The proliferating array of technology tools within many organizations today can make it exceedingly difficult to get true visibility and insight into the IT estate. Amid this tech sprawl, teams find themselves siloed and struggle to monitor and manage diverse tool sets across the enterprise – a state of affairs that increases both costs and complexity while limiting the ability to accurately assess, optimize, and enhance operations.

IT outages are a financial nightmare. Beyond revenue impact, unplanned downtime translates to lost productivity, frustrated customers, and potential reputation damage. To understand the true impact of these events, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted a comprehensive study with more than 400 IT professionals from varying company sizes and roles in North America, EMEA, and APAC regions.

There’s wisdom in past experiences — if you can access it. During live incidents, teams often look for parallels to past situations in their investigation process. Finding the answers is a time-consuming and manual process. You first have to identify similar incidents, then review historical data for insights and details on how previous teams resolved them. There’s no time to waste when SLAs are at stake. Yet that’s how many operators spend their time.

Last week saw several big milestones for BigPanda. We launched several new AI-driven capabilities (see below). And we had the privilege of meeting with more than 40 IT operations leaders from customers, including Disney, Nvidia, Autodesk, Lucid Motors, Intel, and Blue Shield, at our customer event, BigPanda 24. Representing some of the most innovative organizations in business and technology, these influencers joined us as part of our customer and technical advisory boards.

Government agencies are embracing digital modernization to transform the delivery of public services and reimagine the constituent experience. Recent research shows that citizens have a clear preference for engaging with government through websites and mobile applications over in-person or telephone interactions, just as the experience in their everyday life as commercial consumers – creating a win-win for governments and constituents.

In an era where digital presence is synonymous with business continuity, unexpected downtime haunts every IT department across industry domains. The quest for operational perfection pivots around not just maintaining uptime but proactively ensuring it. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations – a ray of hope in this persistent pursuit. Still, the question remains: Is achieving zero unexpected downtime with AIOps a tangible reality?