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Rockwell Automation and Cisco are committed to help your business performance by bridging technical and cultural gaps between production and business systems. Digitalization requires the connection of isolated systems and processes to support modern IIoT technologies. Rockwell Automation and Cisco leverage best practices from operations and information technology with jointly developed resources, products, and training.

Watch the Rockwell Automation and Cisco CEOs discuss customer needs and the value proposition of our strategic alliance partnership.

“…As we bring The Connected Enterprise® to life, it’s really about creating that strong foundation for taking data and turning into useful information.”

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13+ year Strategic Alliance Partnership solving IT/OT convergence challenges to achieve digital transformation for The Connected Enterprise

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The foundation for secure, successful digital transformation and IT/OT Convergence

Together, we address relevant industry initiatives

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Together, Rockwell Automation and Cisco understand the IT and OT challenges manufacturer’s face like limited network and data visibility, underutilized resources, cybersecurity threats, and the need for agility to respond to changing market demands. Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) solves these and other common business problems to enable a successful digital transformation.

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The global average total cost of a data breach in 2020 was $3.86M and data breaches caused by IoT/OT environments were associated with higher costs.

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Defining a data architecture that everyone can work with is a key early-stage task in any Industrial Transformation (IX) program.

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Enable Business Agility

✓ Transform proprietary systems to open systems

✓ Capture, consolidate, store, and manage operational data

✓ Respond in real-time to changing customer demands

✓ Reduce time to scale new products and services

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✓ Enable workforce with new skillsets

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✓ Secure network architecture with end-to-end security

✓ Increase visibility of network traffic, use access, and activities

✓ Safeguard workers, assets, and information

✓ Accelerate threat detection and mitigation


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Rockwell Automation and Cisco have combined IT and OT domain expertise across multiple industries to meet your unique challenges with proven, repeatable, and scalable solutions.

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