Achieving Zero Touch Deployment in TFS - Webinar

Two Days to our Webinar on Zero Touch Deployment™ in TFS 2010

The countdown has begun! There are just two days left to sign up for our live webinar on achieving fully automated deployments in a Microsoft Team Foundation environment.

Hundreds of people have already signed up for this highly educational and fascinating webinar, which will demonstrate how complex releases can be fully automated in the team foundation server. Read More »

Gartner Cites Nolio's Application Release Automation Tools as Key to DevOps

Gartner Cites Application Release Automation Tools as Key to DevOps

Could application release automation (ARA) solutions be the key to building a successful DevOps practice in your organization?

According to the latest Gartner report by Ronni J. Colville, the answer is yes!  As an emerging movement, DevOps may have improved communication and collaboration between development and IT operations teams but it still hasn’t absolutely mastered its ultimate goal of unifying their work.  In her report, Ronni J. Colville argues that DevOps can be greatly enhanced by the use of application release automation (ARA) tools and specifically cites Nolio as one such solution. Read More »

Lombard Odier Deploys with Nolio

Lombard Odier to Cut App Release Times from 2 Hours to 20 Minutes

Learn how Geneva’s oldest bank Lombard Odier has benefited from Nolio’s innovative application release deployment solutions.

In a fascinating interview, we asked Lombard Odier’s Technical Architect Yann Albou why the bank decided to deploy with Nolio and what benefits they have witnessed since the transition. Mr. Albou described the manifold challenges and frustrations that Lombard Odier previously faced with application deployments. Read More »

Automating Deployments with Amdocs CES

How to Automate Application Updates in Amdocs CES

Using Amdocs CES for your convergent billing and customer care needs?

If so, you’re in good company. Top service providers worldwide rely on the cutting-edge technology of Amdocs Customer Experience Systems (CES) to support their business processes. Global organizations like AT&T and Vodafone rely on Amdocs to deliver the core of their business, from billing and OMS to customer support and data services.

However, managing the ongoing operations of Amdocs CES can be extremely complex. IT Operations teams often have to contend with frequent application deployments to multiple environments. Not only is this convoluted and error prone; but it is also time-consuming, expensive, and wastes valuable operational resources.

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Achieving Zero Touch Deployment in a TFS Environment

Live Webinar on Achieving Zero Touch Deployment in TFS 2010

Don’t miss our live webinar on achieving Zero Touch Deployment™’ in a Microsoft Team Foundation environment!

Led by application deployment expert Ron Gidron, this webinar will show you how to fully automate complex releases while continuing to work in the team foundation server. ‘Mr. Gidron will explore the potential of embedding the extensive capabilities of deployment automation in this environment,  and demonstrate how it can be implemented in order to reduce errors, lower costs, increase operational throughput and accelerate time-to-market of application releases. Read More »

Zero Touch Deployment in Microsoft TFS 2010

Achieving Zero Touch Deployment™ in a Microsoft TFS Environment

Hundreds of global companies use Microsoft TFS 2010 as their standard IT collaboration platform.

With a comprehensive end-to-end approach to solution development and functionality for almost all application lifecycle and development needs, TFS 2010 is an ideal solution for teams that need to coordinate their work to develop integrated software solutions.

However, the platform is lacking in one important aspect – the facility to automatically perform complex application deployments. This poses a big problem for IT operations teams desperate to improve their application deployment processes but tied to the TFS environment.

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Zero Touch Deployment Webinar - Part II

Second Zero Touch Deployment™ Webinar Now Online

Last night we held the second in our series of fascinating and highly successful webinars on Zero Touch Deployment™.

Keen to improve their application deployment processes, hundreds of IT professionals attended yesterday’s live webinar to learn how they can successfully achieve Zero Touch Deployment™ in an agile organization.

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Zero Touch Deployment Webinar Part II

Our Next Zero Touch Deployment Webinar Starts in Five Days!

The second installment in our series of webinars on Zero Touch Deployment is just five days away!

Join us on Wednesday the 7th of September for Zero Touch Deployment – Part II – The Analyst Panel. This educational and enlightening webinar will demonstrate how fully automated deployment processes can complement agile development processes. The session will be led by Forrester’s Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond, who will explore the urgent necessity to streamline release management techniques to bridge the gap between rapid agile development practices and slow release processes. Read More »

Zero Touch Deployment in an Agile Organization

Achieving Zero Touch Deployment in an Agile Environment

Agile methodologies may have revolutionized the enterprise software industry but they’ve created a major headache for many IT operations teams.

By establishing agile methodologies, development teams have shortened the software development life cycle and successfully managed to keep up with rapid releases.  Testing and integration teams have established Continuous Integration (CI) to keep pace with the iterative and incremental approach of agile development. Read More »

Automating Applications or Writing Scripts – Which Should You Choose?

Automating Applications or Writing Scripts – Which Should You Choose?

An interesting discussion unfolded on LinkedIn last week focusing on the comparative benefits of automating application deployment versus writing scripts. The debate was prompted by team leader Andrew, whose latest eCommerce project stuck him with the dilemma as to whether he should write more scripts to deploy the application to the middleware environment or make the leap to automation.

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