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VISION TO REALITY: Autonomic and Cognitive solutions

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Page 1: Autonomic and Cognitive solutions - IPsoft Inc. · management platform that leverages the power of autonomics to increase efficiency and quality. It forms the basis of IPsoft’s

VISION TO REALITY:

Autonomic and Cognitive solutions

Page 2: Autonomic and Cognitive solutions - IPsoft Inc. · management platform that leverages the power of autonomics to increase efficiency and quality. It forms the basis of IPsoft’s

Imagine you could increase the volume of IT operations work processed without increasing cost. Now, imagine that the lower cost of processing resulted in negligible error rates. With no wasted downtime to rectify errors, imagine the positive impact on your business operations.

IPsoft envisions a world in which mundane engineering chores are automated, freeing IT engineers to focus on creative endeavors and innovation. Since its inception 17 years ago, IPsoft has become the world leader in the development of autonomic and cognitive technology, to the point where IPsoft’s virtual engineers impact 1 in 10 Fortune 1000 companies’ IT operations.

We apply the same philosophy to other business processes so that our cognitive solutions can take on routine tasks currently carried out by knowledge workers. Once more, this will free companies to focus their human resources on creative value added tasks.

ONE: Imagine a more efficient world

Now imagine sourcing your new hires from the cloud whenever you need their support and training your call center staff in less time than it takes to make a coffee.

Imagine being 100% sure that your call center agents will follow the right compliance process every day of the week at any time of day or night. IPsoft believes there should be no limits to what we imagine because making the impossible a reality is a challenge we relish.

By 2025 cognitive technologieswill absorb activities currently

performed by

250 millionknowledge workers

IPsoft’s virtual engineers impact 1 in 10 Fortune 1000

companies’ IT operations.

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A passion for innovationIPsoft’s vision of a more efficient world in which IT infrastructure and business operations are managed by expert systems is becoming a reality. Long term commitment to research and development has allowed IPsoft’s researchers to achieve breakthroughs in innovation. By applying these innovations to large scale operations we help our clients transform their businesses for competitive advantage.Today, our virtual engineers resolve 56% of IT incidents without any need for human intervention while managing more than a million critical devices. IPsoft embraces the challenge of reaching new frontiers in artificial intelligence. In the 1950s, Dr. Alan Turing proposed that one day man would not be able to distinguish humans from machines when asking them the same set of questions.

Inspired by the great minds of the past, IPsoft is pioneering a critical step change in how business operations are managed. Our passion for technology innovation and commitment to research and development is evident: we invest 70% of our revenue directly into R&D. Instead of limiting ourselves to following established technology paths, our long term view has allowed us to pioneer breakthrough innovation in autonomic and cognitive technology. IPsoft pursues the goal of creating solutions that will deliver concrete business benefits by embracing this ideal. We are committed to helping our clients transform their business models and make much more efficient use of their human capital.

PartnershipsWe foster partnerships with the world’s largest IT service providers on a global scale. Leading firms including Accenture, Cognizant, Cisco and NTT Communications are deploying our autonomic platform to create new value propositions for clients across a wide range of industries. Together with our partners, we enable enterprises to rewrite the cost/quality equation of running high-performing infrastructure operations that drive outcomes more accurately and in response to fluctuating business drivers.

Business outcomes focusedIPsoft guarantees business outcomes for its clients. Our commercial models are based on the confidence that we can drive significant improvements in productivity and quality based on our ability to automate work. Too often deployment of new solutions requires a heavy investment upfront and a pause of many months before benefits are realized. IPsoft, instead, aligns payment with the outcomes it delivers. As a result, clients can close the gap between investment and the return it delivers. Our technology provides predictable outcomes and cost. This contrasts with labor-linked models for services that may fluctuate based on wage escalation and other staff costs.

The IPsoft solution allowed a major media company to move to a highly scalable managed service solution, saving over 32% annually. IPsoft has developed nearly 6,000 new automations for the client, eliminating repetitive tasks for human engineers.

60%reduction in mean time to resolution

30%increase in IT operations efficiency within 90 days

0%error rate on

automated tasks

97%positive client

feedback

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IPsoft’s autonomic IT management increases efficiency dramatically while driving a higher quality of service, however complex your IT landscape.

Autonomics dramatically accelerates traditional IT task automation by enabling much broader and more extensive automation of processes. Legacy automation technologies relied on rules-based processes, driven by the need for specialized software developers to write process-specific code, or scripts, to automate predictable tasks. While scripting has been widely embraced by both IT departments and technology product companies, it depends heavily upon software engineers, limiting it to individual tasks and lacking the leverage necessary to automate wider numbers and types of processes.

Autonomics changes the rules of the game by automating the interaction between different tools that are in use within the IT environment. As a result, end-to-end processes rather than individual tasks can be automated, paving the way for a far greater level of productivity. Performance improves continually because the system uses outputs from one activity to inform the next. It adapts and learns based on the successful execution of activities to create ever more efficient ways to complete a process.Autonomic technology progressively learns and becomes more intelligent. By “watching” the best human engineers solve problems and recording their actions for future use, virtual engineers capture additional knowledge. This is then incorporated into new “automata” and so further increased levels of automation are achieved. Autonomics also removes the constraints of an individual’s ability to process knowledge work. Given the increasing complexity of the landscapes being managed today this is critical. The volume of data upon which an organization depends is growing exponentially as the Internet of Things (IoT) feeds a proliferation of devices that need to be managed. Autonomic systems are able to absorb the complexity of dealing with this explosion in data and are able to process information in a fraction of the time it would take even the smartest human.

TWO:

Autonomic IT Management

70%of our revenues are

reinvested into technology

For a major financial services firm, IPcenter lowered the mean time to resolution of failed trades from 47 minutes to under 4 minutes

IPcenter is an ITIL-aligned service management platform that leverages the power of autonomics to increase efficiency and quality. It forms the basis of IPsoft’s services and integrates into your existing IT landscape so that information about your operations is consolidated into a single view.

Virtual engineers IPcenter essentially provides a cadre of “virtual engineers” that work like the company’s best engineers, but do so faster, cheaper, and with an assured quality of output.Just like human engineers, they can talk to one another and work together to resolve complex, dynamic problems. Conversely, traditional automation tools are scripts running individual pre-defined tasks and sequences.Today IPcenter is able to process 56% of all events without any human intervention, freeing up your engineers’ time to focus on higher value activities.

Accelerated cost-efficiency gainsBy automating low level IT support functions our autonomic systems can assume responsibility for up to 90% of Level 1 events and 60% of Level 2 events without any manual intervention. The impact of that efficiency improvement is felt in very short time. With an existing library of more than 2000 virtual engineers ready to deploy straight out of the box, IPcenter can deliver more than 30% efficiency gains in only 90 days. As IPcenter constantly evolves and improves, it gives customers access to an ever-growing number of automata. In parallel, the amount of time your talented human engineers have to focus on delivering business value increases. This in turn, helps CIOs concentrate on driving outputs that demonstrate IT’s value as a strategic asset to the organization. With IPcenter powering infrastructure management, businesses can also grow far more efficiently. Our platform allows you to scale service quickly to absorb thriving business demand without the burden of tying that growth to an increase in expensive human resources. This in turn has a direct impact on bottom line profitability.

Cygate, a leading Scandinavian IT service provider, deployed

IPcenter to manage level 0, 1 and 2 activities.

Cygate’s human engineers were able to service more critical level 3 activities as well as focus upon

higher-value activities.

Over two years Cygate’s revenues grew by 56% and

its increased efficiency of operations meant that EBITDA

swelled by 118%

THREE:

IPcenterIntelligent Automation

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Quality and consistencyIPsoft solutions offer more than efficiency, analysis and speed. The quality of the service is revolutionized too. Manual processes are prone to human fault. Even for simple manual tasks, the error rate is about 10%. IPcenter’s automated error rate is near 0% – a figure impossible to achieve with human intervention. Furthermore, most organizations’ measures of quality-of-service delivery are highly subjective and focus on measuring only the output of the service delivery process, rather than all the contributing inputs. Instead, IPcenter constantly tunes every aspect of the inputs to ensure highly consistent and more meaningful outputs. As a result, IPsoft’s services enable clients to improve quality of service to their customers by more than 50% in quantifiable categories.You can be sure that your compliance and operational processes are followed to the letter every day. IPcenter systematically enforces operational processes, embedding Six Sigma quality control that means reduced risk to your business.

Cloud servicesAs a partner to cloud providers, IPsoft delivers a complete operational platform for public, private, or hybrid clouds. IPcenter runs on the cloud provider infrastructure, delivering comprehensive orchestration, cross-platform governance and automation. IPsoft assumes responsibility for your cloud platform and delivers visibility, automation, simplicity, flexibility and security.IPsoft’s Cloud virtual engineer enables automated resolution of most customer-driven events in a cloud environment. It streamlines customer events by receiving and validating event information, diagnosing the issue and in most cases remediating the event autonomically.As a result of these factors, IPsoft has recorded an impressive 97% positive client feedback. The dramatic improvements to efficiency, quality and the bottom line seen by integrating IPcenter into companies’ IT infrastructures can have a multitude of benefits to an organization. IPsoft is paving the way for a new future in IT management, today.

time spent to resolve incident with the IPcenter platform

time investment bank can translate back into trades

4 mins 43 minstime spent to resolve

incident without using the IPcenter platform

47 mins

A top insurance company leverages IPsoft autonomics to automate changes to their cloud environment which scales

to 200,000 virtual machines

“I have rarely worked with a partner in whom I have placed such a high level of trust and confidence. IPsoft has a great team that is perfectly aligned with [its] philosophy in delivering the highest quality of service.”CIO, Leading Pharmaceutical Company

No wasted downtimeIPcenter drastically reduces the average time it takes to resolve incidents. With an average 60% reduction in mean time to resolution, IPsoft can deliver increased uptime and quicker deployment of changes, with benefits that are felt throughout the business. The improvements secured should be calculated in terms of increased uptime and quicker deployment of changes to enable the business. Bringing the time it takes to resolve an incident down from 47 minutes to just four minutes for an investment bank translates into 43 minutes of trades. The additional revenues those trades bring in are the true measure of autonomic effectiveness.

Total transparencyBy consolidating all IT operations data into one view, IPcenter provides full transparency into your environment while simplifying management of operations. It provides a real-time, full view of all IT management functions allowing you to pinpoint direct links between operations and business activities and so make informed decisions about what changes are required to drive business advantage.IPsoft’s analytics solutions can leverage this data even further. Our predictive analytics provide unparalleled insight into your enterprise, allowing you to identify operational efficiencies, highlight key business drivers and even uncover opportunities for portfolio expansion. They allow you to manage services in real-time and using interactive heat maps, spot coverage gaps and take action to resolve those before they become a problem.

Using IPsoft’s virtual engineers to automate over 80% of the tasks required, a global network service provider shrunk its operating system upgrade cycle to a month.

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The era of the digital workforce

IPsoft’s offering of fully scalable, autonomic IT services and solutions is powering a new automation revolution. By creating a more intelligent world, IPsoft helps you improve efficiency. With 13 offices on four continents, our mission is to power the world with expert systems – eliminating routine work and freeing up brainpower to drive better business outcomes. When you integrate IPcenter or hire our cognitive virtual agents, you do so against a specific outcome. Our commercial models are aligned to your results.

If you are interested in finding out more about how you can migrate your IT and business operations to an automated future, do not hesitate to get in touch.

FOUR:

Pioneering innovation

FIVE:

Get in touch

Cognitive sciences applied to business

Email: [email protected]

New York: 1-212-708-5500

Web: www.ipsoft.com

Address: 17 State St

14th Floor

New York, NY 10004

For more than a century, the human race has imagined a future in which machines can understand like people. IPsoft is making such a vision a reality. We are ushering in the era of the second machine age with efficient autonomic and cognitive solutions that help businesses solve current and future complex IT and business process problems.

IPsoft is transforming business processes by introducing a wider portfolio of offerings based on cognitive technology. Our virtual agent, Amelia is an artificial intelligence platform that can understand, learn and interact as a human would to solve problems. This revolutionary technology is making it possible to automate knowledge work across a broad range of functions and lift business performance to a new level of productivity and service quality.Amelia is able to read and digest the same training information as her human colleagues but in a matter of seconds and without needing time intensive programming. Amelia also learns on the job by observing interactions between her human co-workers and customers and independently builds her own process map of what is happening. She then stores and applies that knowledge

Much like industrial machines transformed agriculture and manufacturing, cognitive technologies will drive the next evolution of the global workforce. Their impact in the workforce will be felt globally and at a more accelerated pace than any previous shifts in technology-led change. In order to compete in the digital economy, a company’s workforce will be comprised of both human and virtual employees.Technologies like Amelia will redefine traditional roles within the workforce. She functions as an extension of a company’s existing workforce,

transforming what’s possible in the workplace. By handling repetitive, often tedious yet necessary tasks, her human colleagues can shift their workload to focus on value creating activities that drive higher quality levels of productivity and service. With Amelia at work, new processes will emerge as she helps companies introduce new service-enriching processes and efficiencies not previously possible or financially feasible. In turn, employees can take on higher-level roles such as mining data to formulate new ways to enrich customer service.By redefining the relationship between man and machine we can augment human capabilities and re-invent the nature of work.

AMELIA

Leading the cognitive revolution

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