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How Innovative Thinking Helped One Retail Company Merakify

Their MissionJOE ARONOW, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Meraki

JIM GIANTOMENICO, CIO, Avenue Stores

Introductions

Joe Aronow, Product Marketing

Manager

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Jim Giantomenico, CIO

Agenda• About Cisco Meraki

• About Avenue Stores• Key Business Challenges• Choosing Meraki• Avenue’s Meraki Network

• Dashboard Demo

• Meraki for Retail

• Q & ANRF 2017

About Cisco Meraki

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Simplifying across IT with cloud management

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A complete cloud managed networking solutionWireless, switching, security, SD-WAN, communications, EMM, and security camerasIntegrated hardware, software, and cloud services

Leader in cloud-managed networkingAmong Cisco’s fastest growing portfoliosOver 140,000 unique customersOver 2 million Meraki network devices online

Trusted by thousands of customers worldwide:

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Technology that simply works

Technology can connect us, empower us, and drive us.  At Meraki we believe by simplifying powerful technology we can

free passionate people to focus on their mission and reach groups previously left in the darkness.

About Avenue Stores

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Avenue StoresAvenue stores is a specialty women’s apparel retailer focused on plus size clothing and accessories.

Avenue operates 295 store locations in 34 states across the continental United States. International sales are driven via Avenue.com.

The overall IT team is comprised of 23 IT professionals, but only two of those team members are responsible for the network infrastructure (one Supervisor and one Support Specialist).

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Avenue Stores | Mission Statement

We begin each season with a renewed passion for fashion to create the best new looks and styles. We continually strive to offer the best fit, value, service and shopping experience. We uphold the highest standards of integrity, honesty and work ethics. We are determined to stay ahead of the curve on how to best serve the needs of our customers. At Avenue® we believe in loving your clothes; loving your style – but above all, loving yourself.

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Avenue Stores

• What are the major challenges of your business?

• What are your day-to-day challenges?

• How are you using technology to enable your business?

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Avenue Stores

• What led you to Meraki?

• What other solutions were you considering?

• Why did Avenue go with Meraki?

• What was it like to deploy Meraki?

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Avenue Stores

• What is life like now with Meraki?

• How has this helped with your sales?

• What are the key benefits your organization has seen since adopting Meraki?

• Any plans to leverage any additional Meraki technologies?

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Dashboard Demo

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Meraki Product Portfolio

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Empowering Retailers with Turnkey Solutions

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Rapid, programmatic deployment & configuration auditing with Network Templates

Understand customer behavior through rich analytics

Driving customer engagement with innovative technology

Developer APIs for highly flexible and custom solutions

Rich, Built-in Analytics in one Solution

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Deep insight into network usage:

• Number of devices, device types (iPhone, Android, iPads, etc.)

• Application traffic statistics

Network stats summarised automatically

Monthly email reports to share with colleagues, marketing department

Understand User Behavior and Influencers

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Identify websites customers browse most frequentlyTrack user location across your sites (customers,

employees)Optionally block access to competitors’ sites using Layer

7 firewall

A complete cloud managed IT portfolioSingle pane of glass management

Systems ManagerEMM

MCCommunications

MR Access Points

MSEthernet Switches

MX Security Appliances

MVSecurity Cameras

The Meraki Full Stack

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Risk-free evaluationmeraki.cisco.com/eval

Contact your Meraki repmeraki.cisco.com/contact

Attend a webinarmeraki.cisco.com/NRF

Visit us at the boothCisco booth #1963

Next steps

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