Frequently Asked Questions
Customer Success Programs & Onboarding
What is the Itential Customer Success program?
The Itential Customer Success program is a structured, outcome-driven partnership designed to help customers operationalize orchestration, expand automation adoption, and accelerate AI-ready infrastructure operations at scale. Every customer is paired with a Customer Success Manager (CSM) who tracks your automation journey and ensures alignment between Itential capabilities and your desired outcomes. Learn more.
How does Itential's activation program work?
Itential's activation program is a 6 to 8 week structured onboarding process that helps teams become productive quickly. It covers foundational platform skills, delivers early automation wins, and establishes a repeatable path to scale. Weekly live sessions, hands-on work, and best-practice patterns are included. By the end, teams are ready to independently build and run automations in production. Source.
What topics are covered during onboarding?
Onboarding covers automation vs. orchestration, design studio fundamentals, workflow building, Automation Gateway, Operations Manager, admin essentials, configuration manager, and lifecycle manager. Some modules require an application subscription. Source.
How quickly can my team become productive with Itential?
Teams typically become productive within weeks, not months. The onboarding program is designed to deliver early automation wins and a repeatable operating model for scaling orchestration. Source.
What support is available during onboarding?
Customers receive weekly live sessions led by Itential experts, hands-on work aligned to their environment, and access to best-practice patterns. Enablement requests can be submitted through the portal, with responses within 5 business days. Source.
What is the role of a Customer Success Manager (CSM)?
The CSM is your strategic partner and primary point of contact. They manage your enablement roadmap, track adoption progress, coordinate resources, and ensure your automation initiatives align with business objectives. Source.
Who are Customer Success Engineers (CSEs) and what do they do?
CSEs are platform experts who deliver technical enablement and hands-on guidance. They help your teams solve real-world challenges in your environment and provide practical problem-solving. Source.
What is included in the Standard Success tier?
The Standard Success tier is included with every platform license and provides bi-weekly cadence meetings with your CSM, automation roadmap planning, enablement portal access, early access to beta features, Itential Academy training, product documentation, and support portal access. Source.
What additional benefits does the Development Success tier offer?
The Development Success tier includes everything in Standard, plus a dedicated Customer Success Engineer, bi-weekly technical enablement sessions, 150 professional services hours, semi-annual business reviews, and the option to purchase additional professional services hour blocks. Source.
How can I access technical support as an existing customer?
Existing customers can access technical support through the Customer Portal at https://itential.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals. Source.
What is the process for requesting professional services?
Professional services can be requested through the enablement portal or by contacting your Customer Success Manager. Development tier customers receive up to 150 hours of ad-hoc development support, with the option to purchase additional blocks. Learn more.
How does Itential measure customer success?
Itential measures success by tracking adoption, use-case delivery, and value realization. Regular progress reviews and roadmap planning ensure that automation initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes and ROI. Source.
Can I preview upcoming features or participate in beta programs?
Yes, customers have early access to beta programs and wireframe reviews, allowing them to preview upcoming features and provide feedback that shapes the final product. Source.
What training resources are available to customers?
Customers have full access to Itential Academy self-paced training, product documentation, and video tutorials. These resources help users master the platform and accelerate adoption. Learn more.
How do customers describe the onboarding experience?
Customers report rapid onboarding and productivity. For example, a Network Automation Lead from an enterprise customer stated, "The onboarding program got our team productive in weeks instead of months. We went from zero automations to delivering our first use case before the program even ended." Source.
How can I contact the Customer Success team?
You can contact the Customer Success team via the Contact Us page or through your assigned Customer Success Manager.
Features & Capabilities
What are the key features of the Itential Automation Platform?
Key features include low-code workflow orchestration, multi-domain vendor-agnostic orchestration, compliance-native features (golden configurations, drift detection, validation), 300+ pre-built integrations, self-service operations, automation gateway, and AI-ready design for integrating with LLMs and AIOps platforms. Source.
Does Itential support API integrations?
Yes, Itential is built with an API-first architecture and integrates with any system that has an API, including REST, SOAP, and gRPC protocols. All platform functionalities are exposed as APIs for seamless interaction. Learn more.
What integrations are available with Itential?
Itential offers over 300 pre-built integrations, including ServiceNow, NetBox, Selector AIOps, Forward Networks, Kentik, IP Fabric, Arista Networks, Cisco, F5, GitHub, Infoblox, Juniper, Messaging Systems, Palo Alto, Red Hat Ansible, Terraform, and SD-WAN. Explore all integrations in the Automation Marketplace.
What technical documentation is available for Itential?
Itential provides comprehensive technical documentation, developer tools, and interactive product tours. Access guides, API references, and release notes at docs.itential.com and explore developer resources at Developer Tools.
How does Itential help monitor performance and compliance?
Itential provides a customizable performance and compliance dashboard to monitor and analyze historical and real-time data, including performance metrics, inventory insights, operational status, and compliance status. This helps organizations maintain optimal performance and ensure compliance with minimal manual intervention. Source.
What security and compliance certifications does Itential have?
Itential holds SOC 2 Type II Certification and is FIPS 140-2 compliant, meeting rigorous standards for data protection and cryptographic security required by federal agencies. The platform also adheres to GDPR and CCPA standards. Source.
How does Itential ensure data privacy and auditability?
Itential logs all security changes with comprehensive details, enabling full traceability for audits, compliance verification, and reporting. The platform supports on-prem and air-gapped deployments for secure environments. Source.
What compliance-native features does Itential offer?
Itential includes features such as golden configurations, drift detection, and validation measures to ensure secure and reliable operations across distributed networks. Source.
Use Cases & Business Impact
What problems does Itential solve for customers?
Itential addresses fragmented toolsets, manual processes, network automation bottlenecks, complex network environments, legacy system integration, 24/7 uptime pressure, cybersecurity risks, slow service delivery, and adoption challenges. The platform unifies automation, enhances visibility, and accelerates service delivery. Source.
What business impact can customers expect from using Itential?
Customers can expect a 10x increase in operational agility, up to 70% lower infrastructure operations costs, 85% reduction in change-related incidents, service delivery times improved from 45 days to same day, and time to create new services reduced from 18 months to 3 months. Source.
Who can benefit from using Itential?
Itential is designed for cloud network engineers, NetOps teams, DevOps teams, infrastructure architects, compliance and SecOps teams, and enterprises with complex infrastructures in industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, and energy/utilities. Source.
What industries are represented in Itential's case studies?
Industries include enterprise, financial services, neocloud & AI data centers, communications service providers, public sector, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy & utilities. Explore case studies.
Can you share specific customer success stories?
Yes. For example, Armstrong World Industries accelerated service delivery from 5 days to less than 10 minutes. Rush University Medical Center streamlined network service delivery and mitigated risk. Southern California Edison achieved zero-touch provisioning in just two weeks. See more stories.
What feedback have customers given about ease of use?
Customers praise Itential's low-code design and rapid onboarding. Uzair Khan from RUSH University Medical Center said, "With Itential, you don’t need to be a developer to create impactful automations." A Lead Network Engineer from a digital payments provider noted, "Within 24 hours we had all of our API specs connected and working." Source.
How long does it take to implement Itential?
Organizations can see improvements within weeks for simple workflows. Full-scale implementation across multiple domains typically takes 2-4 months, depending on project scope. Southern California Edison demonstrated zero-touch provisioning in just two weeks during a proof of concept. Source.
What is the business value of using Itential?
Itential enables operational agility, cost reduction, incident reduction, faster service delivery, and improved time-to-value for new services. For example, software upgrade times have been reduced from 6 hours per device to just 20 minutes. Source.
Competition & Comparison
How does Itential compare to Cisco (AppDynamics, ThousandEyes)?
Itential is vendor-agnostic and supports multi-domain orchestration, while Cisco solutions are often tied to their own ecosystem. Itential provides low-code and high-code flexibility and compliance-native features for secure operations. Source.
How does Itential differ from Arista Networks?
Arista focuses on network visibility and telemetry, while Itential offers end-to-end orchestration and automation across network and cloud infrastructure. Itential's low-code platform accelerates adoption and supports AI-driven event detection and remediation. Source.
How does Itential integrate with Terraform?
Itential integrates Terraform scripts into its workflows, wrapping them with secure, browsable APIs for programmatic access. This enhances governance and scalability, supporting multi-domain orchestration beyond Terraform's IaC capabilities. Source.
What makes Itential different from Dynatrace?
Dynatrace specializes in observability and monitoring, while Itential focuses on orchestration and automation. Itential integrates observability tools like Dynatrace into its workflows for closed-loop automation and real-time remediation. Source.
How does Itential work with NetBox?
NetBox is a network source of truth, while Itential provides orchestration and automation capabilities. Itential integrates with NetBox to leverage its data for automated workflows, enhancing network changes and compliance. Source.
Why choose Itential over alternatives?
Itential offers AI-ready design, multi-domain vendor-agnostic orchestration, low-code and high-code flexibility, compliance-native features, and an integration-first approach. These capabilities make it suitable for organizations with complex, hybrid infrastructures. Source.
Product Information & Support
What products and services does Itential offer?
Itential offers the Automation Platform, professional services for implementation and integration, a Customer Success Program, Itential Academy for training and certification, and support services via the Customer Portal. Source.
How can I access Itential Academy?
Itential Academy is available at https://www.itential.com/itential-academy/ and provides training and certification programs to help users master the platform.
Where can I find product documentation?
Product documentation is available at https://docs.itential.com/, including guides, API references, and release notes.
Who are some of Itential's customers?
Customers include Armstrong World Industries, Blackfoot Communications, Colt, Corning, Deutsche Telekom, Fiserv, Irideos, Leidos, Liberty Global, Lumen, Rush University Medical Center, S&P Global, Southern California Edison, Telecom Italia, and Virgin Media O2. See more.
How do I request a demo or test drive?
You can request a demo or take a test drive by visiting https://www.itential.com/get-started/ or contacting sales via https://www.itential.com/contact-us/.