In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, enterprises face the daunting challenge of managing complex networks comprising of devices from multiple vendors. As networks grow increasingly intricate, traditional approaches to automation fall short, leading to inefficiencies, siloed operations, and heightened risks. Recognizing these challenges, organizations are turning to advanced solutions like IBM Rapid Network Automation to revolutionize their automation strategies and unlock their full potential.
The evolution of network automation
In the past, enterprises relied heavily on custom frameworks and homegrown tools to tackle the complexities of network automation. However, as networks expanded and diversified, these solutions became increasingly inadequate. Siloed implementations and dependency on senior resources hindered scalability and effectiveness. Furthermore, the widespread use of freeware tools introduced potential risks and security concerns.
The development of automation scripts isn't the issue; rather, it's the effective management and integration of these automations across departments and teams.
Introducing IBM Rapid Network Automation
IBM Rapid Network Automation offers a comprehensive solution to overcome these challenges by enabling you to deliver automation value by capturing all aspects of your automation needs. It’s no longer acceptable to automate individual tasks, rather now it’s a requirement to automate the complete process within a single solution that reaches out to all of the sources, systems, and tools required to deliver the complete process.
IBM Rapid Network Automation offers three core value drivers for organizations:
Normalize automation in your organization and its employees, allowing wider spread utilization and impact across your business. Leverage the vast library of vendor building blocks for rapid automation development across your technology stack and move beyond siloed automation implementations. Leverage proprietary APIs alongside abstracted vendor APIs. Rapidly connect platforms and sync data in real-time as automations execute. Make your automation available to all other platforms in your organization with an immediate generation of API endpoint when deploying a workflow.
Table 1: Broadest coverage in the industry: 1000s of out-of-the-box abstracted action blocks to automate across the entire stack.