The document discusses the high costs associated with digital projects, particularly within the public sector, highlighting issues such as inefficient infrastructure and siloed processes. It emphasizes the benefits of using the Appvia platform for Kubernetes, which offers operational efficiency, visibility, and cost savings. Key points include the importance of organizational agility and the significant potential to reduce operational costs through better management and use of technology.

1. Why is my spend on digital projects so high?

2. About Appvia
● Kubernetes Masters
Secure and simplified container solutions, created by
Kubernetes experts and contributors
● Platform Software
○ Developer focused - SDLC
○ Organisational best practice
● Support and consultancy
Kubernetes

3. Case Study
● Application Container Platform
○ Appvia Kubernetes
○ 11,000+ Containers
○ 500+ applications
○ 600+ developers
○ 24x7 Support
● Critical National Infrastructure
○ Official
○ Secret
The platform they
provided has proven to
be highly reliable and
regarded well by its
users - application
developer teams.
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4. “Digital Service” Growth
“Siloed Programme Approach”
£38bn£480bn
Public Sector
Revenue
Relying On
Legacy
Cost of current
12 x
Transformation
Programmes
Source: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Digital_Transformation_final_WEB.pdf

5. Project Breakdown
Developers
Operations
Delivery
Manager
User
Research
Product
Manager
Cloud
Open
Source
Commercial
Products
Project X
People Technology
£?
Process

6. Organisation View - Repetition
Developers
Operations
Delivery
Manager
User
Research
Product
Manager
Cloud
Open
Source
Commercial
Products
Developers
Operations
Delivery
Manager
User
Research
Product
Manager
Developers
Operations
Delivery
Manager
User
Research
Product
Manager
Project X Project Y Project Z
Cloud
Open
Source
Commercial
Products
Cloud
Open
Source
Commercial
Products

7. Project Costs - Technology
Source: www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-source-report/2019
More infrastructure software: not business value
47%
Application
53%
Infrastructure
Costs

8. Hosting - inefficient by default
90% Potential Savings
Project Costs - Technology
10% Required
Typical Hosting Costs

9. Project Costs - Siloed Process
Discovery
Beta Alpha
Live
Alpha
Tech debt is inherited early
Beta
£
Costs: expensive people and complex process
£ £
Live

10. Project Costs - Process
Business Value
Adverse Effects on Operations:
● Reactive
● Pressures for Delivery
● Delivery Complexity
● People

11. Typical Project Resource Profile
~40% DevOps (x13)
(13 x £100,000)
~£1,3m
~60%
Developers
(x28 x £80,000)
~£2.3m
Project Costs - People
Source www.macstadium.com/ios-devops-survey
Total £3,600,000 resourcing

12. Alpha
Organisation’s Operational Costs
Live Discovery
Beta
Alpha
£££
Costs apparent with scale

13. Platform Costs across Industry?
Projects
Organisation
£££Infrastructure Teams Do Not Scale

14. A Standard Project
Developers
Operations
Delivery Manager
User Research
Product Manager
Commercial
Products
Cloud
Open Source
Cloud Commodity Control
Developers
Delivery Manager
User Research
Product Manager
Developers
Delivery Manager
User Research
Product Manager
Ops
Developers
Delivery Manager
User Research
Product Manager
Kubernetes
£££
Platform Benefits

15. Operational Challenge
Skill deficit is a key challenge:
8,225 Kubernetes Jobs advertised in the UK
Source:

16. Ask Yourself...
● Who has updated a mobile phone?
● How many people automatically patch
and maintain infrastructure
● Who would like their infrastructure to
be as easy?

17. Appvia Value
● Consume Operations as Commodity
● Gain Organisational Oversight
● Keep Agility for Business Value

18. Appvia Platform - Konduktor
Benefits of Operations as a
Service
● Visibility
○ Projects Performance
○ Costs
● Delegation with Control
○ Security
○ Teams

19. Appvia Platform - Konduktor
Agility for Projects
● Self Service Operations
○ Simplified
○ Secure
○ Patched
● Business Value Focused
● Best Practice

20. Appvia Platform - Service
Service
● By Kubernetes Masters
● 24x7 Support
● Consulting
○ SDLC
○ Microservices
○ Operations
○ Kubernetes

21. Total Project Costs
Source www.macstadium.com/ios-devops-survey
~£25m Saving

22. ● Significant Savings
○ DevOps
○ Hosting
● Best Practice & Oversight
○ Costs
○ Security
○ Performance
Takeaways

23. Questions / Contact
Lewis Marshall - lewis.marshall@appvia.io
github.com/appvia
@appvia_io
@lewismarshall
appvia.io