The DevOps landscape is constantly evolving and by 2025, centralized portals for developers are expected to be prioritized, improving integration and promoting digital transformation in companies. According to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, platform engineering will play a crucial role in this process, helping companies overcome production inefficiencies, security challenges, and IT skills shortages.
One of GlobalData’s key predictions for 2025 is the transition from siled developer teams to centralized portals, which will foster better collaboration and efficiency. Charlotte Dunlap, Director of Technology and Business Services Research at GlobalData, highlights that “platform engineering will play a larger role in clustering siled developer teams into centralized portals to improve production efficiencies and ensure appropriate policy controls related to with security and data loss prevention.
Dunlap also notes that centralized developer group portals within companies are extremely rare due to several factors, such as company acquisitions, where newly acquired development teams are reluctant to abandon their long-established ways of working. However, companies are looking to formalize increasingly advanced developer-focused features involved in digital transformations, including creating automated workflows and custom integrations, as well as hosting third-party applications and API integrations.
GlobalData Predictions for DevOps in 2025: Evolving DevOps Models to Formalize the Development Process
Demand for Integration Experience
In other cloud-related predictions, Dunlap adds that enterprises are demanding a greater variety of integration expertise to support their digital consulting needs. In the last year, new API services have begun to reflect an expanding ecosystem of vendors, including telecom and other infrastructure providers, interested in entering the application modernization space.
IT Skills Shortage
The IT skills shortage is causing significant strains in departments modeled by DevOps, where not only is there a lack of internal expertise, but businesses are also unable to find suitable professional services in the form of integrators and consultants to ensure successful business transformations. . Dunlap concludes that “new entrants helping to underpin digital transformation projects will offer both infrastructure and application modernization solutions aimed at developers and IT operations teams. “Telcos began formalizing new internal programs such as API services and developer centers in the last year, and are also beginning to partner with traditional platform providers, complementing those solutions with consulting and systems integration services.”
Innovation and Operational Excellence
New roles in DevOps will embrace collaborative ecosystems, automated workflows, and advanced developer-centric features for smoother innovation and operational excellence. Formalizing these processes will not only improve efficiency and security, but will also allow companies to quickly adapt to changing market demands and customer needs.
