Sample Executive Summary From a Cisco Service-Oriented Network Workshop Service Engagement

This document is an example of a white paper executive summary from a Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) Workshop Service engagement for a diversified financial services company providing banking, insurance, wealth management, investments, and consumer finance. The complete 64-page white paper covers application-oriented networking proof of concepts, networking infrastructure services recommendations, and infrastructure design and management recommendations for an architectural approach. The Cisco SONA Workshop Service engagement and white paper were delivered to this customer in April 2007. Each Cisco SONA Workshop Service engagement - and the resulting solutions white paper - is customized to perform an in-depth study of the real-world problems faced by the customer and to explore Cisco solutions of near-term value in addressing those challenges.