Enterprise IT teams are increasingly challenged by the dual mandate of efficiency and transformation, while ensuring effective governance. Automation of IT infrastructure services provide a compelling response to these challenges. A comprehensive automation strategy can yield as much as 15 to 20% reduction in OPEX during the initial stages, with additional downstream benefits. More importantly, a comprehensive automation strategy can help align IT cost heads with business priorities, and dramatically increase the speed of doing business.
To ensure long term success, the automation strategy needs to have an over-arching vision, and embrace a service-led approach rather than being driven by technology choices. This report is aimed at:
Helping enterprises identify the key components of a comprehensive automation strategy
Illustrating successful examples of infrastructure service automation along with resultant benefits
Establishing a broad adoption sequence for IT infrastructure service automation and highlighting underlying success factors for the journey
Note: this report is from 2012. See our most recent R2R research report.
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