{"id":19707,"date":"2016-01-11T00:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/jan\/11\/three-keys-devops-success-and-why-most-businesses-arent-doing-it\/"},"modified":"2016-01-11T00:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:19:16","slug":"the-three-keys-to-devops-success-and-why-most-businesses-arent-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-three-keys-to-devops-success-and-why-most-businesses-arent-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The three keys to DevOps success \u2013 and why most businesses aren\u2019t doing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/Devonyu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A business-led approach, collaborative IT resources and adopting key controls are the three main factors to DevOps success &ndash; but many UK businesses are still struggling with it, according to a new study from CA Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled &lsquo;Assembling the DevOps Jigsaw&rsquo; which polled more than 500 respondents from Europe, found only one in 10 (11%) UK organisations are in the category of &lsquo;advanced DevOps adopters&rsquo;, defined as organisations who have implemented DevOps practice across at least six different business areas. Swiss businesses (23%) are the furthest advanced, but other European countries are not noticeably better, with Spain (13%), France (12%), Italy (12%) and Germany (10%) all struggling.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the majority of UK businesses are tuning in to DevOps methodology. More than two thirds of companies (67%) have implemented DevOps in some capacity, such as failing fast, and streamlining IT to free up resources for digital investment.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for companies making initial steps but not going further revolves around the difficulties breaking down established barriers. 68% of those polled said it was important to remove the traditional walls between Dev and Ops teams, yet only 38% say they have fully dealt with cultural transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in the &lsquo;advanced adopters&rsquo; category see business benefit from their change, according to the report. 85% of organisations polled across Europe saw &lsquo;significant measurable benefits&rsquo; in customer retention, while the majority of firms also saw similar results in customer acquisition and new income streams.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Digital interaction with customers, partners, and suppliers increasingly takes place through applications, apps and online services,&rdquo; said Ritu Mahandru, VP solution sales at CA Technologies. &ldquo;To innovate new customer experiences, be more agile and grow revenues, UK organisations require a much more rapid and continuous delivery of value to create competitive advantage, while simultaneously allowing IT to become more responsive and efficient.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Research over the past year has shown a confused outlook from businesses on the state and definition of DevOps. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/oct\/13\/devops-gaining-ground-businesses-data-security-fears-linger\/\">A report from Delphix in October<\/a> found more than three quarters (77%) of firms had introduced dedicated budgets and support teams for DevOps, while in August the same firm found the primary definition was &ldquo;developers and system administrators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/aug\/21\/state-devops-2015-its-strongly-defined-not-same-definition\/\">collaborating to ease the transition between development and production.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/Devonyu<br \/>\nA business-led approach, collaborative IT resources and adopting key controls are the three main factors to DevOps success &ndash; but many UK businesses are still struggling with it, according to a new study from CA Technologies&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19708,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19707\/revisions\/19708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}