Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: A beginner’s guide

IT automation is now mission critical.

Modern enterprises struggle to keep pace with a rapidly changing technology landscape while simplifying operations and extracting more return on investment (ROI) from existing technology investments.

In order to meet customer demands, remain competitive, and increase revenue, these enterprises need to free up technology teams to focus on innovation, while maintaining security and compliance and supporting IT operations to accelerate delivery of services to market.

IT automation is essential for enterprises to achieve meaningful efficiencies that maintain safeguards and create capacity to deliver innovative services and solutions, but it’s most effective when implemented broadly and strategically. A task-based approach to automation is no longer effective or sustainable. It can increase costs, result in duplicate efforts, and build barriers between functions and departments.

A holistic automation strategy that integrates people, processes, and technology across the entire IT state can unlock true IT transformation. When automation becomes a strategic pillar, enterprises can achieve: