loud is more than a mere technology offering. For CIOs, it is a force elevating their roles to that of innovators and catalyzers of organizational growth.
One floral and food gift retailer/distributor turned to cloud to address spikes in demand across its diverse array of order management systems from acquired brands. By moving to a cloud platform, the company was able to integrate its fulfillment processes, ensuring seamless service delivery across all brands and offerings, with the scalability it needed to support faster, easier expansion as its business grew.
In a forward-looking enterprise, different flavors of software as a service need to be connected to new apps or existing data on public or private clouds or on traditional IT in a consistent and repeatable way. Enterprises have diverse needs and will most likely subscribe to more than one cloud service to meet those needs. This is a modern version of the classic “best-of-breed” approach to IT in which the top solutions from different vendors are brought in to support the environment.
One of Australia's largest financial institutions moved to DevOps on its cloud platform to better align application development with business requirements, automate development processes and bring new applications and services online more quickly. With DevOps, the bank has been able to quickly get solutions in the hands of users, gather their feedback, iterate and then make the necessary adjustments.