Business Situation
This large chemical company wanted to bring more agility and speed to its software development processes. Simple provisioning and quality control tasks took days or even weeks and could only be done manually. Even repetitive tasks or minor deployment updates could take hours or days to implement. These delays prevented employees from effectively implementing the CIO’s initiative to become a cloud-first digital company so it could compete in a quickly changing marketplace.
Solution
Working side-by-side with Avanade DevOps experts, the company launched a pilot project for transforming its global software development culture. Engaging multiple stakeholders, including developers, operations and cybersecurity teams, helped ensure the new solution and DevOps practices would be accepted and adopted.
Results
With modern DevOps best practices available to employees worldwide, the company is driving innovation and achieving a number of benefits:
- Increased agility and scalability
- Increased efficiencies with streamlined processes
- Increased project capacity by 50%
- Reduced time to market from days to minutes with automation and self-service capabilities
- Improved quality of growth-focused apps
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Large chemical company finds formula for innovation at speed
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