3. 3
Agenda
NXP and our mission
Personal Background
Our challenges
Analytics and Automation Platform
Central Reporting environment
What’s next?
Questions?
4.
5. 5
A NEW POSITION OF STRENGTH TO BETTER SERVE OUR
CUSTOMERS
✓ 5th Largest semiconductor
company2
✓ 45,000 employees
✓ 11,000 engineers
✓ 9,000 patent families
✓ 50+ year history
✓ $9.8B annual revenue3
✓ #1 Automotive
✓ #1 Broad-Based MCUs1
✓ #1 Secure Identification
✓ #1 Communications Processors
✓ #1 RF Power Transistors
✓ #1 Small Signal Discretes
6.
7. 7
My Background and Role
Australian / Electrical Engineer / ... Splunk
Building a seamless IT platform for NXP’s ever growing needs
Favorite tag-line: Australian for Grep
Fun Fact: Had a pet kangaroo as a child
9. Objective: Total quality
Total quality through multiple-objective
KPI’s
Overarching people, processes & technology
• Pend-times
• Service delivery lead times
• Customer satisfaction (NPS)
• End-2-end transaction performance
• Service availability
Working Together
Developing Deep Core Competence
Taking Initiative
Engaging Curiosity
Raising the Bar
Total Quality
10. Current situation
Sense Think Act
Monitoring based on
simple static KPI’s
Manual process which
takes hours/days
Manual execution which
takes days
11.
12. SNA²P Platform
DTAP infrastructure Evidence generation
Enterprise Service Bus
SupportMaintenance
THINK
Automated CMDB
Service Management
End User
SENSE
Security &
Event Logging
Initiateautomation
tasks
ITIL Processes
& Business Logic
HighQualityEvents
Machine Learning
Data collection Configuration &
Deployment
CI Discovery
Big Data Analytics
ACT
Infrastructure
as Code
{JSON}
Test Automation
Managed Assets
Maintenance
Automation
Deployment
Automation
13. High Quality events & incidents
RCA/Detailed Inspection
Discovery
Discovery
Event, Logs
CI’s, Service Maps
Deduplication
Correlation
Association
Detecting Anomalies
GatherData
Managed Assets
Deployment Automation
Incident
Problem
Catalog
/Change
User
Request
! CMDB
Test Automation
Platform Architecture
Total Quality Use Cases
Request fulfillment
• Virtual machine creation
• Project storage creation
Incident remediation
• Capacity management
• Restart misbehaving services
• Security incidents
Discovery
• Unauthorized changes
• Abnormal network behaviour
Goal: Increase designer productivity
17. Business Benefits
Faster
• Incidents automatically resolved before user notices
• Instant fulfillment of IT customer demand
Better
• No customer impact due to IT maintenance
• Security and compliance enforced by strict change control
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Top Takeaways
Internal culture is as important as the technology!
Change is also a process for people.
Choose your data wisely!
Design Splunk infrastructure for rapid expansion.
POC all use-cases.
Cover the following example outline over the next several slides
Situation: Monitoring done with several tools with a lot of manual/reactive tasks being performed.
Struggling with: Being proactive with the rapid development pace of our end-users and projects
Wanted: A centralized reporting environment with automatic remediation where possible.
Enter Splunk: We are consolidating reporting/monitoring and enabling incident remediation flows, all initated from Splunk.