TechValidate Research on Broadcom Automation

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Broadcom Customer Research

How do you determine revised Workload Automation Service Delivery time?

Previous experience used to determine a time and add a safety buffer
45%
Calculate it based on average times of jobs still to run
36%
Do not provide a time – when fixed will let them know
33%
System recalculates expected delivery time based on averages
13%
System provides expected restoration time based on context (AI/ML)
8%

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How do you determine actions when a Workload Automation Service Level breach has or is predicted to occur?

Operational experience determines actions
63%
None – only informed after breach has occurred
33%
Critical path is shown to determine where to act
23%
System provides time left to avoid a breach
11%

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Every Breach Impacts Your Business – Plan To Reduce / Mitigate Them

How many Workload Automation Service Level breaches do you deal with?

None: 26%
Average of 1 per month: 39%
Average of 2-4 per month: 26%
Multiple breaches per week: 9%

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Equip Operations to Avoid SLA Breaches

What advanced notice of potential breaches to Workload Automation Service Level do you receive?

None – reliant on IT Operations / NOC to see it: 29%
None – informed after breach has occurred: 14%
Job must start by or complete by time alert built into schedule: 26%
Evaluated after every job event (started, completed, failed, etc.): 10%
Real-time evaluation (i.e. even alerted while job is running): 21%

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React Appropriately When Breaches Happen

What action do you take after Workload Automation Service Level breaches?

Post mortem review with actions to stop repeat occurrences
70%
Alert to operations to keep a closer eye on future executions
48%
No action unless it becomes a common occurrence
25%

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Don’t’ Hide Status of SLA Delivery

Are Workload Automation Service Level delivery metrics published to the company (intranet, regular report, newsletter etc)?

Yes: 67%
No: 33%

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Discuss SLA Delivery With All Stakeholders

Are Workload Automation Service Level delivery metrics reviewed in Line of Business/Management interlock meetings?

Yes: 77%
No: 23%

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Make Certain That SLA Delivery is Important to Operations

Are Workload Automation Service Level delivery metrics used as a KPI in IT Operations?

Yes: 74%
No: 26%

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Understand the Impact of Breaching an SLA

Is there an associated cost to business of a breach to a Workload Automation Service Level?

Yes: 77%
No: 23%

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Make Sure SLAs Meet What Your Business Requires

Who defines the Service Level for results coming from Workload Automation?

Line of Business: 57%
IT Operations: 43%

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Having SLAs Defines Means You Can Monitor and Improve

Do you have defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for results from your workload automation solution?

Yes: 55%
In the process of creating them: 7%
No: 38%



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