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When people hear the phrase “process automation in IT,” they first think of the purely technological benefits. These include automated incident resolution, meaningfully improved process orchestration, reduced ticket volumes, and more. The factor that should be just as top-of-mind, though, is something that’s vital to both your automation program’s longevity and your organization’s overall success: automation ROI.

For many, Cloudflare provides an essential suite of network security tools that their organization integrates with deeply. One such tool is "Cloudflare Tunnel" - a secure way to connect resources to Cloudflare without a publicly routable IP address. When deploying sensitive applications to Cycle, Cloudflare Tunnel can be leveraged to ensure all traffic is routed through Cloudflare before reaching your environment's load balancer. This extra layer of security provides quite a few benefits.

It’s getting increasingly difficult to both be a conscious human being with an internet connection and to be unaware of AI. From Jamie Dimon’s bullish stance to Elon Musk’s dire predictions to the art world’s raging debate (and uncanny experiments) over whether it can ever be used ethically, AI has an iron grip on our collective imagination, and businesses are scrambling to outspend each other on the way to making it drive sustainable profit.

Operational excellence is a must for any military member, with decision-makers needing up-to-date and relevant intelligence to plan and manage an operation. Achieving decision advantage ensures an operation’s decision-makers have the intelligence they need to coordinate operations and use their teams and resources most effectively. As the military aims to achieve decision advantage, decision support systems (DSSs) and secure collaboration tools have become an integral part of these efforts.