During the online Ansiblefest, Red Hat announced the availability of a preview edition of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 that is intended to make it easier to automate IT processes at scale. Richard Henshall, senior manager for Ansible product management at Red Hat, said previously most IT teams have been automating individual processes, but […]
Is AI Taking Over DevOps Functions?
Artificial intelligence has taken the tech world to a new level of automation. Today, almost every specialization demands the intervention of machine learning to develop AI technologies that help businesses do more with less time and resources. Still, some organizations question whether leading with AI is a good investment. For DevOps, the answer is a […]
Federal IT Must Embrace Automation
In the private sector, an automation explosion is underway. One major retailer, for example, is using a new automated system to increase speed and accuracy in how freight is handled at its regional distribution centers. Another retail giant is relying on new automated processes to replenish store shelves more efficiently, reduce excess inventory and free […]
Programmability is Key to Agile Transformation
Enterprise agility has rapidly become one of the most crucial variables for a business’s long-term resiliency. With the COVID-19 pandemic, never-ending disruptions to the global supply chain and nearly every industry’s typical processes flipped upside down, there has never been a more important time to prioritize agility than now. While the rewards of agility are […]
4 Ways to Manage Up for Automation
IT decision-makers understand how important a role process automation can play in a post-pandemic recovery. In a recent survey, 68% of these leaders said remote work caused key business processes in their organizations to break down. In the same survey, 97% described process automation as being vital to digital transformation and an important factor in […]
How Low-Code is Anchoring the Digital-First Enterprise
When the pandemic hit, digital transformation was accelerated, and many companies turned to low-code development in the hopes of winning in the new agile world. Technology aficionados have heard the phrase, “Faster, better, cheaper — pick two.” Fortunately, low-code gives you all three and then some, adding “flexible” to the mix. It’s no surprise that […]
Appian Extends Low-Code Approach to Aggregating Data
At an online Appian World conference, Appian today unveiled an update to its low-code platform that adds a set of visual tools that enables developers to aggregate data within an application with the help of a database administrator (DBA) or data engineering team. Malcolm Ross, vice president of product at Appian, said one of the […]
Using RPA for DevOps Process Automation
Modern operations teams today are at the cutting edge of automation. DevOps and SRE practices are entirely based on an automation-first philosophy. CI/CD is fully automated and the next generation of automated testing is now being adopted. However, these same teams are still running their human processes based on hastily thrown-together wiki pages. The increase […]
ServiceNow Acquires Intellibot to Gain RPA Capabilities
ServiceNow’s acquisition of Intellibot, a provider of a robotic process automation (RPA) platform, this week is part of a larger effort to automate the development of applications that are driving digital business transformation within enterprise IT environments. Earlier this month, ServiceNow unfurled a set of revamped low-code tools that both professional and so-called citizen developers […]
Could No-Code Enable Everything Ops?
It feels like DevOps principles are permeating every discipline, creating new buzzwords by the minute. DevSecOps. DatabaseOps. SalesOps. FinOps. MarketingOps. This “JargonOps” is clearly encouraged by marketing campaigns (and bloggers, wink, wink). Yet, the phrases do depict a real trend: all industries are getting an efficiency overhaul in the wake of increased automation. As I’ve covered […]