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  • CloudBees (Electric Cloud) Flow Scores Highest in All Three Use Cases in Gartner’s 2019 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration

    Gartner’s evaluation of application release orchestration (ARO) products is based on use cases surrounding release orchestration; pipeline and environment management; and deployment automation

    SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced CloudBees (Electric Cloud*) received the highest scores for all three use cases defined in Gartner’s 2019 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration (ARO)1. CloudBees Flow 9.0 (Electric Cloud ElectricFlow) placed highest in each use case for the second straight year, with two of the use case evaluations increasing over the prior-year period.

    Gartner’s process evaluates products on a five-point scale. CloudBees (Electric Cloud) received highest scores from Gartner across all use cases in the 2019 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration (ARO): Release Manager (4.9/5), Application/Product Owner (4.9/5), DevOps/Application Operations Team Member (4.9/5).

    “ARO tools enable DevOps teams to automate application deployments, manage continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines and orchestrate release workflows,” noted Daniel Betts, Chris Saunderson, Christopher Little and Hassan Annaciri in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration. “I&O leaders must assess the capabilities of these tools to improve application delivery cadence and support digital business initiatives.”

    CloudBees Flow is the industry’s first unified Application Resource Orchestration platform built for DevOps at enterprise scale. CloudBees Flow helps drive IT efficiency by automating and orchestrating software releases, pipelines and deployments with the analytics and insight to measure, track and improve results.

    This vision and current product leadership, along with notable enterprise customer successes, makes CloudBees the de facto standard for enterprise ARO. Market leaders choose CloudBees Flow because it provides:

    • A way to implement and share secure, repeatable and adaptable pipelines to deliver mainframe, monolithic and microservices applications
    • Unprecedented, actionable insight into the health and status of enterprise releases, without requiring manual data collection and analysis
    • A solution that will reliably scale as they roll out DevOps processes across their entire organization

    “In today’s competitive business climate, everyone shares a common goal: to deliver better software, faster and more securely. CloudBees is committed to helping our customers have a software delivery management system that helps them connect and measure all end-to-end activities and realize their vision of becoming software-first companies,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder of CloudBees. “Our focus is paying off: CloudBees once again was ranked the highest scores across all use cases in the Gartner’s 2019 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration and positioned as a four-time Leader in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Automation Release Orchestration.”

    Additional Resources

    1Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration, Daniel Betts, Chris Saunderson, et al, 7 October 2019. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration, Daniel Betts, Chris Saunderson, et al., 7 October 2019.

    *CloudBees (Electric Cloud) was previously listed as Electric Cloud because CloudBees acquired Electric Cloud in April 2019.

    Gartner Disclaimer

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About CloudBees

    CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation.

    CloudBees is the CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) powerhouse, built on the commercial success of its products as well as its open source leadership. CloudBees is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X, and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.

    Over 3,500 of the world’s best-known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500 depend on CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom. CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts, helping thousands of companies harness the power of “continuous everything” and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.

    Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, Delta-v Capital, Golub Capital and Unusual Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

  • CloudBees (Electric Cloud) Recognized for Completeness of Vision in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration (ARO)

    For the fourth year in a row, CloudBees (Electric Cloud) named an ARO Magic Quadrant Leader. CloudBees believes CloudBees Flow provides a safe and reliable way to scale software release with unprecedented insight and control

    SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced it has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration for the fourth straight year. Gartner analysts evaluated companies based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. CloudBees (Electric Cloud) was positioned the furthest to the right among seven vendors for its completeness of vision.

    “We believe the placement of CloudBees as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for the fourth year in a row, positioned the furthest to the right for completeness of vision this year, validates our commitment to market-leading excellence in the software delivery space,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees. “CloudBees Flow provides a high level of control and visibility into complex enterprise pipelines, helping our customers eliminate release anxiety across the entire software delivery chain. Combined with our unmatched depth in Jenkins-based CI/CD, CloudBees provides a robust software delivery solution, from code to release. As customers continue to invest in DevOps, we are more focused than ever on helping them make software delivery a true competitive advantage.”

    Scaling Release Activities

    Gartner defines the Application Release Orchestration (ARO) category as having solutions that enable organizations to scale release activities across multiple diverse teams (e.g. DevOps), technologies, development methodologies (e.g. agile), delivery patterns (e.g. continuous), pipelines, processes and toolchains.

    Gartner evaluated vendors on their Completeness of Vision based on the following categories for Market Understanding: deployment automation, pipeline and environment management, release orchestration, scalability and performance, and usability and access. Against these criteria, CloudBees was positioned the farthest right on the axis for Completeness of Vision.

    ARO Market Being Disrupted

    In the 2019 report, Gartner stated that “this research will be the final Magic Quadrant for ARO vendors.”

    “As the ARO market is being heavily disrupted, Gartner believes application release is no longer the correct perspective for understanding and evaluating the vendor landscape. The delineation in functionality between various tools — ARO, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), serverless, platform as a service (PaaS), etc. — is becoming blurred as these markets converge. Therefore, we have decided to provide clients with crisp, actionable guidance for ARO solutions on a case-by-case basis in 2020 and beyond,” the report stated.1

    “We agree that the ARO market is evolving rapidly as part of an overall move by customers to connect all aspects of their software delivery management practices,” Labourey said. “The need for organizations to scale release activities across multiple diverse teams, technologies, processes, stacks and toolchains hasn’t disappeared – it’s just grown bigger. We believe that this convergence must include process, tools and data, which is why we are firm believers in Software Delivery Management.”

    Software Delivery Management

    Current software delivery practices limit organizations’ ability to deliver software faster and more frequently to meet business needs. Organizations’ reliance on siloed tools used by different teams to perform largely manual tasks hampers their efforts to collaborate and share visibility across the delivery spectrum. CloudBees is responding to the challenge by building the cohesive system customers want, without forcing them to walk away from their existing tooling or processes. It will connect product stakeholders and development teams with the rest of the business, enabling full visibility and automation from idea to delivery.

    CloudBees Flow is a key component of the company’s Software Delivery Management strategy – enabling teams to implement fast and adapt easily, with unprecedented insight and control of all types of releases, at any scale.

    Additional Resources

    1Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration, Published: 7 October 2019, ID: G00373921, Analysts: Daniel Betts, Chris Saunderson, Hassan Ennaciri, Christopher Little. CloudBees (Electric Cloud) was previously listed as Electric Cloud since CloudBees announced that it had acquired the company in April 2019.

    Gartner Disclaimer

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About 

    CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product tCloudBeeseams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation.

    CloudBees is the CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) powerhouse, built on the commercial success of its products as well as its open source leadership. CloudBees is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X, and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.

    Over 3,500 of the world’s best-known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500 depend on CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom. CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts, helping thousands of companies harness the power of “continuous everything” and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.

    Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, Delta-v Capital, Golub Capital and Unusual Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

  • Tricentis Scored Highest in Gartner 2018 Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation for Enterprise End-to-End Testing and Progressive Web Apps/Responsive Web/Native App Use Cases

    This recognition follows Tricentis being named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation for the fourth year in a row

    Tricentis announced that Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation recognized Tricentis with the highest product score for the Enterprise End-to-End Testing use case, as well as for the Progressive Web Apps/Responsive Web/Native Apps use case. Tricentis also received the second and fourth highest product scores for Intelligent Testing and Continuous Testing use cases, respectively.

    [Download the Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation report now]

    “We believe that Tricentis’ position in the Critical Capabilities report—paired with our 4th consecutive recognition as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation—highlights why over 1600 enterprise customers have selected Tricentis as their partner for transforming software testing for Agile and DevOps,” stated Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri.

    Tricentis was recently named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation research report for the fourth consecutive year. Tricentis was also positioned furthest to the right on the completeness of vision axis for the second consecutive year. In its explanation of completeness of vision, the report notes, “Leaders having a Completeness of Vision are strong in their ability to reach the market via a compelling message and in delivering a solid solution globally. As enterprises engage in multiyear transformations involving agile, DevOps and bimodal practices, the ability of a vendor to create a vision of test automation that consistently creates value along the way and drives positive change will be crucial. The key messages now are around productivity and the ability to aid in technology and process transformation.”

    For details on Tricentis’ SAP testing and enterprise end-to-end testing functionality, see SAP Test Automation and SAP Testing Resource Center.

    About Tricentis

    With the industry’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, Tricentis is recognized for reinventing software testing for DevOps. Through agile test management and advanced test automation optimized to support 150+ technologies, we provide automated insight into the business risks of your software releases—transforming testing from a roadblock to a catalyst for innovation. The result is accelerated software delivery speed, improved cost efficiency, and reduced business risk.

    Tricentis is the only vendor to achieve “leader” status in all three top analyst reports (i.e., the “Triple Crown.”) This honor is based on our technical leadership, innovation, and a Global 2000 customer base of 1500+ companies, including global enterprises such as Allianz, ANZ Bank, Cisco, Dolby, Experian, First Data, HSBC, Merck, Office Depot, Samsung, Swiss Re, Starbucks, Telstra, UBS, Vodafone, Whole Foods, and WorldPay. Customers rely on Tricentis to achieve and sustain test automation rates of over 90 percent—increasing risk coverage while accelerating testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps.

    Tricentis has a global presence in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Poland, United States and the UK. To learn more, visit https://www.tricentis.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

    Source: Gartner Inc, “Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation,” Joachim Herschmann, Thomas E. Murphy, Jim Scheibmeir, 18 December 2018.

    Gartner Disclaimer

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

     

  • The Top 5 Ways DevOps Fails – and How to Prevent Them

    The Top 5 Ways DevOps Fails – and How to Prevent Them

    The working hypothesis for a Gartner report on how to avoid failure with your DevOps effort is that, unless the trajectory changes, “Through 2023, 90 [percent] of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations.” The reason? You could boil it down to management not fully understanding DevOps tenets and nuances—things such as targeting business value, measuring success, meeting cultural/organizational challenges, fostering collaboration, understanding the inherently iterative process and managing for realistic expectations.

    DevOps is about people from multiple disciplines coming together to solve problems streamline workflows, develop new processes, break down silos to develop business value. “A lot of people fixate on the tools,” said George Spafford, senior director analyst, Gartner and co-author of the report. “They identify best-of-breed, lay out their toolchain and say, ‘Ta-da!’”

    The tools are important, but they are not the difficult part of DevOps. They are not a key obstacle. To succeed with DevOps, you often have to do something much more difficult: Change mindsets. Gartner identified these five top reasons for the failure of DevOps initiatives:

    1. Doing DevOps for DevOps’ Sake

    It’s important for DevOps initiatives to be grounded in generating business value. If the main goal is to achieve DevOps, you won’t be able to demonstrate sufficient value to sustain support. Failure to identify a business goal and focus the effort on attaining that goal can shut down the DevOps initiative  in only a few months. Identify business value by working closely with business stakeholders on a project-by-project basis to identify opportunities or obstacles and define the business value that will be developed. Avoid the temptation to rush DevOps implementation by taking too large a leap. Trust the DevOps process.

    2. Don’t Ignore the Culture

    DevOps can be intimidating in the early stages. Done right, it usually involves organizational change. People need to understand from leadership that this is not optional. They also need to understand what DevOps is and ultimately how it will affect them. Otherwise, what they imagine will tend to be much worse. It’s also of chief importance to communicate the business goals, both for instituting DevOps and the business value that you hope to generate. Senior leaders must recognize that DevOps teams represent “a fundamental shift away from traditional command-and-control hierarchical management models,” according to the report. “To improve agility, decision-making must move to where the information is.” Relaying information up and down the chain of command to make a decision isn’t feasible with DevOps. The teams need to be empowered to make decisions themselves. For that to work, key DevOps team members need to be fully aware of senior management’s strategic priorities.

    DevOps thrives in an open, honest environment where a frank exchange of perspectives is discussed, analyzed constructively by the group leading to decision-making. Many DevOps initiatives fail because they give short shrift to selecting people with the right temperament to help manage this process. Gartner suggests choosing people who you would describe as being team players, trustworthy, motivated, accountable, smart, experienced and effective communicators. Other words that come to mind include responsible, high emotional IQ, fair-minded, open-minded, aboveboard, not prone to casting blame, respectful and collaborative. In the end, for DevOps to work, you need to foster the type of environment people from multiple disciplines, with multiple agendas, can come together in a small team and get things done.

    3. What We Have Here is a Failure to Collaborate

    DevOps should not be limited to just IT and Ops. For it to succeed in generating business value, DevOps teams must work with other groups and stakeholders. This work “requires a systemic perspective and involvement, not uncoordinated silos,” according to the report. That said, while there is no magic number of DevOps team members, some have recommended five to 10 people. When you get into the range of 20 people, you may find that you DevOps effort is less effective. (Aside: It is possible to have more than one DevOps team.)

    In considering collaboration, don’t forget senior management. Look to gain the support of an executive who can help champion the effort. Finally, you know that DevOps is working when DevOps team members are collaboratively compromising deferring to each other’s needs. The trick is to solve multiple problems with every decision.

    4. DevOps is Iterative

    Too many companies get caught up in the notion that they can launch DevOps in a single bound. According to the report, historically, traditional transformation approaches have a high failure rate. “DevOps involves too many variables for this type of approach to be successful in a large IT organization,” Gartner noted. “An incremental, iterative approach lets organizations focus on continual improvements and avoid the risks” of what is often termed the “big bang” approach. DevOps by its very nature is focused on continuous improvement with an iterative process, rolling out smaller improvements more quickly. Any thought of launching it all in one fell swoop misses the point and shows a distinct lack of understanding about the principles of DevOps.

    5. Set Realistic Expectations

    DevOps and DevSecOps are enjoying the huge level of interest and popularity among enterprises. When that happens, the hype tends to overinflate expectations about the outcomes. Gartner advises that you manage expectations by agreeing on objectives and success metrics. Establish your starting point with whatever metric you adopt, then pursue the goal iteratively. According to the report, “DevOps is not a one-time effort; rather, it’s about trying over and over again.”

    — Scot Finnie

  • Let’s Bury Bimodal Thinking in Enterprise IT

    Let’s Bury Bimodal Thinking in Enterprise IT

    We still hear a lot about mode-1 and mode-2 in enterprise IT. Like many other large enterprises, you might have adopted the terminology introduced by Gartner and use it every day to shape the way you deliver and operate technology. However, I have always been uncomfortable with the idea of bimodal, as it ignores architectural reality of tightly coupled systems that we have today and the cultural factors. There is also the cultural dimension that is emerging a lot in the transformations that I help clients with.

    The cultural problem with Gartner’s bimodal IT view is that it relegates legacy systems such as mainframe (Z series) or I-series to mode 1 and discourages the new generation of professionals from working on these platforms. If you are in mode 2, you get access to the latest tools and training opportunities, and if you are not, then you are relegated to the end of the queue!

    What do you think? Is bimodal creating two classes of people? Or am I being too harsh in my judgment?

    In a recent article by BMW CIO Klaus Straub, he went on record and said bimodal IT doesn’t work due to cultural issues. As he said in the article, “Until September of last year, I also had a bimodal world in my head—but then the concept was incomprehensible to me. However, it is not suitable for permanently structuring an IT department.”

    BMW is not alone. Other enterprises are joining the voices, such as Peter Jacobs, the CIO of ING Bank Netherlands, who also has expressed similar views on bi-modal. To quote Jacobs: “I would rather work agile at my core bank system than at the channels.”

    The full interview of Straub is below. Unfortunately, the article is in Dutch, so you will need to translate the article to read it: https://www.cio.de/a/amp/bmw-cio-haelt-bimodal-it-fuer-einen-irrweg,3562374

    A few other relevant and interesting articles are below:

    1. https://www.cio.com/article/3193793/cio-role/in-the-digital-era-cios-not-buying-this-bimodal-crap.html
    2. https://www.cio.com/article/3191810/it-industry/why-bi-modal-it-doesnt-really-work.html

     

    — Aditya Vadaganadam

  • Electric Cloud Scores Highest in Three Out of Three Use Cases in Gartner’s   2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration  

    Critical Capabilities are Release Orchestration, Pipeline and Environment Management, and Deployment Automation and the Use Cases are Release Manager, Application/Product Owner and DevOps/Application Operations Team Member

    SAN JOSE, CA, September 25, 2018 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced it received the highest scores for three out of three use cases as defined in Gartner’s 2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration*.

    Gartner’s process evaluates products on a 5-point scale. Electric Cloud received highest scores from Gartner across all use cases in the 2018 Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration*:  Release Manager (4.9/5), Application/Product Owner (4.88/5), DevOps/Application Operations Team Member (4.84/5).

    Download a complimentary copy of the full report: (http://bit.ly/2OQaKPB)

    “ARO tools provide a combination of deployment automation, pipeline and environment management, and release orchestration capabilities to simultaneously improve the quality, velocity and governance of application releases,” noted Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster and Christopher Little in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration*. “ARO tools enable enterprises to scale release activities across multiple, diverse and multi-generational teams (DevOps, etc.), technologies, development methodologies (e.g., Agile), delivery patterns (continuous, etc.), pipelines, processes and their supporting toolchains.”

    “According to estimates, fewer than 20 percent of global enterprises have today implemented an ARO solution, but I bet they are all feeling pressure to deliver better, more secure software faster,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “Electric Cloud has a deep understanding of the difficulties involved in coordinating and governing complex enterprise releases, and we’re very focused on helping organizations solve that problem. I believe this focus is paying off: Electric Cloud achieved the highest scores across all use cases. And, as a third-time Leader in Gartner’s associated 2018 Magic Quadrant for Automation Release Orchestration, we believe Electric Cloud also stands out with our positioning this year as furthest for completeness of vision this year.”

    This vision and current production leadership, along with our notable large enterprise customer successes, makes Electric Cloud the defacto standard for Enterprise ARO. Market leaders including TIAA, Samsung, Qualcomm, Motorola, Cisco, and GM choose ElectricFlow because it provides:

    • A way to implement and share secure, repeatable and adaptable pipelines to deliver mainframe, monolithic and microservices applications
    • Unprecedented, actionable insight into the health and status of enterprise releases, without requiring manual data collection and analysis
    • A solution that will reliably scale as they roll out DevOps processes across their entire organization

    For more information about ElectricFlow and to download the free Community Edition, please visit: (https://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow).

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    *Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration; Published: 10 September 2018 ID: ID: G00343556; Analyst(s): Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster, Christopher Little

    **Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration; Published: 10 September 2018 ID: ID: G00343560; Analyst(s): Colin Fletcher, Laurie Wurster, Christopher Little

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    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About Electric Cloud, Inc.

    Electric Cloud’s Adaptive Release Orchestration platform helps organizations like E*TRADE, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin confidently release new applications and adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business, with the analytics and insight to measure, track, and improve their results.

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  • Electric Cloud Positioned Furthest for Completeness of Vision in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration

    Company’s ElectricFlow platform provides a safe and reliable way to scale software delivery quickly, in an adaptive manner, and with unprecedented actionable insight

     

    SAN JOSE, CA, September 12, 2018 — Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Orchestration for the third year in a row.* In its Magic Quadrant for ARO research, Gartner analysts evaluated companies for their ‘Ability to Execute’ and ‘Completeness of Vision.’ Electric Cloud was positioned the furthest for its ‘Completeness of Vision.’

    Download the full report: https://bit.ly/2N1nVjT

    “We believe being named a Leader in Gartner’s research for a third year in a row, and for being positioned the furthest for Completeness of Vision, underscores Electric Cloud’s commitment to market-leading innovation,” said Carmine Napolitano, CEO of Electric Cloud. “ElectricFlow provides game-changing control and visibility into complex enterprise pipelines and releases – across any combination of monolithic, mainframe and microservice-based applications. As our customers continue to make big bets on DevOps, we help them safely adapt to, and take advantage of, the massive and continual technological shifts underway. We work hard every day to empower our customers to transform software releases from a chore into a true competitive advantage.”

    From Automation to Orchestration

    Last year’s Magic Quadrant was focused on Application Release Automation. This year, Gartner expanded the scope of focus from Automation to Orchestration.

    Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant and related Critical Capabilities for Application Release Orchestration evaluated vendors based on future market requirements capabilities, including 1) Deployment Automation, 2) Pipeline and Environment Management, 3) Release Orchestration, 4) Scalability and performance, and 5) Usability and access.

    Against these criteria, Electric Cloud was positioned the furthest for its ‘Completeness of Vision.’

    “To stay relevant, organizations are making big bets on DevOps – and not just in one team, but across many teams. As application architectures and toolchains shift, and more frequent development cycles overwhelm infrastructure and operations teams, digital transformations are put at risk,” added Napolitano. “We’re honored to be selected by so many industry leading companies to orchestrate their software delivery pipelines to enable faster, better, and safer software delivery at scale. Our users trust us with their core business – and we’re here to deliver, continuously.”

    Transforming Release from a Chore to a Competitive Advantage

    Today, the pace of software innovation equates to market success, and releasing high-quality software, securely and efficiently, is a critical need for all companies. There are a lot of ways to do ARO, but customers are increasingly choosing ElectricFlow to enable their releases. Electric Cloud is realizing 220 percent year-over-year new business growth with more than 100 percent net customer retention, signaling strong customer satisfaction and expansion.

    One of our recent customers, a Fortune 100 financial services firm, explains how they quickly ramped up their DevOps transformation with ElectricFlow. “We were able to get started and implement several useful pipelines very quickly,” said the DevOps Technical Lead. “We have found it to be quite adaptable, and the pipelines we’ve created are easy to extend, so we’re well positioned to incorporate new architectures, technologies and tools that our developers recommend – without the fear of anything breaking downstream. This ability to continuously adapt gives us an unfair advantage in the market place – an advantage which we will use to serve our end user customers reliably and securely, at any scale.”

    This company, along with many other market leading customers including Edward Jones, TIAA, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Phillip Morris, Terradyne, Cisco, GM, and E*Trade choose ElectricFlow because it uniquely provides:

    • A way to implement and share secure, repeatable and adaptable pipelines that deliver mainframe, monolithic and microservices applications
    • Unprecedented, actionable insight into the health and status of enterprise releases, without requiring manual data collection and analysis
    • A solution that will reliably scale as they roll out DevOps processes across their entire organization

    For more information, please visit: (https://electric-cloud.com/blog/2018/09/electric-cloud-positioned-highest-for-completeness-of-vision-in-gartners-application-release-orchestration-2018-magic-quadrant). To download the free Community Edition of ElectricFlow, visit: (http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow).

     

    *DevOps-Ready Release Management Requires Orchestration, Not Just Automation; Published: 23 August 2018 ID: G00368794; Analyst(s): Colin Fletcher, Christopher Little

    Gartner Disclaimer

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose

    About Electric Cloud, Inc.

    Electric Cloud’s Adaptive Release Orchestration platform helps organizations like E*TRADE, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin confidently release new applications and adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business, with the analytics and insight to measure, track, and improve their results.

     

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  • Research Firms Agree, Cloud Growth Continues to Soar

    Research Firms Agree, Cloud Growth Continues to Soar

    Investment in all the various types of cloud computing has gone gangbusters in recent years, and for good reason: Cloud computing helps to cut cost, shorting time to market, provides unrivaled scale and reliability.

    This will only continue as enterprises continue to divest from on-premises infrastructure over the long term while seeking to scale the tremendous data generated by AI, IoT, machine learning and digital transformation. It looks as though for the few years ahead, it’s nothing but tailwinds for cloud investment and growth.

    According to research firm Gartner Inc., the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market reached $48.2 billion in 2016, growing more rapidly than the firm previously projected—although Gartner didn’t say in the release what its previous revenue prediction had been.

    Currently, Gartner expects the total worldwide public cloud services market to grow 18.5 percent in 2017 to reach $260.2 billion. That’s up considerably from $219.6 billion in 2016.

    According to Gartner, SaaS revenue is expected to grow 21 percent this year to reach $58.6 billion. “The acceleration in SaaS adoption can be explained by providers delivering nearly all application functional extensions and add-ons as a service. This appeals to users because SaaS solutions are engineered to be more purpose-built and are delivering better business outcomes than traditional software is,” Gartner writes.

    The highest-revenue growth will come from cloud system infrastructure-as-a-service, which Gartner says is projected to grow 36.6 percent in 2017 and hit $34.7 billion.

    Cloud Mojo Keeps on Rising

    Cloud is only going to continue to take a greater share of overall spend in the years ahead. According to Sid Nag, research director at Gartner, last year about 17 percent of the total market for infrastructure, middleware, application and business process services shifted to cloud, and by 2021, that will rise to 28 percent.

    Those looking at trends outside of cloud won’t be surprised to see cloud growing so much greater than that of the overall global economy. According to research firm IDC, worldwide information and communications technology (ICT) is set to rise over the next five years, fueled by IoT, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence.

    Total ICT spending on traditional IT, telecom services and new technologies will grow to $5.6 trillion by 2021 from $4.3 trillion in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent in constant currency terms. Annual growth will accelerate through the forecast period, to 6.5 percent in 2021 from 5.5 percent in 2017, as new technologies account for a growing proportion of the overall market, IDC writes.

    Of course, all of this will increase investment in security and, according to a recent report from Markets and Markets, the cloud security marketing, including identity, data leak prevention, intrusion detection/prevention systems, encryption and security information and event management systems. According to Markets and Markets, the cloud security market will grow to $12.73 billion by 2022, up from only $4.09 billion in 2017.

    — George V. Hulme

  • Gartner: Digital Business Driving Spending

    Gartner: Digital Business Driving Spending

    With half the year gone, Gartner just revised its 2017 worldwide IT spending projection up 1 percent to 2.4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but last year’s IT spending growth was effectively flat at 0.3 percent. It isn’t just the uptick in the overall spending level that’s interesting, it’s how Gartner predicts the money is being spent. It sees the move to digital business and the related adoption of new technologies such as internet of things (IoT), blockchain and smart machines as a growth engine that’s creating new potential reasons for spending.

    “Digital business is having a profound effect on the way business is done,” said John-David Lovelock, vice president and analyst at Gartner. “The impact of digital business is giving rise to new categories; for example, the convergence of ‘software plus services plus intellectual property.’ These next-generation offerings are fueled by business and technology platforms that will be the driver for new categories of spending. Industry-specific disruptive technologies include the internet of things in manufacturing, blockchain in financial services (and other industries), and smart machines in retail. The focus is on how technology is disrupting and enabling business.”

    Worldwide, Gartner is forecasting that the enterprise software market will be the highest growth segment of IT spending—7.6 percent growth in 2017 from 5.3 percent in 2016. (Device spending is also up markedly in the report.) Enterprise software will be one of the keys to driving and controlling revenues derived from digital business advances.

    Takeaways for senior IT leaders: Digital disruption is the probable stick slowly driving the adoption of digital business. The carrot is innovation. This is putting it too simply, but it’s true: Disrupt or be disrupted. And just because many of the high-profile digital disruptions have been business-to-consumer, don’t think you’re safe in the business-to-business sector, either. As this plays out, probably over the next five to 10 years, a lot more companies are going to be burned and a lot more companies are going to be made. You can no longer laugh this off as a buzzword.

    It starts with analytics, preferably sifting through meaningful big data. Digital business is rewriting business process and the way data is collected, interpreted, moved and consumed in profound ways. That could make your analytics easier to implement and analyze. But if you don’t have a major business analytics upgrade just rolling out, you’re flying blind.

    Ride the wave, but as you adopt new cloud-based services and enterprises apps, there’s a potential for management complexity to trip you up.

    “With the increased adoption of SaaS-based enterprise applications, there also comes an increase in acceptance of IT operations management tools that are also delivered from the cloud,” said Lovelock. “These cloud-based tools allow infrastructure and operations organizations to more rapidly add functionality and adopt newer technologies to help them manage faster application release cycles. If the I&O (infrastructure and operations) team does not monitor and track the rapidly changing environment, it risks infrastructure and application service degradation, which ultimately impacts the end-user experience and can have financial as well as brand repercussions.”

    — Scot Finnie