To achieve consistently successful business outcomes, VMware collaborates with customers in assessing, recommending, and documenting changes that are necessary to achieve optimal delivery processes. This collaborative effort is based on industry best practices in the following service foundation areas:

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Source code management (SCM)
• Continuous integration (CI)
• Artifact repository (AR)
• Continuous delivery (CD)
• Hybrid cloud provisioning (HCP)
• Configuration management (CM)
• Continuous operational management (COM)