Advanced Adopters Shown to Experience Two Times
Profit Growth; New CA Solutions Can Drive Better Business
Outcomes
Adopting a modern application architecture is critical to
business success and a significant driver of profit growth in
today’s digital economy, according to the results of a global
survey of 1087 IT and business executives released today by CA
Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) and conducted by industry analyst firm
Frost & Sullivan.
The new report titled, “What Business Executives are Learning
about Software Development and How it is Helping Achieve KPIs”
shows that companies that embrace modern application architectures
– such as APIs, microservices and containers – in concert with
modern development best practices like DevOps, DevSecOps and Agile
are better able to continuously and quickly adapt and adjust
software applications to changing market trends and customer needs.
This, in turn, can positively impact their bottom line.
“In conducting this study, what we found most intriguing was the
focus amongst line of business leaders on software development and
their willingness to engage budgets and detailed efforts in order
to drive results,” said Alexander Michael, director of Consulting
at Frost & Sullivan. “Software sits at the heart of most
digital transformation projects and businesses are finding it
impossible to continue to employ monolithic, legacy applications
and remain competitive in the marketplace.”
As more lines of business are impacted by digital
transformation, the study reveals a shift as business executives
across all geographies, industries and functions take an active
role in software decision-making, development and acquisition. In
fact, business executives say that three out of the four top
challenges faced by their organizations are directly related to
digital initiatives, and 84 percent say modernizing the way
software and apps are developed and delivered is very important or
crucial to the future success of their organization.
“In order to compete in today’s rapidly evolving market,
organizations must center their thinking around how every line of
business and IT contribute to achieving the company’s digital
objectives,” said Ayman Sayed, president and chief product officer
at CA Technologies. “A modern application architecture is the
foundation that, once in place, provides a platform for more
flexible and agile software development, giving organizations the
ability to plan and pivot to address customers’ changing business
needs.”
Modern Application Architectures Present Benefits and
Challenges
According to the study, eight out of ten executives feel that
software provides critical support in helping them achieve their
KPIs. Organizations participating in the study that were further
along in their adoption of modern application architectures and
development practices saw impressive benefits, including:
- Eight times more likely to declare that
applications are very good at supporting the achievement of KPIs
than those who were relatively low in their adoption of modern
application architectures;
- Seven times more likely to say their
apps are completely integrated when it comes to functionality, data
sharing, authentication and security;
- Six times more likely to say their apps
are significantly better at delivering business insights than their
competitors;
- And experienced two times higher profit
growth.
However, because these organizations are heavily reliant on
business-critical applications, more than half of respondents (56
percent) claimed that software issues can negatively affect the
achievement of KPIs. In fact, for 69 percent of all respondents,
the pressure to release new applications or updates negatively
affects quality and security. Furthermore, 67 percent felt that
their organization sometimes trades off security for speed.
While APIs, microservices and containers enable faster delivery
of applications to market, nine out of 10 of those respondents who
claimed to widely utilize modern application architectures stated
that it’s challenging to manage and monitor APIs, microservices and
containers, and that APIs and microservices are adding new risks to
organizations. To mitigate these challenges, businesses view their
long-term success through strategic implementation of DevOps,
Security and Agile development practices.
Four out of five respondents stated that agile practices are
helping them build what customers really need, and in turn, are
helping to improve customer satisfaction. Additionally, 80 percent
of respondents see continuous application security testing and
DevSecOps as critical components to the implementation of a modern
application architecture.
To support companies forging a path towards modern application
architectures, CA has introduced new innovations and enhancements
that help generate powerful insights and improve speed to market of
applications, including:
- New Full Lifecycle API Management
solution enhancements, delivering an integrated set of API
Management capabilities that enable organizations to seamlessly
manage APIs from creation, to test and deployment, to ongoing API
security and consumption with real-time monitoring at scale. This
comprehensive API Management solution now includes built-in testing
and monitoring enhancements like API virtualization to create a
virtual API sandbox that enables earlier and more efficient API
consumption as well as “Inside-Out & Outside-In API
Monitoring,” which delivers end-to-end insights into API
performance.
- Several new enhancements to CA’s
end-to-end Continuous Testing portfolio of solutions designed to
help companies reduce application life cycle development time and
improve the productivity of agile development teams by leveraging
the benefits of automated test case creation, instant provisioning
of dynamic test environments and automating test data. These
product updates include a new Jenkins® plugin for CA
Service Virtualization, which allows users to manage virtual
services and provision tests directly from their Jenkins UI;
Integrated Data Masking Workflows for CA Test Data Manager
to help testers and compliance officers more readily discover, tag
and mask sensitive PII information to assist in regulatory
compliance and reduce risk; and CA Agile Requirement Designer’s
Requirements Insights capability, available in beta, which
allows business analysts and product owners to more easily
visualize and understand dependencies across the different testing
requirements and how they are impacted when testing requirements
change.
- The new CA Project & Portfolio
Management (CA PPM) helps companies map investments and
resources to strategic initiatives with drag-and-drop speed. Using
the road-mapping tool, executives can make portfolio changes on the
fly to adapt to sudden market fluctuations. CA PPM also simplifies
how organizations define, assign and track teams across the entire
portfolio. Finally, expanding beyond IT, users can integrate other
applications, such as CA Agile Central or Microsoft® Power BI®,
with CA PPM to centralize business information for fast and
accurate decision making.
“For all organizations, private or public, embracing modern
application architectures is a means of remaining strategically,
technologically and financially nimble in the digital economy. CA
Technologies can help business executives lay the foundation for
responsive and adaptive software to become a source of competitive
advantage and a driver of success,” concluded Sayed.
Survey Methodology
The global online survey of 1087 IT and business executives was
sponsored by CA Technologies and conducted across 11 countries by
Frost & Sullivan in June and July 2018. The survey respondents
consisted of top management personnel familiar with their
organizations’ applications in large organizations (e.g., annual
revenue of at least $1 billion in the case of US companies).
Roughly 62 percent of the business executives who participated were
C-level executives, vice presidents or directors.
Download the full report and other materials:
- Report: What Business Executives are
Learning about Software Development and How it is Helping Achieve
KPIs
- Infographic
- Blog: The Drive to Modern Application
Architectures by Ayman Sayed
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
About Frost & Sullivan
For over 50 years, Frost & Sullivan has worked with leaders
in enterprises, universities and within the investment community to
help identify opportunities and capitalize on innovation to achieve
transformational growth. From ideation to realization, we offer a
global perspective, technology expertise and in-depth coverage of
all industries to help organizations overcome challenges
and build a pipeline for future success.
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