Organizations that have already embraced modern software development and engineering practices understand that they can only keep up with ever increasing demands to deliver by integrating and automating their software build and deployment processes.

Focus across tiers and across groups

The ever increasing digitization of business processes and the associated sensitivity of underlying information have left IT organizations with unprecedented responsibility. Success is no longer a simple matter of keeping the lights on. Rather, IT organizations are now asked to be drivers of value, data integrity and competitive differentiation.

In 2004 IT organizations continued to apply up to 85% of their budget towards keep the lights on activities while 65% of new projects were either delayed, cancelled or exceeded budget. These siloed approaches - characterized by excessive focus on individual groups within the IT organization - have their limitations.

The key is for organizations to adopt a more holistic approach, an approach that takes a top-down, end to end view of the IT lifecycle. Ongoing optimization efforts must be coupled with a new perspective that breaks down the silos on either side of the operations and development divide. Tools, metrics, and processes must be normalized across the organization to ensure that all real and virtual lines of business are equally measured and equally accountable for the success - or failure - of the business. The alternative is a highly disconnected organization with islands of efficiency in a sea of lost opportunity.

The solution

To help customers tackle this complex effort, innoWake provides a set of IT lifecycle solutions - combinations of integrated tools, processes and services - to enable the communication and collaboration of business, development and operations stakeholders. Each solution is specially devised to help teams address a key cross-lifecycle activity that is fundamental to the delivery of timely, cost-effective value to the business.