Catch us at Slush to talk about sparking agility:
DevOps leader Polar Squad helps organizations scale up, bring down costs and boost sustainability while creating a better work culture for everyone.
Erno Aapa, COO and co-founder of Polar Squad, says one of his company’s most important jobs is creating an employee-friendly working culture that leads to better business.
“At its heart, DevOps is really about bringing together different groups of people – from designers and software engineers to management, business and financial teams – so that they can work better together,” says Aapa.
“When you don’t understand each other, the amount of friction grows and things start to slow down and clog up, which is not to anyone’s benefit,” he says.
DevOps forerunner
Polar Squad is a leader in DevOps, which was borne out of the need to streamline the overall software development lifecycle away from operating in silos with ineffective communication and cooperation between teams.
The old-world way of working was inefficient, costly and often frustrating with different teams within an organization unintentionally working against each other rather than together towards the same goal: creating a quality product that reaches the end consumer as quickly as possible and gives real value to the user.
While DevOps is difficult to delineate precisely as a field, Acumen Research and Consulting (ARC), a global provider of market intelligence on IT, investment, telecommunication, manufacturing and consumer technology markets provides insights about its scale. The rapidly expanding global DevOps market, valued at more than $7 billion in 2021, is forecast to reach nearly $40 billion by 2030, according to ARC.
“We see a shift happening and we want to have a say in it. We work with the best companies and most progressive clients to find tomorrow’s practices,” says Aapa.
Polar Squad’s more than 50 professionals are headquartered in Helsinki, with offices in Tampere, Berlin, and Málaga. With clients in a broad range of sectors including education, healthcare, HR and banking, Polar Squad’s DevOps addresses big-picture issues such as the climate crisis by using practices that enable sustainability.
“In DevOps, sustainability is really about understanding the impacts of the services used, quantifying impacts through the entire workload lifecycle, and applying the best practices to reduce these impacts,” says Aapa.
Meet us at Slush
At Slush, which brings the global startup ecosystem together in Helsinki on November 17 and 18, Polar Squad will be at the Fusion Ecosystem mega-booth.
Aapa and his team are happy to tell you more about how DevOps can scale up organizations, optimise costs and improve sustainability in the cloud, whether you’re a potential client, recruit or partner.