A new study released by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) titled, "DevOps: The Worst-Kept Secret to Winning in the Application Economy", reveals having a DevOps strategy helps drive tangible business benefits to enterprises.
Vanson Bourne conducted the survey with 1 425 senior IT and business leaders worldwide and found 88% of them already have, or plan to adopt, a DevOps strategy.
According to the study, respondents have experienced anywhere from a 14% to 21% improvement in business in the form of increased numbers of customers, faster time-to-market and improved quality and performance of applications.
US respondents have seen more improvements than the global average, for instance about 27% increased collaboration between departments, a 26% reduction in time spent fixing and maintaining applications and a 24% to 25% increase in the number of customers as well as software and services that would otherwise not be possible.
"DevOps is a powerful revenue driver. About 34% of respondents working at organisations with greater than average profit growth said they had already adopted DevOps while only 17% of those with less than average profit growth had done so," says Andi Mann, vice-president, CA Technologies.
Andrea Lodolo, CTO, CA Southern Africa, adds the argument against DevOps is over. "Global business and IT leaders need DevOps to transform their enterprises into application-led businesses drive their competitiveness and create business growth," says Lodolo.
Other key findings include:
* DevOps adopters are likely to invest in people and tools over the next year as part of their implementation of the strategy:
* The top investment item is hiring new resources with necessary skills (63% global and 72% in the US), followed by engaging a consulting firm (51% global and 53% in the US). More training for dev and ops personnel was cited by 46%.
* A need to improve quality and performance of the applications as well as the end customer experience are major drivers (44% and 42% in the US, respectively).
* Nearly all organizations with greater than average profit growth have experienced tangible benefits by adopting a DevOps strategy
*About 95% to 97% of these companies have seen increased frequency of deployments of software and services as well as applications made available across more platforms.
* Security and organizational complexity remain as major obstacles in adopting the strategy (28% and 27% respectively).
Survey methodology
Vanson Bourne conducted the CA Technologies-sponsored study of 1 425 senior IT and line-of-business executives at enterprise organizations with revenues of $500 million or more in financial services, healthcare, retail, telecommunications and media/entertainment industries. The study was conducted in 13 countries around the world, including US, Canada, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, China, India and Japan.
For further information please click on DevOps: The Worst-Kept Secret to Winning in the Application Economy.
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