Cisco Workflows provide seamless integration with hybrid cloud environments across millions of endpoints while ensuring unmatched security with unparalleled flexibility and efficiency, helpiong automate operations across public cloud and on-premises assets.<\/p>\n

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Gartner\u2019s Market Guide for Network Automation Platforms<\/a> highlights that more than 65% of enterprise networking activities are performed manually, and only a small but growing percentage of large enterprises automate more than half of their network activities. Delivering superior digital experiences for an enterprise involves powering multiple, disparate networking domains and\/or deploying multiple solutions within a single domain. This results in multiple challenges for network operators, including:<\/p>\n

Cross-domain and cross-product integration result in \u201cswivel chair\u201d effect\u2014context-switching between multiple management consoles and dashboards\u2014and require expertise of individual products and services to drive the required configuration.
\nExisting community automation tools require scripting skills, as well as additional investment, to enable collaboration and governance, and support production-grade automation against different products and services in an enterprise setting.<\/p>\n

As a result, users experience steep learning curves, lengthy implementation times, and ultimately suboptimal and under-maintained automation adoption across their global infrastructure.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Figure 1: Multiple touchpoints for an end-to-end network creates complexity<\/strong><\/p>\n

To address this complexity, we announced Cisco Workflows<\/a>, a new set of capabilities at the heart of Cisco Networking Cloud<\/a>, earlier this month in June at Cisco Live US 2024. Delivered as a cloud-hosted service, organizations can use Workflows to define, automate, and orchestrate configuration tasks within and across their domains\u2014branches and sites, campuses, data centers, clouds\u2014with just a few clicks using a low- to no-code environment. Cisco Workflows<\/a> helps users focus on accelerating business value, increase infrastructure usage and efficiencies, and reduce costs and time lost to manual errors.<\/p>\n

Figure 2: Jonathan Davidson announcing Cisco Workflows in the Cisco Live US Keynote<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workflows offers out-of-the-box automation across multiple products and domains, following design guidelines and best practices recommended in Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs)<\/a>. A powerful set of low- to no-code customization options (e.g., drag-and-drop API tasks, data transformation) enable users to easily modify and extend the automations for their specific use case. Workflows automates both cloud-hosted service APIs and on-premises network controller API endpoints. A secure cloud connectivity service hosted on-premises enables the connectivity from Workflows to the on-premises endpoints. Users get real-time updates to track workflows execution progress, pause execution to accept inputs from other users within the organization, and review audit logs of previous automation runs. Workflows will be accessible from within Cisco Networking Cloud\u2019s Cross Platform Navigator, via single sign-on (SSO), and through embedded links in various Cisco controllers.<\/p>\n