Introduction to Insights

With increase in DevOps adoption by Enterprises, there has been influx in tools and processes. However, most of the tools work in silos, moreover the processes are not standardized. In order to continuously improve DevOps adoption that is at various maturity levels, Enterprise IT leaders utilize various methods to identify and remediate bottlenecks in the delivery pipelines and measure tool chain effectiveness.

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Key to Successful DevOps Journey

In order to be successful in DevOps Transformation - it is essential that you are able to answer the following questions and take corrective actions on the same.

What are the process bottlenecks?
What is the weakest link in the release cycle?
How can the effectiveness of tool chain be measured?
What is ROI on IT investment

This has been echoed by Industry Leaders that a single source of truth for measurement is a must have. Following are some of the quotes from some of the Industry Leading Research Analysts.

	A single source of truth is a must have habit
	... providing dashboard access to both technology & business teams
	Justify IT Ops' spending with a business value dashboard

By and large, the conventional methods are manual, cumbersome and error-prone, while the analytics-based solutions available in the market have limited integration capabilities with other tools. Moreover for integrations and customization's, these solutions need extensive coding from back-end. In addition, these tools have limited capability to identify the weakest link in DevOps pipeline and do not provide insights on business impact of DevOps, such asReturn on Investment (ROI) and cost-benefits. To sum up, the available DevOps analytics solutions lack the flexibility or intelligent decision support for an enterprise.

What is Insights?

Cognizant® Cloud Acceleration Platform Insights interacts in real-time with various tools that work in silos, identifies bottlenecks and provides enterprise IT leaders the capability to measure ROI for DevOps implementations. In turn, enterprises can continuously improve DevOps adoption by bench-marking the existing maturity levels and tool chain effectiveness. Cognizant® Cloud Acceleration Platform Insights is compatible with any tool which is REST API compliant. Some of the top benefits are mentioned in the below table.

Measure technical and business indices real-time, for informed business decisions

Reduce cost of DevOps adoption by predicting bottlenecks of CD

Use with ease, the customized User Interface for Developers and Decision makers

Insights product details

Insights Features Explained

Below are the highlight features and capabilities of Insights.

Harness insights from existing toolset	Intuitive UI and easy user customization	Easy Management of DevOps Data	DevOps analytics delivered with flexibility
Any-to-any correlation: Readily integrate with the top names in DevOps tool chain Integrate DevOps tools both offline & online Plug n Play with Enterprise Authentication & Authorization Mechanism. Ability to calculate the impact of different toolsets when included in delivery pipeline	Pre configured out-of-the-box dashboards Highly customizable interface Create panels & dashboards on the fly Flexible standards for ready-made dashboards integration Create custom plugins Extensive documentation for quick & easy configuration Easy setup – one click installation	Clear Visualization of stored DevOps data for creation of Dashboards Ability to tag Data based on Product/Project to report specific metrics Ability to archive data based on defined time period Ability to define data collection without any code changes	Identify bottlenecks in Continuous Delivery Pipeline by smart correlations Make informed Data driven decisions Increase team productivity by mitigating pain points Analyze team progress by measuring maturity in adopting best practices Analyze Time-to-market & Business ROI for better customer facing decisions

Insights User Roles & their functionalities

The below table explains the various User Roles and their individual functionalities in Insights.

For Admin and Power Users	For Users and Editors
Configure Agents for Collecting Data from DevOps tools Create and Modify Access Groups and add Users Archive the additional data Monitor the status of the Various Components in Insights Get real time notifications by integrating with Communication Channels	Create Dashboards and Panels for measuring KPI Create and Modify Access Groups and add Users Create Playlists to display Dashboards in Round Robin Measure the overall Progress of DevOps Maturity Life of a Code - Know where your code is Search and Download Reports for Auditing

For more information, please browse through the various help sections.

Insights Success Stories

Customer 1 - Metrics creation time was brought down from maximum of 8-12 Weeks to 1 Week.

What it means to clients in terms of Process/Delivery Improvement ?

Faster turn around time in terms of Decision making.
Transparency and faster reporting of DevOps and SDLC related metrics

Customer 2 – After Insights Implementation initial savings of around 236 Hours/Month in terms of metrics creation and this is likely to increase with more teams adopting Insights.

What it means to clients in terms of Process/Delivery Improvement ?

Single application for all DevOps related metrics. No tool specific screens or access levels needed
Easy to create new metrics/KPI’s with flexibility of choosing time ranges as needed

For more information on the above mentioned Success Stories and to request for a Brochure please write to us @ DevOpsPlatformSupport.

Interested to get started - Please follow the Installation instructions and start measuring the DevOps Journey.

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