OREANDA-NEWS. June 22, 2016. Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has achieved Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) designation from Cisco®. The designation recognizes SAIC as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy, and support Cisco ACI products and solutions.

“Achieving Cisco ACI partner designation is an exciting accomplishment for SAIC,” said Terry Hicks, SAIC senior vice president of information technology managed services. “Using Cisco ACI solutions, SAIC can deliver enhanced, scalable, end-to-end solutions to our customers that are simple, efficient, and effective.”

Participation in the Cisco ACI ATP Program allows SAIC to offer their customers a new data center architecture designed to simplify operations and greatly reduce provision time through automation for their applications.

To earn the ACI ATP designation, SAIC fulfilled ACI training and exam requirements. SAIC also met the personnel and post-sales support requirements defined by Cisco. 

The Cisco ATP Program is part of the Cisco go-to-market strategy for emerging technologies. The program helps Cisco to define the knowledge, skills, and services that channel partners need to successfully sell, deploy, and support an emerging technology practice.

About Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) in the data center is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles. ACI delivers innovative software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance.  An ACI network is deployed, monitored, and managed in a fashion that supports DevOps and rapid application change. ACI does so through the reduction of complexity and a common policy framework that can automate provisioning and managing of resources.

About SAIC

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC’s approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately \\$4.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom. 

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