How Digital Engineering Enables Resilient IT Decisions

By 2025, intelligent enterprises will see a 100 percent increase in productivity, resulting in half the response time of peers due to the ability to anticipate market and operational changes and 25 percent increase in success rates of new digital product or service introductions.

via Digital Lifescapes

Agile ERP: How to Become a Top Performer

Agile organizations have a 70% chance of being in the top quartile of organizational health, the best indicator of long-term performance. Moreover, such companies simultaneously achieve greater customer centricity, faster time to market, higher revenue growth, lower costs, and a more engaged workforce.

via McKinsey

Transforming IT Infrastructure with Agile DevOps

Using an agile transformation to modernize an IT infrastructure organization isn’t easy, but it is worthwhile. Agile approaches can enable IT infrastructure groups to boost their productivity by 25 to 30 percent in six to 18 months, depending on the size of the organization.

via McKinsey

Explore the Six Steps to DevOps Success

DevOps is more than a cultural shift claim Forester and IBM in their new joint report ‘Accelerating Innovation with DevOps’. “Effective DevOps relies on several competencies working together in unison to create an organization obsessed with business value rather than individual excellence.

via TM Forum

A Business Case for Monolithic Mainframe Architecture

“There are things a monolithic architecture guarantees that are no longer true when we’ve distributed our system. Components (now services) no longer start and stop together in a predictable order.”

Source: The New Stack

Digital Transformation Initiatives Must Overcome Friction

The study found that 75% of respondents had low levels of confidence in their ability to resolve digital performance problems. Equally concerning is that 48% of these respondents stated digital performance challenges were directly hindering the success of digital transformation strategies in their organizations.

Source: Dynatrace

IT DevOps and Continuous Delivery Gaining Adoption

It is becoming increasingly apparent that both DevOps and Continuous Delivery require an ability to share information across the staff, tools, and processes supporting diverse life-cycle stages and functions.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Internet of Things Apps are Booming in Hospitality Sector

The ecosystem for Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the B2B market continues to blossom, as more vendors develop new offerings. ABI Research found that both partner programs and their member companies are maturing, with 59 percent of listed organizations receiving a high grade.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Exploring the Top Barriers to IT DevOps Adoption

According to a new study, DevOps managers are deploying multiple tools to support their DevOps efforts. The current DevOps tool chain ecosystem is quite fragmented with a mixture of open source and packaged offerings.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Application Container Revenue will Reach $2.7 Billion by 2020

Data center server virtualization and cloud computing requirements are evolving. More CIOs and IT managers will be deploying Linux container based solutions in 2017, as the market matures and the vendors gain new momentum with their go-to-market strategies.

Source: Digital Lifescapes