Retail's BIG Show January 15-17, 2017 How Innovative Thinking Helped One Retail Company Merakify Their Mission Joe Aronow, Cisco Meraki Jim Giantomenico, Avenue Stores

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How Innovative Thinking Helped One
Retail Company Merakify Their
Mission
JOE ARONOW, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Meraki
JIM GIANTOMENICO, CIO, Avenue Stores

2. Introductions
Joe Aronow,
Product Marketing Manager
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Jim Giantomenico,
CIO

3. Agenda
• About Cisco Meraki
• About Avenue Stores
• Key Business Challenges
• Choosing Meraki
• Avenue’s Meraki Network
• Dashboard Demo
• Meraki for Retail
• Q & A
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4. About Cisco Meraki
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5. Simplifying across IT with cloud management
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A complete cloud managed networking solution
Wireless, switching, security, SD-WAN,
communications, EMM, and security cameras
Integrated hardware, software, and cloud services
Leader in cloud-managed networking
Among Cisco’s fastest growing portfolios
Over 140,000 unique customers
Over 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.

7. About Avenue Stores
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8. Avenue Stores
Avenue 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Dashboard Demo
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14. Meraki Product Portfolio
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15. 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

16. 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

17. Understand User Behavior and Influencers
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Identify websites customers browse most frequently
Track user location across your sites (customers, employees)
Optionally block access to competitors’ sites using Layer 7
firewall

18. A complete cloud managed IT portfolio
Single pane of glass management
Systems Manager
EMM
MC
Communications
MR
Access Points
MS
Ethernet
Switches
MX
Security Appliances
MV
Security Cameras
The Meraki Full Stack
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19. Risk-free evaluation
meraki.cisco.com/eval
Contact your Meraki rep
meraki.cisco.com/contact
Attend a webinar
meraki.cisco.com/NRF
Visit us at the booth
Cisco booth #1963
Next steps
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