Using DevOps practices, BCG helped E.ON develop its digital sales platform and reshape its legacy infrastructure.
How We Help Organizations Scale DevOps
Implementing DevOps locally is relatively simple, but scaling DevOps across all parts of the organization, in complex environments, is a much more daunting task. BCG has delivered hundreds of DevOps projects across a variety of industries—and we understand how to scale DevOps in ways that generate maximum productivity and value for the business. Our DevOps consultants also partner with leading technology companies and cloud providers to deliver the most cutting-edge solutions.
Our DevOps Approach Builds Seven Core Capabilities
Quick Assessment
BCG’s proprietary benchmarking evaluates how your IT organization compares with those of your peers. It measures your organization’s readiness for DevOps and agile at scale, identifies capability gaps, and details the best path forward.
Sizing the Prize
Based on benchmarking results, we can help you develop a high-level business case for agile DevOps. In addition to quantifying the gains that DevOps at scale can deliver, we assess the business tradeoffs among agility, cost, and quality.
DevOps Target Operating Model
BCG helps you design and pilot a unique target operating model and build cross-functional teams that focus on reducing inefficiencies. During this process, we identify the need for DevOps deep dives, such as DevSecOps, AI operations, DevOps in complex enterprise resource planning environments, DevOps in data, site reliability engineer deployments, and no operations (NoOps).
Automation Toolkit
BCG helps you assess and benchmark all the DevOps tools available so that you select the ones best suited to your unique organization. Tailoring your toolkit ensures that all your tools work in harmony with one another and with your company’s business capabilities, as well as your existing technology, applications, and DevOps infrastructure–covering the full life cycle of software development.
Large Scale DevOps Implementation
We not only showcase DevOps in small pilots as proof of concept, we also work together with your teams to manage and drive large-scale implementation projects. By integrating projects at all levels and enabling teams on the ground, companies create immediate impact, promote continuous learning, and build a proven DevOps culture.
Impact Monitoring
After DevOps at scale has been deployed, BCG’s dashboard closely monitors the performance of—and opportunities for further improvements in—the technology architecture, software, and DevOps team. Working collaboratively, we continue to evolve the DevOps platform and ensure that you can roll out the approach across your organization.
Enablement
Our DevOps consultants coach employees to develop the skills and capabilities needed to drive progress in key areas, such as improving their DevOps toolchain setup, adopting SRE principles, defining architecture roadmaps to improve modularization and decoupling (for example, by deploying microservices and other modern architecture patterns), and propagating security design principles across the software development life cycle.
Our Client Success in DevOps
BCG's experience covers the DevOps spectrum, from full transformation to hands-on delivery support. For example:
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May 19, 2022
Deploying DevOps at E.ON
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July 29, 2020
Deutsche Bahn Netz
In order to optimize utilization and increase efficiency, DB Netz digitized one of its major manual processes: creating a timetable for booking infrastructure routes. With BCG’s support, DB Netz launched a large-scale agile implementation project using DevOps. The project, which involved more than 250 team members, achieved a 70% reduction in system downtime and a 50% improvement in code quality.
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July 14, 2020
ING Netherlands
With fintechs and other new players disrupting the financial-services sector, traditional institutions need to be faster and more flexible than ever before. ING Netherlands is one bank that responded to the new market dynamics by adopting agile practices, completely changing the way it works.
Explore Our DevOps Insights
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Companies that combine site reliability engineering with AI and machine learning can overcome the increased complexity and instability caused by outmoded, inefficient IT systems.
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