The entire TEM industry is speaking about “Technology Expense Management” and they are 100% correct. IT is moving at a frantic pace and “Digital Transformation” is not just a cool marketing buzz word. This transformation is accelerating and TEM needs to evolve managing any type of telecom and IT asset, including network infrastructure, UCaaS, mobile [...]
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which represents a set of best practices for IT service management defines four primary tasks for a CMDB, and according to this, the four major tasks of configuration management are: • Identification of configuration items to be included in the CMDB (Circuit Inventory, Routers, Switches, Wireless Access Points, HR, LDAP, Locations [...]
It is difficult to meet the real needs of both midsize to large enterprises when both telecom and IT products and services appear to be free or very expensive with no real proof to the business units. These costs run into the trillions “yes trillions” of dollars to operate, and this overall cost is increasing [...]
Example; of a common task to be automated: Desired State Configuration (DSC) utilizing PowerShell a server provisioning and configuration management technology, allows an administrator to define common settings in a configuration script, which is then applied as many times as needed, whether once or thousands of times, to the same end. There are dozens of PowerShell [...]
Leveraging a Rapid Application Development platform allows end-users to rapidly configure the TEM/WEM platform both for application/integration changes and workflow creation. As the business environment evolves in telecom and IT, the only constant is that companies will continue to add software to improve their processes and drive efficiencies. However, with an ever-growing number of standard [...]
The Asignet "Robot” enables the user through a "Wayfast" created workflow to use PowerShell and Remote Desktop protocol embedded scripts to manage remote servers, cloud, and SaaS (IoT) applications. Because PowerShell Web Access provides a connection that is live security is a serious concern. The creation of an active real time CMDB created by the [...]
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the most exciting developments in Business Process Management (BPM) in recent history. Some industry experts believe it may be even more transformational than cloud computing. However, is this game-changing technology all that new? In its current form, yes, but its roots can be traced back to macro's that automate [...]
First, what is Robotic process automation (RPA)? It is an application of technology that allows computer software or a “robot” to automate and interpret existing applications (SOA or SOA less) for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses and communicating with other digital systems (Integration). What is the connection to TEM? The connection is this [...]