Software applications are becoming the face of organizations in the digital era. For instance, apps are empowering workers with the information they need to solve issues on the factory floor. Customers can now place orders directly with factories through a mobile phone app. This means that delivering better experiences, and new products and services, often involves rolling out new software applications.
All this has led to the DevOps revolution, where software developers are delivering more software more often, and using new application architectural models—such as microservices and containers—that are hyper-distributed and complex.
In addition, manufacturers are developing strategies that will enable them to manage and process data from these applications and assets—along with enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management, warehouse management, and other systems.