DATA SHEET CA Release Automation At a Glance CA Release Automation is an enterprise-class, continuous delivery solution that automates complex, multi-tier release deployments through the orchestration and promotion of applications from development through production. Enterprises use CA Release Automation to help: •Deploy application releases faster and more often. •Reduce release errors and achieve higher quality and stability by simplifying and standardizing application release processes. •Reduce costs of application deployments. •Improve visibility across the entire deployment tool chain. •Promote collaboration and alignment between Development and Operations. Key Benefits/Results Many customers report significant benefits from release automation, such as: • Reduced application release cycles from 12 days to a few minutes • More frequent releases by up to 300 percent • Reduced resource requirements for deployments from 15 to 1 • Instant visibility to key stakeholders and increased confidence Key Features • Application-centric, model-driven deployment provides reusable and repeatable processes to simplify and streamline application releases. • Comprehensive set of action packs and plug-ins enables customers to leverage their existing investment and easily automate and integrate leading third-party solutions without scripting. • Scalable enterprise solution that can handle complex, multi-tier distributed solutions across thousands of servers and multiple data centers. • Intuitive, powerful graphical Workflow Engine eliminates the need of scripting and quickly allows you to visually create your deployment processes. • Consolidated release manager and dashboard promotes collaboration and governance to plan, schedule and manage releases across the promotion pipeline. Business Challenges Companies are adopting the latest development technologies and methodologies in order to deliver new innovative applications and features to meet the demands of their customers. The application innovation bottleneck is moving from development and infrastructure to the process of delivering the application to the market. Automating the release process in the world of modern, composite applications is not a trivial task. The permutations and combinations of application technologies, coupled with infrastructure variations and versions applied to multiple steps in the development and testing process contributes to this complexity. Today, high-performing organizations are addressing these challenges by adopting an enterprise class release automation solution and gaining the ability to: •Standardize application deployments across the SDLC. •Establish repeatable best practices with regards to timing, concurrency, sequencing, security and permissions. •Automatically deploy different components and configurations of applications on physical, virtual and public or private clouds. •Streamline “version control,” and roll back to previous versions in case of failure. •Track and monitor configurations, release artifacts and release progress across environments. Solution Overview Applications are a key component of modern business, and users of these applications regularly expect 24x7 availability with new and enhanced features released on a regular basis. In response, organizations are adopting agile development methodologies, virtualization and cloud computing and release automation to enable the delivery of application releases to the market faster and with higher quality. Continuous Delivery is the practice of automating and improving the process of software delivery. It incorporates techniques like continuous integration, automated testing and environment and configuration management to enable software to be developed, packaged and deployed across the SDLC–test through production–resulting in the ability to rapidly, reliably and repeatedly deliver new features and enhancements at a lower risk with minimal manual overhead. CA RELEASE AUTOMATION Solution Overview continued CA Release Automation orchestrates the Continuous Delivery Tool Chain by integrating all the components needed to release and deploy an application across the software development lifecycle. Application deployment tasks are automated, reusable and repeatable. Errors are reduced, software releases are more reliable and delivered more often and in less time. Critical Differentiators CA Release Automation helps companies realize the promise of DevOps methodologies by providing a continuous delivery solution that integrates all aspects of the application lifecycle into flexible, repeatable processes. Develop complex release processes once, and re-use those processes across other applications, teams and environments to speed deployment, reduce manual errors and lower costs. With CA Release Automation you can: •Implement reusable automation processes that increase productivity and promotes consistency. •Easily create release deployment processes which automatically promote applications from one environment to the next within the promotion path – development through production. •Manage configurations of cloud infrastructure components to help application release teams reduce risk of failure by validating configurations against baselines prior to deployment. •Realize enterprise performance and scalability for thousands of large, complex multi-tier applications deployed across thousands of nodes •Integrate the industry’s leading ALM solutions and technology with extensive library of Action Packs and Plug-ins. •Rapidly build custom integrations with easy-to-use Rapid Development Kit. Related Products/Solutions The CA Application Delivery suite of products help organizations deliver applications to market faster with superior quality and reduced costs: •CA Service Virtualization. Accelerate application delivery, improve quality and reduce costs and risks. •CA Data Mining. Improve application quality, reduce the cost of defect resolution, increase DevOps collaboration and accelerate time to market with automation. For more information, please visit ca.com/release-automation CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business, in every industry. From planning to development to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at ca.com. Copyright © 2014 CA. 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