DevOps: software development
without borders
Two functions, two places, one team
Technology drives today’s economy – which means business success depends on the performance of your IT. But as SaaS, cloud, and APIs increase the opportunities of automation, the pace of change is making it more complex. The solution? DevOps.
DevOps with ICT Strypes combines a delivery team in your office with a development team in ours. They work together, understanding every process and workflow to create software that’s a perfect match. Business operations and software development: each team where it needs to be.
Check out the Success Story below:
Defining DevOps
- What makes software work? It takes more than coding talent. It stems from a deep understanding of how people, processes, business functionality, and technology fit together for maximum effectiveness. DevOps is an Agile-inspired approach that lets us do it, turning ICT Strypes’ experience and expertise into the ideal solutions for you.
- How does it work? By merging the interests of inhouse business operations and outsourced software developers into a seamless team. Deliberately, with shared milestones and objectives across every process in the organization and every product in the tech stack.
- It means no misunderstandings, because there’s no silo thinking. No unexpected outcomes, because objectives are unified. It means stronger relationships and more productive projects. And the only surprises you’ll get are pleasant ones. That’s DevOps with ICT Strypes. Here’s how it works.
Our approach to DevOps
- Nearsurance – the ICT Strypes approach to DevOps – connects a local operations team in your office to our outsourced team of developers in Europe, putting IT expertise where it does most good for your business. Outsourced developers lets you take advantage of a huge talent base. Inhouse consultants give you human faces you can see every day. Both teams work together with you on every project. And because you see them and speak to them every day, you’ll enjoy a level of trust and confidence few vendors can match.
A local team in your office. An outsourced team in ours. Taking end-to-end ownership of each project with honest and open communication at all times. Leading to shorter delivery timescales, smoother project execution, and applications that work on Day One. It’s why Strypes is the choice of those driving the real economy: high-tech engineering, large-scale industrial production, enterprise software. An approach that’s worked for 450 projects and counting.
The DevOps tech stack
- With DevOps, the factors of success are built into the process: expertise with today’s technologies … and a critical eye on tomorrow’s. It’s key to our approach of taking active ownership. Treating each project as if it were our own – because it is. And every successful delivery deepens our experience and sharpens our skills. Which gives us a stake in your outcome. It’s a recipe for ongoing positive outcomes that just get better with time. A tech stack that goes all the way up.
ICT Strypes is a Microsoft partner, with expertise in the .NET Framework. But what matters more: whatever parts go into your solution, they share the same security philosophy. Which means every layer delivers complete OT (Operational Technology) security.
Advantages of DevOps with ICT Strypes
- Our Nearsurance approach gives you talented coders, with experience in your sector, ready to take on complex projects at scale: that’s our solutions delivery team. But those skills need shaping to your requirements with great project management and a deep understanding of your business needs. That’s your account delivery team: experts in operations, side-by-side with you at your office. And it delivers multiple advantages.
Agile philosophy lets people interact effectively as one team, without losing the qualities that make them different. That’s why ICT Strypes groups its developers offsite, but puts business people by your side inhouse.
A local team in your office. An outsourced team in ours. Taking end-to-end ownership of each project with honest and open communication at all times. Leading to shorter delivery timescales, smoother project execution, and applications that work on Day One. It’s why ICT Strypes is the choice of those driving the real economy: high-tech engineering, large-scale industrial production, enterprise software. An approach that’s worked for 450 projects and counting.
Automating what’s automatable saves human skills for tasks that need a human eye. With ICT Strypes DevOps, repeatable busywork is dealt with by machine, freeing people to do what people do best.
Where we do DevOps
- You can be anywhere in Europe – and your Account Delivery team will be there with you. But our developers are truly outsourced: based in Bulgaria, long a center of coding excellence. It works for our clients in the Netherlands, Germany, across Europe and the USA. And we’ve embraced remote working, too: in addition to our five real-world offices, an increasing proportion of our team is spread around the planet, providing expertise worldwide.
The beautiful cities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, and Varna are home to our 700+ developers, providing services that complete and extend our DevOps offering with specialized, in-depth, up-to-date skills and knowledge. They’re experienced in delivering end-to-end solutions from a broad and deep tech stack. Whatever problem you’re facing, it’s likely they’ve solved it before.
Problems and solutions
- The world contains countless challenges for software development; every one is different. But there are some common themes. Maybe your internal resources are stretched to assess what’s required. Or your team’s skills aren’t a match for the project you need done. Or your existing infrastructure is too complicated to plan the ideal migration path. Whatever it is, we can work with it. That’s what we do.
If your existing applications were developed over a long time by many different people, it’s likely the codebase has problems. Versions can fork and splinter; bottlenecks can create go-slows on your network; even the fundamentals like naming conventions slow down the pace of innovation. That’s one reason to do DevOps with ICT Strypes: we pay attention to those small but vital details, from the ground up.
Moving from one system to another without a clear route is another common issue ICT Strypes can solve. After all, migration and integration of a new application isn’t a one-off event; it’s a process. Our professionals work with you to make big changes happen with minimal interruption to your people’s lives.
As the true scope of a project expands, it’s easy for software development to slow to a crawl. DevOps with ICT Strypes solves this by sizing each challenge honestly and accurately, making sure all resources needed for a successful outcome are there at the start and in for the long haul.
Another common pain point: expertise is locked up in people’s heads, and when they change jobs or roles that knowledge is lost. ICT Strypes combats this by documenting methods and models as a required process, making sure new people can hit the ground running and removing the risks of all your business knowledge going down in the elevator each evening.
Our sectors and verticals
- Devops doesn’t focus on a single industry; its basic approach drawn from Agile works for all sectors at all scales, from SMEs with an ambitious growth curve to world-girdling enterprise MNCs. Our partners are the infrastructure of the global economy: high-tech manufacturing, industrial automation, and the converging worlds of mobility, vehicles, and IoT. And all can benefit from DevOps.
Machinery and plant may be mechanical assets, but in today’s enterprise they’re as connected and data-driven as any application—which means cybersecurity threats are a far bigger challenge than in the past. ICT Strypes has long experience of protecting heavy industry from bad actors: we recognize your industrial machinery is a mission-critical part of your business, and have spent decades learning how to protect it.
The highest technological achievements of all—like manufacturing the machines that create integrated circuits, and other intricate wonders—also have some of the highest cybersecurity requirements. Because it’s a business driven by intellectual property, where a single security issue can mean billions in lost opportunities to stay ahead of a fast-moving market. ICT Strypes understands. And knows how to solve those issues.
Fixed assets need cybersecurity. But so do assets that move around. Fleet managers operating thousands of vehicles; transport companies handling countless consignments each day; global logistics groups where effective use of technology is the difference between thriving and fading. All these actors need cybersecurity. And ICT Strypes does it for them, however many moving parts they have.
New sectors like self-driving cars, mobile working, connected vehicles and the Internet of Things are creating fresh challenges for cybersecurity. Fortunately, these sectors are converging, as mobile communications connect vehicles, homes, buildings, and energy grids produce masses of Big Data and customer lifestyles change to take advantage of it. ICT Strypes is at the forefront of cybersecurity for this driving, floating, flying world—and can help you prosper in it.
