application release automation

How Release Automation Simplifies and Accelerates Application Delivery

A white paper reviewing the two approaches to zero-touch deployment.

A report into how an automated lifecycle approach to DevOps supports the agile business

Ce livre blanc explique pourquoi les plates-formes d’automatisation de la mise en production et du déploiement des applications deviennent toujours plus essentielles pour les départements IT dans les multinationales. Il analyse les exigences spécifiques auxquelles une plate-forme de ce type doit satisfaire afin d’être efficace et de générer un retour sur investissement important.

Cet article examine deux approches du Zero Touch Deployment : une solution basée sur les scripts et une plate-forme d’automatisation de la mise en production. Il indique comment chacune de ces approches peut résoudre les principaux défis technologiques et organisationnels face auxquels se trouvent les organisations agiles lorsqu’elles décident d’implémenter un système de déploiement automatique.

This article reviews two approaches to Zero Touch Deployment—a script-based solution and a release automation platform.

This white paper discusses why application release and deployment automation platforms are becoming increasingly vital for IT operations in global enterprises and explores the specific requirements of such a platform in order for it to prove beneficial, and effective, and offer a substantial return on investment.

À medida que a complexidade dos aplicativos aumenta e a exigência da redução do tempo de colocação no mercado continua aumentando, as empresas adotam cada vez mais a solução Application Release Automation para manter sua vantagem competitiva. Este white paper ajudará a entender como a solução Application Release Automation pode ajudar você a economizar recursos valiosos e otimizar seu processo de implementação de aplicativos, e evitar muitos dos problemas que os clientes sofrem no momento de desenvolver e manter scripts com recursos próprios.

In today’s fast-moving, ultra-competitive business landscape, the days of enterprises spending months—or even years—building, testing and releasing an application, service or new set of capabilities to the market are over. Customers, technology users and the market as a whole are more nimble than ever before, and their demands for innovative new functionality have grown in concert. In other words, customers are no longer content to wait for the next big release—nor are they willing to deal with glitches and defects when it arrives. In this brief you will learn how an enterprise release automation solution can help your organization simplify and accelerate your application delivery processes.

Today’s organizations are challenged to be the first to market with ‘The Next Big Thing’. They must innovate with new and unique services to satisfy customer demands and differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Software drives that innovation and has turned every organization into a software organization. This Executive Brief describes how the efficient collaboration between the development and IT operations teams can bring high-quality applications to market as quickly as possible. The CA Application Delivery suite helps organizations achieve collaborative DevOps through innovative technology tools used to: •Accelerate application development by removing constraints with CA LISA® Service Virtualization. •Expedite release time with CA LISA® Release Automation. •Improve application testing and quality with CA LISA® Pathfinder

In today’s application economy, everyone is in the software business. Auto makers are putting Wi-Fi hotspots in their cars. Watches are trading gears for motherboards. Even soda fountains have evolved from dumb machines into instrumented devices with touch-screen user interfaces. This digital transformation is changing the way applications are developed, tested, moved through environments and released into production—and it’s putting new demands on IT teams with which they’re struggling to keep up. At a high level, this is because the application delivery systems and processes at many enterprises were put in place when IT only had to push out an annual or semi-annual release. But as market pressures and executive mandates have forced teams to deliver innovations faster and more frequently, a new set of development, testing, automation and customer challenges have appeared—acting as obstacles that stand between you and your digital transformation goals.

CA’s portfolio is designed to drive efficiency from planning through production. A core component of our continuous delivery portfolio is CA Release Automation, a market-leading application release automation solution that delivers full application deployment automation and release coordination across stages, environments and teams. The solution’s analytic capabilities enable DevOps teams to plan, manage, analyze and optimize the continuous delivery pipeline from a single control point. In addition, the portfolio includes CA Agile Central, CA Agile Requirements Designer, CA Service Virtualization and CA Test Data Manager. We continue to invest in and enhance the portfolio, most recently via the acquisition of BlazeMeter, an innovative, SaaS-based performance and load-testing solution.

Gartner’s Continuous Delivery Automation Magic Quadrant (MQ) analyzes the current market solutions and their effectiveness in responding to the demands of the modern business. The MQ is created on a tool’s ‘ability to execute’ and its ‘completeness of vision.’ When assessing CA Continuous Delivery Automation, Gartner highlights its ability to ‘provide scalability, resilience, security and enterprise management connectivity.’ The analysis also goes much deeper to cover the strengths, weaknesses and various nuances of all the automation products on the market.

Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in deploying and promoting applicationrelated artifacts, properties, configurations and even data across an application lifecycle in a safe, predictable and repeatable manner. Gartner reports that using an ARA tool is key to enabling DevOps and achieving continuous delivery. Wikipedia also defines five dimensions of scalability that can apply to ARA tools: • Administrative scalability • Functional scalability • Geographic scalability • Load scalability • Generational scalability This white paper will explain how each of these criteria is relevant when choosing an ARA product that is capable of scaling along with the growth of your enterprise.

Business needs, market trends, and customer demands are forcing IT teams to deploy applications at a rapid rate. The frequency of the deployments can invoke human errors, failed deployments, and outages. This paper will guide you through seven best practices that will strengthen the way applications are released to production.

This book defines the basics of application release and deployment, and provides best practices for implementation with resources for a deeper dive.

Application release and deployment practices are the backbone of the DevOps movement. Learn how automating application release and deployment can speed time to market, drive down costs and reduce risk. Improve software deployment in your organization through innovative automation methods!

Learn how automating application release and deployment can speed time to market, drive down costs and reduce risk.

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