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Cisco DevNet uses Postman to grow their developer community

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Services	Training
Challenge	Cisco, a worldwide leader in IT, has a developer relations team, DevNet, which provides training and education about Cisco’s APIs to network and systems engineers, sales engineers, customers, and partners. One of the goals of the Cisco DevNet team is to help Cisco engineers and partners learn the latest automation capabilities of Cisco’s products and services. However, the traditional interfaces that Cisco engineers and partners have been using for years are not sufficient for learning and experimenting with Cisco's new REST API interfaces. Read More
About Customer	Cisco is a worldwide leader in IT that helps people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco designs and sells a broad range of technologies that have been powering the Internet since 1984. Across networking, security, collaboration, and the cloud, Cisco provides customers with a highly secure, intelligent platform for their digital business. The Cisco developer relations team, DevNet, provides training and education about Cisco’s APIs to network and systems engineers, sales engineers, customers, and partners. Read More
Solution	Postman, a platform for API development, is used by the Cisco DevNet team as a powerful tool for education. It plays a central role in both basic education about Cisco’s APIs and also in demonstrating specific Cisco technologies via online tutorials and webinars. Postman is an easy way for network engineers to work with Cisco’s new REST API interfaces. With Postman, Cisco engineers and partners can experiment with the capabilities the APIs support, including how to authorize and authenticate requests and visualize every step of a user flow. Postman also plays a starring role during live demonstrations at various workshops and developer conferences. The Cisco DevNet team even teaches advanced Postman workshops, leveling up their systems and network engineers to use Postman more efficiently and effectively. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Services

Training

Challenge

Cisco, a worldwide leader in IT, has a developer relations team, DevNet, which provides training and education about Cisco’s APIs to network and systems engineers, sales engineers, customers, and partners. One of the goals of the Cisco DevNet team is to help Cisco engineers and partners learn the latest automation capabilities of Cisco’s products and services. However, the traditional interfaces that Cisco engineers and partners have been using for years are not sufficient for learning and experimenting with Cisco's new REST API interfaces.

About Customer

Cisco is a worldwide leader in IT that helps people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco designs and sells a broad range of technologies that have been powering the Internet since 1984. Across networking, security, collaboration, and the cloud, Cisco provides customers with a highly secure, intelligent platform for their digital business. The Cisco developer relations team, DevNet, provides training and education about Cisco’s APIs to network and systems engineers, sales engineers, customers, and partners.

Solution

Postman, a platform for API development, is used by the Cisco DevNet team as a powerful tool for education. It plays a central role in both basic education about Cisco’s APIs and also in demonstrating specific Cisco technologies via online tutorials and webinars. Postman is an easy way for network engineers to work with Cisco’s new REST API interfaces. With Postman, Cisco engineers and partners can experiment with the capabilities the APIs support, including how to authorize and authenticate requests and visualize every step of a user flow. Postman also plays a starring role during live demonstrations at various workshops and developer conferences. The Cisco DevNet team even teaches advanced Postman workshops, leveling up their systems and network engineers to use Postman more efficiently and effectively.

Impact #1	Postman is used broadly throughout the Cisco organization.
Impact #2	Adoption has been organic.
Impact #3	People know Postman as a way to interact with REST APIs.

Impact #1

Postman is used broadly throughout the Cisco organization.

Impact #2

Adoption has been organic.

Impact #3

People know Postman as a way to interact with REST APIs.

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Cisco DevNet uses Postman to grow their developer community

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