[October 19, 2015]

AUTOMIC Launches Continuous Delivery for DevOps

AUTOMIC, the leader in Business Automation, today announces a new upgrade to their Application Release Automation portfolio to enable the continuous delivery of business applications.

Today's announcement comes during AUTOMIC's participation in the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES15) - the industry-leading DevOps and Continuous Delivery Event hosted by Gene Kim (News - Alert) and held in San Francisco from October 19-21^st. As a Gold Level Sponsor, AUTOMIC will be showcasing the AUTOMIC continuous delivery pipeline which comprises capabilities including smart wizards, zero-code deployment modelling, automated rollback, application-ready infrastructure provisioning and automated testing orchestration.

In today's business climate, enterprises are faced with immense pressure to drive digital transformation initiatives. This can have an overwhelming effect on the deployment pipeline backlog for Developers and IT Operations. AUTOMIC optimizes the deployment pipeline by bringing Developers and Operations together to work in unison and achieve their joint goals quickly, efficiently and effortlessly:

• For Developers, AUTOMIC enables rapid development by giving fast time to feedback from production use of code. Developers can continue to use any existing tools and simply plug them into the deployment pipeline with AUTOMIC Release Automation ensuring new builds and packages automatically delivered into test and production.
• For Operations, AUTOMIC enables "release at pace with control". Operations can control the deployment pipeline with zero-code modelling in a safe, secure, compliant and scalable manner while achieving the speed of delivery that business demands dealing with any number of releases, from any number of development teams, in any geographic location.

"The DevOps market continues to gain momentum as enterprises look to drive digital transformation," says Todd DeLaughter, CEO of AUTOMIC. "Dev and Ops teams need to work together seamlessly to deliver the business critical applications needed to differentiate and grow. At AUTOMIC we are focused on enabling a continuous deployment pipeline for these teams and use our strong enterprise heritage to provide the speed development needs yet providing the audit, compliance and control needed for modern agile DevOps communities."

Kathleen Liefer, Manager IT Release Management, Charter Spectrum (News - Alert) said, "We selected AUTOMIC's Release Automation product to transform our release capabilities. Using AUTOMIC's Release Automation product we have been able to reduce manual intervention, increase reliability, gain consistency across our environments, orchestrate parallel deployments and reduce downtime while meeting/exceeding SLA uptime."

Kathleen continued, "On an average, deployment times have been reduced by 67% and when URL testing is part of the deployment, automation has enabled us to test hundreds of links in the time it would have taken us to manually test a handful. We have really just begun our journey and are well on our way to onboarding more applications and services."

AUTOMIC's continued commitment to the DevOps market and the needs of clients as they embrace this transformative IT movement are highlighted with key capabilities that AUTOMIC Release Automation offers:

• Provisioning of Application Ready Infrastructure:

  Advanced orchestration allows new or existing infrastructure to be provisioned and dynamically scaled for deployment of new apps - whether on Amazon EC2, Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure or VMware private clouds - from the click of a button.

• Built-in Auto-rollback:

  Unforeseen issues discovered in a package at any stage in the deployment pipeline can immediately be fully rolled back pending investigation using the industry's first built-in rollback capability.

• Multi-tenant Cloud Ready:

  Total cost of ownership is minimized by enabling separate teams to leverage different instances within the same multi-tenanted architecture.

• Portable Objects:

  Agility is maximised when code is insulated from the deployment model, enabling applications to be targeted to any application-ready cloud infrastructure - whether public or private.

• Smart Wizards:

  Smart wizards offer a rapid return on release automation investments guiding new users through the tasks of onboarding new applications and configuring their deployment pipeline.

• Zero-code Deployment Model:
  Current and future business demands for new apps and refreshes are met using the most robust and scalable deployment model in the industry.
• Snapshot and Compare:
  Validate and compare deployed components and even complete environments from live configuration data across multiple servers and environments
• Docker Support:

  Increase efficiency by orchestrating and dynamically updating containers and distributed applications built using Docker.

• Continuous Testing:

  Accelerate application delivery by plugging in and concatenating automated test plans and scenarios into the end-to-end deployment pipeline.

• Community Empowered Marketplace:

  Leverage new integrations and plugins created by AUTOMIC, partners and Community as soon as they become available on the AUTOMIC Marketplace - https://marketplace.automic.com

"Customers have never been more empowered," stated Amy DeMartine and Kurt Bittner of Forrester (News - Alert) Research¹. "Brand loyalty has given way to experience loyalty; when customers' needs are not met, they switch allegiances without a thought. Therefore many companies are focusing on delivering applications faster to improve customer experiences and meet these rising expectations. However, faster delivery merely leads to faster disappointment when the software delivery process is shoddy. Application release automation tools remove errors from manual processes by standardizing and automating the movement of applications between environments. Application release automation is the critical final step in the delivery pipeline of applications to improve the customer experience."

Pricing & Availability:

All action-packs are immediately available on the AUTOMIC Marketplace. AUTOMIC Release Automation V11.2 is available for general shipment at the end of October. Pricing is available on-demand.

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References:

¹ "The Forrester Wave^TM: Application Release Automation, Q2 2015", April 14, 2015 Forrester ARA

About AUTOMIC

AUTOMIC, a leader in Business Automation, helps enterprises drive competitive advantage by automating their IT and business systems - from on-premise to the Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things. With offices worldwide, AUTOMIC powers over 2,600 customers including Bosch, Netflix, eBay, AMC Theatres, Carphone Warehouse, ExxonMobil, BT Global Services, Société Générale, NHS SBS, General Electric and Swisscom (News - Alert). The company is privately held by EQT. More information can be found at www.automic.com.

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