Microservices, containers, Kubernetes, digital transformation - you've all heard the buzz about new ways to develop and deliver applications. But how real is it? How many actual examples can you cite of these technologies being used to drive business results?
Organizations today rely on data and software applications to create and deliver value in almost every aspect of their operations.
It doesn't get more real than Dell.com. One of the internet's busiest commercial web sites, Dell.com needs to keep up with the latest trends. The challenge was that implementing capabilities required by the business - such as providing updated search capabilities - took too long to implement, averaging 3-8 months to deliver new application features! In order to speed innovation,
The results have been impressive.
With a few clicks, developers provision resources, select cloud features on demand or move applications across on-premises and public clouds without porting. These automated, orchestrated capabilities have reduced development time from typically six months to a few weeks or less - an 85 percent improvement. The Dell.com team has improved the customer shopping experience by increasing feature launches from 8-10 per year to 55 per year. The Dell B2B website, Dell Premier, has compressed release cycles for upgrades from four weeks or longer to just days. Innovation and meaningful business outcomes have become hallmarks of the VMware Tanzu platform. The Dell Premier team used the platform to develop a smart recommender feature of the B2B website. That feature alone accounts for more than
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