Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support.
It’s a velocity problem, and IT departments often struggle to keep pace. Lucid Software’s newly introduced Cloud Accelerator is built specifically to remove the barriers that slow down strategic work.
Powered by Lucid’s Visual Collaboration Suite, the Cloud Accelerator eliminates the need to wade through outdated documentation, manually update diagrams, or explain cloud architecture to non-technical teammates.
The Cloud Accelerator automatically generates visual documentation, integrates with your existing tools, and enables teams to create custom templates that make complex deployments repeatable—putting hours back in your week while making projects more visible to leadership.
The project velocity issue, and how to solve it
Velocity matters to devops and cloud architects because their primary work—building deployment pipelines and designing cloud systems—directly affects how quickly teams can ship products and adapt to changes. Teams can use Lucid’s Cloud Accelerator to work faster, improve communication, and make better, quicker decisions.
Accelerate infrastructure planning: Cloud teams often manually create diagrams as they’re planning infrastructure, taking up valuable time and increasing the potential for errors. With the Cloud Accelerator, teams can speed up the discovery process by automatically generating accurate diagrams and importing entire cloud footprints directly from cloud providers—eliminating the need for manual updates.
The solution helps teams focus on planning and execution instead of spending their time importing cloud data. Integration with tools like Jira also enables teams to efficiently manage planning tasks and design in one place.
Jumpstart new projects: Rather than spending hours developing templates and processes for teams working on new projects, leaders can get them started faster by creating blueprints with the Cloud Accelerator. These blueprints define the processes and templates for initiatives like cost savings or modernization projects.
Pre-built templates, such as a project charter, design document, and current infrastructure state, ensure consistency across multiple teams working on the same project.
Reuse assets across diagrams: With the Cloud Accelerator’s asset builder, teams no longer have to recreate the same components for every new diagram they generate. Instead, they can create components to be used across multiple diagrams.
For example, if a security review highlights that the user login service needs updating to meet new security standards, the component can be refreshed in the asset builder. This update will automatically display in all diagrams where that component is referenced, even if it’s used in multiple diagrams across different teams.
Accelerate your cloud initiatives
As cloud environments become more complex, teams find it harder to manage and update their infrastructure. Bigger cloud footprints often lead to inaccurate system diagrams, higher costs, and compliance risk.
With the Cloud Accelerator, you can automate deployment documentation, remove cross-team bottlenecks, and maintain consistency in architecture as you scale—all while reducing technical debt and keeping infrastructure costs predictable.
Learn more about how Lucid Software’s Cloud Accelerator can boost project velocity and transform your cloud operations.
