According to Gartner, turnkey integration capabilities to key tools and vendors is a critical capability for network automation – however, most vendors make it difficult to integrate by requiring the use of custom code, or view integration as a profit center by selling services for integration or licensing a vendor-approved module to the customer. This “Integration Tax” increases project timelines, adds cost, and limits versatility. Traditionally, customers had to make choices and select a few key systems to integrate because it was either too time consuming or costly to integrate with everything. Itential’s approach to integration starts by recognizing the customer’s right to select the ‘right tool for the job’ from among a variety of choices and understanding the immediate value of leveraging the existing tools and systems they already own. To eliminate the Integration Tax, Itential has implemented a way to build codeless integrations with systems using standards-based API specifications, like OpenAPI, Swagger, or Postman collections. Instead of limiting organizations to a few technology choices, this empowers our customers to integrate quickly with any API-managed IT system, network controller, or cloud platform that the organization wishes to use —today or tomorrow. Itential has also addressed one of the hidden costs normally associated with integration – data transformation. One essential requirement for full integration is the ability to transform the payloads that come from the various integration points so that the automation system can incorporate the data into automation flows. Itential’s data transformation capabilities replace complicated scripts and enable users to take a no-code approach for creating comprehensive data transformations. In this on-demand webinar, Morgan Stern, VP of Automation Strategy at Itential, and Karan Munalingal, Head of Solutions Engineering at Itential, explored Itential’s unique approach to integration for network automation by: Diving into Itential’s API first approach to network automation. The importance of out-of-the-box integration for network automation and associated time and cost savings. The value of data transformation for integration. Why Itential believes in integrating with a federated source of truth. How to connect to anything with Itential’s automation products. How to easily build your own integration and transform data on the fly.

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Itential’sNo-Code Approach to Integrationfor
NetworkAutomation
Thursday, April 6 @ 9 am PST / 12 pm EST
Morgan Stern
VP of Automation Strategy
Karan Munalingal
Head of Solutions Engineering

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SimplifiedAutomation
for Network& Cloud
Automation platform for end-to-end network
configuration, compliance, & automation.

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Today’s Network Change Management Processes
Network Change Request
CLI
RANCID
Backup
Data
Gathering
Request Complete
Manual
Pre-Check
Manual
Post-Check
Deploy Scripts/Manual
Deployment
Manual Update to
Adjacent Systems
Manual Update to
Close Ticket
CLI
RANCID
Backup
CMBD
Mapping
Tool

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The ‘Integration Tax’is Limiting Network Automation
What’s holding you back automating from ticket creation to ticket
closure?
1
Integrations have been inherently
difficult.
2
Most systems speak different
languages.
3
High rate of innovation & change across
vendor technology.
Real-time integration capabilities
and software-generated
adapters and workflow objects
No-code data transformation
streamlines payload
transformation and enrichment
Real-time integrations and data
transformations facilitate easy
introduction of changes and
innovations

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Itential Integration Ecosystem
CRM ITSM Notifications
DDI/Source of Truth
CI/CD
Verification/Discovery AI Ops/Telemetry DevOps/NetOps Cloud
ACI
SD-WAN/SASE SDN

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Itential’s Pre-Built Collection for Rapid, No-Code Automation
Start fast and stay fast with Itential’s out of the box, Pre-Built Collection of Integrations, Transformations,
and Automations for simple, reusable and rapid deployment of network automation capabilities.
Integrations Transformations Automations
Integrations to over 100+
systems that span
multiple domains.
Rapidly adopt
automation for
specific use cases.
Easily transform &
standardize data between
any IT, cloud, and network
technology.

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CMBD
Mapping
Tool
Update Source of Truth
Automated Network Change Request with Itential
Request Complete
Network Change Request
Pre-Check
Command
Template
Config
Backup
Network Change
Command Template
Post-Check
Close Ticket
Integrate Source of Truth

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DEMO

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Itential Automation Gateway
Standalone application for transforming scripts
into APIs.
Itential Product Portfolio
Pre-Built Collection
Out-of–the-box pre-built items for rapid adoption of
network automation.
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Custom Scripts
• Python
• HTTP API
• NETCONF
• Adapters
• Automations
• Transformations
Itential Automation Platform
Low-Code automation platform for hybrid
cloud networks.
• Configuration Manager
• Automation Studio
• Operations Manager

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Why Itentialfor Network Automation
No-code integration model
enables customers to auto-
generate integrations across
multiple domains.
Integration Flexibility
Pre-Built Collection and low-
code environment, also
available as a SaaS offering,
provide fastest time-to-value.
Implementation Speed
Focus on traditional, modern,
and cloud consumed networks
supporting 5B+ network and IT
transactions per year for existing
customers.
Ability to Scale
Multi-Vendor, Multi-Domain Automation & Orchestration

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