Ryan Uda, BI Program Manager

Elizabeth Rendon

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 63,050 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies

Cisco Systems uses Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) across several different business units, including Finance, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing & Engineering, and HR. The initial Oracle BI EE project at Cisco was used by the top 500 executives as the authoritative source for overall corporate performance. This included near real-time metrics around linearity of bookings, billings backlog, actual sales versus plan, orders versus demand, headcount optimization—essentially providing complete picture for executives to actively manage the business against market conditions. Today, over 25,000 users at Cisco are leveraging Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBI EE) as the corporate standard to enable better decisions, actions and business processes.