Is Your MFT Ready for Digital?

“If you went to bed last night as

an industrial company,

you’re going to wake up this morning as

a software and analytics company”

GE CEO Jeff Immelt told his troops

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Software is the key enabler for our business

64%

Software provides significant support for our business 32%

Software’s role is primarily the automation of manual tasks 4%

it plays a limited role in competitive advantage, and we focus on optimizing IT cost

it makes business processes run more smoothly and enables key areas, but is not the foundation of the business

business success depends on having high-quality applications that enable modern business models

Base: 200 IT decision-makers at North American and European companies with visibility into or responsibility for their organization’s application delivery pipeline

Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HP, April 2015

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“The increased use and visibility of software outside of the four walls of the enterprise will require firms to fundamentally rethink how they develop and manage their digital assets. This is not your father’s IT with a release every three years.” Forrester Research Inc., Software Must Enrich Your Brand, February, 2014:

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“The increased use and visibility of software outside of the four walls of the enterprise will require firms to fundamentally rethink how they develop and manage their digital assets. This is not your father’s IT with a release every three years.” Forrester Research Inc., Software Must Enrich Your Brand, February, 2014:

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Development QA Ops

Solving a bug here costs:

Solving a bug here costs:

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Development QA Ops

Go West young man

Business is under pressure and puts the pressure on me

I need to develop faster, to run faster cycles

I use the latest technologies.

IT Ops is between me and my success

Release… Release, …

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Changes mean risks

It may stop the business

My job is to make sure it runs

not to adapt/adopt new things

I am not paid to learn new things

Developers are putting my career in danger

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Rare releaseHigh effort - High risk

• Dev blame Ops and vice –versa• Late discovery of code performance issues• Failure found eventually by customers• Shadow IT is growing

• Late response to business • Hinder to Innovation • Big bang effects• Poor quality

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DevOps is about breaking down the Development & Operations Siloand getting both focused on the business goals of software

• every 11.6s• 23,000 deployments a day• 75% fewer outages since 2006 • 90% fewer outage minutes• 0.001% deployments cause a problem

John Jenkins @Velocity 2011

Frequent releasesReduced effortLess risk

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Development QA Ops

Automate

Collaborate

Manage risks

Embrace changes

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DevOpsis about

PPT

People

Process

Technology

Change culture, organizations and measurement To create effective collaboration

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Go Agile Set up new working practices and business processes Adopt engineering best practices

Automate – Automate – AutomateLeverage platformsEase development

• As the business models of retailers, financial services companies and firms in other industries become more dependent on digital technologies, they will adopt DevOps

• It’s going to be beneficial to have operations folks working more closely with product development to respond to what customers want and will buy

• To promote DevOps, CIOs must change how they assess and reward software developers and operations staff

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Laurie Wurster, a research director at Gartner in 2015

• When dealing with legacy applications, things are not so clear

• Some pieces are not entering the DevOps loop and create grey areas

• Bringing back again:– Surprises (Bad)

– Unexpected errors

– Business disruptions

– Extra costs and delay

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Business critical processes

involve file transfersOvum

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FILE TRANSFER

FAILURE

DANGER More than 80% of File Transfer failures follow an application change

Most files transfers are inconsequential

Most files transfers are inconsequential

some are absolutely mission critical

Most files transfers are inconsequential

some are absolutely mission critical

some represent millions

Most files transfers are inconsequential

some are absolutely mission critical

some represent millions

some are extremely sensitive

Can you tell the difference?

Most files transfers are inconsequential

some are absolutely mission critical

some represent millions

some are extremely sensitive

What?

Who?

How?

An exchange of information in support of a business process

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Central Governance

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Central Governance

DevOps Tools

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Leverage existing MFT

Is your mft:ready for DevOps?

Digital Business Enablement

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Think ‘Consumer Experience’

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If you take anything away from the previous paragraph, it should be this: it’s all about you. Not as a CIO or

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The greatest disruption in business as usual in the age of digital is that someone else is now calling

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But this time, it’s dif erent.

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