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Itential announced the latest release to the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) with new features that redefine the way NetDevOps teams collaborate and manage network compliance and the lifecycle of their automation workflows.
This release not only simplifies the development, sharing, and collaboration of automation projects but also ensures users can quickly find and deploy pre-built modular assets within the Itential ecosystem with a centralized Automation Marketplace. With enhanced compliance features, and advanced capabilities for managing network service models, Itential’s 23.2 release transforms complex network tasks into streamlined orchestrated operations, keeping your network agile, secure, and ahead of the curve.
“With this latest release, we’re proud to elevate our customer’s experience by amplifying and transforming their automation capabilities for collaborative delivery of vital network services,” said Peter Sprygada, Itential’s Vice President of Product Management. “Itential continues to focus on driving complexity out of managing distributed infrastructure, allowing our customers to focus on maximizing their investments around orchestration and automation initiatives, ensuring agile and secure networks.”
As a vendor-agnostic SaaS solution, the Itential Automation Platform allows customers to build, test, and deploy low-code orchestration workflows for managing deployments, network changes, and configuration and compliance across hybrid, multi-cloud network infrastructure. With its latest release, customers can now access enhanced capabilities for network automation and orchestration including:
- Automation Projects: A centralized command center for collaborative automation at scale, complete with tools for asset consolidation, logical organization, and seamless version control integration.
- Workflow Canvas Enhancements: A refined design interface with enhanced search capabilities, intuitive task referencing, and streamlined asset filtering to elevate the workflow development experience.
- Re-Designed Automation Marketplace: An expansive hub designed to accelerate automation and orchestration initiatives, offering a rich array of pre-built modular assets such as integrations, data transformations, and workflows.
- Stateful Orchestration with Lifecycle Manager: A sophisticated application for defining and managing data models, simplifying service model creation, and keeping data up to date with advanced CRUD operations.
- Infrastructure Compliance for Ordered Lists: Advanced features to simplify compliance audits across both CLI and API-managed infrastructures but also adeptly enforce ordered lists for CLI or JSON configurations—maintaining order without compromising security.
- Robust Compliance Plans & In-Depth Reporting: Enhanced features that streamline configuration compliance for network devices and services, bolstering security and performance standards across infrastructures and enable infrastructure teams to craft custom compliance reports and schedule delivery to application teams, ensuring they have the insights when they need them most.
Additional platform enhancements within the release include single sign on (SSO) access to IAP with integration to SAML Identity Access Management solutions and expanded Itential Automation Gateway support for Git keeping up to date with your latest automations by automatically pulling them from a central Git repository.
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