Cisco Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Global Company of the Year Recognition for Leadership in Mobile IoT Platforms

Acknowledged for driving continuous innovation and delivering flexible, scalable solutions that enable digital transformation across the global IoT ecosystem

SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan is pleased to recognize Cisco with the 2025 Global Company of the Year Recognition in the Mobile IoT Platforms sector for its sustained leadership, strategic innovation, and commitment to customer value. This recognition highlights Cisco's differentiated approach in a rapidly evolving landscape, where digital transformation and IoT scale demand resilience, flexibility, and interoperability.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Cisco excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align long-term initiatives with current market demand while delivering results with precision and global scalability. "Cisco's sustained growth in recent years reflects its ability to address unmet customer needs through high-quality, scalable solutions that drive loyalty and increased consumption. The company maintains a remarkably low attrition rate, underscoring strong customer retention and expanding usage across its platform," said Silvana Rulet, Best Practices Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Cisco's success is rooted in a future-focused strategy that combines deep networking expertise with a flexible, cloud-native IoT platform. This enables global operators and enterprises to streamline service delivery, accelerate time-to-market, and overcome market fragmentation. The company's software-defined architecture, generation-resilient design, and full-stack evolution give customers the agility to integrate new technologies and scale effectively—without vendor lock-in.

Innovation is foundational to Cisco's leadership in mobile IoT platforms. Its modular and interoperable approach allows each layer of the solution stack to operate independently, ensuring it meets the diverse demands of global industries and geographies. This design not only simplifies integration and upgrades but also empowers customers to modernize at their own pace.

"We are delighted once again to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the 2025 Company of the Year in the Mobile IoT Platforms sector," said Masum Mir, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Provider Mobility business. "Our dedication to delivering a platform that can accelerate growth opportunities through managed mobility services has earned the trust, confidence and partnership of our customers across the globe. It's exciting to see how our platform empowers service providers and enterprises to innovate, operate with speed at global scale, and connect people, places, and things in mission critical use cases".

In addition to its technological prowess, Cisco's commitment to customer experience is a defining element of its competitive advantage. The company has scaled its managed IoT device footprint from 197 million in January 2022 to 284 million by July 2025—a testament to its operational excellence and ability to support enterprises across sectors. Its platform delivers real-time visibility, high availability, and seamless lifecycle management, backed by localized support and a partner-driven go-to-market strategy.

Frost & Sullivan commends Cisco for setting a global benchmark in strategy, execution, and customer impact. Through continuous innovation, platform flexibility, and a customer-first culture, Cisco is helping reshape the mobile IoT ecosystem and enabling industrial digitization at scale.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Company of the Year Recognition to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The recognition honors forward-thinking organizations that are reshaping their industries through innovation and growth excellence.

Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.

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Cisco Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Global Company of the Year Recognition for Leadership in Mobile IoT Platforms

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At CES 2026, Flowtica was not the loudest presence on the show floor. Over the course of the week, however, the Singapore-based AI company became one of the most closely watched, drawing sustained attention from media, investors, and industry observers.

That attention has now translated into availability. Following its appearance as a CES 2026 Innovation Award Honoree, Flowtica has officially opened sales of Flowtica Scribe, its AI recording pen that quietly stood out in a field dominated by phone-dependent and screen-heavy solutions.

Flowtica Scribe did not make its first public appearance at CES. The product launched on Kickstarter several months earlier, where it attracted thousands of users and established early validation. CES marked a different stage for the company. The focus shifted away from introduction and toward closer examination, with many observers asking whether the idea could hold up beyond early enthusiasm.

Throughout the exhibition, Flowtica's booth at Eureka Park became a steady meeting point for investors and journalists. Conversations rarely centered on specifications or feature lists. Instead, discussions focused on a more fundamental question: whether AI recording tools are beginning to converge on forms that genuinely fit into professional life.

Flowtica's answer was visible in its choice of form. By embedding AI into a pen, an object already accepted in boardrooms, consultations, investor meetings, and sales conversations, the company avoided many of the social and practical frictions that continue to limit phone-based recorders. The result was a device that felt less like a new category of gadget and more like a natural extension of existing behavior.

This restraint is deliberate. Flowtica Scribe is designed to remain unobtrusive, with no screen and no demand for user attention during conversations. Recording, organization, and interpretation take place quietly in the background, allowing users to remain focused on the discussion itself. Among on-site observers, this approach positioned Flowtica as one of the more pragmatic entrants in an increasingly crowded AI recording market.

Hardware, however, represents only part of Flowtica's differentiation. The company places equal emphasis on what happens after recording ends. Its AI functions as a continuously evolving insight system that can operate autonomously while remaining responsive to clear user guidance when needed. Over time, it adapts to individual working rhythms and priorities, shifting the emphasis from capturing everything to identifying what truly matters.

Rather than simply storing conversations, Flowtica helps determine which moments should be retained, revisited, and translated into next actions. Key insights are designed to integrate naturally with existing productivity tools, including calendars and task systems, allowing them to fit into established workflows rather than compete with them.

As interest in Flowtica Scribe built during CES, one question surfaced repeatedly. When would the product be available beyond the show floor?

With sales now officially open through Flowtica's website, the company moves from exhibition attention to real-world deployment. For Flowtica, this moment appears less like a conclusion and more like a transition, from being observed to being used.

As the AI recording market continues to mature, competition is shifting away from novelty and early adoption toward durability. The defining question is no longer whether a system can record conversations, but whether it can remain useful over time.

Flowtica enters this next phase with an approach that is measured and quietly confident, placing its bet not on spectacle, but on long-term relevance.

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