With all the uncertainty around Brexit, many financial services companies are looking at ways to make their businesses more agile. This is driving the need to increase the cadence and quality of their application releases while also addressing governance, risk, security and compliance.
As businesses continue to drive the adoption of DevOps methodologies, such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, the need to include databases into those processes has become even more important. In many companies, the database development lifecycle has become the bottleneck in an otherwise agile delivery process. As such, database professionals are under increasing pressure to shorten delivery timelines even further, only increasing the stakes within an already high-stress, risk-averse environment.
What is needed is an automated approach where databases operations can become a part of the DevOps pipeline, so that changes can be made and deployed quickly, together with the application – without compromising quality, reliability or performance.