The products produced from the various build-a-thons are proofs-of-concept. Nothing real. They’re treating it like it’s real, but those numbers don’t reflect real use cases; they’re extrapolated from the build sessions. Sh-- will hit fan once they have to do something real for living and breathing customers.
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all noise from the rear end of this "Swan" guy - if you know !
There are no clients because it is not real yet. Bionix is a new brand name for a bunch of tools and services none of which have actually been sold on their own merits yet. These were all components bundled into other deals.
@2akn I would also be interested in referencable clients who have benefited. Without a lot more detail the numbers are essential meaningless.
"As a proof of concept for Platform DXC, we re-engineered a solution deployment that yielded big results:
◾Lead time reduced from 1500 hours to 2 hours
◾Work reduced from 660 hours to less than an hour
◾From 8 teams to 1 team
◾Meaning 7 hand offs reduced to zero
The numbers speak for themselves"
- Sounds like the national lottery.
Any referencable clients who are, no doubt, over the moon about this?
...Anyone?
...Anyone?
We had all this when we were HP and then HPE - remember Cloud System Matrix, Cloud Automation, Converged Infrastructure etc When you looked under the covers it was all about a series of tools slung together. We also combined this kinda automation with early AI/Analytics - we were going down a good path. At least we created some templates that could be completed to drive the automation. We also in HPE had self healing systems - demo built in Bristol labs . So history is starting to repeat itself. Problem is the good guys who could create this sh-- have all been made redundant. This time we have a load of ex CSC cronies who know bollocks apart from how to create fancy powerpoints who dream up Bionix and are pushing stuff we cant build or deliver. All smoke and mirrors.
Externally BIONIX is just a nice story, and internally an excuse to fire more people. Only BIONIX powerpoint-based alleged optimizations' real effect is McKinsey recommended DXC staff reduction.
If DXC's agile process and "Bionix" is so great why does it take 10 people to figure out a server routing issue
There's lots of blurb about DXC's agile process transformation and digital transformation. I find that difficult to beliebe. Not impossible, just difficilt, as I remember DXC's 'agile' or at least what they kept calling 'agile implementation'. To me it was undisciplined 'seat of the pants' implementation using a few agile 'techniques' that they'd picked up from a powerpoint. I would describe it as a hybrid of crossing-your-client-fingers-behind-your-back and integrated silent prayer to enage the almighty in a stakeholder relationship of luck and gambling with very little risk management. Things got thrown over the wall, but requirements (some of them pretty key) were left flying outside in the wind. But they did deliver, it just didn't provide what the client wanted, and contrary to popular belief ended up costing much more. The only time it worked at all is when the customer came in to 'take over' and manage it.
Still. Nice blogs on internal tests showing show how Bionix has helped reduce 50-80% time in ops; defects; 25% reduction in testing costs; 50% reduction in defects themselves; 60% reduction in testing; 65% in business process transaction (what we would call being riffed). The ability to predict and fix incidents before they happened. Yeah, put that on your KRA's: "I fixed 71% of incidents before they happened" blah blah blah.
But apart from glossy videos of Steve Hilton without a tie, I don't see many customer case studies, which is what I'd be looking for. DXC's webpages just seem to be about "how great WE are"; whereas I'd be tempted to go to a Business website where top 100 brands are shouting "How great THEY are".
It is just a branding of various toolsets. It's one of the new "Compound Offerings". DXC is getting desperate...
I did better than Google - I searched internally.
And discovered Bionix isn't one thing, its dozens of different things. It's various different tools and processes to deliver automation in different areas of IT.
Reading down the list, yes some of this looks like its ready for use and will possibly work.
Your right "DXC Technology Unveils DXC Bionix™ to Provide Automated IT Services at Scale" maybe if you would use Google and search you could have answered this question in less than 10 seconds.
DXC Bionix leverages analytics and AI, lean processes and leading automation capabilities to produce greater insight, speed and efficiency across the company’s global delivery ecosystem. DXC is leveraging DXC Bionix to respond to client demand for greater IT performance and the need to digitally transform traditional IT environments and processes.
http://www.dxc.technology/newsroom/press_releases/144214-dxc_technology_unveils_dxc_bionix_to_provide_automated_it_services_at_scale
We saw a demo of something once. They didnt call it bionix but some sort of automation tool they had to get licenses for.
It did something we could have wrote a sql to do......
Good question.
I am fairly sure "Bionix" if its real is some off the shelf product marketed by DXC as "Bionix".
I'd love to know if I am right, I don't know anyone involved in it.