In today\u2019s world, modernizing your application portfolio in a timely and cost-efficient manner is more important than ever before. Recent studies show that 75 percent of companies<\/a> exceed their annual cloud budget when FinOps best practices are not in place, and 38 percent of companies exceed their planned delivery timeline.<\/p>\n Whether these challenges arise due to trouble forecasting costs during migration planning \u2013 for example, not knowing where to start in application discovery or struggling to align migration plans with an agile delivery model<\/a> \u2013 platform automation and DevOps<\/a> can limit these challenges and increase your overall technology delivery.<\/p>\n According to our live webinar poll results, over 60 percent of attendees say it takes over six months to migrate their first application when beginning discovery.<\/strong> Additionally, only eight percent of attendees say they have an automated platform beyond their Continuous Improvement\/Continuous Development (CI\/CD) processes, and 75 percent reported they do not.<\/p>\n Creating an automation platform that goes beyond CI\/CD and addresses your employees\u2019 needs more holistically allows your team to focus on using their knowledge instead of spending too much time and effort dealing with the tools they need to support projects.<\/p>\n\n