Connect People, Systems, & Products with Speed, Reliability, & Security Through Network Automation & Orchestration with Itential
Automation & Orchestration for Critical Health IT Demands
The healthcare industry faces significant challenges in network management and automation, including strict regulatory compliance, legacy system integration, and heightened security concerns, all while ensuring uninterrupted service delivery. These complexities make it difficult to maintain a secure, scalable, and efficient network environment.
Itential’s automation and orchestration products address these challenges by streamlining network management processes, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations, and enhancing security through automated policy enforcement. With its ability to integrate with legacy systems and support hybrid environments, Itential enables healthcare organizations to modernize their networks without disrupting critical services.
How Healthcare Network Teams Drive Value with Itential
Itential is redefining network automation and orchestration at scale. Healthcare companies around the world from pharmaceuticals, to biomedical, medical equipment manufacturers, and healthcare hospital systems use our products to deliver high-quality services faster, simplify network change management, and maintain security with standardized configuration and compliance. To meet the evolving demands of modern IT, our customers are accelerating their journey from task-based automations to end-to-end process orchestration to operationalize network and IT infrastructure at scale.
Connect Siloed Domains & Tools
Get out of tickets and back to managing the network. Reduce time spent on repetitive, manual tasks by automating such functions as network change management, software upgrades and device configuration and compliance with integrations into ITSM like ServiceNow for ticket-to-ticket automation.
Expand Automation Participation
Enable high-code developers to automate with scripts like Ansible and Python and network engineers to build low-code workflows, driving automation efforts regardless of skillset. Enable non-network experts to consume and self-serve standardized network products, mitigating the network as a bottleneck to innovation.
Meet Compliance & Audit Regulatory Requirements
Validate every network change is compliant before they are activated, integrate directly with IT systems for needed inventory and configuration data, build robust pre- and post-check processes into every workflow, and ensure a compliant network.
Deliver Network Services Faster
Increase the impact of network engineers by turning repetitive manual work into reusable automation assets. Orchestrate changes from ticket creation to ticket closure, deliver network services instantly and enable end-users to self-serve network as an API.
Ensure Service Quality & Reliability
Mitigate network outages and improve end user experience by building automated validation and testing capabilities and accelerating remediation. Bring networking into the organization’s change management process to streamline auditing and troubleshooting.
Innovate & Enable New Technology
Deliver new types of services faster by automating the deployment and provisioning of network services across hybrid cloud, SD-WAN, and edge. Leverage API-driven integration capabilities to easily adopt new platforms and technologies as they arise.
Itential Accelerates Network Transformation for Healthcare Around the World
Pharmaceuticals
How a Global Pharmaceuticals Company Built a Center of Excellence to Foster an Automation-First Culture with Itential
Biotech
How a Multinational Biotech Company Achieved Global Self-Service Networking with Itential
Health Insurance
Leading Health Insurance Provider Sunsets Legacy HPNA, Reduces Device Backups from Hours to Minutes with Itential
Hospital Systems
Large Medical Center Reduces Downtime & Streamlines Ticket Requests Through Integrated Orchestration with Itential
Medical Device Manufacturing
Leading Medical Device Manufacturer Streamlines Network Management Tasks & Ensures Compliance Through Automation & Orchestration with Itential
Itential gave us a centralized platform in which we could standardize our automation initiatives across all infrastructure teams and truly build a Center of Excellence model. People who’ve invested into new skills to build automations see more impact from their work, and we can orchestrate across different automation tools and domains to deliver services back to our end users faster and more consistently.
Automation Center of Excellence Leader, Global Pharma & Med Tech Company
By implementing standardization and delivering network services, we’ve really reduced the risk of downtime. We can say with a good degree of certainty that network faults we encounter are coming from changes we haven’t automated yet with Itential.
Network Architect, Multinational Biotech Company
Comprehensive Automation & Orchestration Features Tailored for the Healthcare Industry
Using APIs, networking standards, and software orchestration, Itential’s SaaS Platform can tie together any networking domain, whether it’s traditional networking infrastructure or software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) branches or public/private cloud and any existing automation tool for end-to-end Day 0/1 deployments, Day 2 changes and beyond. By taking this approach, organizations can simplify network management, ensure flexibility, and streamline processes.
Low-code studio for building reusable and modular workflows that stitch together a diverse set of automations and network domains with IT systems for end-to-end orchestration.
Easily manage configurations for both physical and cloud infrastructure and ensure compliance across your entire network with dynamic, comprehensive automated policy enforcement.
Easily onboard existing Ansible, Python, or OpenTofu/Terraform automations and provide enterprise grade security, authentication and audit controls. Integrate automations into workflows for seamless change processes.
Quickly create self-service catalogs for end-users or integrate with other self-service platforms like ServiceNow. Securely enable IT infrastructure as a service which integrates with your existing DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
Over 300+ out-of-the-box integrations to systems spanning authentication, cloud, controllers and orchestrators, inventory, ITSM, notifications and messaging, SD-WAN, security, telemetry, and analytics as well as custom built automations such as Ansible, Python, and Terraform.
Itential Automation & Orchestration Capabilities Across Teams
Network automation and orchestration, when apart of an overarching IT strategy can enable IT and the network teams to reach new heights of efficiency, reduce costs and deliver immediate time to value and shift applications from simply being a user of the network and infrastructure services to being able to control those services itself.
For Network & Infrastructure Teams
- Onboard and leverage existing Ansible, Python, and Terraform/OpenTofu automations.
- Manage configuration compliance across CLI and API resources.
- Integrate network orchestration with all systems of record to ensure confidence.
- Orchestrate any process to deliver an end-to-end outcome, no matter how many domains, platforms, and tools are involved.
- Deliver network services for other teams to self-serve safely and securely, saving time and effort.
For Cloud & DevOps Teams
- Integrate cloud platforms with change management, security platforms, and more.
- Orchestrate multiple automated public cloud offerings to coordinate processes end-to-end.
- Manage cloud service offerings over their entire lifecycle, defining and tracking services to streamline service management over time.
- Integrate with your existing DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines to enable IT infrastructure as a service.
For Security Teams
- Leverage unique configuration compliance management, validation, and remediation capabilities to maintain compliance across a distributed, multi-vendor network.
- Ensure all network change processes are integrated with security platforms.
- Create an audit trail for every single network change.
- Facilitate collaboration between network and security teams through orchestration and self-service delivery.
For IT & App Teams
- Self-serve the network as a catalog of standardized products, facilitating rapid development. API-driven, so developers can leverage pipelines, IDPs, or any other method to call network services.
- Avoid the need to learn network-specific information and eliminate friction in network service requests.
- Native ServiceNow App for allowing users to run Itential automations to complete IT service requests and deliver infrastructure service request with cloud-like efficiency.
Learn More with Itential Content
Blogs
- Modular & Reusable Automation: How Your Network Team Can Do More with Less Effort
- Understanding the Direct & Indirect Value Drivers of Network Automation
- How a Global Biotech Company Standardized Network Automation to Eliminate Errors & Enable Safe, Secure Self-Service
- More Impact, Same Effort: Orchestrating Your Automations
- High-Code + Low-Code: How Network Teams Can Have the Best of Both Worlds for Network Automation
- Why Build AND Buy Is the Model for Network Automation Success
- How Security, Application, & Network Teams Can Reap the Rewards of a Centralized Orchestration Platform
- Training, Tribal Knowledge, & Tying It All Together: Network Automation Is More than Pushing Config
Other Resources
- Network Automation & Orchestration Evaluation Guide
- Delivering Network Automation in a Hybrid Cloud World
- 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration Tools
- Itential ServiceNow Application
- Itential Automation Platform Demo Overview
- Network Automation vs. Network Orchestration
- Driving Cloud Automation With Observability, AIOps, & NetDevOps
- Webinar Series: Building Network Automation Workflows with Itential
- How Itential Helps NetDevOps to Enhance their Ability to Test & Validate Network Automations (NFD 31)
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