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REP SPOTLIGHT: Daysha DevOps Solutions

DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

Daysha DevOps Solutions: Daysha DevOps Solutions is a leading IT services and solutions company focused on helping companies to deliver their IT projects, transform their capabilities and ultimately to provide value to their customers and stakeholders. Our goal is to help organizations benefit from disruptive technologies, such as cloud computing, Lean/Agile software development and DevOps. We work across a range of industries including financial services, government, aerospace and high-tech.

Daysha DevOps Solutions has partnered with the best-in-class product vendors to help organizations improve their ability to deliver software quicker, more frequently, with higher quality and less risk. Our DevOps solutions address all stages from project planning right through to deployment.

DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

Daysha DevOps Solutions: Daysha bring proven expertise and consults across the wide domain of DevOps. Partnering with vendors such as Atlassian, App Dynamics, Chef and Zephyr, we offer expertise, training and tooling to support all aspects of the DevOps journey.

Our IT Project Services team consists of experienced IT consultants including project managers, technical experts and business analysts. These can be deployed to help augment your existing IT teams or to provide specific project help, such as requirements gathering, gap analysis and process improvement.

DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

Daysha DevOps Solutions: The interest in DevOps is growing, though to be honest, a lot of organizations are wary of it. That said, the same organizations are heavily rooted in traditional waterfall environments. There is a recognition that DevOps is the way forward but also a realization that cultures need to change first.

DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream?

Daysha DevOps Solutions: Primarily by delivering value earlier and increasing the visibility of the IT contribution to the business stream.

DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

Daysha DevOps Solutions: How business can get more value from IT. In other words, turning an IT department into a revenue-generating tool rather than a cost.

DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps Training?

Daysha DevOps Solutions: It is the first step, and a certified first step, on the road to improving the value of IT functionality.

August 23, 2016
REP SPOTLIGHT: Glenfis AG
1. Tell us a little about your organization: Based in Zurich, we offer consulting and training services since almost 20 years. We see ourselves as an independent enabler for the digital transformation, helping our customers getting fit for the digital age. To this end, we use the ‘Glenfis Principle’ – a holistic approach that, alongside theoretical knowledge, attaches particular importance to the mediation of practical skills (competence), which can be used to successfully and lastingly deploy this knowledge in the company or organisation (Implementation).
2. What other topics do you teach or consult on? Topics include:
  – Cloud & Sourcing
  – Lean, Agile & DevOps
  – Value Chain Service Models
  – Training and Awareness (Cloud, ISO, ITIL, Cobit, Security, Agile, DevOps)
  – Security & Cyber Resilience
  – Change Enablement
3. What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region? As everywhere the interest of DevOps is rapidly growing, in Switzerland this in not different. For many it’s really to understand in a first step what DevOps is about and why it is relevant for them. In Switzerland we deal a lot with financial institutes with a high level of legacy and regulations, the question is often how to apply DevOps practices in such an environment.
4. How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream? DevOps is all about getting faster and better and this is how it positively influences the value stream. And DevOps does it in a holistic way by looking at the value stream end-to-end, from idealization to $$$.
5. What topic area in DevOps excites you the most? Dev’s and Ops’ finally talking to each other!
6. Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps Training? Before starting any change initiative, it is paramount that everybody gets a common understanding. This is especially true for DevOps, as it includes a wide range of Agile, Lean and ITSM practices. A training or special awareness sessions definitely facilitates this.
August 10, 2016
REP SPOTLIGHT: Xellentro Consulting Services

DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

Xellentro: Xellentro Consulting Services LLP is an emerging global provider of project, program and portfolio management, IT service management consulting and training services. Established in 2012, with headquarters in Bangalore, India, Xellentro works closely with its clients in tackling their most difficult organizational development challenges. Xellentro is a specialist organization that works with its clients to identify improvement areas and uses experienced consultants to enhance their business and development processes.

While the realm of management consulting is vast and a number of firms provide a range of advisory services—starting from niche areas to general management domains—what differentiates us is our practitioner’s approach where we don’t limit ourselves only to advisory and rather prefer to stay on till envisaged benefits are realized and final outcomes are delivered. We bring in huge experience across industry verticals.

DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

Xellentro: ITIL Foundation, Intermediate, Practitioner, Expert, Scrum Master and Product Owner, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, PMP, Lean Six Sigma

DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

Xellentro: There is interest mainly from corporates.

DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’s value stream?

Xellentro: This will be a good extension to the ITSM and with Agile being used everywhere, DevOps will have a great value.

DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

Xellentro: The concept of having both Development and Operations working together is very important to finally deliver value to business.

DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps training?

Xellentro: To really understand the culture change and not focus on only the tools/automation part of it.

August 10, 2016
REP SPOTLIGHT: Soft2Solve

DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization,

Soft2Solve: We work with our customers in order to help them to enhance IT performance, saving cost, and training on best methods, process and practices, selecting at the same time the best solutions for Spanish Speaker Customers.

DevOps Institute: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

Soft2Solve: Cost savings in some specific areas as printing, energy.

DevOps Institute: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

Soft2Solve: The interest is initial. Most of customer are aware of DevOps initiatives, but they are still learning and looking how movement evolves and how they can set up the practices on their companies. Some of them already started with agile methodologies in development.

In the other side, most of them already have ITSM practices implemented, based mainly in ITIL.

DevOps Institute: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream?

Soft2Solve: First, aligning IT with the business requirements in terms of speed, flexibility and agility. Then it contributes to analyze the bad processes in place and getting high cost savings when implementing DevOps practices. It also enhances the internal relationships between IT departments, as usually there is a big fight between them. Also, that impact on quality and speed to answer the business.

DevOps Institute: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

Soft2Solve: It is an IT answer to the business requirements to follow the business needs; meanwhile, being more productive and less expensive. In other areas, the automatization is a base for DevOps.

DevOps Institute: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps Training?

Soft2Solve: Although sometimes the organizations do not know, any new change—especially culture changes—need internal sponsors as much as possible in the organizations. These people have to be trained by third-party independent people outside their organizations that are aseptic and not influenced from the internal existing culture and way of doing. These people will be the people that will support the change and the IT alignment with the business organization and will answer quickly to business requirements.

July 12, 2016