September 2014 saw the much anticipated official launch of the next generation of automation solutions, Cortex v5 at Tower Bridge, London. This is the presentation delivered by Jonathan Hobday, Commercial Director, Innovise IES.
5. Re-think Your Business
Establish smart autonomous operations with Cortex®
Focus staff on innovation for digital business
Magnify the variety, velocity and volume of services
...at a significantly lower unit cost of delivery
8. Islands of Automation
... But more robots will not build a factory
Automation is faster, better, and will reduce
cost for individual operational tasks
... builds chaos, complexity and cost
9. Service Orchestration
Adaptive coordination of
complex processes and
operational intelligence driven
decisions to achieve business
goals and service objectives.
Intelligent
Automation
Self-managing situationally
aware closed-loop automation
to achieve reliable, repeatable
outcomes.
Building a Factory
Robotic Automation
The execution of repeatable
sequences of tasks.
10. Islands of Automation
Automation
Event
Security &
Compliance
Management
Scripts,
Run Books Service
Request
Automation
Process
Automation
Cloud
Automation
Workload
Automation
Business
Process
Automation
Provisioning
Data
Automation
11. Intelligent Orchestration
Business Rules
Visualise Manage
Orchestrate
Integrate
Monitor
Create Interact
Analyse
Automate
Respond
Sense
Workflow
12.
13. Cortex Studio
Cortex LivePortal Web UI
Integration and API’s
Business Continuity & HA
Data Warehouse and Analytics
Self-Sufficiency
19. View View
Model
View
Controller
Controller
Business Logic
Data Model
• Decoupled
• Parallel use
• External UI
• Multi UI
• Migration
• Transition
External Application Web UI
LivePortal 5
Controller
Business Logic
20. • New Controls
• Live Status
• My Services
• More stable
• Mobile
LivePortal 5
21. Supervisors
Integration
Operations &
SMEs
Technicians Operations
PPeeooppllee
Managers &
End Users
Suppliers &
Contractors
Operations
Analyst
Service
Manager
Team
Leader
Business Rules
New Generic OCI’s
• SOAP
• REST
• Powershell
New Standard OCI’s
• ServiceNow
22. • RESTful API
• Authenticated
• Simple
• Fast
RESTful API
App Server
Cortex Application Server
IIS
Locator
Svc
IIS
Cortex Server
Interfaces
Locator Svc
Cortex
Server
Interfaces
App Server
Cortex Application Server
IIS
Locator
Svc
IIS
Cortex Server
Interfaces
Locator Svc
Cortex
Server
Interfaces
23. Improved scalability and HA
Client Apps & UIs
Cortex Application Server
Locator
Svc
IIS
Cortex Server
Interfaces
Locator Svc
Load Balancer
App Server
Cortex Application Server
IIS
Locator
Svc
IIS
Cortex Server
Interfaces
Locator Svc
Cortex
Server
Interfaces
App Server
IIS
Cortex
Server
Interfaces
Configuration, Auditing & Security Databases
Studio
IIS
Cortex
Server
Interfaces
Locator Svc
• Load balancing
• Stateful HA
• Clustering
• Remote Nodes
• Federation API
Data
Warehouse
24. Performance Analytics
• Standard Data
Warehouse
• Published cubes
• Enhanced
Management
Dashboards
• Web parts
25. • Extended
documentation
• Development
Support
• IDK: OCI SDK
• Wizard driven
install
Self Sufficiency
26. • Le
Best Practice
Analyse Model Optimise Automate Deploy • Accurate deployment
Orchestrate
Automate
Monitor
Model
Optimise
Analyse
• Rapid time to value
• Iterative progressive method
• Continuous improvement
• Accelerated capture
• FREE
• Emerging standard
• Rapid Prototyping
• Formal process
• Agile process
Orchestration
Rules Brief
Orchestration Rules Brief- ORB
27. Means You Can…
Do more
Change faster
Better quality
Higher velocity
Lower cost
Agile digital business
29. Automated Network Management
Highly skilled staff being drawn permanently into operational
issues:
Costly, poor use of skills, cannot cope with volumes
Benefits of Cortex Solution:
Self-Managing Networks
Self-Healing Networks
Quality of Service
Analytics
Millions of complex events per day handled
Over 90% of events resolved automatically
Integrates with:
SNMP/Sylog traps
Unsol-ASCII, CORBA,
Approx. 70% reduction in
TELNET, WMI, SSH, FTP,
SFTP, FMC (CORBA), SYSX, NOKIA,
AXE-10, ALCATEL-IN, NIVR, MEGAHUB
headcount
STREAMWIDE, CS2K, MG3200’s, IAD’s, GVI
SBC, IMSS, NGIL, DMS/GSP, NCTI, DATAGATEWAY
ICM, GENESYS, EXONY-VIM, QBUSTER, PCI, SYMANTEC
MVR, BMC, HP INSIGHT MGR, HCS-Prime Central, Unix Servers,
Windows, Cisco CPE, TDM Voice, IP Voice, IP Trunking, Network Transit Traffic,
Intelligent Network Services (IVR/ICR), Contact Centre Solutions, Mobile, Billing, Voice Mail 6-Way Cortex Reactor Engine
Network
Analyst
Service
Manager
Team Leader
Enrichment
Vista RT Interface
Historian
Network & Application Management
30. Business-Driven Configuration
Call centres have lots of changes in a technical environment:
- Too technical for business users to configure
- Too much for outsourced service provider to manage
Benefits of Cortex Solution:
Cortex Foundation Server & LivePortal™
Active Directory
Reporting
Genesys call routing
Verint voice recording
Work Force Manager (WFM) scheduling
Deployed in 3 months
High security
Integrated billing
Continuous
improvement
99.3% of service requests complete in 1 minute
Data synchronised across all systems
Automated self-service
Before
After
SLA 24 hours SLA 24 hours
99% < 1 min
Service
Manager
Team Leader
Joiners, Leavers and Movers
31. Cloud Service Orchestration
Business Services using Cloud
Multiple complex systems that have to be orchestrated to do the
right thing, at the right time.
From commercial approval and budget management, through to
private and public cloud infrastructure.
Benefits of Cortex Solution:
Cortex Dual Enterprise HA
Active Directory
Citrix, Sharepoint, SMS, email
Finance, Billing, and Budgeting
Project Management, Resource Scheduling
Client Landscape database, CMDB, etc
Tooling: VMware, BMC, RES, LifeRay, NetIQ, etc
External Services: AWS, Azure, EC2, etc
Financial control
5 week pilot
Hybrid cloud
Rapid ROI
Provisioning process reduced to minutes
Maximise use of existing assets
Reduced unit cost of delivery
Financial control of services
32. Business processes that involve approval workflows and
distribution of large amounts of funding requires rigorous control.
Frequent changes in requirements need agile systems.
Benefits of Cortex Solution:
GIS system
Task Scheduling
Payment Systems
Dedicated User Interfaces
Email, SMS, in-house systems
Business Process Automation
Prototype in 9 days with
2 resources
Custom User Interface
Improved agility
100% compliance all the time, with audit trails
Up to 6x faster than other technologies
Rapid deployment of changes
Team
Leader
Manager
Director
Cortex Enterprise Platform & LivePortal™
Processing of Funding Applications
39. Unified platform to build and run autonomous
operations.
Cortex
• Rapid – typically deployed <3 months
• Easy to use – designed for business users
• Low cost – faster change with less consulting
• Extensible – open visual integration
A world where everyone can automate
• Open Integration
• Asynchronous
• Real-Time
• Resilient
• Scalable