The primary business driver for cloud-native development is the need to ship applications more quickly without compromising quality or security. Organizations are tasked with the challenge of continuously reinventing themselves to keep pace with digitally-driven innovation from competitors. Cloud-native development positions organizations to safely release new features and functionality for digital solutions that scale to accommodate the fluctuating needs of end users while demonstrating high availability and performance. Moreover, cloud-native development helps organizations deliver superior customer experiences characterized by shorter release cycles and applications that are stable, reliable, and highly available.
Today’s business environment is characterized by the increased availability of data, the rapid digitization of business processes, and the prospect of disruption by digitally savvy competitors. Greater data availability is related to leadership’s interest in using data to drive decision-making. Organizations have an increased awareness of the value of internal and external data sources for guiding decision-making. This awareness has deepened the practice of data-driven decision-making versus relying on intuition or an affective interpretation of a business situation or landscape.
