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Technical White Paper

Perform Service-Oriented Orchestration with Cisco
Process Orchestrator

What You Will Learn

Cisco

Process Orchestrator 3.0 introduces a new feature set that provides service-oriented orchestration and

enables a shift away from traditional run-book automation and IT process automation. With this new approach,

automation aligns with the high-level services provided by IT and models the way that a high-level service is

supported by a topology of lower-level services, systems, and devices. Planning for services and their desired

states is the initial step in automation design. The next step is definition of process actions for these services and

then implementation of specific process workflows that traverse these services to act on lower-level elements.

This enables a declarative approach to automation, focusing on the result desired rather than how it is achieved.

The capabilities augment and complement traditional orchestration definitions and approaches, so that Cisco

Process Orchestrator provides both service-oriented and process-based orchestration. This document focuses on

the incremental, differentiated capabilities that service-oriented orchestration adds to Cisco Process Orchestrator.

Overview

Cisco Process Orchestrator is an advanced orchestration engine belonging to the run-book automation (RBA) or IT

process automation (ITPA) class of products. Traditionally, tools in this category focus on a sequence of IT

processes that implement automation. The process is the focal point of automation. Processes act on lower-level

IT elements such as devices, servers, and specific tools. The set of elements on which automation acts is typically

delivered in the product through adapters connecting to various layers of the IT technology stack. IT, however,

focuses on services that provide value to the business, which are much higher in the stack. The inability of RBA

and ITPA tools to act on the business-level services in the environment becomes an inhibitor to delivery and

creates a poor abstraction for users.

Service-oriented orchestration provides the agility to model and act on IT services. These features make creation

of orchestration active and dynamic and allow new, higher-level services to be defined in the system and deployed

quickly. After new types of services are defined, the organization can create instances of those new services.

Using events, automation can detect patterns in these services, enabling policy-based automation.