The case initially explains the advancement of Cisco Systems of San Jose, California, from a narrowly-focused changing and routing devices supplier, with an extremely reliable competitive strategy, into a diversified networking and IT giant. This development was sustained by lots of acquisitions, the reasoning which established in time, due to the development chances and difficulties which Cisco experienced. The occasions explained in the case happened in early 2007, while Cisco was thinking about the acquisition of IronPort, a security software application business.
A choice to acquire IronPort would sign a consistent divergence from Cisco's well-known and old acquisition strategy of obtaining young entrepreneurial companies, to match its internal advancement efforts and end up being a one-stop-shop for its networking consumers. This divergence began a couple of years previously, with the acquisition of huge companies like Linksys and Scientific Atlanta, identified by Cisco's management as "platform" offers.
PUBLICATION DATE: March 25, 2010 PRODUCT #: INS121-HCB-ENG
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