ACIaaS: Service Levels

Business Process Assurance

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Application Centric

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ACIaaS: Drivers Input Output Business Deliverable
APM Analytics Trending, correlation, AI/ML Automated "Business service"
Network Analytics (Self Healing Remediation ??) uptime and experience
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APM Information Optimization of Network, Business Service experience

Policy and Applications. SLA Management
Trend and Experience analysis

DevOps / Automation

Business Service Experience

Network and Application Visibility and Availability Application agility, flexibility,
Application Performance Management statistics Performance Management insights and SLA management

Network Performance Management

Network and Application Predicts the impact of changes. Provable correctness, and visibility that the
Network Transformation statistics Verifies network-wide behavior network is always consistent with intent.
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