For a long time, continuously improving business processes was enough to increase the speed of decision-making and action-taking in organizations. Companies relied on statistics that, when combined

with predictive simulation tools, allowed them to anticipate the needs of their customers and prospects, with an acceptable margin of error. But today the situation has changed. The ubiquity of mobile devices has made immediacy the new normal. Now, the challenge for companies is how to manage this need for instantaneousness and the diverse behaviors of their customers. They need to anticipate the full range of possible outcomes with greater agility. Because of the flexibility it promises to enterprises, the cloud has become the go-to agility lever. But also, in a world where technologies evolve in near real time, it important to know how to adapt information systems responsively. This is why we have deployed new work methods such as DevOps (see box below).

More agile How to make decisions and take action faster

Over 30% faster

This is the time saving delivered by DevOps for

certain phases of application lifecycle automation (testing, environment management

and deployment, etc.).

DevOps is a package of technologies and methodologies that brings together the different

teams in charge of conception, development and operations. The objective is to accelerate

application development and updates.

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