'Progressive' Release Automation
and Continuous Deployment

CM Automation

Traditional Configuration Management (CM) tools find it hard to maintain a consistent, reliable, and secure way to manage the environments and are actually adding complexity to an already complicated problem.

To keep up, organisations need to establish and standardize their CM processes to better support Agile. CM is there to support the development efforts by ensuring the integrity of the changes so that the development team stays focused on building functionality, knowing that changes will be managed.

Validata ABC is an agile end-to-end continuous delivery platform and has been designed to address the complexity and constant changes in Application Development without a large team of developers to support it. It is unique from other management tools in many aspects, aiming to provide large productivity gains to a wide variety of automation challenges. Automation makes actions less error-prone, maintainable and repeatable, therefore reduces effort, increases team velocity and in the long run reduces costs.

Advantages and Benefits

Efficiency and Quality throughout the project

Reduced Deployment errors, associated with interdependencies between applications, software requirements, work packages, tasks and environments achieving efficiency and quality throughout the project.

Reduced Costs and Effort

The increased effectiveness and accuracy of distributed application rollouts across environments reduce actual deployment costs and effort while enabling faster time to market.

Ensures Higher Product Quality

Granular access controls achieve accuracy during package development, promotion, and deployment across environments, ensuring higher product quality.

Continuous delivery and integration

Supports parallel development, multiple releases maintenance and manages file revisions rather than software versions. It guarantees the integrity of every build.

Reduced Downtime

Ensures consistency in configurations across multiple environments actually reduces downtime and related costs.

Product capabilities

Role-Based tool supporting workflows, ensuring different teams follow the same processes.

Full history and audit trail of configurations.

Supports parallel development across local and off shore teams.

Environments management and comparison

Configurations Conflict Detection

Ability to merge or branch different version of the same source files and records.

Pre-built Analytical Dashboards provide end-to-end visibility and transparency

Stores source code and data, requirement documents, specifications, web pages

Release Automation

Release with confidence, from approval to receiving real-time notification of changes

Release management process is often performed manually raising the likelihood of error-driven disruptions and deployment bottlenecks and leaving a gap between Development and IT Operation teams. Server environments vary between Development, QA, Staging, and Production, and these differences often cause problems when applications are promoted between them.

Validata ABC enables IT organizations to automate the process of application updates, resulting in shortened release cycles, application configuration alignment, and automated updates across groups.

The tool actually speeds the overall application delivery process and enables users to plan, orchestrate and automate application releases with complete visibility. Release Management is integrated with the ALM platform, leveraging the tool’s Central Repository and Dashboard, promoting full traceability and version control and reducing the requirements risk by linking them to development tasks. The net result of these capabilities is shortened release cycles, enabling organizations to achieve faster time-to-market.

Advantages and Benefits

Faster deployments

Shorten release cycles to better support the business

Greater business agility

Faster respond to changing market conditions and competitive threats

Improved user experience

Enable instant delivery of feature requests and enhancements

Aligned DEvOps teams

Ensure worry-free deployments by leveraging process visibility, measurement, and management to improve communication between Development, QA, and Operations

Reduced application downtime

Prevent configuration errors and accelerate troubleshooting

Lowered costs

Eliminate labour-intensive manual and script-based deployment processes

Auditing and Governance

Detect and remediate changes and demonstrate effective policy enforcement

Product capabilities

Defining properties and interdependencies for complex applications and environments.

Promotion rules for package deployment across environments and teams.

Access control for administrators based on role, environment, package or their properties.

Automated Pre and Post reusable deployment actions.

Integrated Alerting mechanism with automated email notifications upon predefined system event.

Schedule the Release Planning and reporting for all Tasks statuses supporting multiple teams and locations.

Impact analysis reporting of the unfinished and uncovered software development requirements.

Packaging and Automation updates integrated to environments.

Configuration control across pre-production and production environment.

Environment-specific Transaction Safe Deployments – Pre-screening for any potential errors in any environment prior to committing changes, and rollback of changes upon failure or at user request.

Development Automation

Customer demand and competitive pressures are challenging line of business executives to speed application development and deployment. Development has always struggled to keep up with business demands for new and enhanced applications. Organisations lean towards adopting ‘Agile Software Development’ to uncover ways to build better software of higher quality.

Validata ABC decreases the risks of application development, ensuring clients meet their auditing requirements with end-to-end traceability, access and version control. When software development processes are automated, they are repeatable, reliable and can be run as frequently as available computing resources allow. Therefore, developers and testers can now focus on the areas where they add real value to a project—developing and testing new code and features—instead of worrying about the underlying development infrastructure issues.

The tool provides insight into the process associated with a particular development activity, offering easier and more efficient use while expediting the delivery of business requirements.

Advantages and Benefits