Achieve more, but do less with end-to-end automation across your network and business

IBM® Rapid Network Automation is an API-driven tool that automates, integrates and connects across the network and business. It facilitates and secures communication between platforms, services and applications.

Businesses face the daunting challenge of managing complex networks comprised of devices from many vendors. As networks and infrastructure grow increasingly complex, traditional approaches to automation fall short, leading to inefficiencies, siloed operations and heightened risks.

Advanced solutions like IBM Rapid Network Automation help achieve secure and scalable automation management. Using a low-code approach and transforming API code into deployment-ready action blocks, organizations can rapidly develop or leverage existing automation scripts, amplify their capabilities and apply robust governance measures. 

IBM Rapid Network Automation is designed to:

• Accelerate mean time to resolution.
• Reduce time to market for new services.
• Increase scope to cross-stack automation.
• Increase automation security and compliance with centralized security and policy control.

Features

• **Amplify existing automation: **Integrate new tools with existing tools to expand capabilities and manage them all from a centralized automation management system. Get more ROI and scale easily with interconnected platforms.
• **API gateway: **Manage your automated workflows within API gateways. Integrate your current tools and improve security, performance and capabilities across your organization.
• **Automation governance: **Gain enhanced automation governance with role-based access control, centralized management and detailed monitoring dashboards, ensuring comprehensive security and operational transparency.
• **Low-code workflow automation: **Use ready-made action blocks or popular languages such as JSON and YAML to design and automate workflows that are simple, efficient and boost productivity.

Benefits

• **Normalize full-stack automation and connectivity: **Shatter automation silos through low-code workflows spanning the entire tech stack. Seamlessly blend proprietary APIs with abstracted vendor APIs for unparalleled integration flexibility.
• **Level up your automation resources and inventory: **With out-of-the-box support for major automation platforms and scripting languages, securely reuse and modify new or existing automation effortlessly, centralizing multiple tools into one secured tool.
• **Get robust governance and full-scale control: **Implement effective automation governance ensuring centralized control, security and compliance to mitigate risks associated with automation initiatives. Use detailed logs and dashboards to monitor your automation activities.