Let’s face it, you’re a busy person. You have an abundance of tasks on a day to day basis. It’s hard to be all places at all times keeping track of every move being made and every download being done. As a business, you’re under a ton of pressure to deliver services, and FAST—but it can take weeks or even months to administer a new environment. As a result, employees often turn to On-Demand cloud services that are outside of IT's control. However, unauthorized cloud services can cause security risks, compliance issues, and runaway costs.
What if you could manage cloud sprawl by enforcing administration in cost controls while your staff builds new applications at light speed? Imagine being able to create a catalog of available services ranging from simple virtual machines to complex stacks and applications—using combinations of public and private providers.
With ServiceNow®, this catalog ensures compliance with company security and privacy policies by implementing guard rails that are required at the time of provisioning.
Personalized service catalogs let users self-provision with a single click and no need to involve IT staff. But, if IT is ever needed for a required approval, the ServiceNow platform triggers and approval workflow. Making the process fast and easy, a mobile alert will be sent with the options:
Managing expenses, utilization, and cloud attributions across your entire organization can take up a lot of your time throughout the week. With a single system of record, the ServiceNow platform makes managing these tasks as easy as a single click—generating up-to-date data.
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Proactively execute consistent business policies throughout cloud resources without depending on the provider. Be sure configurations meet corporate standards, the business continuum is maintained, and data is properly secured.
Gain a combined view of cloud expense across the company. View current spend and historical trends. Adjust costs to departments, applications, or projects to enhance overall exertion.
Supply users admission to the cloud resources that are needed to get the job done. Remove the generation of unauthorized cloud services and put an end to stealth IT.
While the demand for cloud grows, so does the complication to supervise and control cloud sprawl. IT leaders can eliminate these challenges by taking an eminent approach that sustains the advantages of multi-cloud flexibility across their public and private clouds—while allowing complete visibility and control to accomplish service level goals and managing costs.
Click here to learn how to restrict cloud sprawl and control complexity across all your public and private clouds with the latest innovations in operations management by ServiceNow.