Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Software businesses of every industry and all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises, are looking for ways to accelerate their software development process in the race to innovate and deliver their offerings to their customers ahead of their competition.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are obviously very popular buzzwords these days. This is for good reason based upon the evolution of these capabilities even within the past few years as major cloud vendors package these powerful capabilities as APIs. A class of APIs that we will explore in this whitepaper is Cognitive Services APIs. By packaging these AI and ML capabilities as APIs, the barrier to entry has dramatically reduced.

This eBook will cover various concepts of Azure Functions, its development, deployment, management, and monitoring. Microsoft launched Azure Function early 2016 as a preview, and it became generally available mid-November of 2016.

IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) have historically been separate disciplines, each providing significant value to the business. ITSM ensures timely delivery of essential services and support for the enterprise, while ITAM discovers and tracks the hardware and software assets for those services and optimizes the overall value, costs, and compliance across the asset lifecycle.

The Society for Information Management (SIM) 2016 IT Trends Study reveals the most common measures of CIO performance include IT's contribution to business strategy (35.5%), IT user/customer satisfaction (31.9%), and the value of IT to the business (29.6%).

Today, we live in a very connected world, where our devices, homes and cars all communicate with each other, and every company with a product or service has the need to develop software. It is one of the primary mediums by which they strive to provide better products, services and solutions, and has become paramount to a company's success. To continuously improve their software, companies must have sound DevOps or DevSecOps practices in place.

In today's enterprises, software is your company's everyday face, whether through the desktop, the cloud, or a mobile device, to all parts of the globe. Cars are computers on wheels. Thermostats are data terminals. Banks live in your phone. In this new world, software updates serve customer's demands. Each one you deliver is your opportunity to renew - or, if botched, destroy - their trust. How can you make every update top-notch at top speed?

Make an informed decision. Use this market guide to find the right AIOps solution. AIOps helps ITOps and DevOps teams detect and resolve IT problems quickly by analyzing and contextualizing massive amounts of operational data. But to successfully deploy AIOps, you must understand the market's different offerings, your needs and goals, and the technology's evolution.