Good solutions solve real business problems. Today, IT organizations face many challenges with respect to application development, cost containment, and adding greater value to their company.
Development methodologies like Agile and Lean Startup are really picking up steam across companies worldwide as they attempt to streamline application development. The ability to keep teams actively engaged in the development process, combined with the continuous integration and rapid release approaches, have helped justify these investments for over 10 years.
“Getting more timely quality code translates to earlier releases with less resource costs.”
Market Trends Impacting IT and Development Organizations
The Pressure for IT to Impact the “Bottom Line”
Recent Gartner reports discuss the trend for CIOs to “Re-Image IT”. Restated, they must reduce their overall costs while also adding quantifiable improvements to the company’s bottom Line.
Companies need to focus on improvement in these areas to help meet the demands of management:
- Bring New Applications to Market Quicker by leveraging Agile (ALM) and other similar development tools.
- Look to leverage cloud technologies as alternatives to expensive in-house infrastructures to reduce costs.
- Exploit the growing use of open-source software to reduce the costs of proprietary investments that may not meet the needs of developers.
The ToolsCloud solution attacks all these challenges by giving developmental teams the ability to leverage “state of the art” development lifecycle applications in an environment that they “physically” don’t have to manage, deploy, or support.
Now the developers can focus on what they do best, develop quality software instead of managing a development platform and/or infrastructure.