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DevOps for AI: Are you ready to scale?
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April 22, 2021
What does it take to bring powerful change? Speed + quality + scale + flexibility. Just as DevOps is bringing this to software development, you can use DevOps to power up your AI model delivery.
The next wave of competitive advantage is expected to come from technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technologies like blockchain and the imperative for every company to move to the cloud. Overnight, we’ve the seen speed of the shift to these digital technologies go from years to months or even days. And to support this change, the number of intelligent automation and AI implementations are increasing fast. To integrate AI into your company’s DNA, DevOps principles for AI are essential.
When applied to AI, DevOps enables AI at scale through the operationalization of machine learning models from design to production. DevOps for AI ensures that the right AI delivery processes are in place and can bring the flexibility and “fail fast” approach needed during these times of constant change and technological transformation. Essentially, DevOps will facilitate continuous delivery, deployment and the monitoring of models through:
To meet the demand for AI implementations, best practices need to be applied to AI model operationalization. However, the best practices around AI delivery are in a state of constant flux. DevOps principles address this challenge and present a repeatable, yet adaptable, approach to increase the maturity of your AI delivery through ongoing change.
We’ve broken down AI operationalization using DevOps practices into four stages:
DevOps for AI presents a promising solution for organizations looking to accelerate and improve AI solutions, AI-driven innovation and intelligent automation. It speeds up data preparation and model development tasks and brings in standardized processes to make AI at scale a reality. But despite the clear benefits, AI operationalization is often unaddressed. The time is now to make AI operationalization a core business objective.
Reach out to learn more about how Accenture can help you assess and execute your end-to-end AI life cycle management, including our intelligent automation platform Accenture myWizard® with myWizard for DevXOps to automate DevXOps across technologies and platforms.