Innovation Velocity: the Key Driver of Cloud Adoption

Cloud computing can help make organizations more agile, proactive and responsive than ever. According to MongoDB’s 2016 Cloud Adoption Survey, the most often-cited rationale for cloud adoption was accelerating time to value with 40% of respondents indicating cloud adoption reduces time to app delivery and 30% reporting cloud enables them to scale to new geographic regions and markets more swiftly. Cost, which has been considered to be the leading driver of cloud adoption, has been replaced by time to market, and it’s easy to see why.

Time to Market is critical to Innovation. Innovation is key to driving revenue.

Inability to innovate is a huge risk for organizations today. If organizations can’t increase their innovation velocity, they lose out on new markets and new revenue streams, and often, IT is seen as a blocker to the velocity that is essential to remain competitive in today's global, digitally connected market.

Organizations need IT to enable the business, and move fast to beat out existing competitors and potential upstarts to market. They need tools and practices that allow them seize opportunities, and resources focused on developing new applications rather than just maintaining old ones. By outsourcing underlying infrastructure to a vendor, or in the case of private cloud to an internal organization, product teams can focus on app delivery to enter early into new markets and meet customer needs.

Technology can be an enabler, but it is not the only thing to consider when you want to change how your organization delivers new products to market. How should you go about adopting new cloud services for this purpose? Some things to consider

  • Which functions will you move to the cloud? Don’t just adopt the cloud to follow the trend. Consider what within your organization can be optimized with less operational overhead. Is it your database maintenance, monitoring service, or your entire application development infrastructure? Take into account data governance policies in your organization, and roles and responsibilities that will be adjusted as a result. Also consider whether you should plan out initiatives to build a private cloud for your entire organization, or work with an external vendor.
  • How will you align business and IT to deliver products faster? Cloud adoption can lead to business process transformation, and this opens up an opportunity for business units to work more closely with product teams, offering feedback not only during the requirements phase but throughout the development lifecycle. Setting your teams up for success in this area will only lead to bigger gains. that will be adjusted as a result. Also consider whether you should plan out initiatives to build a private cloud for your entire organization, or work with an external vendor.
  • What will need to change? How will you adjust your cultural and developmental practices to accommodate this new infrastructure? Encourage your teams to move quickly, fail fast and leverage the operational efficiencies offered by the cloud. Failure, when part of iterative development can be low cost and high yield -- and it can decrease the potential of deploying faulty software. Work with your team to ensure you can adjust your development processes, possibly moving to agile development methods, new project management roles, delivery pipelines and continuous integration software so you can spot problems early.

The 2016 Cloud Brief includes insights on the progression of cloud computing based on responses from over 2,000 technical stakeholders. We’ve compiled the full results of the survey into our Report, which will help you see how the fastest growing database community views the progress of and barriers to cloud adoption in their organizations.

Read the 2016 Cloud Brief

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4 Reasons Not to Miss out on MongoDB World 2016

You may have learned MongoDB online at MongoDB University , at a User Group or a local MongoDB event . Now it’s time to take the next step, and continue your mastery of MongoDB at MongoDB World . MongoDB World is the largest conference of MongoDB developers, operators, and business leaders coming together to learn, collaborate, and exchange ideas about solving problems using MongoDB. It’s also the place where you’ll hear about new trends in technology like IoT, Spark, and Microservices. Here’s how you can expect to learn and grow at MongoDB World. Learn best practices. Based on your feedback, we've added more sessions by MongoDB engineers including a whole new track of sessions by the MongoDB Drivers team. We also have four brand new, full-day workshops on 3.2 , Ops Manager, Asynchronous Microservices, and Enterprise Architecture, skills that will help you excel in the coming year. With over 80 deep-dive technical sessions delivered by MongoDB engineers and customers on Analytics, Performance, Operations, Microservices, and Internals there’s a lot to learn. Your biggest challenge will be picking the sessions. First-hand insight into the latest news. MongoDB World is the place to get first-hand insight on what’s coming in MongoDB. Past shows have announced new server functionality such as Document Level Locking, and new products like MongoDB Compass, the Connector for BI, and more! This year get front row seats for one of our biggest announcements to date. You won't want to miss this one! Meet the MongoDB experts. Get advice on your deployment and ask your toughest questions of MongoDB experts at Ask the Experts. At this real-time MongoDB support center you can whiteboard solutions to your most pressing MongoDB problems with the support of a MongoDB consulting engineer, giving you invaluable insights. Meet other MongoDB enthusiasts. The event brings together the fastest growing database community on the planet. You’ll have endless opportunities to connect with others in the Leaf Lounge and the Women and Trans Coders Lounge. We’ll keep the conversations going at the After Party. This is the best opportunity to connect with other professionals and keep your finger on the community pulse. There’s a lot to look forward to at MongoDB World. Join us in New York, June 28-29 and get everything you need to prepare for your next year and your next project. Register for MongoDB World 2016

June 13, 2016
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MongoDB Releases “Focus Mode” in Compass GUI

We’re excited to announce an improvement to the aggregation-building experience in MongoDB Compass. Compass already makes it easy to view and manage your MongoDB databases, and with the addition of Focus Mode you now have the option to dial in on specific stages within your aggregation pipeline. Overview MongoDB's Query API and Aggregation Pipelines enable easy retrieval and processing of data from collections. They also facilitate complex operations such as filtering, grouping, and transforming, making computation and analysis effortless. MongoDB Compass' intuitive interface simplifies the process of building aggregations by enabling developers to easily create, test, and refine aggregation pipelines, and the introduction of Focus Mode takes this a step further. When constructing pipelines, having to simultaneously view and consider multiple stages can make it challenging to analyze the impact of a specific stage, leading to increased cognitive load. Now, developers can toggle Focus Mode on stages, opening a view that focuses exclusively on the contents of the specific stage they are working on. This view can also be used to view sample input (before the aggregation stage is applied) and output (after the stage is applied) documents, aiding in the understanding, troubleshooting, and optimizing of the data pipeline. Developers can also switch between different stages by accessing a drop-down menu at the top of their screen. This makes identifying inefficiencies and optimizing performance easier, as well as providing deeper insights from the output documents for data-driven decision making. Focus Mode offers a streamlined and distraction-free environment for working with stages, improving the efficiency and precision of testing, debugging, and analyzing the impact of each stage on the data, ultimately simplifying the creation and management of pipelines. Conclusion The addition of Focus Mode is part of our continued refresh of the query and aggregation experience in Compass. These improvements are made possible thanks to the feedback of our developer community, so we encourage you to try out this new feature and let us know what you think! To learn more about Aggregation Pipeline Builder in Compass, visit our documentation .

March 21, 2023