ServiceNow customers leverage Event Management to improve service availability, identify root causes, and understand event impacts. However, there is no native integration with IBM i. If your business relies on IBM Power® and IBM i, watch this on-demand webinar to learn how easy it is to connect this platform with Event Management. See how this will enhance your overall IT operations management strategy and underline your investment in ServiceNow.
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Leveraging IBM i Machine and Log Data in ServiceNow Event Management
1. Ironstream®
The Full Stack
Leveraging IBM i Machine and Log Data in
ServiceNow Event Management
Ian Hartley | Senior Director, Product Management
Andrew Farley | Solutions Engineer
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3. Themes
• Challenges around traditional
modernization approaches
• Impact to business
• Need for an accurate visibility
solution
• Demo of Ironstream for Event
Management
15. Confidential: Prepared for Precisely Customers and Prospects
IBM i is a critical asset for your business
15
70%
Mid-size Enterprises
Globally
50% +
Core business applications
run on IBM i
Financial services
fastest adopters
of IBM i
#1
of World’s
Top Industries
use IBM i
3 Higher ROI than
other platforms
↑
16. Leading IT operations platforms lack native
IBM i integration
Distributed and
Cloud environments
Mainframe and
IBM i Systems
IBM i
Distributed and
Cloud environments
17. Impact of data silos on IT teams
No single view of
IT infrastructure
Increased
downtime and
critical outages
Health and
status of systems
is unknown
Lack of shared
information
across teams
Higher MTTR Difficult to find root
cause of incidents
19. Drive down costs while swiftly resolving issues
19
Start with up
to date
visibility
Empower users
to address
issues quickly
Everything
looking critical
makes nothing
critical
Call out high
priority issues
first
Eliminate
outages and
reduce impact
of high priority
incidents
Services
Infrastructure
Cloud
Machine
learning
IT
operations
function
Big data
and
analytics
Services impacted
Users impacted
Applications impacted
Determine impact
Companies are run based on departments. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Organizations have grown and realized there are specific functions they need to operate.
But if you really want to get work done, these departments need to work together. And when that’s the case, there are a lot of challenges when it comes to setting up departments to work well together.
The first challenge is they don’t have a common way to communicate or collaborate.
Instead, they are kind of loosely coupled together by emails, spreadsheets, phone calls, or tribal knowledge where someone knows someone who can help them get stuff done.
The second challenge is that each of these departments has their own technology stacks. They’ve each created a set of software that ties together to form a system of record based on the needs and what’s important to that department.
To make matters worse, you don’t just have this complexity to deal with, you have all the systems and technologies that exist around and between departments.
Things like what’s our mobile strategy or what are we going to do around our master data management or what’s our philosophy around AI?
So, the challenge is how do you actually link these systems, technologies, and departments together technically but also so work flows naturally across them as it wants to flow – without any care to how department, org charts, and technology dictate.
Imagine a new employee starting their first day of work. They need to be in contact with HR to get the materials they need, with Finance to get paid, and with IT to get all the hardware and tools necessary to do their job.
Or imagine if you’re a customer coming in just trying to ask a question about your product that ends up initiating a customer service request that has impact on sales, which may result in sales having to speak to marketing to get changes to their ad campaigns.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could kick off a workflow that ensures this is the case without relying on manual handoffs that waste time and lead to misunderstandings and confusion?
As we start to map more of these workflows across the enterprise, the enterprise becomes more and more connected. And eventually, you get to the point where everything is connected, where you’ve digitized your mission critical services, and you’ve built a service mesh or fabric that’s linking everything together.
For me, what’s interesting here is the system of action that actually creates this fabric. So, you have the system of engagement and below that the system of record, but what’s important is the connection between the two that links the level of engagement to the system of record.
And once you have that, there are a load of additional benefits.
Most importantly, employees get better experiences because there is less friction. And that means work happens faster. Organizations are more agile, and with workflows, they also get visibility into what’s happening at a given moment.
And that cuts down so much useless conversation. So, whenever I initiate a process or I need something, I can see where it’s going to go through and whereabout it is in the process. And then I start to get this feeling of being much more connected, with visibility into what’s happening.
Once we’ve connected the middle office and we understand how the layers of the company request work off each other, the next thing that becomes interesting for the Connected Enterprise is repeating the same process through the digitization of operations.
That could be through technology refreshes that are actually putting connected devices in or it could be the application to automation or AI to be able to allow you to repeat that same process again and again.
The key to all this, though, is ServiceNow as the platform of platforms. Our unique differentiation is providing you with one platform that shares one data model and one architecture,
The challenge is that in most modern enterprises, work is unstructured and happening within disparate systems of record. These departments have their own data and systems of record that are stored on various, in some cases legacy technologies, but work happens in silos – lowering productivity and giving a bad user experience, because individually they do not support how work flows across your enterprise. And replacing core systems is an expensive and lengthy process.
Our Now Platform excels at digitizing work that flows throughout your company and across several functions in a unified experience.
That’s why we call the Now Platform the “platform of platforms” for all business solutions and ALL workflows.
Our unique differentiation is providing you with one platform that shares one data model, one architecture, as well as many built-in powerful capabilities –
So you can easily build cross-enterprise workflows, you have a single CMDB to record all your asset information…
You deploy enterprise service management. There’s machine learning, AI and predictive analytics. We look at how we engage with the system by giving them native mobile functionality and conversational interfaces.
And then we provide a set of no code and low code development tools to allow anyone to build their own apps.
ServiceNow connects organizations, creating a seamless enterprise system of action that integrates silos & systems, gives people great employee and customer experiences, and most importantly, increases business agility and unlocks productivity.
On top of our platform, we offer best in class “out-of-the-box” workflows for IT, employees and customers that orchestrate work across the enterprise and are unique to each industry.
These solutions were all developed organically, 100% native to our platform. And we offer the same exact platform for you to build your own low-code and no-code apps with App Engine to deliver enterprise workflows and even develop new business solutions.
Our partners are also building apps on the Now Platform, providing an even greater selection of ready to use workflows for your business to download and deploy when you want to.
And lastly, all of your existing omni-channel experiences will have out-of-the box integration into the ServiceNow from mobile and web to conventional collaboration and through to productivity tools like Slack or Microsoft teams, so you can deliver great experiences to your employees, your customers and your partners through the interfaces they love.
Why does that matter?
We see organizations continue to get value out of their i investment –
70% of companies in the mid-size range are using IBM i today, that means organizations that have between $50 million and $1 billion in annual revenues and/or 100 to 1000 employees.
The top 3 industries globally have IBM i in their technology stack - wholesale distribution, retail distribution, manufacturing,
When asked how many core business applications run on their IBM i in 2019, 500 IBM i users surveyed said more than half
Those surveyed also said they felt that IBM i had higher ROI than other platforms they were using for data systems
PURPOSE: The negative consequences of disconnection.
IT operations and security use cases can all be played across these tools and platforms. Even combinations of these many different use cases.
From simple visibility…to operational insights…finding issues and resolving them quickly before your customers are aware…to improving your security, compliance and audit posture.
These are all possible…at your own pace…and in-line with your common or even unique requirements.