Achieve maximum scale and efficiency with a standardized approach to transforming network operations through automation.
Building an Automation Factory to Transform Network Operations
As network automation technologies become more pervasive across service providers and enterprises, it has become apparent to business leaders that ad-hoc approaches to automation are unable to meet the needs of the business to transform because these approaches lack the ability to scale and to provide effective capabilities to perform more complex automation activities like end-to-end automation and service orchestration. By working with the largest network operators in the world, Itential has developed the Automation Factory to enable organizations to create the processes and competencies required for large scale, transformational network automation.
Use Cases
Understand how to determine, prioritize, and select the right use cases to automate for your organization.
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Technology
Understand the available options and choose the right tools and technologies that provide the most efficient path (time and cost) to benefits, while enabling the broadest set of use cases to be automated.
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Roles & Responsibilities
Network automation activities require a unique mix of roles and responsibilities. Understand how to structure your network automation team for success.
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Processes
Managing network automation processes is a critical component of any successful automation initiative. Understand how to manage network automation processes for scale.
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Business Metrics
Understand how to uncover the key metrics that can help teams measure the impact and build their business case for network automation.
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Automation Factory Model
The Itential Automation Factory model combines best practices for automation with principles inspired by mass production and industrialization. The goal of the Automation Factory is to create the capacity, capabilities, and velocity required for developing and deploying automation components that can be used by an organization to evolve from a non-automated, high manual effort operating model to a fully automated model.
By adopting the Automation Factory model, network teams can define and execute a strategy that is aligned with business imperatives to radically transform their organization to gain greater velocity and create opportunities for innovation.
The Automation Factory model includes everything such as:
- Developing an effective automation strategy.
- Designing a scalable, high-performance architecture.
- Roles and competencies.
- Automation Factory processes.
- Selecting and prioritizing use cases for automation.
- Technology evaluation.
- Key metrics for automation.
- Financial analysis and modeling.
- Creating a business justification for implementing an Automation Factory.
How Colt Built an Automation Factory
Colt’s Head of Network and Platform Architecture, Joan Espin Garcia, shared his story how he lead his team to build a successful Automation Factory.
Watch his session from AutoCon 1 to get a real-life implementation story including details on their automation journey, the strategic and technological reasons for shifting to an Automation Factory model and their step-by-step approach to implementing it.
