{"id":8347,"date":"2020-11-23T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee.yelkdev.site\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:47:30","slug":"what-are-the-benefits-of-a-digital-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equalexperts.com\/blog\/our-thinking\/what-are-the-benefits-of-a-digital-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the benefits of a Digital Platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embarking on building a Digital Platform can be a rewarding experience for your organisation. It will mean you can benefit from faster innovation, higher quality (with improved reliability), reduced costs, and happy people. But it\u2019s no small undertaking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, before embarking on a project, it\u2019s important to understand the benefits and assess whether they align with your digital strategy. Here we attempt to unpack and understand the main benefits of a Digital Platform, to help you come to a better understanding of whether it is right for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>There are many benefits, so we have broken them down into the following sections.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Digital Platform allows faster innovation<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faster time to launch. Automating and abstracting cloud setup and simplifying governance processes means a new Digital Service can be launched to customers within days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frequent updates. Creating an optimal deployment pipeline allows customer experiments in a Digital Service to be updated on at least a daily basis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased focus on business problems. Institutionalising new policies that cross-cut departments means uncoordinated and\/or duplicated processes can be eliminated, and people can focus on higher-value work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More business model opportunities. Friction-free, rapid launches of Digital Services allow an organisation to separate its differentiating business functions from utilities and to quickly trial different business models in new marketplaces.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>It invariably provides a higher quality solution<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fewer environmental issues. Automating configuration and infrastructure lowers the potential for environment-specific problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More deterministic test results. Centralising automated test executors reduces opportunities for nondeterminism in test suites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faster rollback. Creating an effective rollback system with health checks means deployment failures can be fixed quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>You will benefit from increased reliability<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More operable services. Providing logging, monitoring, and alerting out of the box increases the operability of Digital Services, and helps users to quickly discern abnormal operating conditions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graceful degradation. Implementing circuit breakers and bulkheads on the wire for third-party systems allows Digital Services to gracefully degrade on failure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improved business continuity. Automating the entire platform infrastructure in the cloud creates new business continuity options.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Improved ways of working<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Policy experimentation. Cutting across departments means new policies can be forged in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/playbooks.equalexperts.com\/inceptions\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inceptions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/playbooks.equalexperts.com\/chaos-day-playbook\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chaos Day testing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/playbooks.equalexperts.com\/secure-delivery-playbook\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">secure delivery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drive new practices. Creating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theitriskmanager.com\/2018\/12\/09\/constraints-that-enable\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enabling constraints<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in user journeys can drive the adoption of new practices, such as restricting shared libraries to encourage decoupled domains for Digital Services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simpler processes. Establishing meaningful Service Level Objectives with an automated alerting toolchain can make You Build It You Run It production support easier to set up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Take advantage of the most advanced technology<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the best available technologies. Standardising cloud building blocks means the best available technology stack can be provided to Digital Service teams.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traffic optimisations. Surfacing self-service, elastic infrastructure means Digital Service teams can easily optimise for fluctuating traffic patterns without significant costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zero downtime updates. Consolidating service runtimes means functional updates can be continually applied with zero downtime for Digital Services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Benefitting from reduced costs<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economies of scale. Centralising the Digital Service lifecycle means economies of scale can be achieved, as more Digital Service teams can be added without incurring repeat buy\/build costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easier cost management. Centralising self-service touchpoints for automated infrastructure allows infrastructure costs to be visualised and closely managed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positioning security specialists in the Digital Platform teams means security threats can be more easily identified and Digital Services can quickly receive security updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Ultimately you will have happier, more productive people<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lower cognitive load. Abstracting away the Digital Service lifecycle reduces your staff\u2019s cognitive load, reducing lead times to less than 24 hours for a new joiner, a mover between teams, a leaver, or a new Digital Service team.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easier to identify talent needs. Splitting business domains into Digital Services helps to highlight which domains are true business differentiators and require the most talented engineers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased talent attractors. Using the latest cloud technology on Digital Platform and Digital Service teams will encourage talented engineers to join your organisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More recruitment options. Concentrating specialist skills in Digital Platform teams means recruitment efforts for Digital Service teams can focus on onshore\/offshore developers, testers, etc. without requiring more costly, specialised cloud skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Contact us!\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">We hope you find this useful. For more information about Digital Platforms take a look at our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/playbooks.equalexperts.com\/digital-platform\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Digital Platform Playbook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">We thrive on feedback and welcome <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/playbooks.equalexperts.com\/digital-platform\/contribute\/how-to-contribute\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">contributions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">. \u00a0 As you can see, we love building digital platforms!\u00a0 If you\u2019d like us to share our experience with you, get in touch in the form below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\twindow.hsFormsOnReady = window.hsFormsOnReady || [];\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\twindow.hsFormsOnReady.push(()=>{\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thbspt.forms.create({\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tportalId: 7208712,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tformId: \"83acdf22-cf43-47ba-b91f-0428264b824a\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttarget: \"#hbspt-form-1758977167000-4197506517\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tregion: \"eu1\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t})});\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hbspt-form\" id=\"hbspt-form-1758977167000-4197506517\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we attempt to understand the main benefits of a Digital Platform, such as faster innovation, higher quality,  improved reliability, and reduced costs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[110,153,33,135],"location":[397],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-thinking","tag-continuous-delivery","tag-digital-platforms","tag-operability","tag-playbooks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What are the benefits of a Digital Platform? | Equal Experts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The benefits of a Digital Platform are faster innovation, higher quality, improved reliability, and reduced costs. 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