Whitepapers
Continuous Learning is one of DevOn’s core values. Our national and international experts gain new experiences everyday in the field, at different organizations. We want to share these experiences and our knowledge with you. Below you find whitepapers from the different disciplines DevOn is engaged in and in which we develop ourselves constantly.
Observability At Enterprise Scale: Beyond Monitoring
This whitepaper aims to provide you with a deep understanding of Observability and how it can provide insights into the internal health of distributed systems at Enterprise scale. Implementing Observability leads to higher business value, enhanced stability and reliability of services. Observability is not just for Ops but for anyone who needs visibility into how their services are performing in Production.
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Cybersecurity
The rapid digitization of various sectors has led to an exponential rise in cyber threats, compelling organizations to adopt innovative approaches to cybersecurity. This paper explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a potent tool in fortifying cybersecurity defenses in areas such as threat detection and prevention, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.
Using Compliance Automation to Accelerate DevOps Transformation
At DevOn, we believe in propelling organizations towards high-performance DevOps through our Enterprise DevOps Steppingstones model. This model encompasses the organization’s approach to transformation, the People & Process aspect, and nine crucial technology accelerators. Among these accelerators, Compliance Automation plays a pivotal role in ensuring security, adherence to regulatory requirements, and efficient validation processes.
Unlocking Inclusivity: Revamping Web Application Accessibility and Usability
The rise in Internet access over the past decade highlights the importance of Internet access for people with disabilities. This paper examines the current state of accessibility, the challenges organizations face in its adoption, and solutions to these issues. As of 2024 January, 66.2% of word’s population are on-line, with many countries nearing 100% Internet penetration. This as it may, a large portion of the websites are completely or partially in-accessible to people with disabilities.
AI Enhanced Productivity in the world of Enterprise Software Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer in various industries, and software development is no exception. AI productivity in software development refers to using AI technologies and techniques to enhance the software development life cycle’s efficiency, quality, and speed. By leveraging AI-powered tools and algorithms, developers can automate repetitive tasks, generate code, detect bugs, and optimize processes, leading to significant productivity gains.
Enterprise DevOps Steppingstones: A Quick Guide
DevOn brings over 15 years of experience in DevOps transformation, encompassing tools, technology, practices, and cultural adoption to achieve high-performance. In this whitepaper, we provide insights into our experiences with Agile and DevOps transformations, recognizing their interconnectedness. Agile methodologies empower organizations to plan, organize, and collaborate effectively, with the Agile Manifesto highlighting the importance of technical excellence for agility.
Unlocking New Frontiers – Exploring the Possibilities of GPT for Software Products
This whitepaper aims to empower product owners with a comprehensive understanding of GPT and how it can be seamlessly integrated into their software systems. By delving into the inner workings of GPT and highlighting its benefits, product owners will be equipped to make informed decisions about the potential of GPT integration for their software projects. With a focus on overcoming the challenges associated with GPT integration, this whitepaper offers insightful recommendations and actionable steps for product owners. Ultimately, this resource serves as a roadmap for unlocking the full potential of GPT and creating innovative solutions that drive user engagement and satisfaction.
Distributed High Performance Teams
We all know stories of offshoring and outsourcing experiences failing dramatically. Or maybe you are one of the lucky few who has solely positive experiences. Listening to these stories of misunderstandings, poor quality and deadlines not being met, might give the feeling that leading a distributed team is setting yourself up for a waste of time, money, and energy. However, the demand for qualified software engineers grows due to an increasing dependency on software and a lack of availability of them in the Netherlands and many other Western countries.
7 ways to accelerate high-performance culture in remote software delivery teams
High-performance culture drives success in remote software delivery teams. By clearly understanding what high performance looks like, investing in the tools and processes, encouraging and rewarding high-performance behaviors, and celebrating success and learning from failure, remote teams can create an environment where their performance can reach higher levels. Following the seven steps outlined in this article can create an organizational culture that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Data Platform Modernization
Data Platform Modernization can help businesses unlock the full potential of their data, enabling better decision-making, improving operational efficiency, and driving business growth. By leveraging modern data platform technologies, organizations can stay competitive in today’s digital landscape and gain a strategic advantage over their competitors.
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365: Unlocking the Power of Automation, Integration, and Analytics.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a powerful enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that allows businesses to streamline and automate their operations, improve decision-making, and foster growth.
Accelerate Digital Transformation in 2023
Digital transformation trends go hand in hand with Cloud, DevOps, and other technology movements. They overlap with each other very often. For sure extremely popular trends like AI adoption, continuing the cloud migration, and Automation of everything, are extremely important.
Continuous Application Modernization (English)
Legacy enterprise applications are often seen as a problem and subjected to large-scale rip-and-replace or rewrite efforts. When this modernization of complex, aging applications happens, it focuses on the oldest technology and platforms rather than the most valuable capabilities, often leaving many organizations with scaling challenges and restriction best value of their applications’ modernization.
Scaling DevOps in an Enterprise (English)
DevOps has revolutionized the way organizations manage software delivery. As every business is becoming an IT business, Software Delivery and Operational (SDO) Performance (Forsgren N. , 2019) plays a vital role in deploying changes, defect fixes, or configuration faster by removing waste in the delivery process. As per DORA research SDO performance positively impacts organizational performance. The Outcomes of software delivery and operational performance are measured not just by the speed of delivery but also by the software’s stability.
High Performance Teams: A Practical Guide For It-leaders (English)
We are living in a world that is constantly changing. Whether it’s our private or professional life, every day we feel the impact of the internet and the move towards automation. Software has become such an integral part of any product that organizations have no other choice but to transform themselves into software companies. And this is a trend that shows no sign of slowing down any time soon.
Bottom up test automation (English)
Agile methods are broadly introduced in organizations nowadays. In the first wave this normally means: new ways of working; e.g. using Scrum or Kanban. In the second wave, however, most efforts are invested in automation. This automation, or ‘Continuous Delivery’,…
Continuous Delivery in 90 days (English)
The world is changing faster than at any time in human history. Companies like Apple and Google have set high quality standards for software that customers expect of all the software they use. To keep up with these changes…
Great Global Teams (English)
We all know stories of offshoring and outsourcing experiences failing dramatically. Or maybe you are one of the lucky few who has solely positive experiences. Listening to these stories of misunderstandings, poor quality and deadlines…
