consider revisiting their architecture by considering serverless compute. Firms should
consider tools that can model scenarios, run cost projections, set more complicated trig-
gers incorporating multiple factors and even anticipate certain situations. Automation
capabilities are advanced enough that once properly configured, these cost-control
solutions can be sustained with minimal ongoing oversight.
Innovation: the Indispensable Element
Occasionally, we see clients who have established their initial cloud implementation(s),
but continue to struggle to leverage the cloud as an innovation platform. Innovation
delivery via the cloud is dependent on holistic maturity across the several domains
required for transformation, and is not just a matter of deploying solutions faster. Orga-
nizations need to commit to a culture of innovation, establishing a strategy across the
transformation domains of DevOps, security, applications and operations.
Take, for example, automated compliance and security. Each is critical for a cloud capa-
bility that enables innovation. Confidence that new deployments are compliant and
secure at the moment of creation allows firms to test hypotheses and measure customer
experience knowing the deployment is continuously checked. Cloud-native architec-
tures leveraging microservices, containers and orchestration provide firms with the flex-
ibility required to test new solutions that impact customers. Combining these capabili-
ties with DevOps allows firms to quickly deploy and retire functions based on the results
of the customer experience.
It is the holistic enablement of the innovation value chain that provides differentiation.
As you move through your journey, are you encountering blockers that prevent innova-
tion in your cloud implementation? Have you completed an assessment across the mul-
tiple domains mentioned above, and created a roadmap to enablement?
True innovation in the cloud represents more than creating resources faster than previ-
ously possible by ordering and provisioning on-premises. Software delivery changes are
achieved through a mature, interconnected automation framework, combined with tight
collaboration with business units, operations, information security and application
development personnel. Enabling changes in the culture and in software delivery pro-
vides the catalyst for innovation. In the next article in this edition of The Doppler Quar-
terly, we explore the concept of the Innovation Enablement Value Chain in more detail.
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