Executive Summary

Across all industries, the services delivered by business applications have become an essential part of an enterprise's customer offering. Bringing new features to market quickly is thus a critical factor in determining a company's success.

The development organisation, most immediately exposed to business pressure, has reacted to this need by introducing agile development methodologies. Companies are now finding that their ability to deploy applications to target environments has become the key bottleneck in the application lifecycle, resulting in friction and frustration within the IT organization, especially at the boundaries between development, release management and operations.

As result, analysts predict that the top 25% of organisations will implement Release Automation solutions to increase accuracy, improve insight and enable "self-service" usage in Release Management.

Client experience indicates that, in today's dynamic IT environments, a critical requirement for an efficient and scalable Release Automation solution is the ability to automatically adapt to changes in application and middleware without the need for repeated manual adjustments.

Such Zero-Maintenance Release Automation provides the scalability required in an agile landscape and enables the delivery of continuous business value. XebiaLabs’ customers are benefiting from tenfold increases in release efficiency and saving more than $1m annually.

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