Cisco bags A-Team of Saggezza, Chennai

The acquisition is aligned to Cisco’s strategic goals to develop innovative big data analytics, and cloud technologies, while also cultivating top talent. The Advanced Analytics team will join the Cisco Enterprise Networking Engineering Group, led by Ravi Chandrasekaran, SVP. 

This talent acquisition brings unique expertise in analytics, cloud and secure platform development. Given the importance of analytics for optimising network performance, these capabilities will complement Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture (DNA). 

By adding a team of analytics experts, Cisco will augment its current analytics capabilities and improve insights into network performance and automation, accelerate Cisco DNA development efforts, and enhance our cloud and SaaS analytics offerings.  The acquisition reflects Cisco’s strong belief that analytics will play a critical role in the building of next-generation networks designed for an era of cloud, IoT and pervasive security threats. 

The Advanced Analytics team is a select group of platform analytics experts within Saggezza with unique capabilities in cloud and secure platform development. This team has been responsible for developing innovative technology that powers Saggezza’s internal analytics platform, which enables customers to rapidly acquire and analyse data, creating complex rules and new data visualisation applications. With this announcement, Cisco has acquired a high-performing team of analytics experts to bolster ongoing innovation in this space.