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Strategic Acquisitions and Accelerated Integration of Those Acquisitions are a Vital Capability of Cisco Systems Cisco Systems is in the business of building the infra- Cisco has entered many aspects of the business in structure that allows the Internet to work. As the which it competes through acquisitions. For instance, Internet evolved, however, Cisco's business was required in 2012, Cisco acquired TV software developer NDS to change with this evolution. As part of its advance- for $5 billion. NDS Group develops software for televiment, Cisco Systems has used an acquisition strategy sion networks. In particular, its solutions allow pay-TV to build network products and extend its reach into providers to deliver digital content to TVs, DVRs, PCs, new areas, both related and unrelated. In the beginning, and other multimedia devices. It provides solutions that digital connectivity was important through e-mail and protect digital content so that only paid subscribers can Web browsing and searches. This evolved into a network access it. Because of Cisco's customer-driven focus, it economy facilitating e-commerce, digital supply chains, has sought to help its customers capture these market and digital collaboration. Subsequently, the digital inter- transitions and meet their particular needs. Of course, action phase moved Cisco into developing infrastruc- Cisco also builds the routers that allow video data and ture for social media, mobile and cloud computing, and e-mail communications to come together through their digital video. The next stage seems to be "the Internet blade servers (individual and modular servers that cut of everything" connecting people, processes, and data. down on cabling). These routers and servers support This will require the basic core in routing, switching, cloud computing for the mobile devices that deliver the and services, as well as large data centers to facilitate video that NDS software enables on desktop and mobile visualization through cloud computing. Video and col- devices. laboration as well as basic architecture of the business Also in 2012, Cisco purchased Meraki for $1.2 billion. will be transforming to become the base strategic busi- Meraki provides solutions that optimize services in the ness blocks. Furthermore, the need to have strong digi- cloud. For instance, it offers mid-sized customers Wi-Fi, tal security will be paramount. switching, security, and mobile device management are a guest at a university or other company campus it acquisitions, Cisco has used acquisitions strategically supports, you can bring your own personal device into the to move into new areas as its environment changes, to network, which allows guest networking and facilitates learn about new technologies, and to gain knowledge application controls. It manages the firewall and other on new technologies as it experiences these transitions. advanced networking services to protect security as well. In the process of this rapid change, Cisco has develJohn Chambers, Cisco CEO, has helped the firm oped a distinct ability to integrate acquisitions. When move through the many transitions noted earlier. In the Cisco contemplates an acquisition, along with financial IT sector, 90 percent of acquisitions fail. However, as due diligence to make sure that it is paying the right Chambers notes, "although Cisco does better than anyone price, it develops a detailed plan for possible postelse, we know that a third of our acquisitions won't work" merger integration. It begins communicating early with Chambers worked for companies that did not successfully stakeholders about integration plans and conducts rigmake transitions. Wang Laboratories missed a transition, orous post-mortems to identify ways "to make subseand after experiencing this as an executive, Chambers quent integrations more efficient and effective." Once learned to have a "healthy paranoia." He adds, "more than a deal is completed, this allows the company to hit the anything, Ive tried to make Cisco a company that can ground running when the deal becomes public. Cisco see big transitions and move." One way they do this is to is ready "from Day 1 to explain how the two companies "listen to the customers very closely" to understand the are going to come together and provide unique value necessary changes. As Cisco makes the transition into the realize value." The firm does not "want the [acquired] thing network, not only must it organization to go in limbo," which can happen if the but it also must provide service to the cloud, integration process is not well thought out. Also, during that work in cellular network A the integration process, it is important to know how far acquired Intucell, accordingly, Cisco also the integration should go. Sometimes integration is too acquired Intucell, a self-optimizing network software deep, and value that was being sought in the acquisideveloper, for $475 million. It likewise acquired Truviso, tion is destroyed. Sometimes it may even pay to keep the Inc., a provider of network data analysis and reporting business separate from Cisco's other operations to allow software, for an undisclosed price (Truviso was partly the business to function without integration until the owned by venture capital firms and was headquartered necessary learning is complete. "Cisco learned the hard in Israel). Most recently, Cisco acquired Ubiquisys, way that complex deals require you to know at a high which cuts cellular carriers' costs "by shifting traffic level of detail how you're going to drive value." from congested towers to more targeted locations inside an office, home or public space, which also boosts the Aources: L. Capron, 2013, Cisco's corporate development portfolio: service's reliability." This shifting-traffic approach is 2730;D. FitzGerald \& S. Chaudhuri, 2013, Corporate news: Cisco especially efficient when seeking to improve "coverage doubles down on small-cell transmitters with Ubiquisys, Wall Street and subway stations." These acquisitions help cellular 2012, Cisco's Chambers: Driving change, Forbes, February 22, 68; network customers manage their products in the net- A. Moscaritolo, 2012, Cisco to acquire TV software developer NDS for work more efficiently in the delivery of data, e-mail, $5 billion, PC Magazine, March 1; B. Worthern, D. Cimilluca, \& A. Das, and video services. As you can see, for this series of B1; R. Myers, 2011, Integration acceleration, CFO, 27: 52-57. Case Discussion Questions 1. Of the "Reasons for Acquisitions" section in the chapter, which reasons are the primary drivers of Cisco's acquisition strategy? 2. Of the acquisitions Cisco has completed, which ones are horizontal acquisitions and which ones are vertical acquisitions? likelihood of being successful and why