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• Web-based self-service portal and service catalog
  Authorizing customers to order from a standardized list of service menus and provisioning templates facilitates the wide-scale automation that significantly expedites setting up resource requests. These environments need to be set to corporate standards and governance guidelines while reducing human error. The Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud web-based self-service portal gives users the ability to browse from a catalog of predefined service options or from customized workflows defined by IT or the service provider. Once services are orders, end users can track order status, modify and manage completed orders, and view usage, consumption, and costs for all service orders.
• Service delivery automation
  Automation is critical to unifying and standardizing data centers, because it simplifies operations, reduces costs, and promotes business flexibility. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud automation engine breaks end-user requests into individual components and orchestrates the order across infrastructure resources, the operating system, and applications. It also reports back to the end user on consumption through metering, chargeback, and billing systems. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud also provides updates to configuration management databases (CMDBs) as well as system management tools to help ensure that configuration-related information used by incident, change, and release management systems are up to date.
• Operational process automation
  Operational process automation benefits the organization by reducing the risk and latency of managing both physical and virtual environments. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud automates IT best practices in a secure and repeatable manner through service templates for operational and support tasks, user and performance management, and reports for audit tracking and reporting. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud provides over 200 predefined best practices and workflows, as well as tools that allow IT administrators to easily construct customized workflows or processes.
• Resource management
  Resource management in large-scale cloud models requires performance isolation and efficient use of the hardware infrastructure. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud uses the concept of resource pools, or logical containers, across hypervisor, compute, network, and storage infrastructures allocated to specific or multiple virtual machines to the user's specific order. Allocating resources into logical containers provides isolation from noisy neighbors as well as the ability to share resources across multiple users.
• Lifecycle management
  Lifecycle management of a cloud service runs from service request through decommissioning of the service and allows optimal utilization of resources, whether human, virtual, or physical. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud tools facilitate tracking of all aspects of individual services, including project and business information captured during the initial order and data about the various elements being provisioned to support the service from initiation to retirement. Decommissioning of resources reduces underutilization and potential virtual server sprawl.

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud expands uses of cloud technology beyond infrastructure, giving you a foundation for organizational transformation. Delivering a smooth transition beyond provisioning virtual machines, this solution automates sophisticated data center and standard business processes from a single self-service portal.