Powering Strategic Software Development: Why BlueOptima Acquired Cirata's DevOps Solutions

The core of what we do at BlueOptima is to optimize and enable engineers and companies to perform at their best. This commitment to maximizing the economic and social value that software engineering organizations are capable of delivering led us into a formal agreement to acquire the DevOps solutions business from Cirata (formerly WANdisco). This acquisition is not just an expansion of our portfolio; it's a pivotal move that significantly advances our mission to provide unparalleled, objective insights across the entire software development lifecycle.

This acquisition brings Cirata’s well-established DevOps products—including solutions for globally synchronized Subversion, Gerrit, and Git—directly into the BlueOptima suite. These tools represent fundamental infrastructure, enabling globally distributed software development teams to collaborate both efficiently and securely.

Why this acquisition, and why now? Our decision is rooted in a clear strategic vision, particularly in a landscape where engineering leaders are under immense pressure to justify multi-million-dollar technology budgets and demonstrate clear ROI. This acquisition provides distinct advantages that strengthen BlueOptima's unique value proposition:

Deepening Our Portfolio with Foundational DevOps Solutions: By integrating Cirata’s robust DevOps solutions, we are incorporating products that are already deeply embedded within the software development infrastructure of many organizations. This enhances the breadth and depth of our offering, providing more comprehensive support for critical development workflows and reinforcing BlueOptima's market-leading position in objective decision-making across the software development estate.

Expanding Our Global Footprint and Market Reach: This expansion allows us to extend our reach and bring the benefits of BlueOptima's engineering intelligence to an even wider array of organizations globally.

Integrating Specialized Expertise: We will welcome a team of highly skilled professionals from Cirata who bring unique and deep expertise in source code management. Their knowledge and experience will be invaluable as we continue to innovate and deliver actionable intelligence to our clients.

Accelerating Our Mission to Optimize Enterprise Software Development: This acquisition dramatically advances our overarching mission. We aim to replace subjective, flawed metrics with objective, transparent, and standardized measures of engineering output, helping organizations deliver better software, faster, and at lower cost.

Unpacking the MultiSite Advantage

Subversion MultiSite Plus, Git MultiSite, and Gerrit MultiSite – marks a significant leap in our ability to support enterprise software development at scale. These technologies are designed to overcome the inherent challenges of geographically dispersed engineering teams, ensuring consistent performance and data integrity across multiple locations.

• Global Synchronization and Collaboration: At their core, these MultiSite solutions enable real-time, active-active replication of Git, Subversion, and Gerrit repositories. This means that engineering teams, whether in London, New York, or Bangalore, can access and commit to their source code management (SCM) systems locally, eliminating latency issues that typically plague distributed development. For CTOs and VPs of Engineering, this translates directly into a more efficient global workforce, where collaboration is seamless and delays due to geographic distance are minimized.
• Enhanced Data Consistency and Disaster Recovery: MultiSite technology ensures that all repositories remain synchronized, guaranteeing data consistency and providing robust disaster recovery capabilities. In the event of a localized outage, development can continue uninterrupted from another site, safeguarding critical intellectual property and maintaining business continuity.
• Access Control Plus for Granular Security: The addition of Access Control Plus provides fine-grained, centralized access control for Subversion and Git repositories. This is crucial for enterprises managing complex security policies and regulatory compliance, allowing for precise control over who can access and modify sensitive code.
• Addressing Key Engineering Pain Points: For many of our clients, managing a diverse SCM landscape while ensuring consistent performance and security has been a persistent challenge. These MultiSite solutions directly address issues like:
  
  • Latency in Distributed Development: Reducing the time developers spend waiting for code to sync or for remote commits to register.
  • Data Silos and Inconsistent Environments: Ensuring all teams work from the same, up-to-date version of the codebase.
  • Security and Compliance Overhead: Centralizing access management and audit trails across disparate systems.

How This Works with BlueOptima's Engineering Intelligence

This acquisition creates a powerful synergy. BlueOptima's platform already provides objective, data-driven insights into engineering performance by analyzing source code activity, code quality, and developer productivity. By bringing MultiSite solutions into our ecosystem, we can now:

• Enrich Performance Insights: With a unified and consistently replicated source code foundation, Performance Insights gains even greater fidelity in measuring developer productivity in a truly global context. It enhances our ability to identify bottlenecks, and track best practices across globally distributed teams. Accurate, low-latency SCM data is foundational to precise performance measurement.
• Strengthen Code Insights: The ability to secure and synchronize source code repositories globally complements Code Insights' capabilities in Secrets Detection, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and Security Vulnerability Detection (SVD). A unified, replicated codebase ensures that security scans are comprehensive and consistent across all development locations, accelerating remediation by providing developers with accurate and timely feedback on vulnerabilities.
• Optimize Global Benchmark Analysis: Our proprietary Global Benchmark, built on decades of data, will now be able to contextualize performance within an even more robust framework of globally distributed SCM operations. This enhances our ability to provide comparative analysis against industry peers and different geographies, demonstrating "what good looks like" in a truly global context.
• Strategic ROI for Technology Leaders: For CTOs and VPs of Engineering, this means a clearer line of sight into the ROI of their global development investments. Not only can they objectively measure how productive their distributed teams are, but they can also ensure the underlying infrastructure supports peak performance, reduces technical debt, and minimizes security risks inherent in fragmented SCM environments.

By integrating these solutions, BlueOptima now offers an even more comprehensive platform that not only tells you what is happening in your engineering organization but also provides the foundational infrastructure to help you optimize how it happens, globally and securely.

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