Boosting Your Business Effectiveness with DevOps and the Cloud

Now that we have entered another new year, business owners everywhere are looking for ways to prevent making the same mistakes of their previous years, while they simultaneously refine their ongoing strategies to boost their business productivity. Typically, they’ll look to their employees to find gaps in work conduct, bottlenecks that should be resolved, and main customer issues that need to be mended and preferably prevented. In recent years, cloud-based DevOps presented itself as the solution to many of these problems, one that integrates various facets of your business under a single roof in order to make collaboration, product delivery, and your workflow more streamlined. 

In fact, this single agile approach has the potential to completely transform your entire business, not just the development portion of it, or your organizational team. Still not sure how that works? Let’s break it down to a few key benefits DevOps and the cloud bring to your business, so that you can start preparing your organization for the transformation and enable your teams to work better than ever. 

Better productivity with various tools

The process of developing any kind of a product, be it a sophisticated mobile app, a project management tool, or a software solution involving security, consists of many different facets that are linked together. From research, testing, building, all the way to configuration, monitoring, and analysis, it can become incredibly easy for your teams to miss an issue or for some team members to lag behind when they don’t have access to the data they need, or the progress of the project. 

With cloud-based DevOps, your teams can actually utilize all of those tools in a collaborative manner. In turn, this helps them turn the development process into a seamless workflow in which every party is informed of any changes, can contribute effortlessly, and track progress at any time. 

Enhanced collaboration for all your teams

The key benefit that enables all others to set in is this agile system’s collaborative environment. For most companies without DevOps in place, their teams struggle with compartmentalization within the organization. They work separately, get together sporadically, and rarely have any insight into the progress of the project. To empower your teams to work together as one unit, you can implement DevOps as a service within your organization and utilize a number of included tools to simplify your processes and enhance collaboration. 

The cloud-based system gives access to your entire business and all of its members, so that everyone can use the existing data and contribute with their own to expand your knowledge base. The visibility of the projects and access to different tools help your teams work together throughout every stage, and continuously contribute to each segment of project development. Add to that, the usage of DevOps allows you to automate certain processes so as to free up your resources and allocate work more effectively. 

Refining customer satisfaction through better end product

Much like any other business would say, you exist to resolve an issue for your customers and to make their lives a little better, more convenient, or simpler. Whatever the product you’re offering may be, they need something that will not come with a complicated interface or unintuitive features. As these “glitches” are settled much more quickly with DevOps and thanks to the cloud’s capacity to allow access across your entire organization, your customers get a product they’ll be far happier with immediately.

Even if you experience a deployment failure, which happens less frequently with DevOps as your go-to internal structure, the recovery time for your development teams will be much faster, once again boosting customer satisfaction. Someone spotted an error in the code? Your teams will be on it much sooner and provide a resolution that all customers will enjoy.

Faster deployment with fewer issues

In the world of business, speed is rarely associated with quality, especially when customers feel the job is done in a haste. DevOps is perhaps one of the fastest structures any business can implement, but one that doesn’t restrict your end goal’s quality. It’s precisely because your people are enabled to work faster, with fewer setbacks and delays, that they can come up with products and software solutions that fit all the essential quality criteria. 

With more people actively participating in the project as it unravels, more eyes are able to see more issues, prevent them during the development stage, refine your features during the testing phase, and monitor the entire setup during the deployment stage. 

For some businesses, the main fear of choosing a faster workflow includes losing the quality of the end product. With DevOps and the cloud, your teams get all the speed they need without depriving their work or the end solution of the quality your brand promises. In fact, the quality of their work and your entire organizational structure can only increase as the result of implementing DevOps and the cloud. Make sure to consider the option for your business, too, and allow your brand to grow.