Company: Gluware Inc., Sacramento, CA
Nomination Submitted by: Lumina PR
Company Description: Gluware provides the leading intelligent network automation suite for the cloud era, trusted by Global 2000 enterprises, across industries, from Pharma to Finance. Gluware automates the networks of the world's largest and most complex enterprises keeping them secure and in compliance.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Software Defined Infrastructure
 Nomination Title: Gluware Inc's Gluware 5.0
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Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
11/1/22
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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Enterprises use Gluware to discover, automate, orchestrate, and remediate their complex, multi-vendor, multi-domain, multi-cloud network environments to unlock resilience and digital transformation at scale. Gluware continuously invests in innovation to enable immediate and long-term value for enterprises and stand out as a leader in network automation against peers. The launch of Gluware 5 brought several enhancements to the platform, including:
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Network RPA is an easy-to-use platform that enables customers to automate their network from end to end – without developer skills – using drag-and-drop navigation. Network RPA features a library of pre-built automated tasks, northbound and southbound vendor integrations (over 200 available), and the ability to customize code and create workflow BOTs to unlock hyperautomation quickly and easily. Network RPA integrates with every application in the Gluware suite and countless third-party applications to provide end-to-end process automation of tasks and event-driven activities across the network. This removes the need for massive amounts of unnecessary coding and repetitive actions that pull network engineers away from projects that add real value to the company. With Network RPA, organizations can transform network operations to be more efficient from top to bottom while simultaneously adding value, increasing resilience, and improving performance.
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Gluware Topology visualizes enterprise networks through diagrams that are automatically rendered and updated with data from Gluware's device and network discovery capabilities. This reduces troubleshooting time and operational expenses from manually updating network diagrams.
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Network infrastructures are moving from traditional Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) to API-based controllers, but this has posed challenges to automation efforts. Gluware 5 overcomes these challenges by enabling intelligent southbound communication between the Gluware Intent-Based Networking Application Suite and API endpoints, removing the need to manually program device discovery, audits, configuration changes, and automation across the network.
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Gluware Service Connectors are pre-built API integration packages that enable northbound communication between the Gluware Intelligent Orchestration and Automation Engine and API integrations on the management plane. Coupling these pre-built APIs with the event-driven tasks and workflows available through Gluware Network RPA eliminates the time needed to develop, test and integrate hundreds of API calls across the network, streamlining network management operations.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Gluware was recognized as a Leader and Outperformer in both NetDevOps and Network Validation Radar Reports from GigaOm in 2022. Analyst Ivan McPhee notes that “Gluware's customer-driven roadmap helps it excel in complex enterprise use cases that incorporate RPA, self-operating functionality, and topology visualization.”
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A global pharmaceutical company performed software upgrades on 400 switches at a manufacturing facility in a single change window, which would have taken weeks or months with previous manual methods.
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A global healthcare company automated millions of lines of configuration within a year. This led to over $220 in cost avoidance per change, per device on an organization's network and adding up to millions of dollars saved across the network.
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After 2.5 years of DIY efforts, a large multinational consulting company switched to Gluware for its network automation initiative. The company gained immediate impact that would have been years away in its prior in-house pipeline. Ultimately, Gluware’s pre-built capabilities radically increased the speed and power of network management efforts and freed engineers to focus on advancing operational efficiencies, business services, and customer satisfaction.
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A global leader in the payment processing industry uses Gluware to audit 15,000 devices weekly and has executed 2.6 million audit rules over the last three years.
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A global healthcare company leveraged Gluware to automate data collection on 7,000 devices for internal compliance.
WSP, a leading engineering services firm and Gluware customer, employs 55,000+ employees in 500 offices across 40 countries and 4,000 connected devices. In addition, the company has had over 180 mergers and acquisitions and averages 10-12 per year. Gluware has enabled them to quickly roll out new security and compliance standards and remediate new parts of the network. They estimate the project resulted in nearly $1 million in cost avoidance. As a result of this performance, the company won the Autonomous Operations category for IDC’s 2022 Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure Award.
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