Dell Automation Studio is a CI/CD-native infrastructure orchestration toolkit that sits inside the broader Dell Automation Platform. It’s designed to help you define, deploy, operate, and standardize infrastructure and application outcomes at scale.

Key ways it fits into your existing workflows:

• CI/CD integration: Studio plugs directly into modern CI/CD toolchains so infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and Day-2 operations become part of your automated delivery pipelines instead of separate ticket-driven steps.
• Infrastructure-as-code reuse: You can reuse existing IaC investments, including Terraform and Ansible scripts, rather than starting from scratch.
• Full-stack orchestration: It orchestrates across the full stack—bare metal, compute, storage, data protection, networking, VMs, and containers—through a single orchestrator.
• Multi-cloud, multi-site support: Studio helps standardize operations across private cloud, public cloud, edge, and AI workloads, giving you consistent deployment and governance across distributed environments.

The result is a more streamlined, automated delivery model that supports your move away from siloed, ticket-based operations toward agile, self-service infrastructure.

The Blueprint AI Assistant is an AI-driven design capability inside Dell Automation Studio that helps you create and manage automation workflows using natural language.

What it does for your teams:

• Natural language to automation: Teams can describe desired infrastructure or application outcomes in everyday language, and the assistant helps generate the corresponding automated workflows and blueprint definitions.
• Blueprint-driven design: A blueprint is a declarative YAML file that describes your application topology and the executables for automated actions. The assistant helps construct and refine these blueprints in a guided way.
• Agentic development approach: It simplifies complex environment modeling and keeps everything versioned, repeatable, and auditable, which is important for governance and compliance.
• Support for internal platforms: For organizations building internal developer platforms, the assistant becomes the engine behind self-service, enabling teams to build environments either via natural language or through existing CI/CD pipelines.

This approach helps address common pain points highlighted in recent research, where 82% of organizations deploy to production weekly, yet many struggle with bottlenecks and inconsistent tooling. By using AI to design and standardize blueprints, you can speed up delivery while maintaining control and traceability.

Many organizations are facing similar challenges:

• 60% use more than five tools for software development.
• 49% use more than five AI tools.
• As a result, 75% of developers lose between 6 to 15 hours per week due to tool sprawl.
• 94% report dissatisfaction with their self-service tools.

Dell Automation Studio is designed to help you rethink how these tools come together:

• Unified orchestration hub: Studio acts as a single operational hub for multi-cloud, multi-site environments, so provisioning and lifecycle management are handled in one place instead of across many disconnected tools.
• Extensible plug-in framework: Vendor-agnostic, software-based plug-ins integrate with your existing toolchains, public cloud platforms, and third-party systems. This lets you keep the tools you value while consolidating how they’re orchestrated.
• CI/CD-native operations: By embedding infrastructure and Day-2 operations into CI/CD pipelines, you reduce manual handoffs and separate ticket queues that slow teams down.
• AI in the SDLC: Studio aligns with the direction of the market, where 97% of organizations are using or planning to use AI in the software development lifecycle to simplify and consolidate deployment and operations.
• Build on validated outcomes: You can extend Dell Private Cloud and Dell Distributed Private Cloud with custom automation, helping standardize application deployment and unify multi-cloud operations without adding yet another standalone tool.

By reimagining automation as a unified, AI-assisted layer, Dell Automation Studio helps reduce tool sprawl, reclaim lost developer hours, and improve the overall self-service experience.