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“Now that you have all this data, what do you actually need to do with it?” In this Technology Reseller News podcast, Philip Martin, Vice President of Product at SmarTrak.ai, discusses how the company is helping Cisco partners manage renewals, subscriptions, refresh cycles and customer lifecycle opportunities with AI. SmarTrak.ai is an AI-native lifecycle platform built for channel partners. Rather than simply organizing the large volumes of data available from Cisco, the platform is designed to identify the next best action a partner should take with a customer. Martin says Cisco provides partners with an extraordinary amount of useful data, but turning that information into action has historically required substantial manual effort. AI changes that equation. SmarTrak can help partners identify upcoming renewals, hardware refresh opportunities, adoption gaps, security considerations and professional services needs, then organize those insights around specific customers. That capability is becoming more important as Martin sees a major infrastructure refresh cycle accelerating across the market. “The timeline has compressed,” Martin says. “Partners don’t have six or eight months to put all of this together anymore.” He argues that enterprises are facing a relatively short window to modernize infrastructure for growing AI, security and capacity requirements. For Cisco partners, that creates both urgency and opportunity. SmarTrak is also expanding how partners access those insights. The company recently launched a mobile application that can generate customer-specific playbooks using current telemetry and lifecycle data. SmarTrak is also developing API and MCP capabilities designed to make its intelligence available through the AI tools partners already use. The objective, Martin says, is to put actionable customer intelligence wherever the partner needs it rather than requiring users to continually return to another application. For Cisco partners, the message is clear: the infrastructure opportunity is significant, but capturing it will require faster and more precise customer decisions. Visit SmarTrak.ai to learn more.