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Powering Decisions with Agentic AI: How Cisco Scales Financial Analytics with Strategy Solutions

Cisco is a worldwide technology leader that offers networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and software, and other high-technology products.
Cisco delivers the critical infrastructure organizations need to connect clients and communities across the world. They are also an integral partner in Strategy's ongoing efforts to enhance the enterprise BI experience with generative AI.
“Strategy One has revolutionized management reporting for Cisco's finance office with its scalable platform, delivering timely financial metrics to global leadership for data-driven decisions.”
John Varughese
Senior Director of Data Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Bridging the Gap Between Data and Decisions
Cisco recognized that although financial leaders are making decisions faster than ever, the insights they depend on remain buried in dashboards, complex tools, and siloed systems.
Traditional business intelligence workflows required teams to sift through data-heavy reports, often relying on specialized analysts to extract meaningful insights. To bridge this gap, Cisco partnered with Strategy to deliver smarter, faster access to insights through a suite of workflow-enhancing solutions and conversational analytics—powered by Strategy AI.
Elevating Analytics with Strategy Solutions
Cisco leveraged Strategy’s semantic layer to strengthen data connectivity. Instead of working in silos, leaders could now rely on secure, governed, and consistent definitions across every financial metric and dimension.
With Strategy's robust suite of REST APIs, they enhanced the Cisco Financial Analyzer (CFA) application by embedding Strategy AI directly into their Webex platform, used by their global finance teams. This enabled leaders around the world to conversationally access trusted data insights in real time.

Unlocking Faster Insights with GenAI
The Cisco Financial Analyzer (CFA) application leveraged Strategy AI to turn complex financial data into clear, contextual insights. It enabled users to ask questions in natural language and receive instant, accurate responses directly within their workflows.
Its scalable, user-friendly design supported rapid onboarding for more than 1,000 users, delivering conversational analytics with context-aware capabilities.
Cisco accelerated decision-making and improved agility—empowering finance teams to make faster, data-driven decisions without switching tools or sifting through dashboards.
“Our AI-driven conversational analytics provide instant insights to finance leadership around the world. Using the Strategy platform's REST APIs allowed us to integrate generative AI seamlessly within Cisco Webex to further enhance our user's experience.”
John Varughese
Senior Director of Data Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Transforming Financial Analytics with Strategy AI

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