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This chapter of RealTime Publishers' Executive Guide to IT Process Automation will answer what may be the most important question: Who can you trust to deliver on the need for ITPA in your enterprise? Identifying the right vendor to partner with and work through your ITPA goals can be challenging. However, with this guide, you can answer the appropriate questions and base your technical evaluations on the right criteria to ensure success.

Growth. Change. Maturity. Regardless of context, each of these words carries some amount of familiar pain. IT processes are matured generationally. That is to say that a process is designed, implemented, and then improved upon continuously. This chapter of RealTime Publishers' Executive Guide to ITPA will identify high-impact areas for automation, pointing out both the quick-win scenarios and areas that can be established and matured over multiple generations to build a best-in-class, automated, IT infrastructure.

Orchestrating the IT infrastructure to meet the needs of the business is central to delivering on the promise of IT Process Automation (ITPA). Doing so requires a keen understanding of business, a flexible IT management mentality, and the ability to identify and evaluate critical IT processes maturity. This chapter of RealTime Publishers' Executive Guide to IT Process Automation is a roadmap for the automation journey from evaluating process maturity to ene-to-end process automation.

This guide, by Realtime Publishers, examines IT processes and the steps organizations can take to begin to turn the dream of ITPA into a much-anticipated reality. The benefits of ITPA will enable IT organizations to take full command of their infrastructure, realize greater efficiency, become more effective, and deliver an amazing level of business agility that will enable any organization to rapidly respond to changing business requirements with reduced overhead and greater focus on the business.

This impact brief covers two April 2008 announcements by Opalis Software Inc. The first announced the general availability of Opalis Integration Server 5.5 which includes a new executive dashboard and operator console, and significantly extended management capabilities. The second introduced an OEM partnership between Opalis and CA to provide Opalis IT process automation (ITPA) services to the larger CA data center automation (DCA) initiative

Ptak, Noel & Associates offer a brief analysis of IT process automation, examine Opalis' position as a thought and functionality leader, and review the newly released Opalis products. Download this white paper to learn why Ptak, Noel & Associates say, "If you are looking for IT process automation software, Opalis should be on your short list."

Opalis president and CEO Todd DeLaughter explains what run book automation is and how you can make it work for your IT organization.

The ability to automate and integrate the workflow of complex multi-discipline IT management processes is the glue that binds the entire DCA stack. This research summary highlights the benefits and barriers of data center automation, and spotlights IT process automation with Opalis integration server.

Ptak Noel explains how a Run Book Automation (RBA) tool like Opalis fills the IT Process Automation Gap by supporting the goals of ITIL processes and continuing where the high level processes end.

ITIL provides guidelines around defining best practices but lacks a method for integrating and automating these processes. Learn how Run Book Automation  provides the necessary tools to automate best practices. 

Learn why IT executives are looking to IT process automation solutions to help lower costs and improve IT efficiencies around best practices and ITIL processes .