Dynatrace’s Global CIO Report 2018 reveals rapid innovation putting customer experience at risk

Dynatrace has announced the findings of an independent global survey of 800 CIOs in large enterprises with over 1,000 employees. The study reveals 73% of organizations say the need for speed in digital innovation is putting the customer experience at risk. On average, organizations release new software updates three times per working hour, as they push to keep up with competitive pressures and soaring consumer expectation.

Praveen Mahajan, Regional Director – India, Dynatrace, says, "With technological advancements happening on rapid pace, it's difficult for organizations to choose the best solution/software aligned with latest technology. Companies across the globe look for the solutions where they need not to compromise between faster innovation and the intelligence. India is no different! Today, Indian CIOs are adopting solutions which assure that the addition of a new feature/ update won't compromise with the user’s experience."

The CIO report looks at the pains organizations face as they strive for new heights of agility and speed. The key findings include:

CIOs struggle in Cloud

* Ensuring software performance isn't negatively impacted (67%)

* Identifying if moving an application to the cloud has delivered the desired benefits (57%)

* Understanding if an application is well-suited to the cloud (55%)

* Re-architecting legacy applications for the cloud (51%)

* Ensuring the user-experience isn't impacted during the migration process (48%)

Lack of collaboration and visibility

* 78% of CIOs said their organization has experienced IT project delays that could have been prevented if development and operations teams were able to easily collaborate

* CIOs said digital transformation initiatives were most frequently derailed by:

* IT outages caused by external issues (55%)

* IT outages caused by internal changes (50%)

* Rectifying bad code that has been pushed through the pipeline (45%)

Organizations challenges to DevOps adoption

* 68% of organizations have implemented or are exploring the possibilities of a DevOps culture to improve collaboration and drive faster innovation

* 74% of CIOs said that DevOps efforts are often being undermined by the absence of shared data and tools, which makes it difficult for IT teams to obtain a single view of “the truth”

* 56% of CIOs identified differences in priorities between departmental siloes as an additional barrier to DevOps adoption

Andreas Grabner, DevOps activist, Dynatrace, says, "The challenge for all organizations is to get a holistic view of the DevOps pipeline – from idea to code to experience. As DevOps has matured, enterprises are looking to automate and integrate their software development to release faster, with higher quality, and with less manual effort. It's exciting to see AI play an even greater role in reducing manual tasks, so we can do what we love – write better software, deploy with speed, and deliver perfect software experiences."

How CIOs can avoid innovation delays?

Enable agility with right infrastructure

Cloud is the best way to support the process of delivering an increased volume of software updates at a faster pace. Companies must start migrating their services and infrastructure to hybrid, multi-cloud environments gradually. They can increase agility by reengineering applications into dynamic micro services and containers, to achieve even greater speed and create more flexibility to innovate.

Close Collaboration is the key

The process of driving rapid innovation demands close collaboration between the development and operations teams within IT. Companies need to implement DevOps to unify the software development (Dev) and software operations (Ops) teams. DevOps adoption will help businesses in facilitating speedy innovation without putting the user experience at risk. IT teams must, therefore, combine the agile infrastructure provided by hybrid, multi-cloud environments, with the collaborative culture championed by DevOps.