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DevOps-in-a-box and ROI

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:43:39 +0000

Companies like Netflix, Facebook, and Etsy are often used as examples to indicate the influence of DevOps on business growth. But still, organizations look for quantitative value to go with the change.

To make this shift, Calculating the DevOps ROI is a significant way to show your board that it is assisting your IT employees in providing faster results. And, in order to assist you in making the best decision possible, we will discuss the following topics in today’s blog:

What Metrics to Consider while Measuring DevOps ROI
Downtime
Productivity
How to maximize your DevOps ROI
An overview of DevOps Accelerator – DevOps-in-a-box
A breakdown of How companies function without DevOps-in-a-box
How things change with DevOps-in-a-box
FAQs

What Metrics to Consider while Measuring DevOps ROI

On the surface, we understand that DevOps accelerates the overall pace of software development and deployment, increases the quality of deliverables, and facilitates the faster resolution of issues.

It’s important to decide which metrics to use to measure DevOps ROI.

Let’s cover them here one by one.

Downtime – As per a study done by IDC and AppDynamics, Infrastructure dysfunction can cost $8,580 to $686,250 per hour, depending on the size of the firm. And on average, organizations facing downtimes lose $163,674 per year.

Apart from the financial loss, human expenses are also a big problem. According to the same study, 35% of respondents claimed that they had to spend 1 to 12 hours of work time fixing production issues.

Well, it’s obvious that server down is the path to payment down. At the same time, you should be aware that achieving zero downtime is difficult. Even Google has set a goal of 99.999 percent service availability.

Productivity - The productivity of the developer is the second metric that you should consider. According to a study, DevOps results in 30 times more deployment with 60 times fewer downtime incidents.

This metric will help you set goals. For example, If you have a continuous integration and deployment process in place, then it can effectively reduce the production time by 2 hours.

So if you have 3 developers who push features into production on a daily basis, then 6 hours per day can be reallocated to create even more new features.

This advantage helps them to enter a new market at the right time or to launch an innovative product before competitors take market share.

How to Maximize Your DevOps ROI

If you want to maximize your DevOps ROI, you need to make your automation process strong. The automation process is like a dishwasher, while it is running you can do something else and believe that it will be clean at the end. So, corresponding to the DevOps Dishwasher utopia, you can have

A team that routinely delivers little chunks of work
A dependable, scalable Continuous Integration (CI) system that automatically tests all new code
A dependable, scalable test pipeline that automatically tests all new code
A Continuous Delivery (CD) system that automates the deployment of new code in production.
A scalable infrastructure
A group of developers and operations personnel who collaborate effectively

An overview of DevOps Accelerator - DevOps-in-a-box

DevOps-in-a-box is a DevOps accelerator that helps you transform into well-organized release events so that you can focus more on providing quality value without worrying about delays and rising costs. It offers reusable templates and a self-service model, allowing software engineers to build their pipelines and deploy on their own. This way it facilitates you to improve the reliability of delivery while reducing the deployment time from weeks to hours. Below are the 4 key aspects of our DevOps Accelerator

CI/CD Pipelines for all stages
Reusable templates to reduce time instantly
Parallel testing across browsers
Cost Optimization & Security Compliance

A Breakdown on How Companies Function Without DevOps-in-a-box

How Things Change with DevOps-in-a-box

FAQs

[Q1. What is ROI in DevOps?]

A1. In DevOps, ROI refers to how quickly you can deploy new ideas to customers—and, more crucially, whether those ideas fit their demands.

Well, Because of the improved communication within your team and shared objectives between Ops and Devs, you’ll be able to:

Save time on incident resolution
Launch new features faster
Decrease risks through process automation
Significantly enhance customer and developer satisfaction simultaneously.

[Q.2 Which areas does DevOps provide a significant return on investment?]

A2. These are the major 6 areas where DevOps provides a significant return on investment

Continuous Integration (CI) – A practice in which new code is validated by developers and testers.
Continuous Delivery (CD): The process of producing releasable objects on a regular basis.
Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure: Infrastructure virtualization that maximizes computing resources.
Test Automation: Scripts for functional and interface testing.
Security Automation: The scripts that execute security checks, also known as DevSecOps, are becoming increasingly popular.
Monitoring: Constant monitoring of the environment in order to address problems before they arise.

[Q3. How is DevOps delivery value calculated?]

A3. To calculate DevOps delivery value, follow the simple procedure.

Monitoring your deployment frequency over time and watching how it improves.

For that, you should keep track of major changes to your organization’s structure, personnel, or processes, and compare it to your deployment frequency throughout the same time period.

[Q4. How is automation deployment measured?]

A4. It’s simple to measure deployment automation.

Count how many manual steps there are in your deployment procedure. Work to eliminate those steps in a systematic manner.
Calculate the automation level (or percentage) in your deployment pipeline.
Calculate the amount of time spent on deployment pipeline delays.

The Benefits Of DevOps Are Simply Too Big To Ignore

Regardless of what is holding you back, the benefits of DevOps are simply too big to ignore. Our team can assist you to get started with DevOps-in-a-box and help you achieve DevOps maturity.

When DevOps-in-a-Box means more than money

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:49:10 +0000

Do you have concerns about how the DevOps transition would cost your SaaS organization? or What values will the adoption of DevOps-in-a-Box bring?

If yes, then this blog is going to be a must-read for you!

Because here we are going to bring insights to these critical aspects

Different Benefits of DevOps for Different Stakeholders
DevOps Adoption and its Impact
Steps to successful DevOps adoption
Various Cost Reduction Ways Through DevOps
A sneak peek into the Applied AI’s DevOps Platform

Different stakeholders have various corporate objectives. And different company goals necessitate different approaches to DevOps benefits. The perspective of a CIO differs from that of a CEO, who differs from that of an IT Manager or any other stakeholder.

For IT Managers, the procedural and technological metrics must be improved. Hence, for them, output performance indicators determine the benefits of DevOps. That can be seen as:

Lower volume of defects
Lower cost of a release
Improved software performance
Frequent release of new features, and updates
Improved Mean Time To Recovery

For CIO/CTO, strategic goals involving people-centric metrics are crucial. For them, DevOps offers the following advantages:

Better process management
Greater flexibility and adaptability
Freedom to brainstorm and experiment
Cooperative and happier teams
Reliable and fast fixes with improved operational support.

For CEOs, the business-based outcome with decreased production costs and increased revenue is critical. For their corporate vision, DevOps offers the following benefits:

Increased revenue
Satisfied customers
improved product quality
Lower cost of production
Lower downtime
Reliable and stable IT infrastructure

DevOps Adoption and its Impact

It’s no surprise that firms like Amazon, Netflix, Nordstrom, Etsy, and others are thriving because of their DevOps strategies.

It has influenced other businesses to adopt DevOps in some way.

Why not? If you seek to build the most optimal way to enable agility in your organization then you must have come across DevOps at someplace. It is a highly recommended trend for those who want to deliver services/products to clients quickly.

Well, Despite all the hues, what matters most to any organization is ROI.

And thinking about the ROI impact on DevOps adoption is obvious and important.

Before we dwell on all the tangible and intangible impacts, why not have a look at the 4 steps involved in the DevOps adoption process.

Steps to Successful DevOps Adoption

Oversee inefficiency – At this point, the organization has grown intelligent enough to optimize its operations for increased efficiency.
Develop/Test – Following the transition to a product-based strategy, the next step would be to speed up the development process and implement agile testing approaches.
Deploy – Once the development pace has been attained, the next step is to make it faster and smarter, which is where Automation comes in, providing the third stage on the DevOps adoption path to success. Automate the process to increase transparency, speed up release, and make future deployment easier.
Operate – At this stage of DevOps, organizations begin to move away from being isolated and toward being collaborative.

Adopting DevOps is not a simple decision. It is a decision that must be made carefully, with a clear knowledge of the costs and challenges involved. However, as many who have made it this far remark, the results are well worth the expense. That you will observe in the next segment.

Various Cost Reduction Ways Through DevOps

DevOps reduces a company’s expenditures in a variety of ways, both directly and indirectly. Some of the very obvious ways are:

Cost Parameter

Cost Without DevOps

Cost With DevOps

Network Downtime Cost

High cost for network downtime. That majorly arises because of the bug-ridden code, poor service visibility, and overloaded infrastructure utilization.

Reduced cost using DevOps automated testing, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery (CD) practices.

Software Release Cost

Complex and expensive especially when you are dealing with multiple releases at a time.

Reduced cost with automated release pipeline. As well as low cost for lesser people required for the process

Other Costs

High reference cost because of the monolithic approach.

Optimized cost using microservices in a DevOps environment.
Save cost by speeding up the rate at which you can incorporate client feedback into production.

A Sneak Peek into the Applied AI’s DevOps Platform - DevOps-in-a-box

Understanding the concern of value on return, we have developed an accelerator DevOps-in-a-box that clearly shows the benefits in terms of both cost and time.

We help you solve the problem that is a bottleneck for you today!!

The most common bottlenecks that companies face today are:

Bottleneck in Build process
Bottleneck in Testing
Bottleneck in Performance
Bottleneck in Frontend Deployment
Bottleneck in Review & Code Analysis

And to remove these bottlenecks, our team has built a platform that is enriched with Pipelines and solution infrastructure. Some of them are mentioned below:

Pipelines

Role

Applied To

PR Pipeline

It is a CI pipeline to run tests on every pull request. Because the application is not yet deployed, the tests that run on each PR must be very short and localized.

Failed Deployments

CI Pipeline

This pipeline compiles, tests and if required even notifies you about your pushed code. The build server will do this heavy job of making developers’ lives easier.

Deployment

Artifact Promoting Pipeline

It will be responsible for promoting the well-tested artifacts from one stage to the next. For example, if a build is verified and tested by QA in a QA environment then that artifact will be promoted to the next i.e., to the staging environment. Then to the prod environment.

Application Performance

Selenium Test Automation Pipeline

It will execute selenium automation tests for testing the web application. Along with selenium, allure tool will be used which is a flexible lightweight multi-language test report tool.

Testing

Database Deployment Pipeline

This pipeline will use liquibase to apply the database schema changes automatically without manual human intervention.

Build/Deploy

Infrastructure Deployment Pipeline

This pipeline will be responsible for deploying the resources or services in the public cloud using terraform ( Infrastructure-as-a-Code ).

Deployment

Load and Performance Test Pipeline

This pipeline gets triggered manually on a pre-prod setup on selected releases. All the releases may not need to go through the Load and Performance Test.

Performance Testing

Solution Infrastructure

Role

Feature

Load-balanced Auto Scaling group

It creates an Auto-Scaling group that receives traffic only from the application load balancer. It deploys resources such as Load Balancer, Launch Configuration, Autoscaling Group, Target Group, and Security Group.

Highly Available

SCCA-Application-VPC

It helps you deploy application VPC which has 4 subnets. Out of which 2 of them will be used for deploying applications and the rest of 2 will be used for hosting the database.

Highly Secure

Load balanced website with sticky sessions

Through this solution, A load-balanced web application will be deployed with sticky sessions enabled on it.

Highly Reliable

SCCA-VDSS-VPC

In this solution, VDSS VPC will be deployed which will consist of one private subnet and one public subnet in each availability zone. VPC flow logs will be also enabled and stored in the AWS Cloudwatch Log group.

Highly Secure

As you can see, your end-to-end delivery pipeline can be completely streamlined.

It starts with basic software quality and extends to include user feedback loops to ensure that your products meet the expectations of your customers.

The Benefits Of DevOps Are Simply Too Big To Ignore.

Regardless of what is holding you back, the benefits of DevOps are simply too big to ignore. Our team can assist you to get started with DevOps-in-a-box and help you achieve DevOps maturity.

Accelerate Your execution with DevOps in a Box

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:29:59 +0000

It is not just demanding but also critical for an organization to be competent in order to speed up the business processes and sustain in the market. And if you are the one who put their eyes on improving the process while reducing the cost, then this blog is for you!

Today, IT organizations are under more pressure than ever to drive competitive advantage and innovation with higher quality while managing smaller teams. This shift has created a transformative turning point across every business domain, which is supported by new enabling technologies and development paradigms.

And DevOps-in-a-box is one such transformative tool that enables you to adopt the rapid and strategic transformation while also assisting you in cost reduction.

When used properly, these three distinct advantages emerge

It enables smaller development, QA, release, and production support teams to ship features and bug fixes whenever and wherever they are required.
With specially designed pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), it helps you bring a cultural shift to your organization.
It ensures greater stability and quality across production scenarios by using microservices and new delivery methodologies.

Top 3 Ways to Accelerate Your Execution with DevOps-in-a-Box

Agility

Dramatically reduce the time from idea to production. It makes you more responsive to client needs.

Productivity

Eliminate waste, remove bottlenecks, and improve the output of the development and test team.

Innovation

Replace complexity and manual activities with industrial-strength automation to direct investment towards innovation.

Practically, we have improved processes and reduced time to market by 80%

Transform into Streamlined Release Events

There are some specific aspects to be careful about and are mentioned below.

DevOps-in-a-box helps you transform into well-organized release events so that you can focus more on providing quality value without worrying about delays and rising costs.

This is how DevOps-in-a-box helps you build more predictable release events allowing:

45% cycle time improvement by automating release pipelines.
55% reduction In development cost by increasing static code analysis.
95% reduction In code to release by shortening backlog packages and daily releases.
100% automated test coverage by increasing tests.

To transform into streamlined release events, you need to have a proper understanding of the DevOps process flow, which we are going to explain below.

DevOps Process Flow

The DevOps lifecycle is primarily focused on coordination and automation. It determines the set of policies that links the development and Operations teams to work together.

Let’s look at the key steps involved in the DevOps process flow.

Continuous Integration - It is a practice that allows developers to merge their code changes into a shared repository regularly.

Continuous Testing - It’s a practice that allows developers to ensure their code works as intended in a live environment.

Continuous Monitoring and Feedback - This process enables IT operations to identify problems and notify developers in real-time.

Continuous Delivery - This process allows code modifications to be created, tested, and packaged automatically before being released into production.

Continuous Deployment - In this process, Every verified update is automatically released to users. It removes the requirement for pre-determined release dates and shortens the feedback loop.

Tools That Make DevOps Execution Easier

As we know, A standard DevOps process comprises 8 stages: plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor. There are a variety of open-source and OEM tools that can be used for each of these stages, as well as some that can be used for several stages.

As organizations step on their DevOps journey, they will need to research, evaluate, and test a variety of tools for a variety of functionalities. To make things easier for DevOps teams, we’ve compiled a list of DevOps tools that can help them achieve a successful DevOps transformation.

ToolsUsed For Stages GitCode, BuildGradleBuildJenkinsBuild, Test, DeploySeleniumTestPuppetDeploy, OperateChefDeploy, OperateKubernetesBuild, Deploy, OperateDockerBuild, Deploy, OperateAnsibleDeploy, OperateChaosSearchMonitorSplunkMonitor

Data shows that high-performing and innovative organizations have embraced DevOps and are leveraging it to bring process optimization and cost-efficiency together.

Contact Us Today To Book A Free Demo!!

Have you started using DevOps? If yes, then you might have experienced its benefits. Why not accelerate your execution with a specially designed accelerator DevOps-in-a-box?

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Benefits of DevOps in a Box in Finance Sector

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 12:08:51 +0000

Applied AI helps companies in reducing their time to market with scalable DevOps Solutions. This blog covers the top benefits of DevOps-in-a-Box in the finance sector along with the popular myths and challenges.

Key Challenges of Implementing DevOps in Finance

When it comes to keeping up with the latest digital trends, the Finance sector is no exception. Here are some of the major challenges that you may face while implementing DevOps in Finance:

Data Privacy regulations & restrictions on securing the network.
To monitor each phase of the development process, full lifecycle governance is included.
Seamless integration with third-party applications
Detailed auditing that does not allow flaws or problems
Diverse Access Control List Modules

You probably heard about DevOps! But not DevOps-in-a-box.

DevOps in a Box is a tool that intends to help organizations to improve the speed of their digital transformation by more than 2x.

It manages the DevOps practices automatically by providing both cloud resources and readymade components to accelerate the development and delivery processes and reduce time-to-market.

In short, It provides a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solution for your DevOps practices. Most important of all these solutions are time tested with very low support cost.

Why DevOps for Finance Organization?

There are some specific aspects to be careful about and are mentioned below.

To give you an example, here is an organization that was integrating many finance tools for their accountability and receivables. Many years of point-to-point integration have resulted in a large codebase to maintain. Not only that but also the professional services team in charge of implementing the product on the customer side was taking a long time to get the ball rolling.

It is very common for a client to see that each customer has a different tool with which they must integrate. This is where our DevOps-in-a-Box assisted them in integrating the most well-known finance tool. As a result, the time required to implement professional services was reduced.

Besides that, a single integration component aids in the better maintenance of the integration. So that each and every client having one-one integration can be reduced.

Overall, it reduces the speed, amount of code, and ultimately the amount of support required.

Now you know the purpose of DevOps in a Box and are more interested in knowing its benefits in the finance sector, it’s better to have a quick look at the trends that are happening in the Finance sector.

Trend Happening in the Finance Sector

In today’s fast-paced technological world, quick delivery of services has become key to financial firms to succeed in the race.

The challenge of high customer dependence and resultant demand for quick delivery of solutions to meet the end-user need is what brought these trends in the financial sector:

Modernizing the core dated system became a necessity.
Cashless payment has increased digital engagement
Hyper-personalization is redefining the customer journey in the insurance segment
Trading between institutions and wholesalers has shifted away from trading floors.
Embedded innovation is the new status quo

Benefits of DevOps-in-a-Box in Finance

Improved Security and Compliance

Considering the amount of legacy code and old methodologies many companies feel that embracing DevOps is risky. While the fact is that DevOps-in-a-Box has helped Financial organizations deliver value to the market safely and efficiently with optimized expenses.

Here are the top benefits that you will experience having DevOps in a Boc in the Finance industry:

The finance segment deals with a large number of transactions and investments. Hence, it becomes crucial to secure the customer data & comply with multiple regulations and standards.

The adoption of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) along with the immutable infrastructure as code (IaaC) leads to automate software lifecycle pipelines which leave limited/no room for human errors.

In addition, following the regulatory compliance approach eliminates security risks from the product development process.

Routine Process Automation

DevOps in a Box encourages automation in software development and infrastructure operations across multiple processes. That helps organizations catch up the speed, consistency, and greater accuracy. Ultimately increasing the number of deliveries in the transformation process.

It allows for simple server provisioning, configuration, data backup, and restoration This includes everything from design to deployment and monitoring.

Better Prediction

When the majority of processes are automated and managed through DevOps in a Box, the likelihood of correct prediction increases. Financial businesses may provide greater value to their customers by assuring the timely delivery of feedback and subsequent product operations.

Increased Collaboration within Teams

Communication and collaboration between departments are key to the DevOps culture. And as we know, The majority of financial companies are diversified and outsource some of their operations. For operational stability, effective engagement is critical that is achieved through DevOps in a Box.

Use Cases of DevOps in a Box in Finance

Let’s look at some examples of how firms have embraced and scaled DevOps methods across their organizations. These insights will assist you in understanding how prominent finance companies are utilizing this strategy to propel their businesses to new heights. Case Study

FAQs

[Q1. How does DevOps benefit a business?]

There are several benefits that a business can experience and some of the most popular are mentioned below:

Faster deployment
Improved customer experience capabilities.
More time for innovation and growth.
Faster problem-solving abilities

[Q2. What are the 7 DevOps practices?]

The key practices of DevOps are as follows:

Configuration management
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Automated Testing
Infrastructure as code
Continuous deployment
Continuous monitoring

[Q3. What are the pillars of DevOps?]

There are 9 pillars on which the DevOps concept stands for:

Leadership
Collaborative culture
Design for DevOps
Continuous integration
Continuous testing
Flexible infrastructure
Continuous monitoring
Continuous security
Continuous delivery

[Q4. What is DevOps in finance?]

DevOps allows financial services to enhance the quality and frequency of application releases while also addressing compliance, security, risk, and governance policies.

Applied AI has helped finance corporations from the repetitive boring tasks and let them focus on bringing more value without any human-error. So, if you are looking to bring the DEvops-in-a-box benefits to your finance firm, have a look at our page here or directly Contact Us.

DevOps-in-a-Box : DevOps as a Service | Applied AI Consulting

DevOps-in-a-box and ROI

What Metrics to Consider while Measuring DevOps ROI

How to Maximize Your DevOps ROI

An overview of DevOps Accelerator - DevOps-in-a-box

A Breakdown on How Companies Function Without DevOps-in-a-box

How Things Change with DevOps-in-a-box

FAQs

The Benefits Of DevOps Are Simply Too Big To Ignore

Related posts

When DevOps-in-a-Box means more than money

DevOps Adoption and its Impact

Steps to Successful DevOps Adoption

Various Cost Reduction Ways Through DevOps

Cost Parameter

Cost Without DevOps

Cost With DevOps

A Sneak Peek into the Applied AI’s DevOps Platform - DevOps-in-a-box

Pipelines

Role

Applied To

Solution Infrastructure

Role

Feature

The Benefits Of DevOps Are Simply Too Big To Ignore.

Related posts

Accelerate Your execution with DevOps in a Box

When used properly, these three distinct advantages emerge

Top 3 Ways to Accelerate Your Execution with DevOps-in-a-Box

Transform into Streamlined Release Events

DevOps Process Flow

Tools That Make DevOps Execution Easier

Contact Us Today To Book A Free Demo!!

Related posts

Benefits of DevOps in a Box in Finance Sector

Key Challenges of Implementing DevOps in Finance

You probably heard about DevOps! But not DevOps-in-a-box.

Why DevOps for Finance Organization?

Trend Happening in the Finance Sector

Benefits of DevOps-in-a-Box in Finance

Use Cases of DevOps in a Box in Finance

FAQs

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