BM565 Report: Exploring Intent Based Networking in Digital Business

This report delves into the realm of intent-based networking (IBN), a technology at the forefront of digital business and new technologies. It begins by establishing the significance of IBN, its evolution, and the underlying technology, including machine learning and orchestration. The report details the technology's practical applications, such as automating network policies and reducing infrastructure delivery times, and the technological platforms and software involved. It identifies the types of businesses and entities, such as IT and software development firms, that leverage IBN as a business tool to enhance agility, security, and operational efficiency. Furthermore, the report explores the relationship between IBN and the course content, examining how IBN influences both established and emerging business and management theories, practices, and structures, highlighting the impact of digital technologies on organizational models. The report concludes by emphasizing the transformative potential of IBN in streamlining network management and facilitating business innovation, providing a comprehensive overview of IBN's role in the digital landscape.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
a. Importance of the topic............................................................................................................1
b. Development of topic...............................................................................................................1
c. Detailed description of technology used in the topic and uses of it.........................................2
d. Technological platforms as well as software used in topic......................................................2
e. Types of businesses and entities used the technology.............................................................3
f. Ways it is used as business tool and its effectiveness..............................................................3
Relation with course content and discussion on nature of relationship among digital
technologies as well as both old together with new emerging theories on business and
management practices and structures...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Digital business refers to creation of new designs of entity through blurring digital
addition to physical worlds (Holotiuk and Beimborn, 2017). It not only connects businesses to
people rather also strengthens connections of people and businesses with wide things that drive
efficiency and revenue. Similarly,. New technology network are emerging technological network
which represents solid opportunities for improvising aspects about how entity runs from
efficiency of network to business models. The technological topic for the paper is Intent based
networking which is part of networking software which assists planning, designing addition to
operating networks which may improve agility together with availability of network.
The report includes importance of topic, the ways the topic have developed, detailed
description of technology that is used in topic, types of businesses and companies which uses the
technology and the ways it is used as business tool. Further it includes the ways it is related to
course content and discussion on nature of relationships among digital technologies to that of old
and newly emerging theories on business as well as management structures and practices.
MAIN BODY
a. Importance of the topic
Intent based networking mainly captures and translates intent of company into network
policies which may be automated addition to applied systematically across networks (Butler,
2020). It is achievable through machine learning addition to orchestration. The topic of intent
based networking is deemed to be important for following reasons:
 Increasing availability together with agility: Intent based networking is important as it
reduces delivery times of network infrastructure by 50% to 90% as well as
simultaneously reduces durations and numbers of outrages.
 Reduces risk and ongoing compliance: Other importance of intent based networking to
business is that it minimises errors together with reduces durations spent on
troubleshooting.
b. Development of topic
Intent based networking is not a new concept, in fact, the idea of intent based networking
system have been implemented for years. It is an evolution of modern along with intelligent
network that is developed to meet simplification of oepartions, fortifying security, improvements
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in agility etc with advanced automation. The new concept in the topic is machine learning
algorithms which have advanced to a point in which the topic became a reality in limited
durations. Fundamentally, it is a idea related to network administrator that define a desired state
of network and involve automated networking orchestration software that implement the
policies.
c. Detailed description of technology used in the topic and uses of it
Intent based networking is the emerging technology which is used in topic of network. It
takes software defined network a step ahead and allows administration to configure network for
addressing as well as supporting entire business case (Kotilainen and et.al., 2016). It is used for
prescribing addition to performing regular activities, devising policies, making response for
system events, verifying attainment of objectives. Moreover, the technology is also used for
monitoring, recognising and reacting within accurate time for dynamic network circumstances.
The main uses of the technology is for eliminating manual network configuration along with
inputs which diverse entities still use. It is also used to allow IT generalist and businesses to
define results through specifying intents, despite of depending on IT specialist for manually
sharing inputs each individual duration.
d. Technological platforms as well as software used in topic
The technological platforms that are used in intent based networking includes mobile
platform, web platform, API platform and AI platform. Mobile platform engrosses mobile
operating systems along with scenario to build mobile apps. It involves cloud platform which
provides wide mobile apps services. The other is web platform that offers services useful for
websites together with web base software as service including web application and edge
computing, API platform are used by intent based networking so to perform functions and easily
creating projects without compromising with flexibility and extensibility (Luz Martín‐Peña,
Díaz‐Garrido and Sánchez‐López, 2018).
Software are used in intent based networking are Solarwinds Network Performance
implementation and monitor which discovers network devices as well as deploys in limited hour.
The other software used in the topic is ManageEngine OpManager which manages serves,
network configuration and many more.
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e. Types of businesses and entities used the technology
Intent based networking technology is basically used in Information technology business
and software developing business. Cisco, Huawei, Apstra and Veriflow are some of organisation
that is currently using the technology for prescribing together with implementing ongoing
activities and making proper response towards system events. In these business types and
entities, the technology is used for providing real duration visibility in networking tasks to
validating provided intent,. It also eliminates manual working and defines what activities are
required to be automated (Nambisan, 2017).
f. Ways it is used as business tool and its effectiveness
Intent based networking is used as business tool in companies as it is self driving
networking system that leverages analytics of machine learning with IT automation powers for
enhancing agility of information technology infrastructure in all possible aspect. It continuously
shares critical network insights as well as constant tweaks configuration of hardware and
software for ensuring attainment or intent. It converts business centric model from device centric
model which makes it effective (Pagani and Pardo, 2017). Moreover, the technology simplifies
operations and actions, fortifies security and let administrators and business owners to decide
desired result of network orchestration as well as automates provisioning, server configuration
and management of diverse application services.
Relation with course content and discussion on nature of relationship among digital technologies
as well as both old together with new emerging theories on business and management
practices and structures
Intent based networking is related to course content as it describes the ways in which
networks can be managed, operated along with enable digital business. Moreover, it also
translates an intent in organisation into configuration of networks that are subjected with the
particular intent. It is attained via describing intent as number of continual phases which can be
deployed.
Digital technologies have changed the ways in which old and new emerging theories of
business functions. In other words, digital technology has completed changed organisation and
structures, practices and actions of management in irreversible manner. Some of old theories of
business are purpose over profit that states that the main purpose of company is to enhance key
to navigating complex and ambiguous business world in which strategy is changing in constant
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manner. Purpose is who the business is and what distinctive it makes. The other management old
business theory is to manage oneself which is given by Peter Drucker. Management by objective
as well as self control were key aspects of the business. Evolution and implementation of digital
technology have indirect relations as digitalisation is completely shaping the businesses to work
as per changing situations (Scuotto and et.al., 2017). At same time, earlier managers used to
adopt structures and practices as per behaviour of employees. For example, when employee size
is small, then managers adopt functional organisational structure in which practices like
measuring physical presence, giving annual performance review, only assessing competence and
emphasising towards fixing weaknesses. With the technology of intent based networking, many
changes are been made by companies in their old theories that reflects that there is indirect nature
of relationship.
New emerging theories on business as well as management structure and practices are
implemented as per the available digital technology with the company. For instance, intent based
networking have strengthened the networks and uses of machine learning as well as advanced
automation for controlling networks assist managers of company to function their practices in
proper and simplified manner. Digital technologies have least impacts on newly emerging
business theories and management structure as all these are designed and executed by keeping
consideration of requirements and using effective software to manage working. It is analysed that
there are direct relations among digital technologies and emerging business theories addition to
management practices (Sia, Soh and Weill, 2016). While executing practices to build networks
and simplify operations, they uses intent based networking which assist the management to plan,
design together with operate diverse networks which strengths agility of entity in market.
In new era, organisational managers incorporates digital technologies in practices and
structure. For instance, organisation operates in different market and to gain success they adopts
matrix structure so that all the activities are completed with coordination and support of
interrelated departments. In this aspect, use of intent based networking configures appropriate
networks changes within current network infrastructure. These are possible because of network
automation and orchestration of network. It has been analysed that digital technologies plays
important role in facilitating addition to advancing business theories and practices adopted by
management. Moreover, digital technologies have demonstrated enormous significant to
organisation as different types of digitalised technology offers unique ways for building and
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capturing values that leads new emerging practices of managers into innovation (Sousa and
Rocha, 2019). The manner in which they brings changes in emerging theories are because of
automation of current activities or procedures, extension of new methods for conducting business
despite of replacing existing systems and transformation of traditional methods into software
apps.
Digital business adopts and makes effective use of technologies as compared to old
business in order to develop new values within the models and practices. Today, business
managers are spending or making investment online that are shifting emphasis for digital
networking sources through digital channels and profit maximisation. Digital technologies are
stimulating management practices to create competitive advantages that are based on unique
combinations of physical together with digital resources (Srinivasan and Venkatraman, 2018).
Most digital technologies including intent based networking and others have direct relation with
new emerging business theories together with structure of management as use of digital
technology for such purposes drives growth, performance together with eliminate burden on
human resources in the ways they are impossible in traditional theories or practices.
Intent based networking and other digital technologies are making significant changes in
the ways managers used as well as thing for technology, moving technology and so on from
supporting performers to leading plays in market growth, innovation along with revenue. It is
evaluated that digital technologies allows execution of practices of management to develop new
values together with managing networks in complex business environment. Moreover, intent
based networking also supports simplification of complexities, reduction of operational costs via
leveraging intelligence, human expertise etc which are not delivered by other businesses. The
technology have ability to relieve department of information technology to update entire
networking devices for finishing over arching objectives of management. It assist organisations
to analyse data, extract suitable information from the data and makes some learning from it
without being explicitly programmed (Weinrich, 2017). Thus, it can be said that nature of
relation between digital technologies with both old and new theories of company and
management structures depends on the situations and availability of required essentials.
CONCLUSION
From the report it is concluded that intent based networking is a technology which
primarily uses advanced automation as well as machine learning with the hope of controlling
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networks that can be leading shift in ways to manage network. It is characterised as awareness of
state, translation and validation, assurance along with dynamic optimisation, automated
implementation and many more. It is important as it reduces network infrastructure, performs
across all devices from multiple providers, improves control on performances and detects
security issues. Digital technologies have completely changed the ways in which success are
attained through old and new emerging business theories as well as practices and structures of
management. With digital technologies, business and management are creating workplaces more
digitalised and making necessary improvements in business cohesion. It also imp[roves
collaboration, accessibility to analytics data, customer experience and social networking. Various
businesses have made major modification in their practices and structures as per requirements of
digital technologies.
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