2025-03-10

Zadig Value Metrics Is Here: Measure How Much You Can Save

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"Slow deployment, missing market opportunities? R&D costs out of control, ROI getting worse? Customers always complaining about poor quality, while the team is busy putting out fires?"

Every penny of a company's technical investment should be transformed into measurable business returns. However, in traditional R&D models, hidden costs erode profits, inefficient collaboration slows innovation, and quality risks increase costs—these losses are often difficult to quantify.

# How Is DevOps Value Measured?

The Zadig Value Metrics System is based on real engineering data from hundreds of companies, dividing the entire software delivery lifecycle into different stages and calculating the effectiveness differences between traditional and Zadig models. Users only need to input data such as project scale, atomic operation time, and team size, and the model will generate an intuitive value report. The model is divided into three main modules, making it easy to use:

Engineering Data Input: Enter project information, time consumption, resource usage, and team data to generate a value report instantly.
Human Cost Calculation: Compare the efficiency improvements in project initialization, development, testing, and release before and after using Zadig, and accurately estimate the monthly savings in manpower. For example, before using Zadig, setting up a new project took 6 days; after using it, it only takes 1 day, saving 40 hours of manpower, significantly boosting team efficiency and morale.
Resource Cost Calculation: Optimize the utilization of idle resources and estimate the annual savings in resource costs.

# Interpretation of Key Information in the Value Report

The Zadig Value Metrics System breaks down the benefits of DevOps into the following three major values:

Management Value: Improve delivery efficiency through process optimization, reduce costs, enhance engineer satisfaction, and support sustainable enterprise development.
Business Value: Support agile delivery and globalization strategies, allowing technology to directly drive revenue.
Ecosystem Value: Break the lock-in of cloud vendors and save millions in integration costs.

# How Is Management Value Reflected?

By optimizing processes to improve delivery efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance engineer satisfaction, Zadig helps enterprises achieve sustainable development. Specific Calculation Logic:

Equivalent Annual Recruitment: Based on the total number of person-days saved per month in the "Human Cost Calculation" table × 12 months, the total number of person-days saved annually is calculated, then divided by the 8-hour workday.
Annual Savings in Human Costs: Equivalent to the number of additional people recruited annually × average engineer salary × cost coefficient (including the company's five insurances and one fund and other benefits).
Annual Savings in Resource Costs: Estimated from the "Resource Cost Calculation" module.

Real Case 1: Zekr and Zadig Co-create Platform Engineering: Leading the Digital Transformation of Smart Cars (opens new window)

Zekr Automobile faced multiple challenges during its rapid expansion, with complex business operations spanning the entire enterprise lifecycle. The digital R&D team had to handle the dual challenges of agile business sprints and steady-state business quality assurance. The complex toolchain and decentralized infrastructure hindered R&D efficiency, and the exponentially growing cluster environment complexity increased operational pressure. The lengthy cross-departmental collaboration process slowed down delivery. These issues ultimately led to a vicious cycle of low R&D delivery efficiency, high operational costs, and declining business satisfaction.

Zadig's introduction of cloud-native DevOps has reshaped the R&D system, achieving a triple breakthrough in cost, efficiency, and quality: an annual comprehensive cost reduction of 11.568 million yuan (8.688 million yuan in manpower savings + 2.88 million yuan in cloud resource savings), and the release of 17 person-equivalent production capacity to drive innovative R&D; the automated pipeline has reduced the demand delivery cycle by 50%. The global demand delivery rate (65% → 95%) and engineer satisfaction NPS (65 → 90) have both significantly improved, building a new generation of R&D engines characterized by resource intensiveness, quality standardization, and collaborative digitalization.

Real case 2: Jenkins Crisis? Zadig the stage: Revealing the DevOps innovation path of Weiyi Intelligent Manufacturing (opens new window)

An industrial manufacturing company with 20 projects and about 120 services introduced Kubernetes cloud-native technology as its business grew, but the original Jenkins solution struggled to meet business demands, increasing operational pressure.

After using Zadig, the operational management loss was reduced by 30% through abstract templates, saving 861 person-days annually (equivalent to hiring 3.2 additional people) and optimizing human resource allocation; automated release processes improved operational release efficiency by 35%, reducing faults by 20%, making project releases faster, more reliable, and smoother.

Zadig not only optimizes efficiency and cost in management but also significantly enhances business delivery capabilities and customer service quality. The following cases are for reference:

# How Is Business Value Reflected?

Zadig's business value lies in its vendor-neutral, multi-cloud deployment, and agile delivery capabilities, enabling enterprises to quickly respond to market changes and support globalization strategies.

Core Advantages: Zadig supports multi-cloud deployment, cross-cluster migration, and multi-architecture delivery, with international interfaces, global deployment capabilities, compliance support, and cross-cultural collaboration optimization, helping enterprises operate efficiently and develop globally.
Real Case: Lotus Uses Zadig to Achieve Global Hybrid Cloud Delivery (opens new window), significantly improving market response speed. After Lotus expanded its software scale, the early Jenkins-based CI/CD process became unsustainable due to architectural limitations. Jenkins was tied to each data center, and the distribution of hybrid cloud and overseas data centers made it difficult to manage multiple Jenkins instances, leading to complex configurations, cross-cluster synchronization issues, single points of failure, script duplication, and chaotic authorization management, making overall maintenance extremely difficult. After introducing Zadig, Lotus solved the global multi-cloud deployment challenge, reducing new project launch time from 9 days to 4 hours, significantly improving market response speed.

# How Is Ecosystem Value Reflected?

Zadig's ecosystem value lies in its robust open-source architecture and extensive compatibility, providing enterprises with flexible technology choices and seamless integration experiences.

Core Advantages: Zadig is built on a 100% open-source architecture, achieving full-stack compatibility and seamless integration with mainstream cloud platforms (such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Cloud, and self-built clouds), as well as enterprise-built toolchains (such as Nexus, Sonar, Harbor, Nacos, Apollo, etc.), offering developers a one-stop experience.
Real Case: In 2024, a fire broke out in a cloud data center, and a new retail customer using Zadig quickly migrated their business from the failed cloud platform to other cloud platforms. This not only significantly reduced production downtime but also directly minimized business losses due to the failure.

Through its open-source architecture and extensive compatibility, Zadig not only helps enterprises quantify cost savings but also makes the value of technology investments clear. With precise data analysis and intuitive value reports, enterprises can optimize resource allocation, improve R&D efficiency, and ultimately achieve their business goals.

"Every minute saved is future competitiveness—calculate it now, and make the value of R&D investment visible!"