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Red Hat Named a Leader in Infrastructure Automation by Industry Research Firm

Red Hat Named a Leader in Infrastructure Automation by Industry Research Firm

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Ansible Automation Platform acknowledged with the highest score in the strategy category; “leverages its strong open source community to power innovation”

RALEIGH, N.C. – March 21, 2023 —

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has been named a leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023. 

It can clearly handle scale: Large global systems integrators lean on it to deliver managed services.

Naveen Chhabra

principal analyst, Forrester

Forrester Research identified the 11 most significant infrastructure automation providers and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Red Hat and the other top providers were evaluated for The Forrester Wave™ against 30 criteria grouped into three categories: current offering, strategy, and market presence. In the evaluation, Red Hat received the highest possible scores in 13 criteria, including community support, product vision, execution roadmap, planned enhancements, innovation roadmap, supporting products and services, partner ecosystem, revenue, and average deal size. 

According to Forrester’s evaluation, “Red Hat sets the pace of the market by addressing operational challenges, skill gaps, and budgetary pressures. Its strength lies in its community, which has led to solid partnerships and supporting services. Red Hat capitalizes on this ecosystem by adopting and embracing the work of contributors. Key upcoming features include trusted automation supply chain, Event-Driven Ansible, and AI-led automation through Project Wisdom.” 

Upcoming automation innovations from Red Hat will be recognized on an even bigger open source stage this year, bringing the world’s leading IT automation technology event, AnsibleFest, to Red Hat Summit 2023. Ansible Automation Platform provides the cloud-native architecture to deploy hybrid cloud automation at scale with the speed, agility, consistency and resiliency that’s needed. Customers can look to the continuous innovations of Ansible Automation Platform to address the management needs across the enterprise, free up IT teams, and focus on business innovations. 

Supporting Quotes

Thomas Anderson, vice president, Ansible, Red Hat

“We are proud to be recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™. As they note in the report, ‘Red Hat is a great fit for firms seeking consolidated automation across many infrastructure technologies and vendors.’ We believe Ansible Automation Platform is a powerful enabler that can not only work as the glue across varying domains, but can also extend automation across organizations, offering capabilities to make automation more achievable and help close skills gaps. Additionally, the platform is integrated across our portfolio, reducing cost and complexity for our customers.”

The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023

Authored by Naveen Chhabra, principal analyst, Forrester

“Ansible has strengths in configuration management, integration with configuration management database (CMDB), analytics, and community support. It can clearly handle scale: Large global systems integrators lean on it to deliver managed services.”

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has been named a leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation, Q1 2023.

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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to Modernize Medicaid Systems Platform with KPMG and Red Hat

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to Modernize Medicaid Systems Platform with KPMG and Red Hat

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KPMG collaborates with Red Hat to deliver an integrated platform to transform the state’s Medicaid software program for streamlined care delivery

New York, NY – August 17, 2022 – KPMG LLP today announced that the State of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has selected the KPMG Resource Integration Suite (KRIS) Connected Platform to integrate multiple technology solutions and enable optimized health outcomes across the state. The KRIS Connected Platform primarily uses industry leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift, to implement a central systems integration cloud platform and modernize the state’s Medicaid software operations to help streamline the delivery of critical health services.

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) manages the delivery of health and human-related services for North Carolinians, working closely with healthcare professionals, community leaders and advocacy groups and many local, state and federal entities to care for NC residents. The department saw an opportunity to modernize its Medicaid program, a health insurance program for low-income individuals and families who cannot afford health care costs, to better serve citizens and improve the digital experience for care providers in the program. 

With KPMG and Red Hat, NCDHHS is shifting away from its legacy environments to adopt modern, cloud-based applications to integrate disparate systems and comply with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance, enabling patients and care providers to more safely and efficiently access vital health information. NCDHHS selected the KPMG’s KRIS Connected Platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift to enhance application and data interoperability for its Medicaid software systems.

The KPMG KRIS Connected Platform can enable NCDHHS to respond more rapidly to market demands and helps decrease the overall costs of the state’s technology footprint by utilizing Red Hat OpenShift to support cloud-native, containerized workloads. In addition, NCDHHS will use Red Hat Integration to more seamlessly integrate various applications and technology solutions necessary to address nuanced elements of the Medicaid system.

KPMG and Red Hat’s collaboration continues to provide enhanced hybrid cloud experiences for customers while meeting requirements for regulated industries such as health care. By combining Red Hat’s open source technologies with KPMG’s services, such as the KRIS Connected Platform, customers such as NCDHHS can more easily modernize systems to better meet the needs of patients and care providers. 

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Supporting Quotes:

The KRIS Connected Platform has seen a lot of interest from Medicaid and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services because it is modular, flexible and ideal for meeting the integration and shared services needs of local, state and federal government agencies. Most importantly, it supports the future of hybrid cloud integration, and we are glad to work with Red Hat to bring these transformational opportunities to our clients.

Mark Calem, Advisory Managing Director, Health and Government Solutions, KPMG LLP

By leveraging the KPMG KRIS Connected Platform and Red Hat technology, we are bringing North Carolina’s Medicaid program into the next generation so we meet the long-term needs of North Carolinians. This collaboration has been an important step to ensure our systems are innovative, transparent, and can respond to programmatic changes faster.

Charles Carter, Assistant Secretary of Technology Services, State of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Red Hat collaborates across a vast ecosystem of solution providers, systems integrators, software vendors and more to help our customers successfully modernize and transform IT environments to meet their unique business needs. By integrating Red Hat OpenShift with KPMG’s KRIS platform, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services can more easily bring together cloud-based, legacy and on-premises systems to streamline operations and provide better user experiences for care providers and patients. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with KPMG in the public sector and beyond.

Chris Gray, Vice President, North America Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

About KPMG LLP

KPMG LLP is the U.S. firm of the KPMG global organization of independent professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services. The KPMG global organization operates in 144 countries and territories and has more than 236,000 people working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.

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