Today, drawing from customer feedback on real user experiences, we look at how SCA means less overall risk, money, and effort with Sonatype’s Nexus Lifecycle and Nexus Firewall. Our third in this series, we started with the importance of data quality and then detailed the benefits to individual developers and dev teams.

Accelerate Development

Moving quickly in the software development process means more than just a faster time to market, it’s also more responsive.

“[When] producing new applications and updating old applications… it takes much less time to add features or produce a new product out to our subscribers than it did before,” explained Michael, a Senior Enterprise Architect at the MIB Group.

“That allows us, obviously, to start billing for those services sooner. Without Nexus [Lifecycle], it would take a considerably greater amount of time. Our return on investment is based upon how many applications we bring out and the turnaround time.”

Release speed is key for a Java development manager who also responded: “the solution has improved the time it takes us to release secure apps to market by at least 50%.”

Customers also reported the ability to respond to problems faster.

“It significantly lowers the turnaround for responding to incoming issues,” said Ryan, a Security Analyst. “It also empowered our support staff to be able to pass along audit results without having to loop in the security team directly. There is a much lower overhead involved when doing it that way.”

Michael also noted some dramatic improvements for his team.

“The data quality helps us solve problems faster. I would estimate it saves us weeks to a month, or more, depending upon the scope of a project.”

Improving Efficiency

An effective SCA solution streamlines the development and releasing process. Estimating a (Read more...)