Ayehu Launches Automation Academy, Propelling Technology Innovation in Artificial Intelligence

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The AI-Powered Automation Future Creates New Opportunities and Demands New Skills

San Jose, CA –- March 14, 2019 – Ayehu, a leader in intelligent automation, today launched its Automation Academy to provide IT and security technology professionals with up-to-the-minute knowledge, experience and tools necessary to compete in the rapidly transforming and increasingly AI-driven world.

According to industry leading analyst firm Forrester Research, while 16% of jobs will be lost over the next decade as a result of artificial intelligence and technology, 13.6 million new jobs will be created during that time. Another recent study by Deloitte revealed that while 800,000 low-skill jobs were eliminated by AI and automation technologies, 3.5 million new, higher paying jobs were created.

“Automation and AI are impacting our world every day, and companies are realizing that if they don’t act now they will quickly be left behind,” said Peter Lee, Vice President Customer Experience, Ayehu. “Our dedication to intelligent automation has earned us a reputation as an expert, so we created the Automation Academy to support all those that want to re-educate and re-invent themselves for the future.”

Ayehu’s Automation Academy demystifies automation and gives companies the power to transform, advance and compete in this new environment where traditional approaches to IT and business operations no longer suffice.

The Automation Academy offers an Essentials Package, Advanced Package and online certifications, depending on business needs. Courses are designed to help IT professionals comprehend and cultivate practical automation skills through a variety of interactive learning activities. Training options are flexible to help students get started on the journey from basic to breakthrough.

Ayehu Academy will offer the following courses:

Essential Training

  • Introductory training designed for beginner-level users starting to explore and use automation.
  • Self-led, online module guides students through the fundamentals of Ayehu’s Next Generation Intelligent Automation and Orchestration Platform.
  • Explore theoretical concepts and participate in hands-on exercises to build a foundational understanding of automation technology.

Advanced Training (includes Essentials)

  • In-depth training on how to become the future of intelligent operations, including the ability to plan and build automated workflows.
  • Receive expert instruction either online or on-site for small or large audiences.
  • Formal certification awarded upon successful course completion.

Online Exams

  • Exams to test automation technology knowledge, assess in-depth awareness and verify student skill level.
  • Flexible online availability for anywhere, anytime testing.

Ayehu’s AI-powered Next Generation Intelligent Automation Platform is the cornerstone for the academy. The platform incorporates artificial intelligence to augment human ingenuity, in order to enable the creation of the next generation of intelligent applications. It delivers no-code, automated workflows that help enterprises save significant time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure.

“We’re excited about the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve had already. Many tell us they ready to go all in on training, and some are planning to establish internal automation centers of excellence. Embracing automation will create opportunities for promotions and new positions, and most importantly give people the freedom to be true innovators,” concluded Lee.

To learn more about the Ayehu Automation Academy and the company’s Next Generation Automation and Orchestration Platform powered by AI, click here.

About Ayehu

Ayehu’s AI-powered automation and orchestration platform is a force multiplier for IT and security operations, helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by hundreds of major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog.  Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

The New Wave of Hybrid AI in the Automation Era – Insights from the Experts

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Over the past few years, Gartner has made some pretty bold predictions surrounding artificial intelligence and automation technology. These include such projections as the generation of $2.9 trillion in business value, the recovery of 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity and the creation of some 2.3million new jobs. All of this is expected to take place over the next couple of years, if not sooner.

Whatever you believe about AI, one thing’s for sure – it’s not going away any time soon.In fact, all signs indicate that the not-so-distant future will look a lot different from what we are used to today, with machines performing not only the physical work of humans, but also the thinking, planning, strategizing and decision-making as well.

At Ayehu, we’re always trying to stay a step ahead of the curve in terms of technology and its capabilities. Such was the purpose of our recent panel discussion entitled The New Wave of Hybrid AI in the Automation Era, during which we sat down with several AI and automation thought leaders, including:

We asked these experts to take a look back at some of the emerging trends observed and experienced in 2018 and offer a glimpse into the future. We also asked each of our esteemed panelists to go out on a limb and make a bold prediction for 2019.

Here’s a little taste of what we uncovered.

Evolution in IT Operations

One of the first topics touched upon by our own Brian Boeggeman centered on the creation of automation centers of excellence (COE) and the automation engineers that are driving adoption and proliferation of automation within the enterprise.

“We saw a trend taking place this year where there’s a lot of focus put on the creation on these centers of excellence to really drive automation,” said Brian. “Automation is clearly seen as a business imperative and a clear necessity in order to orient the next phase of enterprise operations, where efficiencies can be uncovered and realized across the business.”

He continued, “Those automation engineers effectively become the change agents within the organizations to drive that cultural change within the enterprise. As we engage with many of our customers, we’re continuing to see that as a high focus for them actually making investments to build out these COEs to push across the entire organization and enterprise as a whole.”

Brian also talked about the acceleration and creation of new services through automation and AI, pointing out that automation has emerged as a key strategy to achieve the delicate balance between innovation and operational excellence.

Download the on-demand recording to learn how to unleash new capabilities of human capital as well as what trend Brian believes will forever change the service levels and operating capabilities of organizations.

How AI and ML are Impacting the Adoption of Automation in the Enterprise  

Next, we turned the floor over to Manish Kothari, who has been involved with artificial intelligence and machine learning since the 70s. Manish opened his statement by pointing how critical data is to extracting the full value of AI.

“I think we’re starting to see a very big transformation take place across all sectors from agriculture, to consumer, and especially in IT where the need is arguably one of the highest,” Manish commented.

He went on to say: “If you are at the IT infrastructure side, you are, actually for one of the first times, really in a position to become an enabler rather an impediment to innovation.”

Manish also shared his insight on what enterprise managers who have never dealt with AI should know before deploying it and how he envisions the roles of managers changing once AI begins to get a foothold.

Find out everything that Manish had to say here.

Top Reasons Organizations Should Automate IT Operations

The next topic on the agenda was turned over to Andrew Brill of Change Healthcare, who was asked to share his thoughts on the top reasons for automating ITOps.

He was quick to point out that while the initial reasons typically revolve around cost savings and efficiency, some really exciting things can begin to happen,particularly in terms of an organization’s ability to remain compliant and consistent in its operating practices. Automation essentially becomes a force multiplier, saving users time and skyrocketing productivity and facilitating innovation.

“When we transform our staff who were doing the more robotic functions and eliminate that from their daily work, it allows them to start thinking about how we advance the organization, how we build better engineered solutions, how we work with partners that add the most value,” Andrew points out.

“Their brains are more actively working on the things that solve business problems as opposed to the functional tasks and work that perhaps we’ve had them do over the past ten years.”

Check out the playback to hear more and learn what Andrew believes are the biggest benefits of automation.

The Impact of AI on Digital Transformation

The discussion then turned to Ross Tisnovsky of McKinsey who was asked what kind of impact he believed technologies such as intelligent automation and AI having on IT digital transformation efforts in the enterprise.

In his response, Ross shared how he approaches the adoption of new technology. In particular, he highlighted the main things that users want from IT which, in his opinion, include:

  • A workspace for collaboration and enhanced productivity
  • Improved decision-making
  • Support for business innovation
  • High efficiency at a minimal cost

According to Ross, the solution to these needs requires a hybrid of AI, automation and human decision making.

“Automation works on both sides of the picture and so does the artificial intelligence. In other words, it’s likely to become part of anything we do on the business side today.”

Watch the on-demand discussion to discover the Ross’ most intriguing thoughts on hybrid AI from his real-world experience.

Key Insights and Future Outlook

During the final portion of the panel discussion, the experts weighed in on such points as:

  • The role of humans in automation adoption
  • Biggest challenges to automating IT operations
  • Skills needed to automate effectively
  • Critical KPIs/success metrics to focus on at different stages of the IT digital transformation journey
  • What enterprise IT leadership should be doing right now to start preparing for the changes to come
  • Bold predictions for AI in 2019 (and beyond)

Don’t miss out on what was certainly one of the timeliest and most informative panel discussions we’ve ever had the pleasure of hosting. Tune in to the full recording today!

Watch the full recorded panel discussion

Ayehu Launches Global Partner Program to Support Increasing Demand for Intelligent Automation

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Program Empowers Growing Community of MSPs, OEM Partners and SIs with AI-Powered IT Automation Resources, Tools, Education and Support

San Jose, CA –- November 28, 2018 – Ayehu, provider of the leading AI-powered IT and security automation and orchestration platform, today announced that it has launched a Global Partner Program for Managed Service Providers, OEM partners and Systems Integrators. The program meets the growing demand from Ayehu’s fast growing partner community worldwide, which includes firms such as Cognizant, Capgemini and Everbridge, creating the transformative efficiency and productivity benefits of intelligent IT automation both internally and for their enterprise customers.  

Ayehu’s Global Partner Program supports its members in all aspects of Ayehu’s IT Automation and Orchestration Platform.It is customized for each partner and designed to educate and empower organizations to use, offer and implement Ayehu’s no-code, intelligent automation solution as part of a digital transformation strategy.

 “Today’s innovative corporations know that in order to grow and succeed in the digital era, automation and intelligent technology are essential,” said Taly Dunevich, Vice President of Business Development and Alliances, Ayehu. “We have an amazing partner community that understands that AI-powered IT automation promises a new way to drive efficiency, where human capacity is enhanced, customer experience is improved and major cost savings are achieved. Our program provides the tools,support, training and education that they need to empower clients with our intelligent automation platform so that they can truly scale and innovate.”

Demand for intelligent IT automation and orchestration solutions is on the rise as IT departments become more and more inundated with alerts, incidents, and requests. Ayehu’s Next Generation Intelligent Automation Platform enables IT and security operations teams to easily automate the manual response of an experienced IT or security operator, including complex tasks across multiple systems. Ayehu’s automated workflows deliver instant responses that help resolve high influx of alerts and incidents, saving administration time, speeding up resolution time, while maintaining greater control over IT infrastructure. Further accelerating return on investment, Ayehu’s platform has the potential to create an average of 35% in overall cost savings for the business. Advanced intelligent automation savings tend to increase over time.

To learn more and become a member of Ayehu’s Global Partner Program, please visit https://ayehu.com/alliances-partnerships/ or contact Aly Dunevich, Vice President of Business Development and Alliances, Ayehu, directly.taly@ayehu.com.

About Ayehu

Ayehu’s AI-powered automation and orchestration platform is a force multiplier for IT and security operations,helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by hundreds of major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog. Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

PR Contact:

Christy Kemp

303-898-3390

ckemp@dahliapr.com

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Ayehu Announces Free 30-day Trial Availability of its Newly Enhanced Next Generation Intelligent IT Automation and Orchestration Platform

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The Free Trial Version Featuring an Enhanced Workflow Designer and AI-Powered Automation Engine is Now Available for Download from the Ayehu Website

San Jose, CA –- October 16, 2018 – Ayehu has enhanced its Next Generation Automation and Orchestration Platform powered by AI. This latest release is designed to deliver IT and security operations teams even greater productivity and ease of use. To give enterprise users the chance to experience the platform firsthand, Ayehu is offering a free 30-day trial.

Today’s enterprises are overwhelmed by a massive amount of system alerts, incidents, and user requests. This is further complicated by the IT and security skills shortage. The need for streamlined processes and fast, quantifiable results has never been greater.

Ayehu’s Next Generation Intelligent Automation Platform incorporates artificial intelligence to augment human ingenuity, in order to enable the creation of the next generation of intelligent applications. The platform delivers no-code, automated workflows that help enterprises save significant time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure.

The new version includes the following enhancements:

  • Productivity – For greater efficiency and results, the platform now features a full web-based GUI, includes power search capabilities, a library of over 500 pre-built activities and a codeless workflow designer. Out-of-the-box integration packs are also available, with advanced Rest API for rapid integrations with 3rd party applications
  • Scalability – Scaling to support a high volume of incidents and safe guard against a single-point-of-failure, the latest release features built-in automated load share, and the ability to run more workflows simultaneously
  • SaaS Ready – Ideal for hybrid deployments, the new version can run multiple instances on the same virtual machine, run different environments on the same station, and manage all environments from one place
  • Chat Bot Integration – Ayehu BOT platform is integrated with Slack, Microsoft Teams, IBM Watson, Microsoft Luis and other applications for the easy creation of a self-service interface

“Since we launched our intelligent automation platform, customers have realized that artificial intelligence combined with IT automation is a game changer,” said Brian Boeggeman, Chief Revenue Officer, Ayehu. “As we continue to make our solution even easier and more valuable, we are offering a free trial so that everyone can simply start automating today. IT professionals that experience it will immediately see a huge leap in productivity and efficiency.”

To experience Ayehu’s Next Generation IT Automation powered by AI, claim your free trial here. To learn more about the Ayehu Next Generation Automation and Orchestration Platform powered by AI, click here.

About Ayehu

Ayehu’s AI-powered automation and orchestration platform is a force multiplier for IT and security operations, helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by hundreds of major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog.  Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Ayehu Launches Intelligent Automation Radio Podcast

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Business Technology Podcast Features Executive Thought Leaders’ Mind Sharing and Insights, Exploring the Intersection of Intelligent Automation and the Next Generation Enterprise

  Ayehu, provider of the leading AI-powered IT and security automation and orchestration platform, today announced that it has launched a new podcast series called Intelligent Automation Radio. The podcast will air monthly and feature executive level interviews covering topics addressing the most advanced technology innovation and trends impacting today’s enterprises, including the future of work, artificial intelligence, automation, cyber security, IoT and more.

Intelligent Automation Radio explores the issues and opportunities companies are facing as they cross the digital divide and move toward becoming self-driving enterprises. Tune in to hear from technology visionaries, Fortune 500 corporate executives, CIOs and CSIOs, industry experts and other luminaries.

“We are at the dawn of the 4th Industrial Revolution, with automation, artificial intelligence, and other technologies changing how the world works,” said Guy Nadivi, Intelligent Automation Radio Host and Senior Director of Customer Success, Ayehu. “As these technologies become more intelligent, they offer game-changing opportunities for savvy C-Suite executives to leapfrog their competition.”

Join the first opening episode for the fall 2018 season, an exciting conversation with Robert H. Brown, Cognizant Center for the Future of Work. Hear about the intersection of technology, people, and the jobs that are being profoundly impacted by advances in automation and AI. Brown comments on how businesses and jobs will be evolving in the digital economy. 

Future episodes will delve into additional areas pertaining to digital transformation innovations such as deep learning, data science, analytics, security automation, robotic process automation, Internet of Things, blockchain, and more.  Intelligent Automation Radio invites CIOs, technologists, and others to share their first-hand experience and thoughts about their outlook on the future.

To listen to the podcast, visit https://ayehu.com/podcast.   

Listener feedback and suggestions are welcome. If you would like to be considered as a potential future guest on the show, or would like to suggest any topics to be covered, please contact podcast host Guy Nadivi at guy@ayehu.com.

About Ayehu

Ayehu’s AI-powered automation and orchestration platform is a force multiplier for IT and security operations, helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by hundreds of major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog.  Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

PR Contact:

Christy Kemp
Dahlia Public Relations
303-898-3390
ckemp@dahliapr.com

Ayehu Wins Stevie® Award in 2018 International Business Awards®

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Ayehu, provider of the leading AI-powered IT and Security Automation and Orchestration platform, today announced that its latest platform release was named the winner of a bronze Stevie® Award for Best New Product of the Year in the software, artificial intelligence/machine learning category in The 15th Annual International Business Awards®.

Ayehu’s next generation IT Automation and Orchestration platform powered by artificial intelligence is the first of its kind, no code automation solution, designed to help IT and security operations teams manage the overwhelming and increasing influx of alerts, incidents and requests. The multi-purpose, AI-powered software automation platform fully mimics repetitive manual IT work processes of humans including complex tasks across multiple, disparate systems. With data-driven intelligent recommendations teams and leaders become more agile in their decision making and more efficient in their operations, resulting in greater achievements for their businesses.

The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations. The 2018 IBAs received entries from 74 nations and territories.

More than 3,900 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 270 executives worldwide who participated on 12 juries.

“Ayehu is honored to have been recognized by the Stevie Award judges for its innovation and use of new technology,” said Gabby Nizri, CEO and Co-Founder, Ayehu. “Artificial Intelligence technology is essential to corporations as they cross the digital divide and move towards self-driving enterprises. We are dedicated to applying AI to enterprise automation, to make it as easy and productive as possible for IT and Security teams to handle their increasing workloads.”

Details about The International Business Awards and the lists of Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

About Ayehu
Ayehu’s AI-powered automation and orchestration platform is a force multiplier for IT and security operations, helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by hundreds of major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog.  Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About the Stevie® Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

SRI International and Ayehu Team Up on Artificial Intelligence Innovation to Deliver Enterprise Intelligent Process Automation

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Ayehu Receives License to Commercialize SRI International’s Machine Learning and AI to Extend its Intelligent Automation Platform

SAN JOSE, Calif. –- July 18, 2018 – Ayehu, provider of the leading AI-powered IT automation and orchestration platform, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with SRI International – home to labs that have developed breakthrough technologies that have changed the world. Through the license, Ayehu will apply SRI’s machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to its next-generation IT automation and orchestration platform, providing a pathway to autonomy. The collaboration will allow companies to realize the full power of intelligent automation that can transform the future of the enterprise.

“For many years, an important part of SRI’s work has been at the frontier of human augmentation and industrial automation, and we’re excited to now work with Ayehu to address unmet needs in enterprise IT automation,” said Manish Kothari, Ph.D., president, SRI Ventures. “We are proud to collaborate with companies that share our forward-looking vision to bring our game-changing technology solutions to market.”

In collaboration with SRI, this year Ayehu will enhance the AI capabilities of its IT automation and orchestration platform to include deeper levels of dynamic rules, mapping and matching tickets and incidents with resolution processes. This innovation in intelligent process automation will give CIOs the ability to create a self-learning, self-driving enterprise that opens up a world of new opportunities.

“By combining SRI’s deep technical capabilities in AI with our IT automation market presence and experience, we will be able to help our enterprise clients be the first movers into the future of the autonomous enterprise. This effort will bring about proven results for CIOs as they incorporate intelligent automation and augmentation into the business,” said Yaron Levy, co-founder and CTO of Ayehu. “We believe in the power of intelligent automation for the good of both employees and businesses. As such, we are excited about the ways that people will be freed up to evolve and apply their capabilities to create much more innovation.”

Ayehu’s IT automation and orchestration platform is designed to help enterprises combat the growing shortage of skilled IT and security technology professionals, by allowing them to fully automate time- and resource-consuming operational tasks, and as such, help them to accelerate growth.  Ayehu’s AI-powered automation platform fully mimics repetitive manual work processes of humans without requiring any coding or scripting. With this, enterprises have the ability to achieve significant results such as completely automating end-to-end IT and service management operations speeding up incident resolution and interacting dynamically with intelligent chatbots.

About Ayehu

Ayehu’s IT automation and orchestration platform powered by AI is a force multiplier for IT and security operations, helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by hundreds of major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog.  Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About SRI International

SRI International creates world-changing solutions making people safer, healthier, and more productive. SRI, a research center headquartered in Menlo Park, California, works primarily in advanced technology and systems, biosciences, computing, and education. SRI brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, spin-off ventures and new product solutions.

Ayehu Announces Key Executive Appointments to Support Business Growth and Product Innovations

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Intelligent Automation Leader Strengthens Executive Team in Sales, Alliances and Marketing

SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 10, 2018 – Ayehu, provider of the leading AI-powered IT and security automation and orchestration platform, today announced several executive appointments to support the company’s continued growth. Increased adoption of Ayehu’s next generation AI-powered automation and orchestration platform amongst its rapidly expanding customer base and global partner network has driven the company’s ongoing success.

“Our accelerating momentum is the direct result of our dominant position in the IT space and our emergence as the leader in advanced automation technology. Strengthening our core executive team to support the growth is a critical component of our ongoing success as a market leader,” said Gabby Nizri, CEO and co-founder of Ayehu. “We are innovating at a rapid pace and our recent organizational changes will play a pivotal role as Ayehu continues to expand and enhance our product capabilities.”

Ayehu’s latest executive appointments include:

Brian Boeggeman, Chief Revenue Officer

In his new role as Chief Revenue Officer, Mr. Boeggeman will lead the global revenue growth strategy and drive customer value through the strategic alignment of Ayehu’s multi-channel sales operation, alliances and business development, marketing and customer success teams. Mr. Boeggeman joined Ayehu in January, 2017 as the leader of Ayehu’s Alliances and Business Development organization, where his team doubled the global partner footprint to support Ayehu’s market offering and align partners to meet customer demand for intelligent automation and orchestration solutions.

“Brian is an inspiring and proven leader that has demonstrated an unparalleled aptitude in leading Ayehu’s strategic focus and successful execution in the intelligent automation market. I look forward to Brian expanding his leadership role as Ayehu’s Chief Revenue Officer,” said Gabby Nizri, CEO and co-founder of Ayehu.

Taly Dunevich, Vice President of Business Development and Alliances

In her new role as the Vice President of Business Development and Alliances, Mrs. Dunevich will expand Ayehu’s channel network and customer-base via key MSP, MSSP and OEM partners worldwide. Mrs. Dunevich brings more than 20 years of experience leading business development, partnerships and sales organizations. A strong believer in growth through building trusted relationships with strategic partners, she has successfully led comprehensive go-to-market initiatives with both Fortune 500 companies and startups. Prior to joining Ayehu, Mrs. Dunevich was vice president of business development and strategic alliances at Uptima where she led the company’s 100% year-over-year growth for 3 consecutive years.

Evelyn Kotler, Vice President of Marketing

Mrs. Kotler is responsible for the global structure, strategy and execution of all aspects of Ayehu’s marketing efforts. Mrs. Kotler brings more than 15 years of marketing leadership experience across multiple markets, with a proven background in setting marketing strategies and creating marketing programs leading to substantial growth in sales and global market recognition. She spent the last 13 years establishing marketing divisions from scratch in startups from initial product-launch through various growth stages. Prior to joining Ayehu, Mrs. Kotler headed the marketing efforts for companies such as cyber security vendor Promisec (acquired by Mer Group) and most recently for Alibaba-backed big data analytics vendor SQream Technologies.

“I am also pleased Ayehu has expanded these leadership roles, as Taly and Evelyn will contribute to furthering the acceleration of our success in the marketplace,” continued Nizri.

It is estimated that in 2018, $7.5B will be spent on intelligent process automation. In this context, artificial intelligence is autonomous decision making by a self-learning system or systems designed to simulate human thought processes. According to a survey conducted by Avanade, 31% of organizations are already using intelligent automation and that number is expected to more than double by 2020.

“There has never been a more exciting time in the IT automation realm. The market is ready, and our recent growth and organizational changes demonstrate our commitment to providing continued support and breakneck innovation for our customers and partners worldwide,” concluded Nizri.

Everbridge Announces Integration with Ayehu Software

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everbridge ayehu partnership

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BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management and incident response automation, today announced the integration of its IT Alerting solution with Ayehu, a leading provider of intelligent automation and orchestration powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The integration is designed to provide Everbridge’s IT Alerting users with key analytical insights to drive continuous improvements in reducing response times to critical events.

“Everbridge is a global market leader of SaaS-based critical communications solutions, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide. We are excited to partner with Everbridge to customize strategic and intelligent solutions that promote efficiency and agility in the marketplace,” said Gabby Nizri, Co-Founder and CEO, Ayehu. “Our partnership will allow our mutual customers to automate up to 80% of L1 tickets and significantly accelerate critical event processes, freeing up human resources and increasing operational efficiency.”

The combined solution of Everbridge IT Alerting with Ayehu’s platform extends capabilities into IT Process and Runbook Automation (RBA) by leveraging Everbridge’s Smart OrchestrationTM technology. The solution bridges IT Alerting and RBA to allow organizations to quickly engage IT experts and on-call teams so they can respond to critical issues faster, reducing the mean time to fix and automate manual and repetitive tasks, and decreasing the overall time to resolution even further by eliminating the period between receiving an alert and executing the remediation action.

Everbridge IT Alerting enables operational teams to remain fully in control over IT task automation by embedding human decision points within workflows. Using bi-directional communications, one can remotely control the advancement or execution of any step within a process, such as re-starting a server. Remote communications can be performed via SMS, IM, email, or phone.

“By combining Everbridge’s Smart Orchestration technology and self-service integration capabilities along with Ayehu’s platform, we bring the power of AI and analytics to our customers to optimize information flow and to rapidly execute end-to-end incident response management processes,” said Prashant Darisi, Vice President of Product Management, IT Alerting/IoT at Everbridge.

To learn more about Everbridge IT Incident Response Automation, visit www.italerting.com.

About Ayehu Software
Named by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, Ayehu’s IT automation and orchestration platform is a force multiplier for IT and security operations, helping enterprises save time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerate mean time to resolution, and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure. Trusted by major enterprises and leading technology solution and service partners, Ayehu supports thousands of automated processes across the globe. For more information, please visit www.ayehu.com and the company blog. Follow Ayehu on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Everbridge
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and businesses running. During public safety threats, over 3,800 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter and Facebook.

To read the original press release, click here.

Aithority Interview with Gabby Nizri, CEO and Co-Founder, Ayehu

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Read the recent interview with Ayehu CEO Gabby Nizri

Tell us about yourself and the journey to founding Ayehu.

In 2007, I co-founded the company with Ayehu’s Chief Technology Officer, Yaron Levy. It was a time when businesses were trying to keep up given the great strides that were being made in the IT field. Technology was becoming increasingly complex even for large global corporations, and given our experience working with the demands of the 24-hour IT world, we wanted to build something robust, yet simple to use to help manage enterprise technology and still be able to focus on the business. We saw automation as the answer.

We put together the team and built software that eliminates many typical time-consuming, repetitive tasks for an IT department, such as password resets, server restarts and responding to system alerts. As the company grew, we expanded our team globally. Today, we are headquartered in San Jose, with offices in New York and Tel Aviv and continue to grow our customer and partner relationships to extend the benefits of our intelligent automation platform.

Tell us about the Ayehu team.

Ayehu was founded in Israel, where innovation and entrepreneurialism are part of the business culture. Our expert R&D team, responsible for developing our cutting-edge platform, resides there. Our sales and marketing team members, focused on driving the expansion of our global businesses, are primarily located in the US, in our San Jose and New York City offices. Our team is a mix of highly talented, passionate and motivated set of professionals, who are driven to make a significant impact on today’s businesses. We are a very engaged and cohesive team because we are all inspired by the results our technology brings to customers.

How does Ayehu’s technology leverage AI to make automation smarter?

Ayehu’s intelligent Automation and Orchestration Platform is powered by AI. The platform incorporates Machine Learning algorithms that help make the process of automating IT and security tasks even smarter by generating AI-based recommendations for users, in the form of two-way SMS and email notifications. The user can self-manage his needs by conducting intelligent conversations with chatbots as opposed to having to wait for humans in L1-L2 to resolve his/her problem.

Our customers can build any workflow they wish, to automate repetitive tasks that are performed manually, such as a workflow for automating the process of provisioning a new server or a workflow for resetting passwords. The user simply uses Ayehu’s simple-to-use drag and drop pre-built templates to build the process. No coding required. And based on prior history, the AI component contributes by proactively suggesting additional ways to streamline the process to make it even easier, faster and more accurate.

Which verticals within the IT industry can use Ayehu’s offerings?

Ayehu serves hundreds of companies around the world. The beauty of IT automation and orchestration is that organizations in virtually any industry can benefit from the solution. Ayehu’s customers range from telecommunications companies and technology enterprises to healthcare organizations and insurance agencies.

What kind of repetitive tasks can one hope to automate; how does working with Ayehu’s technology solutions affect ROI, human error and response time?

There are many IT and security tasks that organizations can automate resulting in huge efficiencies. We typically find the top five tasks to be restarting applications/servers, monitoring application log files, remediating low disk space, resetting passwords and provisioning virtual machines.

Ayehu acts as a force multiplier, resulting in incredible operations efficiency that is generated by saving time on manual and repetitive tasks, accelerating mean time to resolution, and maintaining greater control over IT infrastructure. It is an agentless platform that does not require any coding or scripting to use. It is easily deployed and interoperates with disparate solutions and systems so that tasks and processes are easily and very quickly automated.

It (the technology) can improve response times by up to 80% while simultaneously reducing human errors by up to 90%, and even potentially eliminate them all together.

Ayehu’s automation and orchestration capabilities extend beyond IT operations to security as well. Tell us more.

Even today’s biggest corporations can’t keep up with the influx of security incidents and compliance requirements. The shortage of qualified security technology professionals is a serious and growing challenge. Ayehu’s platform automates the cybersecurity incident response process so that response times to security breaches are dramatically improved, reducing financial impact to the business.

While it is not always possible to completely prevent cyber-attacks, automating the incident response process is proven to vastly accelerate the ability to identify, isolate and remediate the breach, minimizing potential damage. 64% of our customers using us in the IT environment have pulled us into their SOC environment.

With Ayehu, Security experts can fully automate and mimic the response of experienced security resources, including complex tasks across multiple, disparate systems, executing thousands of well-defined instructions and playbooks without any programming required, helping to resolve virtually any alert, incident or crisis.

Tell us about Ayehu’s partners, and what other enterprise technologies it integrates with.

To be truly effective as a process automation solution, we recognize that the platform must integrate with a large ecosystem of partners so that customers can effectively use it in their existing environments. We work with all the major ITSM, ITOM, NOC, SOC, AI, chatbots and messaging platforms. Ayehu acts as the glue among all these systems so that customers can very easily deploy AI-powered automation and get fast and dramatic results.

How does Ayehu’s offering differentiate itself from competitors?

Ayehu is the only AI-powered, IT Automation and Orchestration solution that requires no coding or scripting and is integrated with all other existing systems in your environment. Ayehu is designed to empower IT and Security Operations teams so that CIOs can begin creating the self-driving enterprise.

Ayehu harnesses the power of AI to deliver a transformative experience for today’s modern corporations.

How can SMEs take advantage of Ayehu’s cloud and IT management solutions?

Ayehu’s next-generation IT Automation and Orchestration Platform can be used on-premise or in the cloud. It is SaaS-ready and optimized for hybrid deployments to meet current needs.

What’s next for Ayehu; what can we look forward to? 

Ayehu is passionate about empowering the self-driving enterprise through intelligent automation. As we look to the not so distant future, we believe strongly that advanced technology will be the game-changer that drives new innovation that transforms the world we live and work in today. We will continue to advance the AI-driven automation platform and form partnerships that extend the benefits to even more organizations around the globe.

Read the original interview published on Aithority here.