Don’t just automate, validate: How to measure and grow your return on investment

Don’t just automate, validate: How to measure and grow your return on investment Automation dashboard: On-premise visibility Automation analytics: Cloud-based insights and advanced reporting What's next: Scaling automation across the enterprise Gain data-driven insights Translating operational success into personal impact Resources Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | Product Trial About the author Jaime Biskup More like this Slash VM provisioning time on Red Hat Openshift Virtualization using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform A 5-step playbook for unified automation and AI Technically Speaking | Taming AI agents with observability Transforming Your Database | Code Comments Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Successfully delivering automation demands technical excellence, quality code, and reliable execution. However, scaling this success requires translating those technical wins into measurable business impact that can be communicated to leadership or integrated into business strategy. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers two different capabilities that help practitioners and leaders turn operational metrics into a clear, auditable business case for expansion: Automation dashboard and automation analytics. The automation dashboard provides a comprehensive view of automation performance, enabling you to measure and demonstrate the value of your initiatives. Through the on-premise dashboard, you gain detailed insights into automation usage, job outcomes, and associated financial impact. Key metrics such as job success rates, time savings, and return on investment (ROI) support data-driven decision-making and help identify opportunities to scale automation effectively. With robust customization and reporting capabilities, you can filter, save, export, and share detailed analyses on project performance, user activity, and operational efficiency. Reports can be exported as PDF files for a quick snapshot of the dashboard showing metrics such as cost and time savings, job success and failure rates, and total hours of automation. For deeper analysis, data can also be exported as CSV files and ingested into existing business intelligence (BI) tools to enable detailed reporting. Because the dashboard is a self-contained, on-premise utility, all data remains securely within your environment. It can aggregate data from multiple Ansible Automation Platform instances and is accessible directly in the Ansible interface for system_admin and system_auditor accounts. This makes it ideal when data security is a priority, and when you want local, real-time visibility in your automation performance.