Autolaunch ™
Accelerate Your Drive to IT Automation
Windward’s Autolaunch™ Program is an objective, low-risk approach to quickly identify and deploy IT process automation to deliver 3x return within 6-9 months with minimal impact on existing client resources and priorities.
We understand that budget cuts, scarce resources and staff who are constantly in firefighting mode make it difficult to be innovative when it comes to automation. Our approach with Windward’s Autolaunch™ is to provide an on-going Windward Business Analyst and Automation Engineer allocated to work with you to find automation ROIs. Our team will meet regularly with staff to develop opportunities and present Automation Business Cases regularly to leadership teams. The benefits to your organization are:
- “Low hanging fruit” areas for automation are assessed quickly
- An automation strategy that will increase momentum to drive continued and sustainable value
- Core client staff focus on priorities and vision, not stuck in the weeds.
As an example, in a 4-week period, Windward successfully automated the Server provisioning process with a reduction of time of 85% for the server build process for 25 servers per month, a savings of $120K or 4x ROI with:
- Pre-automation: 6 hours for server build and 3-9 days from request to deliver a server
- Post-automation: Less than 40 minutes for server build portion of the process
Additional benefits to be gained in automating provisioning are:
- Automatic population of CMDB
- Dynamic integration to service desk incident management
- Seamless updating of server virtual machines data to asset management system