# How Cisco uses H2O.ai

**15x**: “What once took more than a month now takes two days, a 15x increase in speed”

As published on [h2o.ai](https://h2o.ai/case-studies/cisco-h2o). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-24.

- Company: [Cisco](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/cisco.md)
- Tool: [H2O.ai](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/h2o-ai.md)
- Industry: [Telecommunications](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/telecommunications.md)
- Teams: Advanced Analytics, Marketing, Sales
- Customer since (as the page says): In 2014 Cisco adopted H2O's open-source, in-memory distributed machine learning platform

## The use case: how Cisco deploys H2O.ai

Cisco's advanced analytics team uses H2O's in-memory machine learning platform to build and score propensity-to-buy models for its entire database of companies. The models, built with methods such as GBM and deep learning, are rebuilt each quarter and used by marketing and sales.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of H2O.ai and Cisco, not ours.

> What once took more than a month now takes two days, a 15x increase in speed, on a dramatically larger dataset.

- **60,000**: “Cisco deploys roughly 60,000 propensity-to-buy models every quarter across hundreds of millions of observations”
- **$3 billion**: “Since its inception the factory has been associated with more than $3 billion in revenue.”

> We score every single one of the 160 million companies in our databases, and calculate the probability that they will buy each of the most important products and services we sell.
>
> Lou Carvalheira, Advanced Analytics Manager at Cisco

Source: [h2o.ai](https://h2o.ai/case-studies/cisco-h2o), captured 2026-10-24.

## Other AI tools used by Cisco

- [Celonis](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/celonis.md) — Confirmed
- [Mindtickle](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/mindtickle.md) — Confirmed
- [Prezent](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/prezent.md) — Confirmed
- [Workato](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/workato.md) — Confirmed
- [AlphaSense](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/alphasense.md) — Observed
- [Automation Anywhere](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/automation-anywhere.md) — Observed

## H2O.ai users in Telecommunications

- [AT&T](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/att.md) — Confirmed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-24.

- Checked: the figure 15x is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Cisco.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Cisco.
- Checked: Cisco uses H2O.ai. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-24.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/cisco-h2o-ai · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology