In today’s world of modern applications, where companies are compelled to innovate faster and be more responsive to their customers, it’s important to release applications at the volume and cadence you need without compromising quality.
I was talking to the continuous delivery evangelist at one of our biggest customers the other day. This team has been using CA Release Automation for a couple of years and they are very mature in their DevOps practices. Despite their high level of automation, however, they were having challenges. As they dramatically increased their number of releases, they found that they were struggling to manage their now very full pipeline.
They were running into conflicts with releases, like contention for the same resources, and they were having trouble prioritizing the pipeline, making sure that the right apps were released at the right time. They needed to increase their speed, but were hitting a wall with managing such a large quantity of smaller, often interdependent releases from many different teams. Quality degradation was a constant concern.
This is not an uncommon scenario for our CA Release Automation customers today. Some are starting to wonder if they are reaching a peak of diminishing returns. Can they really achieve the speed they need while still maintaining and improving the high levels of quality required by their customers?
The answer is YES. That’s why CA has advanced its product solution set with CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition. This new solution takes that well-oiled and automated pipeline and adds a much needed layer of sanity.
To keep quality up when going fast, you need to automate not just your deployment, but the overall management of the releases. You need to know where bottlenecks occur so you can improve processes and optimize releases. You need a governable, repeatable process that can be used across teams and technologies. Basically, you need a framework that can scale.
CA Release Automation CD Edition gives you the five essentials to ensure quality at speed:
1. Enforcement of best practices—everyone following the same process and accountability is built in.
2. Visibility into the releases, including what changes/updates/fixes are going to production.
3. Conflict remediation—the traffic cop to keep the flow efficient.
4. Prioritization so that apps with the greatest business impact are getting to market when they need to.
5. Measurement of pipeline activity so that you can continually improve processes and productivity, reduce incidents and learn from your mistakes.
What kind of challenges are you experiencing now that you are automated end-to-end? I invite you to join our private validation community to stay abreast of the updates for CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition.
Today, June 15, marks an exciting milestone as well. CA Technologies is showcasing its market-first open and integrated ecosystem of continuous delivery solutions, with CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition as a key connecting point. CA uniquely enables organizations to fully automate the application lifecycle, from agile development to testing to release, and significantly improve quality and time to market of innovative applications. Join us at a live InformationWeek event with speakers from Forrester and CA as well as some of our customers – Rabobank, SunTrust Bank and DirectLine Group.