DevOps Awards 2023

The DevOps Awards 2023 event, a distinguished gathering in the technology industry, took place at London on 25 October.

This prestigious event served as a platform to recognize and celebrate exemplary achievements in the realm of DevOps, bringing together leading organizations and professionals dedicated to advancing innovation, collaboration, and excellence in the field.

In the fiercely competitive global landscape, Sandhata Technologies emerged as the unrivalled victor at the DevOps Awards 2023, surpassing formidable contenders on a global scale. Amidst stiff competition from industry leaders, our triumphant win of three prestigious awards underscores the magnitude of our achievements. 

Navigating through a field of distinguished competitors, the recognition as the “Best DevOps Team of the Year,” “Best Use of DevOps Technology,” and “Best Cultural Transformation” solidifies Sandhata’s position as a trailblazer in the DevOps domain. This victory isn’t just an accolade; it signifies our ability to stand out and excel amidst the best in the industry. 

The global nature of this competition, with participation from prominent leaders, magnifies the significance of our triumph. Winning three awards amidst such formidable contenders is a testament to our unwavering commitment to excellence, innovation, and transformative cultural practices. 

This achievement not only positions Sandhata Technologies as a global force in DevOps but also highlights our dedication to setting new benchmarks and leading the way in the ever-evolving landscape of technology and innovation. 

Categories Won

The recent DevOps Awards 2023 witnessed Sandhata Technologies and Vodafone securing three prominent accolades: 

Best DevOps Team of the Year: Sandhata Technologies emerged as the Best DevOps Team of the Year, underscoring our dedication to innovative practices and collaborative work. 

Best Use of DevOps Technology: Our strategic implementation of technology positioned us as leaders in the effective utilization of DevOps tools and methodologies. 

Best Cultural Transformation: Recognizing the transformation in our workplace culture, fostering an environment conducive to groundbreaking ideas and innovation. 

Following the conclusion of the DevOps Awards 2023 event, Sandhata Technologies and Vodafone achieved a triple win, representing a significant milestone. Our forward-looking commitment is focused on raising industry benchmarks and driving advancements in the continually evolving DevOps landscape. 

For organizations interested in leveraging our expertise or exploring collaborative opportunities, we invite you to connect with us. 

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Sandhata put forward a 10 person team for the recent JP Morgan Corporate Challenge 2022.

The team spent the day together in the office getting psyched up for the run over a shared lunch.

Some of the team were regular runners, but for some it was the first time running!

It was great fun, although a bit hot, and all the team members completed the run successfully.

Looking forward to next year!

“Love this race as running with 15,000 runners is always fun! This year is special as 10 of my team members joined with me ”

Babji Vundavilli

“In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, the middle of the pack, or last. You can say ‘I have finished’. There is a lot of satisfaction in that.”

– Pravin Durai

“In everyone’s life always a moment comes when you can either quit or say to yourself ‘I can do this’. Similar feeling I was having yesterday. It doesn’t matter when it started or ended, I did it! My first marathon ”

– Amrita Sriwastava

“Life is a race, whether it’s corporate or personal. I finish every race and enjoy those moments.”

– Mayank Gupta

“It was a really fun event, and great to participate together with the Sandhata team. Hopefully we can field a bigger team next year ”

– Bronwyn Davies

“If I’m free, its because I am always running.”

– Avinasha Shukla

“It was a really different experience running with the team representing Sandhata, 100+ companies across the UK, massive crowd, evening race – amazing experience! Babji was so inspiring for any young runners. Although I was a bit tired before the start, the energy of the crowd really pushed me hard! Well done team!”

– Subhas Chandra

“Running is never boring, it always brings the best out of you. It teaches you perseverance and to just give that extra and push yourself, challenge your limits. Whether it is sunny, cloudy, cold, a run is always re-energizing. I consider myself lucky to have teamed up with brilliant people from team Sandhata! Very well done everyone, we are all finishers! Cheers to that!

– Vikas Dange

“It’s my first 5k and it felt so great crossing the finish line. I thoroughly enjoyed it. A great experience running along with thousands of other runners. Realised how much fun it is to run.”

– Bharat Muppidi

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The Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards exist to recognise the achievements of the individuals and companies who are really making it happen at the coal face of the digital technology stack: from website design and coding to UX and project management, from scrum masters and product managers, all the way up to the CDO.

Our Sandhata team working in partnership with Vodafone UK have been recognised for the TIL Transformation Project.

The winning project

Our TIL Transformation project has been announced as the winner in “Best Automation Project” category.

The TIL Transformation Project was recognised for the far-reaching and profound changes it has brought to the Vodafone UK Middleware platform. This project has already delivered full end to end build and deploy automation. This year we built full test automation and regression capability, a service virtualisation framework spanning the backend dependencies, a fully automated API Directory which provides self-service capabilities to the whole team, and an innovative solution to handle test environment constraints.

This project continues to boost the Middleware platform to the next level, introducing fundamental change and new capabilities which will ensure that the Middleware platform is able to meet the ever-changing needs of the business in the future.

The awards night

Members of the Vodafone UK and Sandhata teams were at the awards event to collect the award. It was a pleasure to be able to celebrate together on this occasion, especially since we were unable to do so in 2020.

Learn More

We have worked closely with many Tier-1 organisations on their DevOps journeys, to bring about lasting transformation and cultural change.

To find out how we can help you, take a look at our solutions, case studies or contact us.

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Now in its 4th year, the DevOps Excellence Awards celebrate and recognise outstanding achievement from organisations and solutions operating within the DevOps space.

Sandhata, in partnership with Vodafone, has been nominated as finalists at the DevOps Excellence Awards in 3 categories:

• DevOps Project of the Year
• Best Automation Project
• Best DevOps Team

A bit about the projects we are being recognised for

Our TIL Transformation project has been chosen as a finalist for ‘DevOps Project of the Year‘.

This was a very ambitious, high impact project which has already driven significant improvements across the whole division. The DevOps best practices and behaviours which have been adopted have been a catalyst for a step change in team engagement, productivity and quality. This project alone has resulted in an estimated overall cost saving of £3.3 million per year!

The ‘Best Automation Project‘ category recognises the Disaster Recovery (DR) project which we delivered in the Integration domain.

This was a critical project for the long-term stability of the systems, and we took the opportunity to introduce full automation and cloud capabilities across the whole solution as part of the project. These new capabilities have elevated the system to operate at a new level of speed and efficiency and removed the bottleneck for business change.

The TIL team has been chosen as finalists in the ‘Best DevOps Team‘ category.

This team has implemented both of the aforementioned projects. They have relished the challenge of overcoming legacy manual processes and outdated toolsets and systems to build new agile, flexible systems which give the capability to deliver change quickly and adapt to new requirements. The team have brought industry knowledge and cutting-edge experience with them to completely transform the way TIL operates. They certainly deserve this recognition.

We’re looking forward to the awards evening on Wednesday 18th March in London, where we’ll be joined by many other organisations who are at various stages on their DevOps journeys, also hoping to win. We hope to see you there!

Learn More

We have helped many Tier-1 organisations achieve their DevOps goals, and we have led their Transformation projects, bringing in organsation-wide efficiencies and cultural change.

To find out more, take a look at our white papers, or contact us.

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A bit about the DevOps transformation project 

Vodafone UK middleware backbone, based on TIBCO technology, handling hundreds of million messages per day and less than one second response time for critical services, has gone through a release and deploy transformation. The middleware layer is at the very heart of Vodafone’s servicing capability hosting hundreds of business-critical services which were historically governed by labour-intensive manual controls. Optimisation initiatives across Vodafone culture, technology, process and governance and resulted in exceptional outcomes of business value.

Overview

• This story is about how the Vodafone Integration team and Sandhata worked together to deliver the primary business outcome “Accelerating predictable Middleware Change”.
• The transformation project empowered the delivery engineers to drive middleware releases with significantly reduced dependencies on functional teams and significantly increased the efficiency of releases reducing the weeks of effort to days or hours..
• A framework design and deployed which resulted in Environment availability increasing by 99.9% and deployment defects reduced by 99.9%. The business value and savings is hard to quantify but is believed to have given Vodafone UK a very good return on investment.
• The transformation project has enabled the integration middleware platforms to perform Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, which has been one of the most complex use cases due to the complexity of the technology, breadth of interface both front and back end, and limited commercial coverage for tooling leveraging open source.
• Sandhata’s DevOps experts worked with the Vodafone architects, Leads, engineers and operations teams in implementation and adoption of the technology, processes, controls and governance, which were critical to middleware delivery efficiency and quality.

The Bigger Picture

Middleware deployments are complex, expensive, time-consuming and resource-intensive.

It is often one of the slowest moving parts of the Business Change Value Stream and this is because it is the highly critical backbone of the business.

Vodafone’s middleware technology provides

• Millions of messages processed every day
• Thousands of orders per day
• Hundreds of Services hosted across data centres
• Hundreds of Clients and backend integrated
• It is a focal technology point of the organization and likewise is highly governed due to risk criticality.

From our experience, the majority of organisations face challenges within the delivery process. This is mainly due to:

• Sheer volume of front and backend processes
• Environment availability and cost
• Manual effort required for configuring, deploying and validating the change
• Complexity in introducing fully automated software delivery pipelines
• Complexity in the integration of multiple front and back endpoints with the CI/CD pipeline

The outcome is often weeks and months of time required to deliver production releases.

The Solution

• Automation framework allows the engineer to deliver and validate features without manual intervention.
• This solution enables the team to be more self-sufficient with highly available environments configured with a pre-defined baseline and sanity test without dependencies.
• The framework provides exceptional integrity of software IP with all configurations under strict change control.
• This framework is an integrator for an automated integration test framework inclusive of a service virtualization strategy, the next step in our journey.
• It enables shift left testing with the benefits that brings and has reduced production defects by 99.9%. This has been achieved by removing the dependencies on the upstream systems
• This solution is critical to CI/CD capability as it removes all manual process and handoffs
• This framework provides better visibility and auditability which removes the necessity for the developers to manually evidence.
• Software delivery is optimized as it enables intuitive troubleshooting through smart logging & audit.
• This solution is key to enable agile practices within middleware as it supports a lean approach, enhanced automation and collaboration between dev and test.
• This solution supports multiple testing phases, i.e. Unit Test, Link test, Integration Test, UAT test and Staging with maximum reusability of resources

Why the project was shortlisted to win a DevOps Industry award

Innovation is Key to today’s telco organization

Fostering creativity and innovation requires time for software engineers to think about the next customer experience, and to satisfy their curiosity. Software Engineers are the artists of an organisation who create beautiful customer experiences from a blank canvas. A critical factor in an organisations success is its ability to adapt to achieve or maintain its position as the market leader. It’s the ability to create space for those artists to create our future experiences is a big factor in this ambition. The collaboration between Sandhata and Vodafone UK is working hard to free up space for smart thinkers to build Vodafone customers next experience.

Full case study to follow

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Software applications have become an essential source of business value for large organisations. That’s why it’s so important for companies to find ways to continually improve their software and cycle time to deliver it to market as fast as possible. So how can organisations reduce cost and time to market while still offering quality and enabling developers to focus on innovation?

On 17th April 2018, Priya Raju, Head of DevOps Advisory at Sandhata, talked to Rob Vanstone of XebiaLabs, and Barry Chandler. Their conversation focused on processes and tools for your software delivery and how to remove waste, boost productivity, and increase the power to innovate. Sharing tips and tricks from their experience in implementing DevOps and Continuous Delivery in the field.

In this webinar, “Reduce Cycle Time at Scale” Sandhata and XebiaLabs will share tools to help you to control software delivery. Therefore, allowing you to embrace an engineering culture. There will be real world examples, illustration of common obstacles and strategies for successful implementation of a Continuous Delivery pipeline.

Key questions are addressed, including…

• Culture and organisation – how to change the mindset and look beyond current boundaries
• How to overcome the internal politics
• How to overcome Build vs Buy
• Where do you start?
• How to get visibility of where you are in your maturity level
• How to overcome a lack of an Agile culture
• Tooling – Centrally controlled or federated / Open Source or commercially available

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Here are some pictures of our Sandhata employees celebrating and enjoying the recent opening ceremony!

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The recent SEAM event focused on ‘Orchestrating CI/CD at enterprise scale’. With Sandhata’s wide-ranging experience implementing DevOps and automation solutions across many industries, we are perfectly placed to share our insights in this area.

Sandhata’s Priya Raju presented a live demo using our in-house designed and built DevOps Innovation Platform. The demo highlighted how to truly achieve CI/CD across the whole enterprise, and also covered challenges we had faced and lessons learnt while building this working solution.

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Intelligent Automation Today is an invitation-only event, where industry experts, product specialists, customers and guests will come together to discuss key trends in business automation.

The aim and focus of this event is share ideas about automation, help you understand your journey to full automation, and ultimately enable you to drive agility and empower DevOps in your business.

Focusing on “The journey to Intelligent Automation”, this event plays to Sandhata’s strengths and broad experience in helping clients start their automation journey. Sandhata have a strong background in automation and working with businesses to achieve their DevOps goals.

CA Automic Intelligent Automation Today will be taking place on the 1st March 2018 at the South Place Hotel, London, EC2M 2AF.

Read about how Sandhata transformed their client’s mainframe systems using automation and accelerated mainframe delivery to achieve the business agility they desired. For more information, contact us.

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TechStock is a free, invitation-only, event-packed technology conference that covers speaker sessions, panel discussions, and live demonstrations and exhibitions. The aim and focus of this event is to boost collaboration across functions like design, technology, and transformation – and discover new ways to design and build the bank of 2020.

This year, the theme is DevOps & Agile – a central topic for Sandhata, who will be bringing a wide scope of experience and thought leadership to the table.

There are three key angles which will be covered extensively throughout TechStock 2017:

• DevOps in Mainframes
• Agile in Offshore and Onshore Development
• DevOps in Data Technologies

At this event, all participating partners are able to showcase new products, propositions and solutions in the DevOps and Agile space. They will get first-hand experience of initiatives within RBS, as well as the opportunity to discuss requests and requirements with decision-makers in various business areas.

TechStock will be taking place on the 11th May at the RBS Gurgaon Infospace.
For more information, contact Rudraxi Parashar, RBS India.

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