Itential Enterprise Managed Services Network Automation Solution
Evolve enterprise managed services through network automation and orchestration.
Enable Managed Service Delivery Efficiency & Velocity Through Automation
Emerging technologies including SD-WAN, hybrid cloud, and edge services are transforming the enterprise network landscape. In order to keep pace with enterprise customer expectations, manage service providers must evolve their tools, capabilities, and processes.
Network automation and orchestration can enable providers to accelerate their ability to support these new technologies, while at the same time improving services margins by reducing delivery costs.
The Itential Enterprise Managed Service Automation Solution combines the Itential Automation Platform with a robust set of Pre-Built Automation components that can be easily customized to support a wide range of vendors, environments, and technologies – including physical, virtual, and containerized network functions and services. By utilizing these pre-built components, managed service engineers can immediately start implementing automations that address a wide range of use cases across technology domains.
Itential simplifies and automates management, lifecycle configuration, and migration processes for CLI- and API-based network technologies, enabling managed service providers to drastically reduce risks and improve efficiency, increase agility, launch applications faster and drive overall business value. Itential’s low-code automation environment with built-in network intelligence empowers NetOps and DevOps teams to simplify and accelerate automation initiatives, like orchestrating entire service lifecycles using different combinations of multi-domain and multi-cloud offerings, by closing the skills gap.
Managed service providers that are using the Itential Network Automation Solution are achieving significant business benefits, including:
Itential Solution Features
The Itential Enterprise Managed Network Automation Solution combines the Itential Automation platform with pre-built and integrated components focused on automating the most common and time-consuming activities associated network/service deployment and operations.
The Itential Enterprise Managed Network Automation Solution includes:
- Itential Automation Platform and Itential Automation Gateway, designed for high-performance, high-capacity network automation and orchestration. For example, the Itential Platform executed more than 100 million automations in 2020 for one national carrier.
- Pre-Built Automations for activities such as zero-touch-provisioning, device/network health checks, branch site onboarding/management, device upgrades, security/firewall configuration management, service migration, bulk configuration changes, and compliance with remediation – to automate the full lifecycle of networking activities.
- Pre-Built Adapters to provide integration with a wide range of systems and vendors to support activities including ticket creation, fault management, code repository interaction, and integration with orchestration systems. By using these adapters, services teams can automate full business processes.
- Pre-Built Transformations to simplify the integration of data from existing and new systems, and to solve the problems associated with mismatched data.
- Pre-Built Templates and Forms that can be easily customized to meet users’ unique requirements.
Enterprise Managed Service Network Automation Solution Use Cases
- Device Onboarding
- Service/Template creation and management
- Device group creation and management
- Network compliance and remediation
- Branch management and lifecycle operations
Itential is Automation for Complex, Heterogenous Networks
The Itential Enteprise Managed Service Network Automation Solution supports a wide range of southbound options for interacting with the network and systems, including Ansible, Cisco NSOTM, Terraform, Netmiko, Nornir, SDN controllers, and more. Services teams can gain greater velocity for their deployments and operations by leveraging the capabilities of the Itential platform, including:
Consolidated Network API
Integrate ITSM, monitoring, inventory, and analytics systems once using the Itential network API consolidator.
Advanced Network Intelligent Workflows
Itential’s Network Intelligent Workflow Manager easily integrates capabilities across diverse toolsets and IT ecosystem types.
Robust Network Service Management
Itential’s Network Service Manager provides deep service enablement, management, and disconnect capabilities through its API-ingestion and correlation engines.
Federation Across Network Technologies for Unified View of the Network
Itential mitigates the complexity of managing multiple SD-WAN platforms, by consuming and federating the systems and networks managed by those systems, abstracting the complexity from the user for simplified automation.
Get Started with Itential & Prepare to Revolutionize Enterprise Managed Services
Let Itential show you how it’s Enterprise Managed Service Network Automation Solution can enhance and accelerate multi-vendor network operations, and enable your next-generation, agile network engineering and operations teams to lead your organization to enable enterprise customers to realize the business benefits of lifecycle automation and orchestration.
