Deepen Your Skills, Enter New Markets

The Master Unified Communications Specialization builds on the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization and targets and elite group of partners. Partners with a highly qualified Unified Communications practice can achieve a Master Unified Communications Specialization, regardless of certification level.

The Master Unified Communications Specialization offers partners greater opportunities for competitive differentiation, branding, and the highest Cisco VIP rebate for providing more sophisticated, value-added Cisco Unified Communications solutions.

Master Unified Communications Specialization Benefits

• Provide a vehicle for differentiation based on expertise in selling Cisco solutions that integrate technology, applications and services to solve their customer’s business issues.
• Identify and reward partners who have successfully demonstrated expertise in selling, deploying, and providing services for value-added Cisco solutions.
• Enables a closer technical relationship with Cisco, including gaining access to part of Cisco's services intellectual property. This should result in higher levels of service and, consequently, better customer satisfaction for users of Cisco products.
• Prestige and differentiation associated with a Branded identity/designation
• Ability to market achievement to customers
• Recognition of technology excellence on the online Partner Locator
• Opportunity for increased profitability with highest level Value Incentive Program (VIP) rebate percentage starting with VIP9 (February, 2007)
• Opportunity to grow your business with Cisco Unified Communications solutions to fuel increased sales and enable new value-added applications.
• Cisco Lifecycle Services leading practices provide opportunity for sustained, higher margin revenues.