Hello RA Community,
We’ve been thrilled by the extremely positive reception of CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition (CDE) by the market and you, our RA users. Gartner, Inc. positioned CA Release Automation as a Leader in its recent inaugural Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation.* Take a moment to see what Gartner had to say about CDE as part of this winning solution set.
So we’ve been working on ways to get CDE into more hands as fast as possible so you can experience first-hand what Uri Scheiner describes as the ‘five essentials to ensure quality at speed’ for companies who are automated end to end. I am pleased to share that all CA Release Automation customers are entitled to a free license for one active release cycle of CA Release Automation CD Edition. It’s available to download today from the Support Center. There are no charges and no end date. Refer to the attached PDF for the straightforward download steps.
Curious about what you can do with CDE? Here are some ideas:
- Design a shared pipeline that lets you manage complex, multi-app releases
- Track what content is in the release and where it is in the release pipeline
- Use the rich set of KPIs to help drive process and team improvements
Check out these links to get started. There are more helpful links in the PDF.
The DocOps site is also a great place to get answers.
Once you download CDE to your environment, we’d really like to hear what you’re doing with it! And let us know how CA can help you so you get the best out of your hands-on trial. We’re standing by.
Frances
P.S.: You may be wondering what ‘active release cycle’ means. CDE uses a different metric than you’ve been accustomed to for RA. An ‘active release cycle’ means a release actively executing within the system until the release is marked as finished and completed in production. ‘Release’ means the process of taking a change in software under development to production.
And I must add the obligatory fine print ----*Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation,” Colin Fletcher, David Paul Williams, Laurie F. Wurster, August 1, 2016.