CIO Guide for Operational and Business Benefits of DevOps

To overcome and eliminate all those hassles, businesses can prefer a DevOps culture that brings collaborative work nature to their team.

The rising demands of end-users have forced businesses to face many challenges to increase their operational efficiency and productivity. Also, the continuous evolution in the market plays a handy part in pressuring businesses to achieve optimal results.

To overcome and eliminate all those hassles, businesses can prefer a DevOps culture that brings collaborative work nature to their team. This blog is about briefing DevOps and its benefits (Operational & Business) for an organization.

What Is DevOps?

DevOps brings rapid growth or development to an organization with a set of approaches and practices. In simple words, DevOps can be defined as a tool that enhances the development and operational capabilities of an organization.

It enforces a collaborative workforce and brings cultural changes to improve business values. Though DevOps brings more benefits to an organization, still it will differ according to the organizational workflow and structure.

Why DevOps Is Important to An Organization?

Today’s market evolves upon user behavior and trends consistently. To handle those changes and to bring more operational values, the implementation of DevOps becomes essential for an organization.

Here are the lists of reasons that make DevOps essential

·  Builds collaboration among teams

·  Offers continuous test environment

·  Enhance operational capabilities to manage quicker deployments

·  Bring the ability to monitor the performance

·  Increases business ROI

However, the benefits offered by DevOps can be classified into 3 types, technical benefits, Operational Benefits, and Business benefits. The upcoming sections will elaborate on the operational and business benefits an organization can achieve through the implementation of DevOps.

Operational Benefits of DevOps

The ultimate goal of DevOps is to bring more efficiency, cost-effectiveness along with scalability features to an organization. Businesses that depend more on their frontend operation can avail more benefits through DevOps. Apart from bringing more stability to the business, DevOps allows business stakeholders to sync their business operations with their business goals.

By doing so, every employee knows their goal and will work to achieve it. Take a look over those operational benefits of DevOps in brief.

1. Brings Stability to Operation

Almost every organization struggles to handle the coupled services, dependencies on 3rd party applications, and increase in the time-to-reach market. These hassles will be easily eradicated by implementing DevOps. It brings more control to the businesses right from the business planning, development, and delivery chain.

Here are the lists of aspects which are managed by DevOps within business operations

· Provisioning business infrastructure.

· Increasing service availability.

· Helps to release updates.

· Covers all the security loopholes.

The team working with DevOps can leverage the power of well-defined workflows, which are often synced with tools and processes. Having a well-organized DevOps Strategy will enhance the CI/CD pipelines. However, implementing a DevOps strategy isn’t easy. You would need excellent collaboration among teams, excellent information sharing along with excellent business operations sync.  

2. Operational Sync

Having well-synchronized business operations will make sure the operational capabilities of your business meet the demands of an evolving marketplace. Also, real-time sync on business operations will provide more security by enabling teams to modify security systems in real-time and overcome the potential cyber security threats.

This is what you can able to achieve through well-synchronized business operations

·  Time taken for total development will be reduced to days or hours from weeks.

·  Can avoid cyber threats over the data stored in the software database.

·  Real-time sync will enhance security operations in today’s evolving cyber-attacks.

3. Quick To Detect Errors

DevOps helps an organization detect errors in real-time. By doing so, it assists the team to improve product quality and the time taken for product delivery significantly. More importantly, DevOps saves a lot by detecting the errors well before and avoiding turning them into irreversible errors. By using DevOps, teams can easily and quickly detect errors and avoid bottleneck situations that may lead to negative performance.

With the aid of modern technologies, DevOps systems help an organization to detect and overcome it with suggestive solutions.  

Business Benefits of DevOps

DevOps facilitates businesses to adapt to the evolving market and enhances business operations effectively to meet the rising demands of the market. The analytics features of DevOps help an organization to understand the need and to make necessary changes.

 Take a look over those business benefits of DevOps in brief,

1. Improves Business Agility

The term business agility refers to the capability of businesses to adapt to modern changes and raise user demands. Here’s how DevOps brings higher agility to businesses.

· Brings consistency to business processes through synchronizing business goals and development framework.

· Brings agility to engineering and enables consistent development.

· Regular auditing of all software, patches, and releases.

· Creates a collaborative framework and brings adaptability.  

2. Cost-Effective

DevOps brings automation and cohesive strategies to improve operational efficiency. As a result, it cuts down a significant amount of operational cost. Apart from cost savings, here are a few more aspects businesses can achieve because of DevOps.

·  Minimize the cost of managing systems.

·  Offers an increase in data recovery (DR) than the expected Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

·  Brings more confidence among consumers.

3. Faster Time-to-resolution

An organization that likes to improve the user experience for their products/applications consistently will require faster time-to-market. This is what DevOps offers and enhances the user experience. Many software companies follow the DevOps strategy to offer instant updates to their end-users and increase the frequency of updates.  

4. Reduces Business Risk

Collaboration effort is essential for an organization to better understand their business risk and to plan their business operation accordingly. DevOps brings you such collaboration among the teams and enables business risk mitigation as a bonus. It combines AI and ML algorithms to detect anomalies through automated systems.

Conclusion

Without any doubt, one can say that DevOps helps CIOs in tackling challenges and boosting the development process. DevOps offers a high-performing system through collaboration and automation. So, turn your existing business workflow with DevOps depending upon your business needs and reap all the DevOps benefits.

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