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Fortum Adopts Cisco for Application Delivery
Fortum, a utilities organization in Finland, uses Secure Access from Cisco to support application delivery for network and app owners.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because application traffic has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in application delivery sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how application delivery actually runs |
Story
Inside Fortum, application delivery used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in utilities groups working out of Finland. Network and app owners needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Fortum uses Secure Access from Cisco as the working layer for application traffic. Cisco provides networking, collaboration, and security products that connect offices, data centers, and hybrid work. The practical change is simple: application delivery has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Fortum gets from Cisco is a durable place to run application delivery and a way for network and app owners to see the same application traffic at the same time.