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7 Benefits of Self-Contained Apps for BPM
According to Gartner, “As business needs change, organizations must be able to deliver innovation quickly and adapt applications dynamically—reassembling capabilities from inside and outside the enterprise. To do this, organizations must understand and implement the ‘composable enterprise.’” This is an appealing concept for companies looking for a good balance between highly centralized and highly distributed […]
Micro Focus Lays DevOps Foundation for RPA
Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which sets the stage for employing DevOps processes to construct highly automated business processes. Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital business transformation initiatives, interest in RPA has increased significantly. However, rather than merely using RPA to build […]
Incidence Avoidance in Action
Today, CIOs are faced with the challenge of making enterprise technologies perform on par with offerings from consumer-facing technology leaders, such as Facebook or Netflix, meaning technology or services being seamlessly available with no performance lag. Of course, these expectations are not always aligned with the realities of managing complex hybrid enterprise systems that were not […]
Machine Learning Is Working for CIOs, Vendor Survey Finds
AI’s time has finally come, if a new survey commissioned by ServiceNow is to be believed. Its results showed that nearly 90 percent of CIOs are at least dabbling with machine learning, with 53 percent calling it an area of strategic focus for their companies. What’s more, almost 70 percent of the CIOs surveyed say […]
Hybrid Cloud: How to Avoid Twice the Problems
Regardless of how enthusiastically you embrace the cloud, unless you’re a brand new business, you have already have an infrastructure running your applications. Odds are, you’re either renting space in one or more data centers. Or maybe long ago you reached the tipping point and built a data center or two of your own. Regardless, […]
IT Governance at DevOps Speed: Time to Shift Gears
Technology plays an incredibly important role in the idea economy, where business innovation is dependent on the software that powers the business. Speed and agility in IT are key to a competitive advantage in this modern economy, in which small startups with disruptive ideas are competing with well-established enterprises and industries. Consider how Uber and […]
How Mature Is Your Automation Strategy?
Working in Operations can sometimes feel like walking up a down escalator. The business puts relentless pressure on your team to overcome bottlenecks, accelerate the overall delivery process and grow the volume and frequency of deployments. You’re also faced with a growing number of service level requirements and demand for higher release velocity—all stretched across […]
Let DevOps be a business process
I just returned from an amazing time at the first Camp DevOps in Boulder, CO. It was held at University of Colorado, Boulder and in conjunction with Gluecon 2014. This is the first conference I have attended that was singularly focused on DevOps. I found the three track format at the show had something for […]