The benefits of test environment automation cover the ranges cited in the following points:
30-40% reduction in time to market, thanks to an improved provisioning cycle time
Up to 50% reduction in manual health check efforts
20-30% enhanced environment efficiency through 30% reduction in IT service request fulfillment
30-40% reduced cost of operations
Additional qualitative benefits of environment management automation include the following ones:
Elimination of errors due to manual interventions and delays due to dependencies
Zero tolerance with respect to continuous availability of the environment
Consistent and accurate environments through automated configuration updates
Optimum utilization of infrastructure assets through better license management
Availability of the environment as a service model