Digital Transformation is a revolutionary change in any industry or business which transforms it or creates a new type of industry completely. Digital disruption refers to the impact of new digital technologies and business models on existing goods, services, systems, and structures.
Modern development teams require agile, flexible environments to be able to deliver quick change reliably and enable business competitiveness. But the reality is that fixed, shared mainframe environments cause environment bottlenecks that hinder projects, slow time to market, and result in quality issues and spiralling costs.
The shortage of mainframe test environments is a big blocker to any project across the enterprise which relies on mainframe. Many projects involve a change only in the “front end” but depend on testing the “back end” (i.e. mainframe) even when it is not changing, and suffer from lack of mainframe test environments.
We are very excited to introduce the Sandhata PopUp MainframeTM – a brand new offering which finally removes the bottleneck of mainframe test environments by making mainframe self-service a reality.
Mainframe environments are expensive to buy and time-consuming to build and maintain. This leads to a shortage of mainframe test environments, project conflicts and slow production releases and time-to-market.
Are your projects failing to deliver the value you expected?
Are you unable to release changes as fast as you would like?
Are your teams stuck behind heavyweight processes slowing them down?
Is change expensive due to clunky, inefficient change management?
Our experience with a wide variety of clients has shown us that a heavyweight, cumbersome change management is one of the biggest blockers to achieving your DevOps goals and delivering change at the speed you need.
The DevOps, Integration and IT transformation specialist, Sandhata is delighted to announce its joint entry with RBS won ‘Best Overall Testing Project – Finance’ at The European Software Testing Awards 2018.
Now in its sixth year, The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) celebrates companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements in the software testing and quality assurance market.
Sandhata, in partnership with Royal Bank of Scotland, has been recognised by TESTA for its innovative testing project ‘Accelerating Mainframe Change’ delivered by the RBS engineering team and Sandhata.
DevOps is best suited to digital start-ups with minimal regulation and few restrictions, right?
Initially the DevOps movement stemmed from the agile, innovative, born-on-the-web companies who were able to change their way of working quickly. However, the principles and practices are completely transferrable to all organisation types. This includes those at the other end of the spectrum – where processes are very tightly controlled and regulation dictates a significant part of the business investment.
Technical debt is the enemy of fast change – and of DevOps. It sometimes hides under the covers while new features are being delivered but, much like financial debt, it will never go away unless it is addressed directly.
At some point your technical debt will reach critical mass. This is when it starts to hinder every attempt to change, while forcing you to spend more time fire-fighting and managing the debt rather than delivering new features for the customer. This growing technical debt mountain will seriously affect your business ability.
We’ve all heard the cliché: Agile teams are self-organised and self-managed.
However, if it’s that simple, why are organisations not consistently churning out self-managed teams delivering solutions in a smooth manner? In reality, there are plenty of dynamics involved in enabling agile teams, and there are multiple factors that play a big part in nurturing self-managed teams.
We recently announced the arrival of our Live DevOps Innovation Platform built in-house here at Sandhata. I wanted to share some of the tools we have used for it so far, as well as my personal experiences on this platform, as it has been very interesting and a big learning experience for me.
As a key strategic partner to Royal Bank of Scotland, Sandhata have been invited to play an instrumental part at this year’s RBS TechStock in Gurgaon, India.