Small, agile companies tend to lend themselves well to the adoption of DevOps practices as they usually have lightweight governance processes which are easy to automate. However, larger enterprises with deeply rooted governance processes and strict rules can also benefit from DevOps improvements.
23rd January 2017 Sandhata Technologies are proud to introduce the Sandhata DevOps Advisory Service – a unique service approach that aims to support organisations throughout their journey to successful DevOps implementation and management.
In recent years, DevOps has become an established methodology that has helped countless businesses to accelerate their output and improve IT delivery. But while DevOps as a concept has become more commoditized, many organisations now struggle to manage the transformation from start to finish.
The Sandhata DevOps Advisory Service is designed to support organisations throughout their DevOps journey, from assessment to optimisation, understanding the impact of strategic goals of the business. With the help of tailored KPIs, Sandhata provides businesses with greater control of their investments in DevOps.
“What truly sets this service apart,” says Gary Thornhill, General Manager at Sandhata, “is our focus on building genuine partnerships with our clients, helping them to embrace change. We enable teams not only from a technical perspective introducing the tools and the systems into the organisation, but we work alongside them to create the cultural shift. That mindset change is a necessary part of a successful DevOps puzzle, but one that many companies overlook.”
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3rd May 2016 – Sandhata Technologies Ltd. is pleased to announce the official opening of its new Development Centre in India Land Tech Park, Chennai, India.
Speaking from the Chennai office, Gary Thornhill, Sandhata’s General Manager said, “We are pleased to announce our expansion in Chennai, it was a sensible choice for us as we are now closer to our existing and prospective clients in South India. Having offices in Hyderabad & Chennai, we believe will serve much better for our clients and growing business.”
Having worked in the development side of projects for so long, donning a tester’s hat for some projects at my current workplace was a new experience, nevertheless a useful one. It was almost like starting from scratch. I always had this idea that testing was largely a manual process. Yes, I knew there was automation testing and I was aware of tools such as HPQC, QTP and so on. But, having never used them before, I was not sure how they were leveraged to test the multitude of requirements. So, here go a few of my observations when performing a tester role.
Results reporting is one of the key stages in the testing phase where the interested project participants or the stakeholders are presented with information on the test progress. Although many of the test automation tools have inbuilt reporting capability, the information may either be too low-level or technical, or it may not be fully relevant for management. As part of test process improvement, I’m working on a requirement to present the test results in an efficient way, so the management can visualise the current status of testing or the overall status for a test cycle, and make decisions accordingly.
Having worked with some of the popular EAI tools like TIBCO BW, Vitria Businessware and SAP PI, it’s time for me now to familiarize myself with something from the IBM product catalogue as well. IIB – IBM Integration Bus. It is the next product offering from IBM in the ESB range; an extension to Websphere Message Broker and Websphere ESB. Going forward, users of Websphere ESB and Message Broker, would have to migrate to IIB. So, here’s few of my initial thoughts when working with IIB.
Across all application teams, but particularly those who are trying to embrace DevOps principles, dashboard technology has an important role to play. Dashboards are key enablers for collaboration within and across teams, and they are excellent at driving the application team in the right direction. They can be the boost that your team needs to get to the next level in your DevOps journey.
Service virtualization is becoming a must-have technology enablement in the IT transformation programmes of many enterprises. However, service virtualization alone will not yield the desired ROI or measurable benefits unless the investment is extended to support the right level of testing and, especially, test automation.
DevOps: Let the team use virtual services instead of production services, and test the application right away. I am sure you might have heard this “virtual service” term in recent times if you are keeping up with the latest trends in the market. Now what is this virtual service and how is it that important for DevOps?
A key part of your DevOps programme, and instrumental in its success, is how DevOps and your applications are measured. If this measurement is done well, it will provide accurate ROI, help you to manage progress towards your DevOps goals, and be a great help in evangelising DevOps success.