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Krateo PlatformOps, an open-source project developed by Kiratech's Cloud Native Dev Team, integrating Backstage, an open platform created by the Spotify IT team and now available in the CNCF Sandbox project catalog. Given the value and importance of this partneship, in the following article we want to analyze how the two platforms integrate together and their benefits.

In the previous blog posts, we have deepened concepts like DevOps methodology, Cloud, Security and their connected tools and practices, by explaining how Digital Transformation influenced and radically changed the company’s approach to these three areas with the aim of obtaining a more flexible and agile applicative development.

Today we live in a continuously technology, economic and politic evolving era, and the market players essentially need to adapt fast to this period of changing. These things occur especially in the financial and banking sectors, in which take place the necessity of overcoming the client’s expectations and of providing a continuous and efficient service.

Today, farms are starting to invest in DevOps methodologies and practices, since they have understood their importance in making development stages faster, reliable and with fewer mistakes.

Lots of companies are implementing a DevOps strategy to make the communication between developers and operations faster and smarter in order to accelerate the software development phases and to make business more agile. It often happens that during this process, companies are more focused on the DevOps tools without considering the professional resources needed for this change. The DevOps methodology needs the right people in the right role with specific competences.

In the previous articles, we already explained “What is DevOps” and which are the origins of this methodology. Now, let’s see the pillars standing at the basis of this change that help the optimization and improvement of the software development phases and the obtaining of a competitive advantage.

According to an IDC study, Red Hat OpenShift brings lots of advantages to the companies, especially in terms of productivity, revenue and costs. Let’s analyse the business value found by the interviewed companies and let’s understand why your company should adopt this Platform-as-a-Service solution too.