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I have consulted for quite a few Enterprise and from my point of view none of this will come to pass unless everything happens out of the box. Of course I can b

I have consulted for quite a few Enterprise and from my point of view none of this will come to pass unless everything happens out of the box. Of course I can be completely wrong. Every automation requires paying carefull attention to business process, designing it to handle all possible scenarios,handle sudden failures gracefully, and recover and restart from a known state. This is doable but requires a large attention span, most enterprise projects evangelist gets completely deranged if it can't be done in 2 weeks because hey we are agile. As an example most Enterprise are on cloud because it's cool. It still takes 2 months to get an approval, VM provision still happens with hand, Dev still insist on running their instances 24x7 and get away with it. Irony is every single one of them talks of how cool DevOps is but never gets it implemented because once it's done their will feel unloved. Cloud was cool 2 years back. Currently it's automation, cloud cost control products, access management tool,agile (daily 2 hour standup) and RPA. I am intrigued how these trends get started.

lifeisstillgood 7y ago
I am also intrigued. And yes I do think that without an engrained culture of automation / engineering the long term prospects are dim. But, the RPA projects I know of at major enterprises are deeply funded supported and reported right at the top. The justification and rationale are real - too many opaque manual processes, costing too much. Yes it's a thing like "cloud" was - but despite the obvious fails (which primarily are to do with being on private cloud when no single company can possibly be big enough) cloud is a thing that's not going away for enterprises - neither will this As for the "oss as advert" - yeah I agree. Good luck to them :-)
- drieddust 7y ago
  > Yes it's a thing like "cloud" was - but despite the obvious fails (which primarily are to do with being on private cloud when no single company can possibly be big enough) I am referring to companies on Azure and yet having a 2 month process to approve a VM.

lifeisstillgood 7y ago

I am also intrigued. And yes I do think that without an engrained culture of automation / engineering the long term prospects are dim. But, the RPA projects I know of at major enterprises are deeply funded supported and reported right at the top. The justification and rationale are real - too many opaque manual processes, costing too much. Yes it's a thing like "cloud" was - but despite the obvious fails (which primarily are to do with being on private cloud when no single company can possibly be big enough) cloud is a thing that's not going away for enterprises - neither will this As for the "oss as advert" - yeah I agree. Good luck to them :-)

drieddust 7y ago
> Yes it's a thing like "cloud" was - but despite the obvious fails (which primarily are to do with being on private cloud when no single company can possibly be big enough) I am referring to companies on Azure and yet having a 2 month process to approve a VM.