IBM believes one significant means for achieving sustained innovation is DevOps. A DevOps approach applies agile and lean thinking principles to all stakeholders in an organization who develop, operate or benefit from the business’s software systems, including customers, suppliers and partners. It offers competitive advantage to a business by driving productivity with tools and processes needed for seamless application integration, rapid iteration with improved cycle times, continuous delivery to development, test and production environments, and masterful deployment and management across environments. Follows IBM Social Computing Guidelines.