TechValidate Research on CA DevOps

Introduction

This case study of HMS is based on a September 2016 survey of CA Technologies DevOps Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led HMS to evaluate and ultimately select CA Technologies DevOps Solutions:

• Applications being released with too many bugs / defects
• Cultural challenges around implementing DevOps, such as fear of change or resistance from within the organization
• Skillset challenges, such as not the right skills among employees to move forward with DevOps
• Budget challenges
• Too many manual processes and not enough automation

Use Case

HMS uses CA Release Automation, in conjunction with open source software tools (OpenStack, Puppet, etc.).

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CA Technologies DevOps Solutions:

• Increased their speed and amount of software releases
• Improved software quality
• More readily incorporates feedback from operations into development
• Experienced a 2x increase in the frequency of software releases since partnering with CA.

In addition, the company reports that CA Technologies is important to its DevOps journey.