Cisco Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance 11.5 White Paper

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White Paper 
Cisco Prime Collaboration 
– Standard and 
Advanced Offerings 
Summary 
A new packaging model for Cisco Prime
 Collaboration is available beginning with Cisco
®
 Unified Communications 
Manager Version 10.0. This model consists of two offerings: Cisco Prime Collaboration Standard and Cisco Prime 
Collaboration Advanced. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Standard is included with Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing and Cisco User Connect 
Licensing for Cisco Unified Communications. It provides essential provisioning management to support 
deployments of Cisco Unified Communications Manager 10.0 and assurance management to support deployments 
of Cisco Unified Communications Manager 9.0 and later. 
For deployments that require more advanced management or support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 
9.0 and later, Cisco Prime Collaboration Advanced offers additional automation, deeper diagnostic capabilities, and 
long-term reporting. See Table 1. 
Table 1. 
Support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager by Version 
Cisco Prime Collaboration 
11.0 Offering 
Supported Cisco Unified Communications Manager Versions 
Standard 
The Assurance module supports Version 9.0 and later; the Provisioning module supports Version 10.0 and later. 
Advanced 
Version 9.0 and later. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration 
Cisco Prime Collaboration provides simplified, unified management across voice and video collaboration networks. 
It offers automated provisioning, real-time monitoring, and proactive troubleshooting, plus long-term trending and 
analytics
—in one integrated product. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Advanced includes three separate modules: Provisioning, Assurance, and Analytics. 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Standard includes a subset of the features available in the Provisioning and Assurance 
modules. The Analytics module and Cisco Prime Collaboration Contact Center Assurance are available as part of 
the Cisco Prime Collaboration Advanced offer only. 
This white paper outlines the different features available for each offer and describes how to change from the 
Standard offer to the Advanced offer. 
What Is Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance? 
Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance offers integrated monitoring and diagnostics for Cisco Unified 
Communications, Cisco TelePresence
®
, and the underlying network infrastructure. It expedites operator resolution 
of service quality issues before they affect end users and helps avoid system and service outages for a better 
quality of experience for the end user. 
Table 2 summarizes key features available in the Standard and Advanced offers for Cisco Prime Collaboration 
Assurance. Note: All features available in the Standard offer are also available in the Advanced offer.