Automation

February 13, 2020

Over the last few decades, IT departments have decreased budgets in part because of recession. As a result, they have are being asked to do more with less. The increase in work has amplified the need for automation ...

February 06, 2020

The ever-increasing access and speeds offered by today's modern networks offer many advantages to businesses and consumers, but also make the integrity of their performance and security more paramount than ever before. Organizations are struggling to manage the constant fluctuations in network conditions and security threats. This has prompted many to explore how automation can help to streamline network management and security processes ...

January 23, 2020

EMA is about to embark on some new research entitled Data-Driven Automation: A Vision for the Modern CIO. We're trying to piece a puzzle together that so far we don't believe anyone to date has fully done — seek out where and how IT is moving toward integrated strategies for automation in context with real-world objectives and obstacles. We'll be looking at four use cases, each of will no doubt tell its own story ...

August 29, 2019

Over the last several years, EMA research found that enterprises are actively expanding their use of network automation tools.To understand these automation projects more fully, EMA has completed a new study, titled "Enterprise Network Automation for 2020 and Beyond" ...

October 17, 2018

We're seeing artificial intelligence for IT operations or "AIOps" take center stage in the IT industry. If AIOps hasn't been on your horizon yet, look closely and expect it soon. So what can we expect from automation and AIOps as it becomes more commonplace? ...

June 19, 2018

Companies using cloud technologies to automate their legacy applications and IT operations processes are gaining a significant competitive advantage over those behind the curve, according to a new report from Capgemini and Sogeti, The automation advantage: Making legacy IT keep pace with the cloud ...

June 02, 2017

Three-fourths (73 percent) of IT decision makers believe businesses that do not embrace IT automation to achieve the larger digital business strategy within the next five years will cease to exist in 10 years, according to a new study by BMC Software ...

March 17, 2017

Let’s say your company has examined all the potential pros and cons, and moved your critical business applications to the cloud. The advertised benefits of the cloud seem like they’ll work out great. And in many ways, life is easier for you now. But as often happens when things seem too good to be true, reality has a way of kicking in to reveal just exactly how many things can go wrong with your cloud setup – things that can directly impact your business ...

January 24, 2017

It's an eye opener to see that while companies have implemented service management for the most part — more than 90 percent of companies reporting that they have an IT Service Management system (ITSM) — only 11 percent of companies stated that they have automated the process for organizing their response to IT outages and incidents, according to Everbridge's 2016 State of IT Incident Management report ...

November 02, 2016

Some say "the best service is no service," yet getting to the nirvana of eliminating the reasons why customers call is a challenge. Today's customer service teams are buried under manual workloads, and the volume of incoming cases is increasing, leaving little time for redesigning processes, anticipating customer issues, or driving strategic projects. One of the quickest ways to reduce caseloads and make measurable improvements to the bottom line is with self-service and automation ...

January 05, 2016

In research done in 2015, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) looked at changing patterns of IT service management (ITSM) adoption across a population of 270 respondents in North America and Europe. One of the standout themes that emerged from our findings was the need for the service desk to become a more automated and analytically empowered center of authority across IT as a whole. Rather than casting the service desk as a reactive, low-tech bastion of ineffective customer interaction, the data outlined requirements for a much more dynamic ITSM team — a team that could govern decision making and automate actions in dialog with operations, development, and business stakeholders ...

November 19, 2014

During APMdigest's exclusive interview last month, John Rakowski, Forrester Analyst & Advisor Serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, outlined 10 must-have capabilities to look for when you are purchasing an APM solution. Not included with the rest of the interview, here is the list published for the first time ...

September 12, 2013

Some companies have turned to automation to lower costs and increase efficiency, but the increasing number of distributed, virtual and cloud-based applications pose a unique challenge for APM as processes quickly become outdated and insufficient. And to make matters worse, the complexity of application delivery environments is outstripping the ability of APM products to monitor and manage performance ...

June 13, 2012

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm, announced the release of its newest EMA Radar Report titled, Workload Automation Q2 2012 – An EMA Radar Report.

January 08, 2012

Recession, viewed positively, boosted innovation and increased the pace of new process development and its adoption. The IT customer is increasingly global, the realm of the IT services grows larger every day and the sprawling, distributed IT components demand intelligent ways to manage and monitor this infrastructure ...

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