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7 Key Business Operations to Automate in 2025

If you're still doing it all manually in 2025, it's time to update your operations. The business landscape is moving at breakneck speed, and business automation has gone beyond luxury - it's now a survival strategy. Whether you're running a startup, a mid-sized business, or a growing enterprise, streamlining core processes is not only abouttime-saving. It drives efficiency, reduces costs, and allows you to jump ahead of the competition.

How well-designed automations lead to efficient orchestration in AWS

Managing resources efficiently in cloud-based environments like AWS is crucial for scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Automation is key to eliminating manual intervention in routine tasks, while orchestration ensures that these automated tasks are executed in a structured, coordinated manner. In AWS, leveraging well-designed automation enhances orchestration, enabling organizations to optimize performance, resource utilization, and security while maintaining operational agility.

Runbook Automation and Rundeck v5.9 Release Notes

Product Manager Forrest Evans takes us through the new features in Runbook Automation v5.9, including a demo of incorporating Azure Key Vault in your automation jobs. For a full listing of the release notes, see the release notes page. Learn more about automation solutions, including new components to support your FinOps needs on the solutions page.

Maximizing Automation ROI: The 8 Use Cases You Need to Know

When people hear the phrase “process automation in IT,” they first think of the purely technological benefits. These include automated incident resolution, meaningfully improved process orchestration, reduced ticket volumes, and more. The factor that should be just as top-of-mind, though, is something that’s vital to both your automation program’s longevity and your organization’s overall success: automation ROI.

How Finance Tech Will Change After the 2025 EU DORA Mandate

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has already begun to reshape the financial landscape in the European Union and beyond. As of January 2025, EU financial entities and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) third-party providers must demonstrate robust operational resilience against ICT disruptions.

Introducing Puppet Core: Vendor-Backed Platform Automation for Security, Reliability & Stability

Today, I’m excited to share that Perforce Puppet has launched the first build of Puppet Core! Here’s why the inaugural release of this new product marks a huge step forward for Open Source Puppet users.

Automated BigPanda Alert Remediation for Azure Applications

This demonstration shows how Resolve automates the remediation of unreachable web application. This alert is generated by BigPanda and Resolve workflows automatically diagnose the issue and remediate it without human input, creating a loop of self-healing IT. This workflow is built with Resolve's drag-and-drop designer, streamlines tasks like creating a ticket, updating monitoring tools, diagnosing issues, and performing remediation steps.

BigPanda Alert Remediation for Network Latency Issues

This demonstration showcases an automated workflow in Resolve Actions to fix high latency between an application server and a database server. The workflow is triggered automatically with a BigPanda alert. The automation responds to the alert, creating a ticket, providing real-time updates, and performing diagnostics. It checks for issues like network interface problems, CPU utilization, and memory to identify and fix the root cause.

Network Configuration and Change Management: Seven Best Practices for 2025 & Beyond

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, networks are more complex than ever. With the expansion of multi-cloud environments, 5G rollouts, IoT adoption, and ever-evolving security threats, IT teams are under immense pressure to keep networks running smoothly while ensuring compliance and minimizing downtime. This is where Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) comes in to play.