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Cisco seeks to balance innovation with security as it rolls out hundreds of gen AI applications.

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“This has saved us roughly $10 million.” The assistant uses an RAG architecture to semantically index WebEx’s 3,600 help articles and dynamically generate responses to user queries.

Reported impact

Business outcome

Accelerates development process Maintains low latency for virtual assistant Protects data during experimentation

  • Cost Reduction
  • Risk Reduction
  • Speed to Market

Solution

Cisco seeks to balance innovation with security as it rolls out hundreds of gen AI applications. Cisco created sandbox clusters using MongoDB Atlas and adopted MongoDB Vector Search on Atlas to power retrieval-augmented generation. It sought ways to streamline the path from experimentation to production while maintaining strict security standards. Providing a unified, secure vector database to build gen AI apps MongoDB achieved Cisco’s rigorous security certifications in record time, earning approval to handle the company’s most sensitive data, including source code. Once the certifications were in place, Cisco’s Security and Trust Organization worked with MongoDB to create sandbox clusters using. The team also employed to power Cisco’s retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities. Teams can safely experiment with gen AI in these environments without risking data leaks or compromising security best practices.

Data flow

Business documents, tickets, records, and other operational content stay in MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and MongoDB Atlas, where search indexes or vector embeddings are built and then queried in real time to supply grounded results to applications, assistants, or discovery features. Upstream and downstream integrations include WebEx help content, CRM systems.

Solution architecture

2 components · 2 layers
  1. Storage
    • MongoDB Atlas Stores the operational, document, and context data behind Cisco's AI-powered search and assistant experiences.
  2. Serving
    • MongoDB Atlas Vector Search Retrieves semantically relevant context from Cisco's data for AI, search, and recommendation workflows.

Architecture clues

  • AI agents or assistants are layered on top of the MongoDB data platform.
  • The deployment integrates with CRM systems.
  • The deployment integrates with WebEx help content.
  • Vector search is part of the retrieval layer for semantic or generative-AI use cases.

Evidence from the source

“AI is going to be integrated into pretty much everything. It’s not a matter of what product will have AI, it is what product will not have AI in the future.”
“Developers are free to focus on their tasks from the beginning without having to check boxes for approval or worry about encryption or other security measures,”
“MongoDB helps us accelerate the development process.”
“The virtual assistant has been in production for over three years and has successfully deflected or resolved more than 100 support cases,”
Transparency Evidence & methodology 92/100 reference value · 79% confidence · 1 source

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value92/100
  • Problem clarity12/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    2 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence79%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    4 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance0/10
    The publication date has no documented provenance.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

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    Cisco customer story

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    Vendor-published customer story
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    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
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Date evidence

  • First archived Aug 13, 2024 · Internet Archive · Independent First Wayback Machine capture; confirms the page existed by this date, not when it was published.
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