Consolidate Tools and Solve Enterprise Tech Sprawl with ScienceLogic SL1
The proliferating array of technology tools within many organizations today can make it exceedingly difficult to get true visibility and insight into the IT estate. Amid this tech sprawl, teams find themselves siloed and struggle to monitor and manage diverse tool sets across the enterprise – a state of affairs that increases both costs and complexity while limiting the ability to accurately assess, optimize, and enhance operations.
Tech sprawl and excessive tooling also reduces workforce efficiency and requires a higher level of expertise as IT staff struggle to navigate multiple specialized consoles. In some instances, these monitoring tools may even generate conflicting information, resulting in teams even working against each other to solve issues. Excessive and fragmented tooling scenarios also perpetuate data and system silos that hinder the ability to automate and use AI/ML effectively.
The cascade effect of negative impacts from tech sprawl includes slower time-to-value, more human error, and increased security vulnerabilities. Additionally, the lack of alignment across monitoring tools creates obstacles to ensuring compliance and proper regulatory reporting. Against this backdrop, tool consolidation has become a key priority for reducing complexity and bringing about new efficiencies and value for enterprises.
ScienceLogic SL1 AIOps Platform for Tools Consolidation
ScienceLogic’s industry leading SL1 AIOps platform enables tools consolidation through its intelligent and autonomous approach that combines all the critical functions required to support a healthy IT environment into a unified, human-friendly solution. Enterprises can streamline their IT tool ecosystem by leveraging SL1’s out-of-the box monitoring templates to replace disparate point solutions for observability. Teams can also run automations to scale their unified management ecosystems across the enterprise and third-party applications and tap into network configuration change management (NCCM) capabilities for operational resilience.
The SL1 platform also streamlines incident response through its AI/ML-enabled log analysis, delivering better anomaly detection and root cause analysis, as well as a user-friendly single interface for monitoring and alerting. SL1 further boosts operational efficiency by issuing prioritized responses and predictive recommendations for action – all while reducing tool sprawl and silos, controlling cost, and reducing risk by shortening mean time to repair (MTTR) by up to 10x.
Additional benefits from tools consolidation through the SL1 platform include fewer manual integrations, stronger alert isolation and more insight into the causes of IT outages and issues. Throughout the platform, onboarding both assets and staff is simplified thanks to the enterprise reduction in tools; and extensibility features built into the SL1 platform allow it to continuously update and apply the latest advances to existing monitoring capabilities.
Use Cases: SL1 for Tools Consolidation at a Large US Media Company and Global Fortune 500 Enterprise
Taken together, the SL1 platform’s powerful combination of tools consolidation capabilities add up to the ideal approach to eliminate tech sprawl. And it’s an approach ScienceLogic continues to deliver in some of the most demanding, real-world enterprise scenarios on behalf of clients.
For instance, this large US Media Provider with 10,000+ employees, leveraged ScienceLogic to solve considerable tool sprawl across its extensive IT network covering 48 states. Multiple unnecessary and redundant tools had accumulated from years of acquisitions – driving excessive costs associated with monitoring and management. By implementing SL1 to consolidate the company’s tooling, it eliminated many legacy products and introduced unified monitoring capabilities with the flexibility and scalability necessary to support future developments. As a result, the company cut incident noise by 25%; slashed ticket work by a third; and eliminated offshore NOC costs and over 12 legacy tools.
A Global Fortune 500 Enterprise is another success story. The multinational IT services firm partnered with ScienceLogic to address tech sprawl among hundreds of discrete applications across 350 locations. The company struggled with visibility gaps due to too many siloed monitoring tools – leading to high levels of incident noise, long MTTR and a diversion of resources that made proactive business enablement difficult. By prioritizing real-time device and service monitoring for tools simplification, the SL1 implementation allowed it to eliminate seven legacy monitoring tools, obtain 100% visibility of mission-critical assets and cut major incidents by 50% – all of which helped the company achieve ROI in less than a year.
Conclusion
Solving tech sprawl is just the beginning of what ScienceLogic’s SL1 platform can do to position tools consolidation as a driving force for enterprise transformation. SL1’s ability to leverage AIOps for team-specific operational visibility and control around all IT operations will help the entire enterprise become more agile and proactive. Learn more how ScienceLogic can transform your organization through tool consolidation with the SL1 AIOps platform by visiting sciencelogic.com/solutions/tools-consolidation.
