To attract and retain customers, financial services companies are focused on delivering a greater variety of innovative, high-quality services and features that leverage automation, with AI at the forefront.
In an era marked by rapid technological advancement and evolving regulatory demands, financial institutions are seizing the opportunity to ensure their networks remain secure, compliant, and capable of supporting continuous innovation. By modernizing and transforming their underlying infrastructure and integrating with new cloud technologies and AI-driven orchestration, companies can accelerate their innovation journey and drive future growth.
How Itential Drives Value for Infrastructure Teams in Financial Services
Itential provides the multi-vendor, multi-domain integration and agentic orchestration capabilities required to modernize and evolve your critical infrastructure.
With Itential, network and infrastructure teams can create and deliver complex services rapidly, reliably, and securely – with real-time compliance validation to maintain standards. Enabling application developers to self-serve network services to build and test code across multiple environments, accelerating innovation and application development.
This orchestration-driven model means financial services companies can offer new products to customers more quickly and maintain a competitive edge that will attract and retain customers.
Enable Cloud Migration & Cloud Cost Management
Easily leverage cloud services across multiple cloud environments in network and infrastructure orchestration workflows. Keep costs down by maintaining full flexibility around cloud provider selection with the ability to incorporate any cloud environment into a multi-domain workflow.
Meet Compliance & Audit Regulatory Requirements
Validate every network change is compliant before they are activated, integrate directly with IT systems for needed inventory and configuration data, build robust pre- and post-check processes into every workflow and ensure a compliant network.
Support AI-Driven Infrastructure Innovation
Connect your AI ecosystem to your infrastructure – transforming insights into trusted, automated actions. Ensure security with built-in guardrails, policy enforcement and cross-domain orchestration.
Enable Modern Security Architectures
Increase software upgrade frequency for network devices and enforce Golden Configuration and compliance standards across distributed infrastructure. Automate remediation with workflows triggered by events across any network domain. Leverage integrations with security solutions and visibility across the network to support zero-trust and segmentation strategies.
Deliver Network Services at the Speed of Transactions
Achieve same day delivery of network services to IT and App Teams through a centralized Network API, accelerating time to value and driving innovation.
Achieve Operational Efficiencies & Reduce Costs
Better leverage your team’s time and talent by building and running orchestrations that make changes at rapid speed, reducing the time it takes to make changes – ultimately reducing your cost to innovate and operate.
Itential Accelerates Infrastructure Transformation for Banks & FinTech Firms Around the World
From Automation to Orchestration for a FinTech Network
Itential will make us more money by increasing our velocity to deliver infrastructure, it will save us money, because to deliver more, I won’t need any significant increase in headcount and it keeps me off the front page of the newspaper, by allowing me to ensure the infrastructure is consistently secured everywhere- no matter whether it’s a CPE that’s at a retail store, or it’s an Internet facing router that’s terminating VPNs or it’s a workload in public cloud – Itential gives me that ability to deliver consistency and pull all three levers at the same time.
Michael Wynston | Director Global Network Architecture & Automation, Fiserv
Same Day Delivery of Network Services Through Orchestration with Itential
Almost immediately after working with Itential, we started to realize the true value of delivering services the same day without having to go through a reskilling process. We chose Itential because our environment is truly hybrid and their platform works best with both worlds.
Guruprasad Ramamoorthy | VP, Global Head of Network Architecture, Engineering & Operations, S&P Global
Banking & FinTech Customer Success Stories
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BankingComprehensive Automation & Orchestration Features Designed for the AI Era
Itential’s platform enables teams to quickly adapt to evolving requirements, manage expanding network infrastructure, securely adopt AI and ensure complete compliance in support of delivering network services at the speed of transaction.
Simplify complex network processes with drag-and-drop low-code workflows for simplifying hybrid cloud network management from Day 0/1 deployment, Day 2 changes, and beyond.
The Itential Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the bridge between AI-generated intent and enterprise infrastructure. Built on the MCP open-source standard, it connects AI agents to Itential’s Platform, enabling safe, auditable, and policy-driven automation and orchestration execution at scale.
Easily manage configurations for both physical and cloud infrastructure and ensure compliance across your entire network.
Quickly create self-service catalogs for end-users or integrate with other self-service platforms like ServiceNow. Securely enable IT infrastructure as a service which integrates with your existing DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.
Easily onboard existing Ansible, Python, or Terraform automations and provide enterprise grade security, authentication and audit controls. Integrate automations into workflows for seamless change processes.
No-code integration with ANY systems in your environment to build reliable orchestrations.
Itential Automation & Orchestration Capabilities Across Teams
Adopting network automation and orchestration delivers transformative benefits across multiple teams. From scripts to self-service – our focus on supporting high-code automations with low-code orchestration for traditional and cloud networks enables network teams to create orchestrated, secure, end-to-end processes and deliver them as services across your organization for security, operations, and developers to self-serve.
For Network Teams
- Onboard and leverage existing Ansible, Python, and Terraform/OpenTofu automations.
- Manage configuration compliance across CLI and API resources.
- Integrate network orchestration with all systems of record to ensure confidence.
- Orchestrate any process to deliver an end-to-end outcome, no matter how many domains, platforms, and tools are involved.
- Deliver network services for other teams to self-serve safely and securely, saving time and effort.
For IT & App Teams
- Self-serve the network as a catalog of standardized products, facilitating rapid development. API-driven, so developers can leverage pipelines, IDPs, or any other method to call network services.
- Avoid the need to learn network-specific information and eliminate friction in network service requests.
- Native ServiceNow App for allowing users to run Itential automations to complete IT service requests and deliver infrastructure service request with cloud-like efficiency.
For Security Teams
- Leverage unique configuration compliance management, validation, and remediation capabilities to maintain compliance across a distributed, multi-vendor network.
- Ensure all network change processes are integrated with security platforms.
- Create an audit trail for every single network change.
- Facilitate collaboration between network and security teams through orchestration and self-service delivery.
For Cloud & DevOps Teams
- Integrate cloud platforms with change management, security platforms, and more.
- Orchestrate multiple automated public cloud offerings to coordinate processes end-to-end.
- Manage cloud service offerings over their entire lifecycle, defining and tracking services to streamline service management over time.
- Integrate with your existing DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines to enable IT infrastructure as a service.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Itential help financial institutions with compliance?
Itential enforces golden configs, validates every change against policy, and produces audit-ready logs. Teams reduce PCI-DSS/SOX audit prep time by up to 50%.
Can Itential help ensure network changes don’t impact trading performance?
Yes. Guardrails, pre/post validation, and rollback ensure changes are executed safely, without introducing latency or downtime.
Does Itential integrate with security and risk systems?
Yes. It integrates with SIEM, ITSM, and vulnerability management to tie every network change to security and risk frameworks.
How does AI support compliance in financial services?
Copilots can generate compliance reports, query drift posture, and recommend remediation actions – with Itential ensuring validation and auditability.
Learn More with Itential Content
Blogs
- How Financial Services Can Scale Compliance & Security Posture Across Distributed Network Infrastructure
- Struggling with DORA Compliance? Network Orchestration Can Make the Difference for E.U. Financial Institutions
- The Team Sport of Deploying, Managing, & Scaling Application Infrastructure
- Why Build AND Buy Is the Model for Network Automation Success
- Shifting from Single Domain Automation to Multi-Domain Orchestration
- High-Code + Low-Code: How Network Teams Can Have the Best of Both Worlds for Network Automation
- Understanding the Direct & Indirect Value Drivers of Network Automation
- How Security, Application, & Network Teams Can Reap the Rewards of a Centralized Orchestration Platform
- Building Scalable Systems to Evolve from Automation to Orchestration for a FinTech Network
- 3 Capabilities Every Network Orchestration & Automation Platform Should Provide
Other Resources
- How a Global Bank Modernized Operations & Set the Foundation for Future-Ready Networking
- Network Automation & Orchestration Maturity Model
- Extend the Reach of Your Network Automations through Orchestrated Workflows with Itential
- How a Global Bank’s Network Team Saved 1,500 Hours Per Upgrade Cycle with Itential
- How to Track & Orchestrate Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Security Services
- How to Publish & Expose Network Automations as a Service with Itential
- The Evolution of Network Automation: Transitioning from Consumer to Producer (NFD 36)
- Compliance Plans & Compliance for Ordered Lists
- Gartner Predicts 2026: AI Agents Will Reshape Infrastructure & Operations
- Driving Cloud Automation With Observability, AIOps, & NetDevOps
- Productize Your Network Automations: Using Stateful Data to Deliver Infrastructure Services (NFD 36)