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DevOps has come a long way since breaking barriers between dev and ops. As all businesses strive to be more responsive to customers’ rising expectations and increasing data proliferation, DevOps is reaching mainstream popularity across almost all industries. DevOps fuels business transformation, and more than delivering new features faster, it provides continuous value to customers.
The business benefits of DevOps
Improved user experience
Businesses need to prioritize product readiness and the user experience to maintain a competitive advantage. The DevOps framework accelerates the deployment of new features and cultivates a true customer feedback loop. DevOps/SRE teams can iterate and constantly produce to meet the ever-changing way people work, consume, and communicate. By continuously integrating customer feedback into the production cycle, DevOps teams can deliver a more reliable product that drives higher customer satisfaction.
Long-term cost savings
While building DevOps/SRE teams requires a substantial initial investment in salary and tools, the DevOps cost savings come from fewer code errors, better alignment with user needs, faster time to market, increased productivity, and greater time to revenue. Furthermore, the DevOps lifecycle is significantly shorter, resulting in lower development costs.
Increased innovation and business growth
Modern technology companies of all sizes have DevOps/SRE teams. Many startups strategically build and invest in these teams from launch. DevOps best practices maximize efficiency and improve the speed and stability of software development, which is highly advantageous for a growing business. At the same time, DevOps drives innovation. Big-profile companies that typically have hundreds or thousands of digital products tend to have larger SRE teams, proving the scalability of the DevOps framework.
Productivity and lower development cycle
DevOps/SRE teams are inherently more productive. Top performing teams are deploying new code daily by leveraging automation tools and agile methods. As a result, companies with elite DevOps/SRE teams release code 208 times more frequently and 106 times faster than low-performing teams. Plus, DevOps increases employee productivity while reducing the overall development time and improving operational efficiency. In traditional software development, manual processes and a siloed workflow lead to more code errors, slow-release times, and lower productivity.
Better collaboration across the entire organization
DevOps/SRE brings the entire company to the same team. In companies that implement DevOps, there is no more finger-pointing and friction between teams as opposed to traditional organizations. DevOps is a culture founded on collaboration, communication, and shared responsibility. Autonomous teams truly trust each other.
Improving market share
Successful DevOps/SRE implementation accelerates new business growth thanks to releasing new products and services to market faster. In addition, the DevOps framework allows engineers to quickly test new features and decide if they bring value to customers. Through frequent testing and incorporating feedback into the DevOps lifecycle, engineers can fix bugs significantly quicker while continuously providing reliable products.
Why is DevOps important for business?
The way we live, work, and interact with each other is becoming increasingly reliant on technology. The world gradually shifts toward complex distributed systems, making infrastructure security and reliability paramount to business success. Today, software powers every aspect of an organization’s operations and end-user satisfaction. DevOps goes beyond maximizing production efficiency; it optimizes the business as a whole and aligns the people, processes, and cultural aspect. Organizations across almost every industry can leverage the advantages of DevOps to grow and provide purposeful service to their customers.
