Target Company Profile
Company Size: Small, Medium or enterprise level
Industries: All – Telecommunications, retail, insurance, healthcare and financial are good targets
Attributes: High frequency of deployments, Complex applications/failed deployments, Frequent deployment rollbacks, Inability to deliver continuously and consistently to development, test and production, Desire to be more agile, but unable to execute manual deployment processes (e.g. WAS), Lack of ability to know exactly what is going into deployments, Increased reliance on software innovation
Entry Points
· New (or newly empowered) release management or DevOps teams that are trying to get standard processes in place from development to operations will often look to standardize deployment methodology around automation. A great opportunity and affinity is with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) where manual scripts are being written to deploy to WAS.
· Heterogeneous technology mix:
o WebSphere Application Server (WAS)and other J2EE Platforms (Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic)
o Microsoft stack including IIS, Sharepoint and BizTalk
o Web Services
o Files and script moves
o Databases
· Challenges in WAS deployments
o Operations team is using WAS environment in production, Dev/Test is not, resulting in delivery challenges to production e.g. because of configuration mismatch etc.
o Time to market pressure for more frequent releases
o Manual processes and handoffs for deployments are error-prone, and slows down the delivery process
o Major releases take days and are managed by a spreadsheet
Success Story
Public Healthcare company
Fidelity Worldwide Investment
Blind Case Study: Global 500 Banking Company uses IBM UrbanCode Deploy and IBM UrbanCode Release for WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
Challenge:
• Error prone manual tasks and deployment processes to WAS
• Risk of instability due to managing multiple WAS configurations and versions
• Slow deployment to development and test environments
• Lack of centralized deployment processes across WAS environments
Solution: Implemented IBM UrbanCode Deploy and IBM UrbanCode Release to automate release and deployment across their WAS environments. They chose IBM UrbanCode for its superior product capabilities, ease of use and speed of implementation.
Benefits: Deployments are 50-75 percent faster, realized value of their investment in UrbanCode within the first month and reduced cost.
Offering Description List Key product offerings and brief descriptions
IBM UrbanCode provides superior capabilities for release and deployment automation, a key DevOps capability, accelerating time to market, driving down cost while reducing risk.
IBM UrbanCode Deploy orchestrates and automates the deployment of applications, middleware configuration, and database changes into development, test and production environments.
IBM UrbanCode Release is an intelligent collaboration release management solution that replaces error-prone manual spreadsheets and streamlines release activities for application and infrastructure changes.
Why IBM UrbanCode for WAS: Customer Value Proposition
• Reduce deployment errors
· Standardize deployment process and assets across Dev and Ops
· Automate software release and deployment
• Improve productivity and operational excellence
· Allows Ops to quickly deliver production-like environments suitable for Dev/Test needs
• Faster time to market with continuous delivery of WAS applications
· Automate promotion of assets across a delivery pipeline
Competition
XebiaLabs, CA/Nolio and BMC/Varalogix— Our product scales to enterprise levels of complexity and thousands of servers.
Chef and Puppet— Our products can deliver application deployment orchestration with drag-and-drop process designers rather than difficult scripting as well as release management capabilities.
UrbanCode Deploy:
· Snapshot technology for easier promotion of changes through environments
· Orchestrate changes across tiers/servers
· Support multi-tenant scenarios
· Heterogeneous server environments
· Compliancy view of what is in each environment and server
· Historical Inventory dashboard
· Plug-ins to support deployment targets
UrbanCode Release:
· Planningand execution of releases
· Delivery Pipeline views
· Release Impact Analysis view
· Federated Release Dashboard
Key Contacts
Experts to contact:
· WW Product lead: Kimberly Frederick –
· WW Marketing lead: Leonard Callejo –
· WW Sales lead: Greg Wunderle –
· WW Sales Integration lead: Ann Marie-
· WW Channel Sales lead: Swati Moran –
Implementation Partners
Find a local partner
· IBM Business Partner Locator