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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="30191" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-course/training-scaci" lastchanged="2025-10-20T09:26:48+02:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-courses"><title>Selling Cisco ACI</title><productcode>SCACI</productcode><vendorcode>FL</vendorcode><vendorname>Fast Lane</vendorname><fullproductcode>FL-SCACI</fullproductcode><version>1.0</version><objective>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What are the business drivers for ACI and ACI Anywhere&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What trigger questions to ask key customer stakeholders to help qualify ACI opportunities and where the best insertion points are.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Strategies to overcome objections.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Where to find additional sales resources.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to demo the highlights of an ACI Anywhere solution.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><outline>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Business Requirements Driving Change&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Operational Opportunities of IT Organizations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Infrastructure planning, delivery and installation considerations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How Cisco ACI delivers an intent-based networking framework to enable agility in the data center&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Top Security Challenges for Data Center&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Service Automation for MultiCloud&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cisco ACI Anywhere components:&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Multi-site Orchestrator&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Virtual ACI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cloud ACI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Day 2 Operations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ACI to the Edge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ACI Partner Ecosystem&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case-Studies examined&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What trigger questions to ask key customer stakeholders to help qualify ACI Anywhere&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ACI opportunities and where the best insertion points are.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Strategies to overcome objections.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Where to find additional sales resources.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to demo the highlights of a DUO solution.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Final knowledge-check: -&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Quick-fire Quiz (Slido or similar)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>- What are the business drivers for ACI and ACI Anywhere
- What trigger questions to ask key customer stakeholders to help qualify ACI opportunities and where the best insertion points are.
- Strategies to overcome objections.
- Where to find additional sales resources.
- How to demo the highlights of an ACI Anywhere solution.</objective_plain><outline_plain>- Business Requirements Driving Change
- Operational Opportunities of IT Organizations
- Infrastructure planning, delivery and installation considerations
- How Cisco ACI delivers an intent-based networking framework to enable agility in the data center
- Top Security Challenges for Data Center
- Service Automation for MultiCloud
- Cisco ACI Anywhere components:
- Multi-site Orchestrator
- Virtual ACI
- Cloud ACI
- Day 2 Operations
- ACI to the Edge
- ACI Partner Ecosystem
- Case-Studies examined
- What trigger questions to ask key customer stakeholders to help qualify ACI Anywhere
- ACI opportunities and where the best insertion points are.
- Strategies to overcome objections.
- Where to find additional sales resources.
- How to demo the highlights of a DUO solution.

Final knowledge-check: -



- Quick-fire Quiz (Slido or similar)</outline_plain><duration unit="d" days="0">0.5 days</duration><miles/></course>