How to Build a Network Automation Strategy
A Step-by-Step Guide to Get Started
At Itential, we’ve spent years working with customers who have that very same question on how to get started and have developed a step-by-step guide on how you can take a practical approach to achieve immediate success in your network automation efforts.
How to get started with network automation and build a framework for success:
Identify Tasks & Use Cases
Network automation success starts with the right use cases. Choosing use cases that are either too big or too small can leave your project dead before it even truly began. Learn how to prioritize and select the right use cases for your organization.
Select the Right Technology
Understand the available options and choose the right tools and technologies that provide the most efficient path (time and cost) to benefits, while enabling the broadest set of use cases to be automated.
Understand Roles & Skills
Determining the right roles and skills and defining a team structure that maximizes the value of domain technical expertise while minimizing the need for large-scale re-skilling of resources will ensure network automation success.
Determine Automation Process Management
The process model for automation is a critical component of the automation strategy. Without an effective process, automation activities would lose the ability to align with business imperatives, and at the same time would lack the structure to design, implement and refine automation use cases reliably and efficiently.
Measure Automation Value with the Right Metrics
It’s important to understand the key metrics that can help teams measure the impact and build their business case for network automation and drive success.
