In the last post of this series, we covered the best practices you can implement to achieve consistent security and governance for your multi-cloud, heterogenous IT environment during M&A integration. The final recommendation for highly efficient M&A IT integration is to enable developer access to the parent company’s cloud resources with enterprise guardrails in place.
This addresses the challenge of developer productivity during M&A – where the developers you acquire remain isolated from the parent organization, without access to shared infrastructure and the ability to collaborate efficiently with the broader team.
Ultimately, the goal is to help your newly acquired developers release software faster, removing the toil they face in the process. This in turn delivers faster time to market for products and services that address your customer needs and help grow the business.
Enable Developer Access to Cloud Resources with Enterprise Guardrails
You can enable faster developer access to cloud resources, more efficient collaboration, and shortened time to market with a developer platform that abstracts infrastructure tasks and provides a “golden path” to production. VMware Tanzu Application Platform gives you this layer of abstraction, functioning as a secure software supply chain for developers to build and ship modern applications running on Kubernetes in any cloud environment.
Within Tanzu Application Platform, your DevOps or platform operations teams define security, compliance and target infrastructure policies, allowing developers to focus on code and not worry about infrastructure-related tasks. Developers from the acquired company can onboard quickly, leveraging prebuilt templates that already contain your policies and work within the developer’s existing integrated development environment (IDE). They do not need to learn the new infrastructure that their code runs on because those tasks have been abstracted away.
With a centralized, multi-cloud developer platform like Tanzu Application Platform, you can accelerate the onboarding process and velocity of code to production as well as facilitate cross-team collaboration between entities that likely would have been siloed otherwise. Working from the same platform, teams from the acquired company can begin collaborating with their counterparts immediately, unlocking new value from the acquisition. These faster, more-secure paths to production allow teams to have shorter release cycles, less toil and ultimately deliver more business value.
Catch up on the 5 Phases of Highly Efficient M&A IT Integration by reading the full series:
- Day 0 Employee Productivity
- Multi-Cloud Network Unification
- Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Consolidation
- Multi-Cloud Security and Governance
- Developer Access with Enterprise Guardrails
Want the full story in one place? Read our whitepaper “The Executive Guide to Efficient M&A IT Integration” here!
Our goal is to give you the strategic guidance you need to achieve faster time to value in your M&A integration efforts. Through these phases of integration, you can deliver a more seamless process for your organization, while developing a durable framework for future M&A events that follow the same playbook.
