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Driving Developer Productivity with Platform Engineering

Written by InCycle | Sep 17, 2025 12:00:00 PM

Once your repositories are migrated and governance is in place, the next frontier is enabling your teams to build, deploy, and innovate faster. This is where Elevate’s platform engineering capabilities shine—by turning modernization into a repeatable, scalable process that empowers developers and aligns with business priorities. 

Portfolio Management: Seeing the Forest and the Trees 

In large organizations, it’s easy to lose track of what’s in your source control. You might have thousands of repositories across multiple business units, each with varying levels of activity, complexity, and compliance. 

Elevate’s portfolio management tools help you: 

  • Inventory all repositories and categorize them by business unit, team, or function 
  • Prioritize modernization based on staleness, pipeline complexity, and compliance scores 
  • Assign remediation plans and track progress across initiatives 

For example, a global enterprise used Elevate to identify 1,453 repositories, of which only 357 were fully compliant. By visualizing this data, they were able to focus efforts on the 96 non-compliant repos that posed the highest risk to delivery and security. 

Workload Designer: Standardization Without Sacrifice 

Modernization isn’t just about cleaning up old code—it’s about enabling teams to build new things the right way. Elevate’s workload designer allows platform teams to define standardized, vetted environments that developers can use out of the box. 

These environments include: 

  • Preconfigured CI/CD pipelines 
  • Security and compliance guardrails 
  • Architecture accelerators tailored to your organization 

For instance, a financial services firm created a set of templates for microservices, data pipelines, and frontend apps. Developers could select a template, customize it, and deploy within hours—without needing to reinvent the wheel or worry about compliance. 

Self-Service Developer Portal: Empowerment at Scale 

One of the most powerful outcomes of modernization is developer autonomy. Elevate’s self-service portal gives teams access to: 

  • Migration status and compliance scores for their repos 
  • Recommended actions and remediation workflows 
  • Standardized templates and environments 

This decentralization reduces bottlenecks and increases velocity. Developers no longer need to wait for central DevOps teams to provision environments or approve changes—they can act confidently within guardrails. 

A tech company using Elevate saw a 40% increase in deployment frequency after rolling out the self-service portal. Teams felt more empowered, and leadership saw faster time-to-market across key initiatives. 

Aligning Engineering with Business Strategy 

Elevate doesn’t just help you modernize—it helps you align. By combining technical insights (like repo health and pipeline complexity) with business context (like team ownership and strategic priority), Elevate enables engineering leaders to make informed decisions. 

You can: 

  • Defer low-impact migrations 
  • Prioritize high-risk repos 
  • Track modernization progress across quarters 

This strategic view turns modernization from a reactive cleanup effort into a proactive business enabler. 

Platform Engineering: The Foundation for Sustainable Modernization 

Platform engineering is the discipline that makes all of this sustainable. It’s not just a set of tools—it’s a strategic approach to delivering reusable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that accelerates software delivery. 

According to Gartner, by 2026, 80% of software engineering organizations will have platform teams. These teams act as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools that enable faster application delivery. 

Elevate supports platform engineering through: 

  • Template Catalogs: A library of pre-approved, production-ready templates for APIs, apps, databases, and more 
  • Workload Designer: A visual interface for defining target architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and governance policies 
  • Developer Portal: A self-service interface where teams can deploy environments and code on demand 
  • Governance & Reporting: Dashboards that track compliance, usage, and delivery metrics across teams 

For example, a manufacturing company modernizing over 1,000 applications used Elevate to: 

  • Prioritize high-value workloads 
  • Provide self-service environments to developers 
  • Standardize delivery pipelines across teams 

The result? Faster time to market, reduced operational overhead, and a culture of innovation. 

Platform engineering ensures that modernization isn’t a one-time event—it becomes a continuous, scalable capability embedded into the fabric of your organization.