Overview Environmental sustainability Customer experience

Customer experience is a competitive differentiator

Customers are increasingly moving to software as a service (SaaS) and recurring offers, requiring them to work with trusted providers. This makes a focus on customer experience critical to your success. It also presents tremendous opportunity to deliver value-added services after the initial purchase. With the customer experience specialization, you can:

  • Sell more of your services
  • Differentiate with new lifecycle offers
  • Deliver new managed services
  • Increase product expansion
  • Improve renewal rates

Customer Experience Specialization webinars

Learn about the Customer Experience Specialization, designed to help you build and expand your customer success practice with the right people, tools, processes, and infrastructure to best support customers throughout the lifecycle.

Customer Experience Specialization requirements

This specialization has two levels, each with its own set of requirements.

Customer Experience Specialization

  • Four unique individuals required
  • Two customer references validated by third party
  • Customer Success practice documentation validated by third party

Advanced Customer Experience Specialization

  • Six unique individuals required
  • Two customer references validated by third party
  • Customer Success practice capability review validation by third party
Customer on a training and learning path with key touchpoints and milestones.

Customer Experience training

Cisco customer experience training and examinations prepare you for key roles in services or subscription-based organizations, including:

Get and keep a specialization

Review the requirements to verify that you qualify. Apply and agree to the terms and conditions. After receiving approval, ensure that you maintain the requirements. Renew your specialization annually. (Partner admin must apply and renew).


Tools for success

SuccessHub

Build a sustainable customer success practice for higher customer satisfaction and expanded opportunity.

Lifecycle Advantage

Maximize revenue by delivering a personalized, end-to-end customer experience across the entire lifecycle.

Customer Success Manager (CSM)

Validate your customer experience skills to help deliver immediate value to your customer relationships.

Lifecycle Incentives

Get rewarded for driving software use, adoption, and expansion with our new Lifecycle Incentives.