Benefits of test environment automation
The benefits of test environment automation cover the ranges cited in the following points:
- 30-40% reduction in time to market, thanks to an improved provisioning cycle time
- Up to 50% reduction in manual health check efforts
- 20-30% enhanced environment efficiency through 30% reduction in IT service request fulfillment
- 30-40% reduced cost of operations
Additional qualitative benefits of environment management automation include the following ones:
- Elimination of errors due to manual interventions and delays due to dependencies
- Zero tolerance with respect to continuous availability of the environment
- Consistent and accurate environments through automated configuration updates
- Optimum utilization of infrastructure assets through better license management
- Availability of the environment as a service model
