This week, Red Hat announced enhancements to its Ansible Automation Platform to accelerate automation implementation in routine IT tasks, and RPA provider BluePrism released new survey results around the growth of intelligent automation.
Automation is no longer the future of work – it is a critical component of every progressive business model. Today, businesses are moving beyond the adoption of automation towards intelligent automation.
The recent Spiceworks 2020 State of IT report reveals that 43% of enterprises have invested in IT automation, and the business adoption of AI technologies is expected to triple by 2021.
Just this week, RedHat Partner Blue Prism also released a new report titledOpens a new window “The Impact of a Digital Workforce on Business Agility & Survival†that surveyed more than 6,700 knowledge workers and senior IT decision-makers to gather insights about Robotic Process AutomationOpens a new window (RPA) adoption. The findings revealed that 78% of business leaders see RPA as a solution for solving the global productivity problem, while 92% plan to deploy automation throughout their organizations. While there have been apprehensionsOpens a new window about the potential negative impact of automation, this survey’s findings clearly show optimism, with 81% of knowledge workers saying they understand the benefits that automation can bring to their organization – more than half are excited about the new opportunities that RPA will create. Acknowledging the inevitable role of RPA and intelligent automation in business, 78% of companies are reducing the RPA skills gap with new learning opportunities for their employees.
With intelligent automation at the core of enabling digital transformations for enterprise scale businesses, and the overall growth in demand for automation, open-source company Red Hat too announced new updates to its Ansible Automation portfolio, with the latest version of its Automation Platform and the new Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections.
In fact, in March of 2020, Red Hat and BluePrism entered into an alliance Opens a new window to move the needle on enterprise business automation by aligning Business Process Management and Robotic Process Automation technologies.
What’s New in Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Content Collections?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform was launchedOpens a new window last year to bolster cross-team collaboration for automating repetitive tasks. It is a single automation platform that brings different domain teams together to build and operate automation across an organization. Equipped with all necessary tools including Red Hat Ansible Engine, Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat Ansible Network Automation, and Certified Content Collections, the platform ensures smarter and efficient implementation of automation.
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In the new Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat rolled out new features such as Automation service catalog, Automation Analytics automation calculator, and added new features to Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.7 for faster automation of repetitive IT and operational tasks.
The other aspect of the product update was the Ansible Content Collections, which minimizes bottlenecks in automation implementation and provides access to packaged and certified Ansible content such as modules, plugins, roles, documentation, and playbooks that helps organizations to quickly kickstart automation. Red Hat has now added 17 new collections or playbooks on to the Automation Hub, to support automation tasks on platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Arista, Cisco, IBM, Juniper, and more. Additionally, the new playbooks will automate Red Hat Insights and Red Hat Satellite.
Andrius Benokraitis, Principal Product Manager for Ansible Network Automation, explains in a blog postOpens a new window that with the current updates, Ansible project owners can now “focus on security, and performance improvements, while module, plugin, and role developers can release updated content at their own development cadence.â€
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