Value Stream Delivery Platforms (VSDPs) – A must for high-performing teams!
Tags: devops, testing, cicd, cloud
Published: 2022-08-04 12:57:37

With the lines blurred between Development and Operations, the focus for the last few years has been on the speed of deployments and frequent iterations to applications.
The market now has a variety of DevOps platforms, all promising efficient DevOps metrics post adoptions for faster releases, reduced failure rates, quicker rollbacks, and whatnot. However, **what’s the point in doing things faster if you are not doing the right thing? How do you ensure the product aligns with your business value?**

Gartner has now defined a new category of solutions called Value Stream Delivery Platforms or VSDPs in short. So, what is a value stream delivery platform (VSDP)? It is a unified platform that has the capability to integrate with DevOps tools for streamlining continuous software integrations, development, and delivery.

## How does a value stream delivery platform (VSDP) create business value?
Perception on how essential a VSDP really is depends on the cultural, financial, and technical maturity aspects of an organization:

**Small and medium-sized companies:** There are many SMEs who have given up on their promised DevOps business outcomes because of a lack of in-house skills, budgets, and poor handling of external dependencies. A VSDP could help reinstate DevOps best practices by minimizing dependencies on skills, funds, and improving visibility across CI/CD for better team collaboration and innovations.

**Large companies/Enterprises** on the other hand have hundreds of projects every year with numerous skilled resources floating in and out of the core DevOps teams. They appreciate having a single, unifying platform to facilitate faster onboarding, fewer handovers, maintenance, and eliminating non-value-adding tasks. A VSDP can help achieve all of this and more with its out-of-the-box capabilities and wide range of 3rd party integrations.

## Ozone as a Value Stream Delivery Platform
[Ozone](https://ozone.one/) is a Modern [CI/CD Platform](https://ozone.one/product/ozone-continuous-integration/) specifically designed for cloud-native Kubernetes deployments of modern apps. It offers various out-of-the-box capabilities and numerous meaningful [integrations](https://ozone.one/product/ozone-continuous-integration/) to enable teams to iterate and release faster. With automation and a standardized approach to deployments through Tekton reusable pipelines, Ozone helps [DevOps](https://ozone.one/product/ozone-devsecops-governance/) teams save critical time and resources while helping to focus on value delivery.

## Deliver end-to-end value to your customers before your competition!
If you have a team that has embraced or is looking at adopting Kubernetes for cross-cloud [deployments](https://ozone.one/product/ozone-continuous-delivery/) of microservices, you would invariably be dependent upon a complex [DevOps](https://ozone.one/product/ozone-devsecops-governance/) toolchain. While you might be using a platform for orchestrating certain part or parts of the [CICD](https://ozone.one/product/ozone-continuous-integration/) processes, getting a holistic insight and understanding of DevOps productivity would still remain unsolved.