Digital Engineering Transformation Through DevOps

“DevOps” is an amalgamation of development and operations, representing a collaborative and accelerated approach to tasks between an organization’s application development and IT operations teams. It was formulated as a necessary response to thrive in a highly competitive global market where rapid product deliveries and constant improvements are paramount.

A study conducted by Grand View Research Inc. forecasts the DevOps market to reach a staggering USD 12.85 billion by 2025. The number of organizations, small or large, incorporating the philosophy of continuous integration, prompt delivery and real-time monitoring is growing exponentially. As DevOps tools and practices are successfully implemented, product engineering companies are experiencing unprecedented overall growth and an acceleration of services delivery.

The modern-day product development market is characterized by volatile consumer demands and increasing competitiveness. In order to create a sustainable business that can flourish under these circumstances, enterprises need to focus on customer-centric approaches, faster delivery times, quality, precision and continuous improvements. Given these conditions and a widespread need for speed, DevOps can provide a competitive edge to enterprises looking to speed up delivery processes and gain confidence of stakeholders.

Here are five ways you can implement DevOps to improve the product life cycle and reduce the time-to-market with an efficient product delivery management strategy in place:

Leveraging automation to replace manual repetition of tests can greatly save time, cost and effort, resulting in an increased efficiency in the development process. This allows the development and operations teams to work in unison to analyze tests, derive effective solutions promptly and establish a faster feedback cycle.

Continuous integration is a fundamental DevOps practice in which developers merge their codes into a central repository on a regular basis. This constant integration of data can take place several times in a single day and an automated system routinely checks and maintains the quality of the code. By constantly integrating code, the development and operation teams work together to eradicate the possibility of bugs accumulating for a long period without correction and maintaining product quality and increasing delivery efficiency. Bosch’s integrated SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services are designed to deploy across multiple platforms, thus making continuous integration seamless.

Continuous delivery is a fundamental DevOps practice. With code being regularly integrated, products can be developed and delivered promptly in iterations. This encompasses the entire process of building, testing, configuring, and finally deploying the product for customers to use. An iterative approach provides flexibility to the entire product development process and allows an enterprise to provide enhanced customer experiences.

DevOps allows the development and operations teams to undertake a data-driven and collaborative approach to developing products and solving issues. By leveraging data to formulate plans and actions, the development and operations teams can cohesively deliver impeccable products on a regular basis. Integrating logs, graphs and information into a centralized platform with a user-friendly dashboard and log management system is a prerequisite for achieving streamlined performance, a key aspect of DevOps. Manage your data needs better by consulting with an established software leader, which will enable your organization to create and scale such a platform with ease and efficiency.

Continuous deployment is the process of automatically releasing any code commit that passes the automated tests. This level of automation can prove to be the competitive edge your enterprise needs to increase efficiency and meet growing customer demands.

As the industrial world increasingly adopts automation, and moves towards digital transformation, the application of the DevOps methodology can help organizations enjoy the true benefits of digitization and digitalization. This combined with the iterative approach of agile methodology, product development companies can create an outstanding customer experience and make the best of the digital era.

Agile and DevOps help in improving the digital customer experience to a great extent by considering the key elements of digital transformation like transparency, a paradigm shift in work culture, and overall accountability of the organization.

In the pursuit of achieving digital success and creating an exceptional customer experience, product engineering companies need to ramp up their delivery process without hampering the quality of the products. With the collaboration of development and operation teams through DevOps, companies big or small can achieve their business goal and create an efficient pipeline to deliver the best product well within the stipulated time.

DevOps consulting services from Bosch serve as an efficient tool to help product engineering companies in creating a faster product delivery pipeline. Contact us to know how our team of DevOps experts can take your business to greater heights.