CA Release Automation At a Glance

DATA SHEET
CA Release Automation
At a Glance
CA Release Automation is an enterprise-class continuous delivery solution to orchestrate and automate complex
application release deployments from development through production. Enterprises use CA Release Automation to help:
•Speed up application release cycles and improve business and operational agility.
•Reduce errors and achieve higher quality and stability of releases by simplifying and standardizing application release processes.
•Enable more frequent releases and reduce risks of failure.
•Reduce costs of application deployments and promote collaboration and alignment between Development and Operations.
•Improve visibility across the entire deployment tool chain.
Key Benefits/Results
Customers can realize significant benefits
from release automation, including:
• Reduced time-to-market and improved
business agility
• Improved quality and reduced cost
• Improved manageability, audit tracking
and compliance
• Increased release capacity with reduced risk
• Provide traceability through every step of
the Release Process
Key Features
• Application centric, manifest 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 solutions
without scripting.
• Scalable enterprise solution to handle
complex, multi–tier distributed solutions across
1000s 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.
• Multi-tier release Automation capable
of defining and managing release
activities and deployments across all the
components of the application architecture
Business Challenges
Today’s IT organizations are under enormous pressure to deliver new applications and
services to the market at an increasingly rapid pace. Today, applications are critical to the
success of the business and in many cases they are the business. As a result, applications
are constantly changing, and managing that change is a key component to maintaining
business agility. Today, IT organizations are struggling with the following challenges:
Reduce error-prone tasks. Manual processes are error prone, expensive and time
consuming. Development organizations are comprised of diverse teams, responsible for
deploying code, data and content throughout all stages of the application development
lifecycle, each with its own specific requirements.
Improve time-to-deployment. Complex infrastructure components require highly skilled
resources to provision, test and deploy applications across your development, QA and
production environments. Manual release processes are often inadequate for agile
development methodologies. Executing change across each environment independently is
time consuming, often requiring you to start from scratch with each and every update.
Reduce operational bottlenecks. When the operations team is bogged down by repetitive
release tasks it becomes increasingly difficult to complete weekly application updates
within a scheduled maintenance window. It becomes difficult if not impossible to retain the
critical knowledge necessary to build repeatable processes for day-to-day or emergency
operations. In addition, scaling the operations team to handle the increased workload from
growing applications and data center operations can become cost prohibitive.
Solution Overview
Applications have become a key component of modern business. Users expect 24/7
availability along with continuously enhanced features. IT is adopting virtualization and
cloud computing for faster access to infrastructure and compute resources, agile
development to deliver application releases faster, and release operations for centralized
control and zero touch application deployments.
Continuous delivery is a practice that helps address these challenges of deployment. With
CA Release Automation, customers can automate the delivery process and reduce the
complexity of promoting new applications through the development lifecycle and into production.
CA RELEASE AUTOMATION
On-demand release for continuous delivery
Architectures
Server-Types
Deployment Logic
Flows & Process
•Unlimited flexibility in designing complex
Release Processes, can perform advanced
tasks such as looping, process interaction,
and deployments across multiple server
types and locations
•Enterprise Scalability that is able to
support environments with tens of
thousands of servers
Environment
Resources
Environment
Configuration
ON DEMAND RELEASE
Critical Differentiators
CA Release Automation’s Manifest Driven
Deployment model enables customers to
design and configure complex, multi-tier
release processes that are reusable and
repeatable across multiple deployments and
environments throughout the application
lifecycle. An enterprise-class continuous
delivery solution that takes release
automation to the next level, providing an
agile and collaborative application delivery
chain. Designed to meet the demanding
needs of enterprises for an automated
end-to-end release process including:
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Application deployment tasks are
automated, errors are reduced, software
releases are more reliable, and delivered
at an accelerated rate. Customers using
CA Release Automation are also relieved
from the cumbersome complexity of
deploying applications to physical, virtual,
or cloud infrastructure platforms commonly
used at each stage.
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Release Data
Deployment
Manifests
Deployment
Manifests
QA
Deployment
Manifests
STG
PROMOTE
•Advanced process interaction with
real-time remediation
•Out-of-the-box, application–centric release
operations for applications across physical,
virtual and cloud environments
CA Release Automation is a single, holistic
solution for application release workflow
design, testing and execution. It provides
centralized management to control
application releases across data center
application teams, application environments
and distributed data center infrastructures.
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Related Products/Solutions
This suite of products help organizations
deliver applications faster to market, with
superior quality and reduced costs:
•CA Service Virtualization. Helps
customers move application development
tasks earlier in the SDLC.
•CA Data Mining solutions. Leverages the
intelligence harvested from application
development, testing and production.
For more information, please visit ca.com/releaseautomation
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