Financial institutions face unique challenges and stringent regulatory requirements, coupled with a pressing need for innovation to meet consumer demands. This has driven planned spending increases in technology for many financial institutions in 2017.

In this paper, we:

• Outline the overarching technology needs of financial institutions related to development processes in 2016
• Review data on continuous delivery adoption for the database among financial institutions
• Identify primary challenges facing financial institutions in adopting database automation
• Recap how DevOps for Database solutions enable financial institutions to overcome these challenges and achieve business goals.