Find out how Cisco partner Pressi saves time and increases productivity with SMART Designs to design network architectures.

1. Smart Designs Pinpoint Customer Options Faster
SME architecture tool highlights value of feature-rich Cisco solutions.
Customer Name: Pressi Business Impact
Industry: ICT • Greater efficiencies through streamlined network design
Location: Paris, France • Improved competitiveness due to time and cost savings
• Reduced risk through standardised architectures
Number of Employees: 40
Case Study
Business Challenge spend a lot of time on the Cisco website, researching all the the Smart Designs approach has proved especially useful in
Pressi, founded in 1989, has expanded into a busy integration different product features one at time,” says Francesco establishing the full range of features and functionality for
business, operating from two offices in or near Paris. Pressi’s Molino, Pressi’s technical manager. UC500 collaborative networking.
headquarters is at Sucy-en-Brie, 20 km from Paris, where Solution and Results He also cites the case of a new competitor that has recently
the sales, presales, systems design and engineering staff are After finding the Smart Designs templates on the Cisco entered the French market, offering VoIP at a price of one
based; a second office, in Paris, runs the commercial side. website, Francesco Molino realised they were an ideal sales euro per line, per month. Smart Designs helps Francesco
Pressi employs some 40 people, with annual revenues of tool to fulfill Pressi’s aims. They offer a logical, layered Molino demonstrate the competitor’s functional limitations
about €4million. approach to building new services on the foundation of a beside Cisco features, mobility (extension mobility) or single
The firm offers three main service strands: telephony and Cisco network, and allow him to see instantly the number reach, for example, that offer far greater business
networking, specialising in voice over IP(VoIP); servers and compatibility of Cisco product ranges in accordance with flexibility for the future.
workstations; and externalisation of information and customer business needs.
communication technology (ICT) through software as a “Using standardised Cisco architectures, we spend very little
service (SaaS). It uses data centre virtualisation technology to time putting right the kinds of issues that arise with a “With Smart Designs, I can be confident
enable customers to operate their email systems securely in nonstandardised architecture,” says Francesco Molino. “For
the cloud, for example.
that we won’t have any of the issues one
example, when we install VoIP telephony, we employ all-
may have with an individually designed
Pressi sells end-to-end solutions, from network audit and Cisco technology. So with Smart Designs, I can be confident
that we won’t have any of the issues one may have with an
architecture. I save two to three hours on
consultancy to implementation, maintenance, and protection
of assets. Customers range from enterprise-scale down to individually designed architecture. I’d say I save two to three each project by using Smart Designs.”
small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with up to 100 hours on each project by using Smart Designs.”
Francesco Molino
employees, including legal firms and other professional This kind of efficiency can add up to a significant cost saving, Technical Manager, Pressi
services providers. A Cisco Select partner, it uses Cisco® especially when the firm has a number of small business
technology in all its networking and telephony solutions. projects in progress. Such economies may help the firm
The firm needed to streamline its SME services, save time on compete more keenly on price, and protect its margins on
commissioned work. Yet, for Molino, the real value of Smart For More Information
design, and demonstrate rapidly and convincingly to
customers the value of a Cisco solution as a way to support Designs is being able to demonstrate quickly and clearly just To find out more about Cisco Smart Designs,
the worth of business investments into the future. “I used to how feature-rich Cisco small business solutions are. He says please go to: www.cisco.com/go/partner/smartdesigns
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