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# Itential Platform Cloud overview

> Deploy automation quickly with Itential's fully managed cloud platform and customer-managed Itential Gateway.

Itential Platform Cloud is Itential's fully managed network orchestration platform. Itential operates and maintains the infrastructure, including automatic updates, so your team can focus on building and orchestrating automations.

## What you can do

#### [Build automations visually](/itential-cloud/studio/overview)

Design workflows with drag-and-drop components. Add conditional logic, error handling, and parallel execution without writing code.

#### [Connect to external systems](/itential-cloud/admin-essentials/integrations/overview)

Integrate with 300+ systems including network devices, cloud platforms, and ITSM tools through pre-built adapters and integrations.

#### [Track automation performance](/itential-cloud/cloud-hub/insights/overview)

Track automation trends, job history, and performance metrics across your Platform instances.

#### [Search and analyze job history](/itential-cloud/cloud-hub/job-viewer/overview)

Search, filter, and analyze job and task data with extended retention across your environments.

## Applications

### Core

#### [Cloud Hub](/itential-cloud/cloud-hub/overview)

Monitor jobs with Job Viewer, track automation performance with Insights, and manage access from one centralized portal.

#### [Studio](/itential-cloud/studio/overview)

Build automation assets: workflows, forms, templates, and transformations.

#### [Operations Manager](/itential-cloud/operations-manager/overview)

Run and monitor workflows. Configure schedules, event triggers, and API endpoints.

#### [Admin Essentials](/itential-cloud/admin-essentials/overview)

Manage users, permissions, system health, and platform settings.

#### [Inventory Manager](/itential-cloud/inventory-manager/overview)

Consolidate devices, endpoints, and systems from multiple sources into a single inventory.

### Add-on

#### [Lifecycle Manager](/itential-cloud/lifecycle-manager/overview)

Track infrastructure state through device and service lifecycles. Orchestrate multi-stage deployments and maintain compliance audit trails.

#### [Configuration Manager Enterprise](/itential-cloud/configuration-manager/overview)

Enforce configuration standards across your infrastructure. Automatically validate changes, audit compliance, and remediate drift using Golden Configuration and Compliance Plans.

#### [Itential Gateway](/itential-gateway/5/overview)

A customer-hosted gateway that organizes, shares, and runs your automation library on-premises. Provides enterprise-grade access control and exposes automations for others to run.

## Connect to external systems

#### [Adapters](/adapters/introduction/overview)

Install code-based connectors for custom protocols, advanced authentication, or specialized error handling.

#### [Integrations](/itential-cloud/admin-essentials/integrations/overview)

Create lightweight connectors from OpenAPI specifications. Deploy REST API connections in minutes.

#### [ServiceNow app](/servicenow-app/introduction/about)

Trigger Itential workflows directly from ServiceNow tickets and catalog items.

## Next steps

#### [Create your first workflow](/itential-cloud/studio/workflows/create-and-run-workflows)

Follow a step-by-step tutorial to build and run a workflow.

#### [Manage users](/itential-cloud/admin-essentials/overview)

Centrally manage users, roles, and access controls for your cloud environment.

#### [View jobs](/itential-cloud/cloud-hub/job-viewer/overview)

Monitor running and completed automations across your environment.