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Cloud Development Advisory Services

What is the Ultima Cloud Development Advisory Service?Our engagement is designed to assist organisations in their journey from their current development model to a new modern DevOps model through a proven four-stage methodology.

In the modern IT landscape, it is no longer just the business that is demanding change, the customer is also insisting on it. If change isn’t enough to be concerned about, there is also the increasing speed of delivering those changes. Organisations must adapt rapidly if they are to remain competitive or risk becoming obsolete. Ultima’s Cloud Development Advisory Service is designed to help organisations to get themselves up and running as quickly as possible with their DevOps journey. You can’t be waiting 6, 12, 18 or even 24 months for the new version of the software. You need iterative updates and you need them now. You need changes and bug fixes implemented in hours not months. Armed with the correct development methodology and a correctly designed DevOps pipeline you will be on your way.

Why do we need a Cloud Development Advisory Service? As pressure mounts on teams to increase the cadence of software delivery, organisations need to look at their existing development strategies. They need to discover ways to be quicker and more agile whilst still maintaining quality.

The aim of this engagement is to assist organisations in implementing a successful DevOps strategy within cloud and hybrid IT infrastructure models. The process will encompass selecting appropriate development methodologies, software version control, build tools, testing and release products. All of this will be achieved by working closely with your development, test and operations teams to ensure that the optimum choices are made. We want to help you deliver your software products quickly, reliably and consistently and, above all, for them to be a quality product.

Ultima’s Cloud Development Advisory Service can assist your organisation in developing a comprehensive DevOps strategy

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Analyse This stage provides a systematic process for understanding the existing development environment, user populations and the matching of these to user scenarios. It helps to evaluate the current maturity level of your development infrastructure and determines what capabilities your organisation needs.

Review With any DevOps strategy, it is imperative to select the most appropriate technologies to satisfy the requirements, even if this means using a mixture of solutions. In DevOps terms, this is driven from the business requirement of the end user and not necessarily the requirements of IT in isolation.

Define A key objective of this engagement is to review the existing development environment and provide a new, optimised and integrated strategy that encompasses the core building blocks of DevOps. Ultima will work closely with your development, test and operations teams.

Present Ultima will present the strategy back to the business in a structured workshop, and field questions against each of the sections within the DevOps strategy.

Steps to your Cloud Development Strategy

Ultima’s ApproachUltima’s Advisory Services Framework Delivered as an Advisory Service, Consultants from Ultima’s Modern Data Centre team use a tried and tested approach to interrogate your current operating model and identify the prerequisite steps and investments needed to develop a successful DevOps strategy. Ultima will start by gaining an in-depth knowledge of your environment and requirements. Once reviewed, it enables us to identify suitable solutions, along with migration options, infrastructure prerequisites and indicative costs. These findings will be fully documented, presented to you and discussed, to help guide you through the transition process.

Ultima can advise on all aspects of DevOps and related IT infrastructure, and by using this model, we can assist with the optimisation of your development processes. This enables you to reduce total cost of ownership by harnessing enhancements in technology and process, and leverage opportunities for efficiencies, thereby improving product quality, speed to market and overall productivity.