How to do a Digital Transformation and Innovate with a Modern Application Platform
8/13/2024 | nmb@konfitech.com
More than every industry, companies, and other types of organizations depend more on applications than ever before. The SAAS model is exploding and expected most of the times by customers as it requires low maintenance. Many companies therefore need to operate externally and internally with a mixture of commercial and custom-made applications to execute on their strategy. Making digital transformation and innovation in general very dependent on the application platform of the business. The innovation and transformation potential are dependent on how well you can then build, deploy, and manage those applications, which is a direct result of increasing speed, agility, and efficiency of the development and operational processes.
The goal for most is to rapidly respond to customers and the market, so that you could rapidly build, deploy, and scale applications in a secure and safe manner. Combining the effectiveness of DevOps and the necessities of security into DevSecOps is a key part of the broader strategy of digital transformation.
This will allow you to make the most out of your application platforms across the hybrid-cloud model, multi-cloud model, and native cloud. Together with powerful technologies like Kubernetes you can easily develop at a pace never seen before. Driving the value of your solutions to improve the business like never before and pushing forward your digital transformation initiatives.
Which is why it is so important to upgrade your application stack, modernize, and keep up with the times. Things will only go faster for those who do, and if you’re lagging you will be left behind in your digital transformation journey.
Applications are the connection point for clients, the business, and partners. Everyone can drive value from utilizing an application that fulfils they’re ever changing and expanding needs. These needs drive change for operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and can create differentiated services that attract new customers. This continuous demand for change also comes with a demand for stability, that what is already there is working well. Requiring uptime in infrastructure and functionality. Making containerization and composable applications a very attractive choice for many, where they keep expanding on their application journey as part of their digital transformation.
To do this many must modernize existing applications or build new ones in the cloud and adapt frameworks such as DevOps and DevSecOps. Which will require adoption of modern application frameworks, adoption of API, microservices, event-driven architecture, etc. By adopting these technologies where required your developers can automate and rapidly deploy code and applications without requiring detailed infrastructure knowledge.
According to a study by RedHat up to 73.5% of organizations will outsource the maintenance of this cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities. Meaning that it probably is not strategic for you to spend time on maintain infrastructure as you focus on digital transformation.
To do this you need to build a consistent foundation for your applications, moving to automated CI/CD pipelines, orchestrating Kubernetes, etc. Integrate security into the developer backlog to streamline your digital transformation initiatives.
Here in Konfitech we help with the journey towards DevOps and DevSecOps, and the management of those solutions. If you are running applications in your business, it is probably not cost effective for you to maintain infrastructure and spend capital trying build automation and DevOps capabilities with orchestration, automation, and event architecture. It requires time, talent, and deep domain knowledge for an effective digital transformation.
In Konfitech we have multiple certified cloud solutions partners in DevOps and DevSecOps operating across multiple clouds that can either bring you to the point where you are ready to adopt these techniques and tools, or manage the techniques, tools, and infrastructure for you as part of your digital transformation strategy. We offer models of team-augmentation to build an internal capability to do this, or fully outsource the service for you.
Most likely your business falls within the 73.5% of businesses who will outsource these services to partners like ours, however, do not do so unless it is not aligned with your application and cloud strategy. Make sure it supports your overall digital transformation efforts.
Are you curious about if this applies to you and your application strategy? Let us know and we can have a chat about the status of your applications, application strategy, DevOps, DevSecOps, digital transformation, and sourcing the right partners in DevOps for you: https://www.konfitech.com/contact-us