There was a time in pre-digital era when a New business idea would disrupt the business landscape. Take example of the restaurant industry that we all are familiar with. Let's assume that couple of decades back the 1st restaurant, with a seating capacity of 10 people decided that it could grow its business if it started taking home delivery orders on phone. The restaurant increased its business from 10 orders/hour to 30 orders/hour - mind you, there is no software used, just a great business idea implemented using the telephone. Recently another disruptive idea that leverages software changed the food business landscape. I am talking about Cloud Kitchen that has disrupted the food business over the last 4 years. The same restaurants that had seating capacity of 10 people could now outsource its kitchen to 10 cloud kitchens across the city and they started servicing 300 orders every hour. If you do not know what is Cloud Kitchen do read about it it most interesting software driven business disrution that many people don't know about. Today businesses continue to be disrupted not just by a new business idea but also by software agility and innovation. Software defined disruption like Mobile apps or Cloud Kitchens have changed the food business landscape and continues to drive tremendous business value like never before. Is it important to understand that as software is disrupting the industry, every enterprise is turning into a software company. As a software company all these enterprises need a seamless SDLC (software delivery lifecycle) process integrated with testing tools,deployment tools and application and business monitoring tools along with team that can promptly support any issue in the software delivery with a short turnaround time.
The main driver to adopt devops comes from the need of enterprise to innovate and accelerate the business. Unless the new ideas are implemented in the software and shipped fast by a unified capable team the business does not get the desired business outcome.
Key points to note about business and need for devops are as follows-
Businesses develop software for a reason: to get business value
Today every Businesses is either Digital Businesses or in process of Digital Transformation
Businesses will continue to be disrupted by software innovations & agility for example Mobile Apps
Disruption like Cloud Kitchens are changing landscape & deliver tremendous business value
Software disruption also means that enterprises are becoming software companies.
So the main driver for DevOps is the need for enterprise to innovate and accelerate the business
