What is Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment (CDE)?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO DevOps focuses on the ‘now’. The entire idea of agility and speed hinges on how fast development and operations teams handle code changes without compromising on reliability, performance, delivery schedule, and stability. To balance this challenging juggling act, the DevOps team needs the CI/CD pipeline, i.e. Continuous Integration […]
Role of DevOps and Continuous Testing in Enterprise Transformation
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Today, businesses from every vertical need to ensure their relevance against the forces of tomorrow. As digitization and consumerization of technology expand in today’s climate, businesses must adjust to a new set of consumer expectations. Agility and service become imperatives instead of choices and enterprise IT groups are […]
Performance Testing and Functional Testing – Simultaneously?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO Can functional and non-functional testing co-exist? Why not, if the goal is to get excellent software at the end of the funnel. Any software development journey is incomplete without the vital phase of testing. In testing, many aspects of the software are checked against a set of criteria […]
Common Challenges Faced by Software Delivery Managers. How To Overcome Them?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO DevOps and digital transformation have brought a paradigm shift in how software is designed, developed, tested, and delivered. They break the latency and fragmentation often seen in traditional approaches like waterfall development. Now everything is collaborative, continuous, and integrated as software takes shape from a basic roadmap to […]
Getting Ready for Continuous Delivery? Avoid These Mistakes
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Enterprises can Mishandle Continuous Delivery in Various Ways. How Can You Avoid them? Scaling Continuous Delivery across the enterprise is critical for a successful DevOps transformation. Aimed at ensuring that you are building functionality that really delivers the expected customer value, continuous delivery reduces cost while improving time-to-market, […]
Migrate to Cloud with Confidence
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Cloud has become a staple delivery model for almost every enterprise’s digital transformation journey in the current age. It empowers businesses with the composite mix of advantages that only a cloud model brings – elasticity, cost reduction, flexibility, scalability, and agility. But the decision to migrate any application […]
Why Zoom, Google Meet, etc. Failed Virtual Training in 2020
By: Karen Spencer, Area Vice President, OrasiLabs Product Manager COVID-19’s social distancing and remote work mandates sped the increase of virtual training and development adoption. With no indication of a return to prior levels of traditional onsite learning, the market has exponentially grown for effective virtual application training tools. eLearning Evolves with the Times Various […]
Top 6 Reasons Test Automation Fails & How to Avoid It?
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing As enterprises enter a new landscape of competitiveness, speed, and customer service, they redefine the way they look at software development and testing. Speed and confidence are now more than nice-to-have factors in software delivery. They are stapled elements if any enterprise wants to survive and win in […]
What is the Need for DevOps in Data Science and its Applications?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO The term business advantage has taken on a new connotation in recent years. Now, the real advantage that any enterprise strives for lies in two areas – both of which contribute to how quickly it can serve its customers delightfully. They are: applications and data-driven insights. If you […]
5 Top Benefits of DevOps for CIOs
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing A lot of traditional IT was monolithic, reactive, and siloed. Applications had a long-drawn cycle. They were made in isolated phases by insular teams. The time between user-requirement gathering to actual roll-out was so stretched out that most requirements had lost their urgency and relevance by the time […]
What are some key Application Security pitfalls? How to avoid them?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO Applications are made to last, to deliver, and also to stay away from the bad guys. Security is an essential part of the success of any application. Application security is where applications are made as secure as possible. This process entails assessing, monitoring, finding, fixing, and enhancing the […]
Application Performance Management: Apps with an Edge
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing You don’t often forget a vehicle once it comes out of the factory-garage. With a new car, you tend to continuously check for any cracks, imperfections, or hiccups, to keep it running the way it’s supposed to. That is the critical role that APM or Application Performance Management […]