Infrastructure Automation is the cornerstone that allows IT to provide consumable infrastructure for development and application teams inside your organization. Automation is also key to reducing toil and having engineering and operations teams focus on important work and driving your business into the future. However, for many, getting started with Automation can seem like a daunting task, and prioritizing where to start can be a difficult decision.

Mid-market service providers are faced with numerous operations challenges every day. Network rollout, new services and ever-tightening budgets are driving operators to find new solutions, particularly in the area of automation. But service automation and IT automation can be very different matters. Tools that work for data center rollouts may not work for deploying and managing new customer services. Operations managers, network planners and solution architects are asking: what tools are best for service automation, can we automate without a costly consulting project, how would automation affect my operation, could we support it, how can we get beyond CLI-based operations, and what are other mid-market service providers doing?

You’re responsible for your company's network operations and service assurance. You trust your engineers to do the right thing with the right tools. But as the environment grows and you add new people, you find it harder to control access, limit the impact of mistakes and streamline operations. How could an operations dashboard help? A dashboard which gives you a way to control access to tools and network resources. A dashboard which gives you a way to take complex actions (with multiple human interactions) and wrap it up into a flexible yet powerful workflow. A dashboard which ties together all your underlying tools and scripts. And a dashboard which provides powerful configuration and process management. Request this briefing to get ideas and information to help you automate your operations and create an operations dashboard.