IDC conducted customer research that explored the value and benefits of organizations using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to standardize and automate IT operations, container, and configuration activities across cloud environments and teams in a consistent and repeatable model. This research found that these organizations were realizing significant process efficiencies, faster cycle times, and operational benefits across operations, network, storage, architecture, and security teams by using the Ansible Automation Platform’s programmatic software-driven approach to IT automation. These improvements often led to optimized levels of cost reduction and containment, improved team collaboration, and more secure operations. It also enabled improved DevOps agility and execution, consistent alignment of automation across teams to enable faster decision making, improved control, and service transparency.