Biomni
Front Office for Cloud
Cloud and Virtualisation has brought huge benefits to IT and the business consumer, both enjoying gains in agility and productivity. New environments and applications can be made available in minutes rather than days and weeks and customers can ‘pick and choose’ from an array of Cloud and Virtualisation solution providers and technologies.
service Catalogs Will help Unify enterprise-Cloud Consumption
As developers and business leaders adopt multiple cloud services, CIOs will implement unified consumption systems. The key need: A service catalog that bolts new services into your portfolio to simplify consumption, operational management, and financial control. Single sign-on solutions are required.
- “Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency”, Forrester Research, Inc., November 19, 2012
Equally, Cloud and Virtualization has brought new challenges for the IT organization and the business to manage:
- IT can lose control as business users provision cloud resources direct
- Cloud resources can remain active and unused resulting in waste. If not managed properly, cloud resources can become a security issue
- Cloud resources can be requested and activated without internal approval and vetting, leading to duplication and waste
- Cloud resources are frequently not backed up properly
- Each Cloud platform vendor has their own proprietary self-service portal, removing the opportunity to standardize the user experience and reduce
IT responsiveness to new infrastructure needs has improved dramatically with typical provisioning times being reduced from weeks to hours. However when new infrastructure requirements are standard and approved, involving manual tasks in provisioning only adds an unwanted bottleneck and cost that can easily be avoided.
Moreover, business users increasingly feel empowered to make their own choices. IT faces the challenge of providing an intuitive self-service portal with the necessary controls to enforce correct entitlement rules whilst also enabling the desired automation.
Biomni Front Office provides a ubiquitous consumption and governance layer to your Cloud and Virtualized services. It enables IT organisations of any size to manage and present their service offerings within in a single self-service portal with a familiar shopping cart driven user request experience.
With our flexible approach to integration, Front Office becomes the single portal for all your services, providing a consistent experience and process for the consumption of IT services across your chosen public and private cloud platforms. Front Office aggregates multiple Cloud solution into a single portal, offering a consistent experience to the consumption of Cloud IT Services make is in-line with leading consumer self-service platforms (e.g. Amazon.com or iTunes).
Approval routing, fulfilment workflow and performance measurement ensure requests raised via Front Office are correctly approved by the business, efficiently fulfilled, and effectively measured.
Biomni offers orchestration and seamless automation of a wide range of storage, virtualization, cloud and data center provisioning activities.
