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Cisco Looks To Enhance Web Productivity Filed at 8:11 p.m. EST By Amy Rogers for Computer Reseller News, CMPnet Got a browser? Cisco Systems says it can make you a more productive worker. Cisco next week will announce a framework, called Workforce Optimization solution, aimed at giving customers the tools to help clients increase employee productivity through deployment of Web-based applications. Steve Bernstein product manager for the new solution, said Cisco has signed on Ernst & Young and KPMG to aid Cisco's customers in implementing systems. "We're not out to create a catalog of partners, but to focus on [companies] that have the skills, and to bring them through our knowledge-transfer program," Bernstein said. Cisco will unveil Workforce Optimization solution on Tuesday by discussing details of partnerships with vendors with various application specialties and unveiling best practices culled from Cisco's own experience and that of its customers and partners. "We are the case study," said Steve Bernstein, product manager for the solution, adding that Cisco has measured some $54 million in savings by implementing applications that simplify employee purchasing, let human-resources staff negotiate better deals with benefits providers, and automate mundane back-office functions such as data entry. Bernstein said the multi-million dollar savings came from reduced expenses, cost savings and enhanced employee productivity. Cisco is teaming with Ariba Technologies, whose flagship product focuses on online procurement; Extensity, and its Web-based expense-reporting software; Oblix and its LDAP-based corporate directory; and PeopleSoft for itshuman-resources applications. Cisco's own IP/TV application, streaming software acquired in its purchase of Precept Software, also figures in the new solution. Cisco announced a comparable solution for e-commerce earlier this year. (c) 1999 CMP Media Inc.