Smart businesses are seeing real business value out of their use of DevOps—better software quality, faster time to market, and increased revenue. What do they know that you don’t know? To discover the secrets behind the use of DevOps, research firm Vanson Bourne surveyed 1,300 senior IT decision-makers at enterprise organizations across five industry verticals in 21 different countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The results may surprise you. For more information on the survey, visit http://www.ca.com/techinsights/devops

1. 7 Secrets that Smart Businesses
Don’t Want You to Know About
DevOps

2. DevOps is a methodology that combines the
separate and sequential processes of
application development and operations
into a continuous and collaborative process.

3. To discover the secrets behind the use of
DevOps, research firm Vanson Bourne surveyed 1,300
senior IT decision-makers at enterprise organizations
across five industry verticals in 21 different countries
in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

4. Secret 1: Most Companies Are
Already Doing DevOps, or Will Be
Soon

5. 66% of Organizations Either Have a DevOps Strategy or Are
Planning to Implement It.
39% already adopted
27% plan to adopt
18% no plan to adopt
16% don’t know what it is

6. Secret 2: Customer Issues Are What’s
Driving the Need for DevOps

7. What Drives the Need for DevOps?
41% Need for simultaneous deployment across different platforms
41% Pressures from the business to release apps more quickly to
meet customer demand
39% Need to Improve the end customer experience.
35% Increased use of mobile devices

8. Secret 3: It’s Not Only About “Saving
Money”

9. Only 16% said “reducing IT cost” was
a key driver for their need for DevOps

10. … and Most Businesses Use External Metrics to Judge Success with DevOps
How Will You Primarily Measure Success of DevOps?
49% External factors: increased revenue, faster time-to-market, improved
competitive positioning, enhanced customer experience
38% Internal factors: lower costs, fewerbugs, improved efficiencies, better
ROI, improved collaboration
13% Haven’t decided yet

11. Secret 4: The Biggest Obstacles Are
People and Process

12. Top Obstacles to Implementing DevOps
35% - Organizational complexity –
people, departments, interdependencies
28% - Roles and responsibilities across dev & ops not
aligned

13. Secret 5: Business Skills Trump
Technical Skills

14. Top 3 Skills Needed for DevOps
47% - Knowledge of business
priorities/strategies/metrics
42% - Knowledge of current business processes
36% - Communications skills

15. Secret 6: IT Automation Is The Most
Important Component of DevOps

16. There are many Paths to DevOps
What are the Most Important Components of DevOps?
IT automation – 52%
Agile Development - 47%
Collaborative teaming between dev & ops – 45%
Service virtualization – 42%
Accelerated applications testing – 32%
Continuous release cycles – 32%
Aligned processes across dev & ops – 25%
Pre-production performance testing – 4%

17. We’ll let you in on the Big Secret …

18. Click to download the “What Smart Businesses Know About DevOps” whitepaper and learn the final secret: where companies using
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