NetIQ Aegis
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The Control and Automation Platform for IT Processes
NetIQ® Aegis™ is a software platform that models, automates, measures and improves run books and ITIL®-based processes, bringing control and automation to IT Operations. Aegis integrates with NetIQ systems and security management products as well as leading third-party products to automate IT processes by leveraging existing technology investments.
IT operations managers face a difficult challenge trying to tie together IT management tools from multiple vendors to give their operations staff the right information at the right time to provide support in fast-paced environments. Aegis leverages existing IT management tools to automate ITIL processes as well as repetitive administrative tasks such as managing disk space, web server restarts or virtual server farm management. Aegis gives IT operations the freedom to design and automate processes abstracted from the people and technology involved, and the flexibility to choose the tools that best fit current and future needs.
“IT process automation is a solution that can actually interconnect products in an intelligent scheme and aggregate data to be delivered to the right user. The most important announcement to date around this integration potential has come from NetIQ Aegis: It is proposing an architecture that combines data collection from different sources with a process automation layer able to deliver the right information to the right user in the context of an ITIL process. While this is an inherent capability of all IT process automation products available on the market, NetIQ is the first IT management software vendor to take the concept to logical and full implementation.”
Market Overview: The IT Management Software Market In 2008, Forrester Research, Inc., March 19, 2008. |
Aegis leverages the "NetIQ DNA" – 10+ years of expertise in Systems and Security Management. Aegis has several key differentiators:
- An embedded, but separate correlation engine improves scalability and makes the design and management of correlation rules between dissimilar tools significantly easier
- Ease-of-use features such as a modern web interface allowing drag and drop manipulation, out of the box templates for common processes - which can be shared on the Aegis community site, and many other features learned from over a decade of prioritizing ease of use design
- A commitment to heterogeneous adapter development, as NetIQ does not have a monolithic framework to integrate with or promote
- For current NetIQ customers, significant leverage of your investments in AppManager, Security Manager, Secure Configuration Manager and other products makes Aegis an obvious choice
Coming from NetIQ, you can trust that Aegis is a product that will work without requiring armies of consultants, and that NetIQ is a company large enough to provide the resources to keep pace with the enhancement requests that our enterprise customers demand.
Key Benefits
Aegis gives you the ability to immediately automate mundane, repetitive aspects of IT operations while providing the foundation for aggregating and consolidating those tasks to achieve the larger goal of automating processes that span functional disciplines such as those defined by ITIL.
- Leverage your existing software investments – Aegis enables rapid deployment with minimum configuration for your existing management tools. There is no need to permission and install new tools – rather they can now be leveraged more fully with increased functionality, improving their ROI.
- Improve IT service levels and reduce costs – Through automation, Aegis enables faster time to resolution of incidents, accelerates provisioning, and offloads routine or mundane tasks so operators and administrators become more productive.
- Buy Aegis, and get a correlation engine – Aegis includes a separate, built-in correlation engine that reduces the number of events from multiple sources that must be dealt with and helping to prioritize response.
- Facilitate operational discipline – Aegis gives you greater control of daily activities for more consistent service delivery, less risk of human error and documented compliance with IT policies.
- Reduce waste – Aegis supplies built in performance metrics that help you benchmark performance, identify bottlenecks, streamline operations and develop continuous improvement over time.
