Nolio ASAP enables the full integration of Zero Touch Deployment™ within the change management system of ServiceNow. All the platform’s process rules and data are automatically integrated with Nolio ASAP affording ServiceNow users to enjoy fully automated deployments without having to change any aspects of their current application management system. This offers the best of both worlds; rapid and accurate deployments with complete auditability, visibility and control.

Adopters of these processes are benefiting from accelerated IT transformation by streamlining their release operations across the application lifecycle. Some of the results they are enjoying include:

1. Reduced Time-to-Market
2. Greater Flexibility and Agility
3. Visibility and Auditability
4. Advanced Analytics and Reporting
5. Support for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments
6. Full IT Governance and Compliance

“Extending ServiceNow software development life cycle functionality through Nolio ASAP provides a strong and unique solution to the market. We will continue to execute on our commitment to transform IT by automating and standardizing business processes and consolidating IT across the global enterprise. By partnering with Nolio, we now have an end-to-end release operations platform to provide to our fast-growing enterprise customer base.” – Rob Luddy, ServiceNow VP of Business Development.

Don’t forget to stop by booth 138 for the opportunity to learn more about Nolio’s new and improved integration with ServiceNow. See you in New Orleans at Knowledge12!

Want to learn more? Join us on Wednesday, May 23^rd at 11am EST/4pm GMT for our live webinar ‘ReleaseNow with ServiceNow Part II’ with Nolio’s Product Director Ron Gidron

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Also, don’t forget to look for us at Knowledge 12 – The ServiceNow Global User Conference in New Orleans and the Gartner Summit on IT Infrastructure and Operations in Orlando.

In this Issue New White Paper What’s New at Nolio Upcoming Events More About Nolio Upcoming Events Knowledge 12 – ServiceNow Global User Conference May 13-17, 2012 New Orleans, Louisiana Knowledge 12 will be the point of collaboration for thousands of IT professionals representing the world’s most innovative companies and recognizable brands. Register today and join Nolio as we unveil our latest ServiceNow and Zero Touch Deployment™ integration. View the Event Gartner Summit: IT Infrastructure & Operations June 5-7, 2012 Orlando, Florida Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit provides strategic and tactical guidance as you navigate the most critical I&O trends and technologies impacting your enterprise today. Register for this summit and join Nolio as we launch the next generation Application Release Automation. View the Event More About Nolio Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join us on LinkedIn Watch us on YouTube New Whitepaper The Value of Nolio Application Release Automation in a Microsoft Environment Our newest white paper, by deployment expert Phil Cherry, discusses the value that Nolio Application Release Automation can bring to a Microsoft environment. There are a number of components that need to be managed in a Microsoft application lifecycle and it can be confusing to understand the complexities of each. In this white paper, you will learn how Nolio modernizes Microsoft applications deployments. Our end-to-end solution permits Zero Touch Deployment™ from development to production for applications based on Microsoft technologies. Download the White Paper Today What’s New at Nolio Nolio Talks BizTalk Using BizTalk? Are you frustrated with the command line utility not providing all the necessary actions for application deployment? And how about those pesky host instances? Well look no further! Our latest release will save you from the logistical nightmare that is BizTalk application deployments. We are thrilled to share with you our new and improved BizTalk Action Pack with even more built-in actions and capabilities. Our latest out-of-the-box actions enable you to fully automate complex deployments for your Microsoft BizTalk applications and reduce errors, lowers costs, increase operational throughput and accelerate time-to-market. Learn more about the BizTalk Action Pack Nolio ASAP 4.0 Coming Soon Coming soon, we are excited to announce the upcoming release of the Nolio Application Service Automation Platform 4.0. This is the industry’s most comprehensive application deployment automation solution, specifically designed to meet the demanding needs of enterprises for a fully automated end-to-end release process.

From May 15^th to the 17^th, we will be hosting a booth at Knowledge 12 in New Orleans. Stop by our booth and learn how Nolio ASAP enables the full integration of Zero Touch Deployment™ within the change management system of ServiceNow. All the platform’s process rules and data are automatically integrated with Nolio ASAP affording ServiceNow users to enjoy fully automated deployments without having to change any aspects of their current application management system. This offers the best of both worlds; rapid and accurate deployments with complete auditability, visibility and control!

Our Nolio reps will demonstrate how you can:

1. Link to a Zero Touch Deployment™ process from within ServiceNow
2. Schedule automated deployments
3. Control and manage automatic deployment processes
4. Maintain and integrate all existing rules and data
5. Automatically document all deployment processes
6. Ensure full control and visibility

We’d love to meet you to discuss your application deployment needs and share the successes that we’ve had with leading global clients like Tesco, SuperDerivatives, Atos and many more! Come find out how we can help your organization.

Click here to learn more about Knowledge 12 New Orleans

This summit will provide strategic and tactical guidance to navigate the most critical I&O trends and technologies impacting your enterprise today.

Stop by our booth learn how to:

1. Align operational productivity with the speed and efficiency of development and QA teams
2. Eliminate the need to build and maintain custom scripts for application updates
3. Improve reliability within the deployment process, reduce custom scripting, configuration errors and downtime
4. Eradicate the need to manually manage process steps in spreadsheets and/or emails for application releases
5. Move the skill base from expensive, specialized script programmers to less-costly resources
6. Accelerate time to market by reducing deployment and configuration times

We’d love to meet you to discuss your application deployment needs and share the successes that we’ve had with leading global clients like Lombard Odier, SuperDerivatives, Atos and many more! Come find out how we can help your organization.

Click here to learn more about the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit

In other exciting news, our webinar calendar is filling up. Next week, Nolio’s Product Director will be hosting the webinar “Nexus, Artifactory and Release Automation” and our partner Serena will be hosting a French language webinar on Zero Touch Application Deployment. Also, don’t forget to save the date of April 24th for our live WebSphere Webinar.

In this Issue New Integrations What’s New at Nolio Save the Date Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Nexus, Artifactory and Release Automation March 28 at 11am EST / 4pm GMT Learn how to integrate fully automated application deployments with your binary repository and make time-consuming manual changes and releases a thing of the past! Join us as Nolio’s Product Director Ron Gidron demonstrates how you can seamlessly integrate programs such as Nexus and Artifactory with Nolio ASAP’s built-in actions. Register Now! French Language Webinar – Zero Touch Application Deployment March 29 at 4pm CET or April 3 at 10am CET Lors de cette Web conférence vous découvrirez comment dépasser les défis posés par la complexité de la gestion des releases applicatives tant au niveau technologique qu’á celui de la conformité aux processus de l’entreprise. La synergie entre les solutions d’Automatisation de NOLIO et de Pilotage de SERENA vous assure une maîtrise complète. Register Now! More About Nolio Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join us on LinkedIn Watch us on YouTube New Integrations New Actions for BigIP F5 Load Balancer Nolio’s Zero Touch Deployment™ processes offer extended support for BigIP configuration and management. The new functionality covers getting, adding and deleting pool members as well as updating, creating and deleting iRules and querying virtual servers for their failover state. Our latest built-in actions allow customers to include the traffic and access management capabilities of their F5 products directly into their Zero Touch Deployment™ processes. Users will enjoy fewer manual tasks and an increase in quality and speed of the overall application release processes. Learn more about the Nolio ASAP and BigIP F5 integration What’s New at Nolio Application Release Automation White Papers We have been hard at work compiling our knowledge so that you will have a quick and easy source to gather all the information you need. Our extensive collection of white papers covers all aspects of application release automation, Nolio solutions and Zero Touch Deployment™ and everything is available for free download! Find out if the cloud simplifies application deployment or if it is better to build scripts than buy a release automation platform. Discover how Nolio integrates with programs such as Hudson or Microsoft TFS. You can even learn everything you need to know about implementing application release automation so support IT Governance and Compliance! Download our white papers today! Save the Date Automating WebSphere Application Deployments April 24 at 11am EST / 4pm GMT Deploying WebSphere applications is a giant headache! That’s why we’ve come up with a solution that will save you time, money and resources! Join us as Nolio’s Product Senior System’s Engineer Scott Sumner explains how you can fully automate end-to-end WebSphere application releases and enable full synchronization between all your application tiers. Save the date!

As busy as it’s been, we are also very excited to announce that both Forrester and Gartner analysts have been talking about us in their recent reports. Looks like we’re doing something right!

In this Issue DevOps Salary Survey 2011 New Integration What the Analysts are Saying What’s New at Nolio? Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Manifest Driven Deployment Automation Webinar February 22 at 11am EST / 4pm GMT Learn how you can overcome the chaos and complexities of application release and achieve true Zero Touch Deployment™. Join us as Nolio’s Senior Systems Engineer Scott Sumner demonstrates how you can fully automate application releases, easily create reusable deployment processes and ensure full control and visibility. Register Now! More About Nolio Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join us on LinkedIn Watch us on YouTube  DevOps and Application Release Professionals Salary Survey 2011 In 2011, we surveyed hundreds of DevOps and Application Release professionals worldwide to learn what the market’s salary standard really is and we found out some shocking information. For instance, did you know that 11% of the people working in the field in VP-Level and C-Level positions are taking home 62% of the wages! Are you a part of the remaining 89%? Read our detailed salary report to find out where you stand and what you need to do to become part of the 11%. Click here to download the full report New Integrations Nolio Develops Integration with Nexus We have been working hard on integrating Nolio’s Zero Touch processes with the Nexus artifact repository management system. Using a built-in REST API that is supported in both Nolio and Nexus, we now have a good use case to share and growing customer interest. If you are interested in learning more about the Nolio/Nexus integration, please do not hesitate to contact Nili at nili@noliosoft.com. What the Analysts are Saying Gartner Cites Nolio as ITPA Vendor IT Process Automation (ITPA) tools are becoming increasingly popular in the IT world. These solutions focus on streamlining, optimizing and automating deployment processes in order to maximize efficiency for an organization and its customers. In her latest article, ‘Uses if IT Process Automation Tools: The Changing Vendor Landscape’, Gartner analyst Ronni J. Colville cites Nolio’s Application Release Automation as one such tool. Click here to learn more Click here to download the full Gartner report Forrester Lists Nolio’s Automated Processes as Best Practice ITSM is a process-based practice with the ultimate goal of aligning the delivery of IT services with the needs of an enterprise. In a recent report, Forrester analysts identified a number of fields involved in achieving best practice within ITSM, among them release and deployment automation. In the report, Nolio’s Release Automation was specifically cited as a solution that could help to achieve best practice in ITSM. Click here to learn more What’s New at Nolio? Nolio ASAP 3.3.2 Released In November 2011, we released the new and improved ASAP 3.3. Now we’re happy to announce a release update, offering more features and benefits to improve your user experience. The updated release includes new features and enhancements related to actions, execution, design, installation, reporting, administration and open API. How can you get this update? For Nolio customers using ASAP 3.2.1 and above, the upgrade packages can be retrieved using the ‘Check for Update’ menu in your Nolio UI. For all other customers, please contact your Nolio representative or our support team at support@noliosoft.com and we will be happy to provide you with a link to the new release.. Click here to learn more Click here to contact the support team

Numerous global enterprises, online services and SaaS businesses already rely on Nolio to meet the mounting challenges and complexities of releasing and managing applications across the data center.  In November 2011, we released the new and improved ASAP 3.3. Now we’re happy to announce a release update, offering more features and benefits to improve your user experience.

The ASAP 3.3 updated release includes new features and enhancements related to actions, execution, design, installation, reporting, administration and open API. I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight a couple of the updates that you will see in the latest version of Nolio ASAP!

F5 Enhanced Action Pack: Our latest out-of-the-box actions allow customers to include the traffic and access management capabilities of their F5 products directly into their Zero Touch Deployment™ Processes, reducing manual efforts, increasing the quality and speed of the overall application release process and eliminating downtime.

Improved Publish Mechanism: Test, version and consolidate your release know how! Nolio ASAP consolidates your application ‘know-how’ into a single repository, eliminating release conflicts and enabling release management for any application and data center environment. This allows release teams from across development, QA and operations to share and transfer their operational knowledge. With the latest upgrade, the time required for the publishing mechanism to work has been reduced even more!

How can you get this update? For Nolio customers using ASAP 3.2.1 and above, the upgrade packages can be retrieved using the ‘Check for Update’ menu in your Nolio UI. For all other customers, please contact your local Nolio representative or our support team at support@noliosoft.com and we will be happy to provide you with a link to the new release.

Click here to learn more about Nolio ASAP

Click here to learn more about Zero Touch Deployment™

Atos has 78,500 employees in 42 different countries and boasts annual revenue of EUR 8.7 billion. With its technology expertise and industry knowledge, it provides services to clients across many sectors, including manufacturing, retail, financial services, and media and technology to name a few. Partnering with Nolio, it has captured and standardized the application change and maintenance process for its customers. As a result, its clients can enjoy fast, reliable and cost-effective application deployment processes.

“By expanding our portfolio with Nolio’s platform we can better position ourselves as providers of high-quality application management services that meet the specific needs of our customers. Innovation, quality, flexibility and predictability are the most important principles. With Nolio, we can simplify the management of the most complex, heterogeneous application environments and minimize business risks.” – Marnix Harssema, Head of Portfolio Management, Benelux Atos

The bottom line is that, by adopting one comprehensive application release automation platform, Atos has managed to improve the quality, flexibility and management of its application production line. Automated processes have minimized their risk of service interruption when introducing new applications or versions and have dramatically improved Atos’ time-to-market of new products.

While Nolio has had success with Atos and other companies working in IT services, it doesn’t end there. Companies ranging from online media to SaaS, retail to banking and finance have achieved similar successes with their switch to application release automation. When will you make the switch?

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Numerous global enterprises, online services and SaaS businesses already rely on Nolio to meet the mounting challenges and complexities of releasing and managing applications across the data center. Now Nolio has launched its latest version, Nolio ASAP 3.3, offering its clients more features and benefits than ever before.

New features in Nolio ASAP 3.3 include:

1. Centralized Logging
Engineers can log data from any environment or server to a centralized location. This enables engineers to coordinate their work more easily and enhances troubleshooting and tracking capabilities.

2. Selecting ‘Users’ for Processes and Workflows
Engineers can select which ‘user’ their processes and workflows will run on. All processes and workflows will automatically be executed according to the security permissions of the assigned ‘user’. This means that all actions and processes can be executed with the exact security permissions required for the operation.

3. Exporting Processes to XML
All Nolio’s processes can be exported to an XML file. XML is the ideal format to store processes and it supports in-house versioning tools, which can be used to keep track of changes.

4. Design, Environment and Administration Auditing
Nolio ASAP 3.3 provides a full audit trail for any changes that occurred in the platform. All changes and updates in actions, workflows, processes, environment configurations, and administration tasks are automatically logged and available to the system administrator.

5. Embedded JavaScript Interpreter
Nolio can now inherently execute JavaScript within actions and workflows. JavaScript can be used to perform complex processes, such as text and array manipulation, mathematical calculations, and HTTP and web operations.

If you have any questions about these new features or Nolio ASAP in general, please contact clare@noliosoft.com.