Enterprise business is founded on big systems, doing big work, for big money. That’s been true because people had to buy those big systems to get the benefits of their big work. Cloud technologies are changing all that. Now, companies can rent what they need, as they need it, and get the big work done through cloud-native services.

The landscape has shifted, and enterprise needs a new map to reach the future.

“A big driver in the cloud is this whole acceleration of innovation,” said Dave Lindquist (pictured), IBM fellow and vice president of development, mobile and cloud DevOps at IBM Corp., regarding how cloud computing was shaking up the enterprise.

Lindquist spoke to John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, during the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, NV, about this new roadmap for enterprise development. (Disclosure below.)

Building environments, shaping outcomes

The development environment — that is, who is doing the work and the tools they use to do it — is a cornerstone of the enterprise world. These tools are moving to the cloud, and people are going mobile. To support this, systems are adapting to a loose coupling where they can work together but operate and scale independently. Lindquist explained. Since no one system depends on any other, developers can quickly get the environment they need.

There’s also been a huge cut in the time it takes to bring an idea from the field to a real plan that hits business outcomes. Taking development into a cloud-native environment allows small teams to pull in who they need — designers, testers, business strategists — while also following a project through its lifecycle, Lindquist stated. These teams can also operate mostly autonomously because cloud-based microservices give them the tools they need without having to build a lot of infrastructure through the company.

From there, the team can apply analytics to understand how everything’s coming together. They can start with simple metrics, but more sophisticated models reveal everything from code health to how well the team works together, Lindquist explained.

“To me, it builds on ‘agile,’ but it goes way beyond. We’re pushing the envelope when we call it DevOps,” he concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM InterConnect 2017. (*Disclosure: SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE is a media partner at InterConnect. Neither IBM nor other conference sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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