal: Enabling a frictionless, engaging, and secure passenger experience. 

If you are interested in sharing your own customer story, connect with us at cxcustomerstories@cisco.com. We’d love to hear from you! 

Don’t have a story to tell just yet? We can help you build it, right along with your network! 

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