IBM is a successful company that has gone through a variety of software development schemes and methodologies – starting from primary traditional waterfall methodology and continuing with Agile development schemes. From the previous experience, IBM innovate their apps, making them faster, simpler in usage, and better in quality.
Moving forward, they came up with a new DevOps for their BlueMix platform as a service (PaaS). According to Big Blue, the goal of the new features is to make it easier to develop software in the cloud and platform DevOps duties. This software innovation enables the corporation to follow technological evolution steps, collaborate with their growing, move their app development to the cloud.
BlueMix’s new DevOps tools contain services for continuous testing, production and deployment. All of these apply advanced analytics in order to collect the data about the quality of application right from the user.
Comparing to the previous IBM software programs, new DevOps has an enhanced transparency and tracking, covers business continuity planning and joint development between workers and analyst teams. It was developed via integrating all organizational systems, simplifies testing and quality assurance. All of the above allow the continuous delivery of apps through more intelligent use of app analytics and improved ability for market tests.
In addition, the new tools cover mobile device management, integration, access to transactions, security and technologies for the Internet services, big data, and analytics.
Since the new features of BlueMix were introduced, IBM can enable a secure connection between public and private data applications.