Cognizant® Cloud Acceleration Platform Insights is a features rich business intelligence tool which provides various dashboarding and reporting capabilities through correlated data. It also supports advance features like software traceability, compliance reporting, single sign on etc. .
The features that are required to measure the DevOps transformation.
- 30+ Out of the Box Dashboards
- Integration with over 30+ DevOps tools via agents
- Template - driven methodology for data definition
- Dynamic dashboard creation driven by User Interface
- Role - based dashboard definition with ability to aggregate across the enterprise
- End-to-end view as well as maturity view across DevOps vectors build, deploy, verify (functional and non-functional) and measure
- Secure integration with enterprise authentication systems
- Hierarchical as well as roll up aggregated dashboard support
- Dashboard playlists
- Notifications and data archival
- Email dashboards as pdf attachment based on specified schedules
- Download dashboard in pdf format
- Email customized reports with schedules onetime, Daily, Weekly, Sprint wise, monthly, Quarterly and yearly
- Traceability for Audit Reporting
A feature that helps projects in regulated domains like healthcare, life sciences, BFS and Insurance to record the application delivery data as audit trial in a tamper proof and secure way so that it can used for audits. All information from a user story to commit to a deployment are automatically stored inside blockchain (bundled with Cognizant® Cloud Acceleration Platform Insights) so that these can be presented to auditors as a proof for compliance. Please read the section “DevOps Traceability Using Blockchain” for more information.
- Proactive Non-Compliance Reporting
A reporting functionality that can help teams proactively identify non-compliance such as deployments without change requests, commits without user stories, builds without static code analysis, etc. Teams can define queries (Cypher) based on their use case or process let subscribers receive emails along with the entities like commits, stories, deployments that fall under the preview of process non-conformance.
- Single Sign On
A feature that will help you to automatically sign-in to Insights seamlessly alongside your existing enterprise applications.
- AI & ML Capabilities
Scaffolding features that support archival of data for use in machine learning, specialized agents for specific DevOps tools and AI algorithm implementations for capabilities like build success prediction, possible failure steps and possible remediation etc. Please note that AI&ML implementation vary from one scenario to another and these features may need heavy customization during actual implementation.