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Digital businesses demand faster application delivery. Platform engineering offers a solution by creating self-service platforms that improve developer productivity, security, and time-to-value.

Zurich Insurance has reduced the time it takes to develop and roll out ServiceNow applications from a week and a half to a day and a half through a syncing tool. About a year ago, faced with the end of support of a tool used to sync instances of its ServiceNow platform, Zurich Insurance turned to ServiceNow development partner Xtype for a replacement, which has saved its development team days every time new applications are developed and rolled out.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 -- xtype, the DevOps platform that accelerates ServiceNow app development, announced today $5.8 million in seed funding in a round led by Columbia Capital with participation from Inner Loop Capital and SaaS Ventures. The company will use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap by growing the development team, as well as increase its presence in the US market, expanding its sales and customer success teams.

Perhaps the biggest challenge with digital transformation lies in understanding where the transformation occurs. Digital transformation doesn't begin or end by offloading workloads or moving core systems to the cloud. It doesn't come about through the development a cool customer-facing app. Paralleling its philosophical forerunner, DevOps, the process of digital transformation begins by looking inward. It is a matter of organization. "Digital transformation initiatives should be focused not on customer solutions, but on day-to-day business fundamentals," says Scott Willson, head of product marketing for xtype.io, a software startup that works primarily with large enterprise clients that use the ServiceNow cloud computing management platform. "You've got to be the best version of yourself before you can put your best foot forward for your customers."

Every organisation relies on a range of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of its projects and processes. These measurements are integral to understanding where improvement is needed and, ultimately, ensuring that initiatives are on track to meet their goals. Typically, organisations rely on measures like cost, time, efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction. Software development is no different. A robust suite of metrics will cover process, product, project, people and quality. But, with a significant emphasis on agility and efficiency, one area that is often overlooked is developer satisfaction.

xtype, the agile software delivery company, today launches xtype View™, the world’s first multi-instance viewer and platform engineering dashboard designed for ServiceNow professionals.