Cisco IQ Is the Engine. Partners Are the Business.

Cisco IQ Is the Engine. Partners Are the Business.

By Liz Centoni,
Publication Date: 2026-10-26 19:55:00

Cisco IQ Partner Support – Standard is now generally available. For the first time, partners can deliver Cisco IQ under their own brand, through their own experts, as part of their own services practice. 

Generali, one of the largest insurance and asset management groups in the world, previously spent four days on a single security advisory tracking down which of its 16,000 devices across eight countries were affected. With Cisco IQ, it takes ten minutes, and that includes an actionable report.

Georgetown University tells a similar story. With 6,500 access points, 500 switches, and 45 separate service contracts, renewals took two months of manual work. Now they get one aggregate view in 20 minutes.

Four days of work turns into ten minutes. Two months now equates to 20 minutes.

That is not an efficiency gain. That is a different business.

A year ago, we introduced Cisco IQ and made the case that agility isn’t optional anymore. Today, more than 16,000 customers are running on it…