Benchmark Report Reveals Critical Quantitative Metrics for Enterprises Transforming into Software-Driven Organizations

Pivotal Software, Inc. (NYSE: PVTL), a cloud-native platform company, today launched its inaugural Built to Adapt Benchmark (The Benchmark), a commissioned research report by Longitude Research Ltd, a Financial Times Company, and Ovum Ltd that provides a quantitative framework of measurable indicators designed to gauge how well an organization builds software that delivers business value. Since August 2017, Pivotal has used The Benchmark to assess the software development proficiency of organizations across five industries and six countries.

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The Benchmark indicators are designed to focus on how to build great software that delivers business value. Each indicator is organized across five business outcomes that define a modern software company: Speed, Stability, Scalability, Security, and Savings. Across the world, organizations in every sector and market are changing their businesses due to software innovations—from German car manufacturing, to US retail, to Japanese telecoms. To keep pace with competition, the world’s leading businesses are learning to become software-driven organizations themselves: rapidly accelerating developer productivity, porting applications to the cloud, automating infrastructure, and innovating with new software.

While each Benchmark indicator is organized across five business outcomes, some indicators are applicable to multiple categories. For example, budget flexibility to easily initiate new projects can impact Savings and Speed. And the optimal investment ratio of developing versus maintaining software can determine an organization’s ability to Scale, as well as reduce technical debt to unlock Savings. Effective team integrations to operate in small balanced teams in order to take an idea on a Monday and build working software by Friday can unlock Speed, as well as Savings and Scalability.

Built to Adapt Benchmark Framework

Built on Pivotal’s experience working with world-leading disruptors and established businesses, the Built to Adapt Benchmark aims to provide a new framework for assessing and discussing the performance of a given company, market or sector on their transformation into a software-driven future.

Pivotal partnered with Longitude and Ovum to assess organizations in six markets—the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan and Singapore and across five industries—Banking, Insurance, Automotive, Retail, and Telecommunications. The administered survey was designed based on widely accepted standards of best practice in software development. In addition, research showed that there are five business outcomes that define an effective modern software company, which is measured with a set of quantitative indicators.