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How Innovative Thinking Helped One Retail Company Merakify
Their MissionJOE ARONOW, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Meraki
JIM GIANTOMENICO, CIO, Avenue Stores
Introductions
Joe Aronow, Product Marketing
Manager
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Jim Giantomenico, CIO
Agenda• About Cisco Meraki
• About Avenue Stores• Key Business Challenges• Choosing Meraki• Avenue’s Meraki Network
• Dashboard Demo
• Meraki for Retail
• Q & ANRF 2017
About Cisco Meraki
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Simplifying across IT with cloud management
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A complete cloud managed networking solutionWireless, switching, security, SD-WAN, communications, EMM, and security camerasIntegrated hardware, software, and cloud services
Leader in cloud-managed networkingAmong Cisco’s fastest growing portfoliosOver 140,000 unique customersOver 2 million Meraki network devices online
Trusted by thousands of customers worldwide:
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Technology that simply works
Technology can connect us, empower us, and drive us. At Meraki we believe by simplifying powerful technology we can
free passionate people to focus on their mission and reach groups previously left in the darkness.
About Avenue Stores
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Avenue StoresAvenue stores is a specialty women’s apparel retailer focused on plus size clothing and accessories.
Avenue operates 295 store locations in 34 states across the continental United States. International sales are driven via Avenue.com.
The overall IT team is comprised of 23 IT professionals, but only two of those team members are responsible for the network infrastructure (one Supervisor and one Support Specialist).
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Avenue Stores | Mission Statement
We begin each season with a renewed passion for fashion to create the best new looks and styles. We continually strive to offer the best fit, value, service and shopping experience. We uphold the highest standards of integrity, honesty and work ethics. We are determined to stay ahead of the curve on how to best serve the needs of our customers. At Avenue® we believe in loving your clothes; loving your style – but above all, loving yourself.
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Avenue Stores
• What are the major challenges of your business?
• What are your day-to-day challenges?
• How are you using technology to enable your business?
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Avenue Stores
• What led you to Meraki?
• What other solutions were you considering?
• Why did Avenue go with Meraki?
• What was it like to deploy Meraki?
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Avenue Stores
• What is life like now with Meraki?
• How has this helped with your sales?
• What are the key benefits your organization has seen since adopting Meraki?
• Any plans to leverage any additional Meraki technologies?
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Dashboard Demo
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Meraki Product Portfolio
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Empowering Retailers with Turnkey Solutions
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Rapid, programmatic deployment & configuration auditing with Network Templates
Understand customer behavior through rich analytics
Driving customer engagement with innovative technology
Developer APIs for highly flexible and custom solutions
Rich, Built-in Analytics in one Solution
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Deep insight into network usage:
• Number of devices, device types (iPhone, Android, iPads, etc.)
• Application traffic statistics
Network stats summarised automatically
Monthly email reports to share with colleagues, marketing department
Understand User Behavior and Influencers
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Identify websites customers browse most frequentlyTrack user location across your sites (customers,
employees)Optionally block access to competitors’ sites using Layer
7 firewall
A complete cloud managed IT portfolioSingle pane of glass management
Systems ManagerEMM
MCCommunications
MR Access Points
MSEthernet Switches
MX Security Appliances
MVSecurity Cameras
The Meraki Full Stack
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Risk-free evaluationmeraki.cisco.com/eval
Contact your Meraki repmeraki.cisco.com/contact
Attend a webinarmeraki.cisco.com/NRF
Visit us at the boothCisco booth #1963
Next steps
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