DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is the American research company specializing in issues of digital transformation. It is known for the researches in the field of DevOps and conversions of information technologies for business. DORA helps the large companies, including Capital One and Verizon, to estimate own investments into IT.

History

2018: Google purchased DORA

In December, 2018 Google announced purchase of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) company with which it cooperated before., As reported in the blog DORA, this transaction will provide to developers access to results of analytical data processing, using practice of DevOps in cloud space. The financial component of the agreement does not reveal.

We were always focused on providing the best opportunities for developers and operators and investment into tools and workflows to turn it into reality, and then to make them widely available to commands worldwide — the vice president for engineering developments in Google Cloud Melody Meckfessel says. — We are glad that DORA joined the Google Cloud family to help to strengthen our data-driven approach and to understand what makes developers and operators productive and happy.

Google purchased the company specializing in DevOps for the best understanding of productivity of developers

DORA consider that the company "will naturally fit" into Google thanks to attention of Internet giant to developers and community Open Source. Before the companies worked jointly on researches in the field of DevOps. The founder and the CEO of DORA Nicole Forsgren says that they after the company merger will continue "work on understanding of key features, measurement of the results based on income and process optimization to help teams to deliver their software in process of their transition to a cloud".^[1]

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