Nolio Release Automation Benefits

it_user348072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Continuous Delivery and Integration Team at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Everyone deploys with the same tools – standardization; it makes the exchange of people within a large organization easier. Transparency, risk awareness, and it offers centralized solutions for compliance checks. Delivery to customers is also much faster, whether it’s an internal or external customer.

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it_user372552 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director DevOps at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

One of the key benefits, what really we're looking at is the quality of the releases, not necessarily the code quality, but the actual deployments and the speed at which we're doing it. Things that we automate are taking upwards of 8 to 10 times less. Now, what we can do is we can do 3 to 4 times more on a release. We just had our largest release ever. Without CA Release Automation, there's no way we could deliver that level of code to our end-customers. It's very stable.

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it_user373059 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Enterprise Release and Deployment at TIAA-CREF

The benefits: we are able to deliver more. Our release volume doubled up but our release window went down by 80% so we deliver more and faster.

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it_user352854 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Governance Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a lot of CA products within the company and they've all fit our requirements, and I don't see any difference with Release Automation. Its benefits to us are of pulling our project together and making us more efficient. It also allows us to have a repeatable process that enables governance and control.

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it_user587598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Sme, Release Manager (Grm) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

CA RA integrates seamlessly with multiple front-end, DB, and MW technologies. The time savings for repetitive tasks is tremendous.

It also provides role-based, user administration where the DEV and QA were given access to use CA RA as a self-service tool. They use it to perform the deployments to their environments in the exact same way as the Release Ops team would deploy it to the controlled environments.

This helps isolate any issues that can occur in controlled environments to artifacts/ENV configurations. This helps us to catch issues quicker and improve our delivery times.

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it_user577341 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer Web Logic Portal Operations/Tech Services at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have seen significant improvements in efficiency through the use of CA Release Automation by allowing us to standardize our deployment processes and automate those processes. This has decreased time-to-market for several of our teams and allowed our personnel to spend more time working on higher value tasks.

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it_user558294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President, Solution Delivery & DevOps at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It has significantly improved the workload balance of the people that are part of my group. It's also helped us to have less business disruption and these are the primary ways in which it has helped our organization.

It's far more efficient and has helped us to get things done around 70 to 80% faster than before.

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it_user558291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a financial services firm

One of the main benefits is speed. I'm able to reduce the amount of time and resources necessary to do releases. With this solution, I'm able to bring the time down drastically.

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DP
Software Engineering Director at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It has improved our speed of deployment.

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it_user566886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - IT at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

It helped with auto-deployment of the pipeline from TeamCity & configuring rollbacks, and seeing versions and release pipeline status.

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MC
SQA Manager at a tech services company

There have been improvements in several kinds of projects:

  • Projects with more than 5,000 servers and daily deployments.
  • Projects in which we must manage the deployment in a cloud environment based on the monitoring. As the number of users grows, we must deploy a cloud environment and deploy the applications. If the number of users decreases, we must uninstall the applications and release the cloud infrastructure.
  • Deploying applications in a continuous integration environment, including deployment, QA, pre-production, and production environments.
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it_user572826 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

In our pipeline, right now, it's used as the release. We use Jenkins to build our applications and then it sends over to Release Automation. It's basically changed the way that we're doing our deployments. We now have, instead of three-hour deployments, they're three minutes. As well as, it creates more consistencies in the environments and helps it determine if the issue is with the server, the code, whatever else, when you're actually deploying out. It's been extremely helpful.

Some of the things that we're using for compliance and governance is basically the auditing that we can use with the application, like, who deployed it, when it was deployed, what versions were deployed from dev, QA, train, stage, production. It's been pretty helpful on that one.

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it_user572853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at EchoStar

For my organization, in particular, it’s going to improve our throughput. We're not going to have delays in testing, because we had some sort of manual entry error, some transposition error. We should be able to release our software to the customer in a much more efficient fashion.

As far as the role this solution has played in our continuous delivery journey, right now, we're just a very small fish in a big company. We do touch into a lot of other departments. Working with this for my group, if it becomes successful, we can start integrating and helping other parts of the organization also automate.

We don't have a lot of compliance and governance within my group. However, we do a lot of audit and we have a lot of details that we have to track. This is going to help us keep on top of those details; keep that continuity of data; keep us really on track for being able to give a better solution to our customers.

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it_user571830 - PeerSpot reviewer
FNet DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It has reduced deployment times from nearly a couple of hours to around a couple of minutes, especially on production environments.

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it_user558546 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Development Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Previously, we were hiring external contractors who were responsible for deployment. Now, we have removed them from the equation and instead we are using this tool. This has benefited us, not just in terms of costs for paying the external vendors but also enables faster delivery time, that has been reduced from days to a couple of hours.

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it_user572850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Program Manager at EchoStar Corporation

Basically, right now, it takes our software configuration management team and our download configuration management team 4-5 hours to be able to encapsulate the software with the necessary header information to be able to send it to the satellites, so that it then could go down to the set-top boxes. Through the automation process, we're trying to reduce that to a 30-minute process.

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it_user541449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Applications that have been on boarded into the Release Automation application have shown a decrease in deployment time and down time for maintenance.

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it_user568338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Deployments have been automated fully and now all the teams follow a single, error-free approach of deployment, which is time saving and seldom faults. It helps to implement standardization.

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it_user581823 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

As a simple example, we had a manual process to publish static files on a web server. Due to the large number of files and the need to do manual work using another tool, it used to take us six hours to complete it. With this tool, it now it takes us around five minutes.

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it_user210456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, DevOps with 51-200 employees

We have automated the deployment of our most important and complex web application. We needed four hours to deploy it with some continuous integration tools and manual procedures.

The development team needed to increase the number of deployments. In 12 days, we have automated this application and increased the deployment from 70 applications to 350 in three months. Additionally, we have automated 250 applications in one year in this tool.

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MC
SQA Manager at a tech services company

This has helped our organization with several kinds of projects:

  • Projects with more than 5,000 servers and daily deployments.
  • Projects in which we have to manage the deployment in a cloud environment based on the monitoring. As the number of users grows, we must deploy a cloud environment and deploy the applications. If the number of users decreases, we have to uninstall the applications and release the cloud infrastructure.
  • Deployment of applications in a continuous integration environment, including deployment, QA, pre-production, and production environments.
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it_user558582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Everyone is trying to go into continuous delivery using a continuous integration model. We need to connect all our tools together to see which products are helping us orchestrate all our tools to speed up delivery.

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it_user269043 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tools Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were facing a problem to release our code at the decided time. The development team were busy writing the code and then they prepared the build. After this process, the testing team started testing the build. So the whole process was taking a lot of time, then we heard about this tool.

It’s an enterprise-class continuous delivery solution that takes release automation to the next level, providing an agile and collaborative application delivery chain. Now, the situation is that the Release Automation tool tests released script. The Development team spend so much time in developing code and, at the same time, the testing team can test the build. As a result, Release Automation has been able to save us time

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it_user205848 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, DevOps at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

We have used the product to automate software deployments and simple tasks for technical support. We have reduced our failure rate dramatically due to automation. However, that's more due to the fact that we've automated than any particular virtue of the product.

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it_user208614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Arquitecto de soluciones CA LISA RELEASE Automation at a financial services firm

Before LISA RA implementation, the developers request for a restart would, for instance, take two to three days. With LISA RA, we developed a process where the restart is done within 10-15 minutes, and this process is used 15-20 times a day, from Monday to Friday. This is just one process, we have another process for DB and storage.

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it_user280932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Engineer with 10,001+ employees
  1. The number of errors have been reduced
  2. A higher quality process has been achieved for application releases
  3. Release Automation's significance and capability led to the formation of a new vertical team called DevOps in my organization
  4. DevOps is being implemented on all the projects in my organization, to enhance customer experience
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it_user576462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company

With CA Release Automation, the customers whom I worked with were able to:

  • Increase the number of deployments
  • Increase the deployment speed
  • Increase the number of concurrent deployments
  • Lower the error rate
  • Improve the visibility and the reliability of the deployment process
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NV
Software Build & Release Architect/ DevOps at HMS

Right now, our developers are very, very excited to use it. We can release multiple code features at one time. That is the biggest benefit. In large projects, there are often code dependencies between applications. Now, we have set up a list of dependencies, with the help of expert's at CA technical support. If we have for example, one application that is dependent on two more applications, we can deploy all three together. None of the applications will be down. They are always current with the latest features. That's what I love about it.

As of now, we are looking into continuous development. This will be taken into consideration as management makes the final decision. We are evaluating quite a few options. We are going to implement that very soon.

We also have implemented rules for compliance and governance. We have created multiple environments and every user group has access to the different environments. We restrict users from accessing higher environments without approval.

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it_user6813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We did a pilot - a POC – during which were able to make some progress with the product; it was a previous client, and they were trying to use this product but we couldn’t get it to work properly in the development environment.

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it_user205227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Automation Specialist with 10,001+ employees

One example would be that we don't need to worry about whether the user who is using it has expertise in certain technologies like Shell Scripting or PowerShell etc. If the end user has basic knowledge of process execution in the product, he can easily deploy without actually knowing what is happening in the background.

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it_user558447 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer III at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are saving a lot of manual hours with this tool. That is the most important thing. And it's very flexible. We can implement changes fast with this tool. We learned about this deployment tool from CA. It's really effective in the department in different moments for different applications, be it of Windows or AIX. We can deploy whatever we want with this tool.

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it_user345525 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Engineering at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Helps with a faster ramp-up time. This is the best way in which it has helped us for sure. Otherwise, it's got the standard features for an automation tool.

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it_user215694 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our requirement was to deploy to 300 servers which used to take two to three days before CA RA, now it takes only two to four hours.

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it_user215880 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees

The benefits achieved for the clients are:

  • Reduction in downtime
  • Less time to market
  • Shorter turn around times in case of failure
  • Earlier development
  • Ops teams who used to work in silos are now more coordinated
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it_user589380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Now we have automatic installations and it is very easy to promote the installation between environments.

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it_user295626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware and Automation Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • We've integrated it with our ticketing system to automatically trigger deployments and update tickets accordingly, saving a lot of manual effort.
  • Our number of successful deployments have also increased exponentially.
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it_user207675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Build and Release Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This is purely an automation tool which has helped us to move from traditional manual deployments to zero-touch deployments.

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it_user216678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release/Build Technologist, PM with 51-200 employees

Deployment workflows has not only increased the confidence in the release process, but also opens up a whole new world to automate the deployment for not just code, but DB, network appliances, application servers, and AWS.

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it_user215889 - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

You can integrate any tool with CA RA via existing action packs, either customized, or new. The best part is that you can define deployment pipelines and design the processes accordingly, which can be used later in release operation center.

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it_user373512 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, SCM and Release at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have the repeatability, we have the confidence that it's doing the same thing each time the way we've set it up to do and just being able to have the expectation of knowing exactly what's going to happen in the order that our infrastructure needs it to happen.

We rely on it quite often. We use it many, many times during the course of a week or a month and it's held up for us, so it's doing what we need it to do.

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it_user265827 - PeerSpot reviewer
Key Account Customer Service Technician at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's a lot easier to deploy software through CA than using a manual process or through GPOs. Packaging and client's hardware/software information recovery are handy features, as is the feedback on license management.

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LG
DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

It has enabled us to provide continuous delivery and deployment for all 4 environments (DEV, QA, stage, prod) with promotion steps for each environment.

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it_user558180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analysit at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

The main benefit to us is the reduced amount of time spent on migration errors. It also brought us a more efficient way of migrating on command with full automation. And third, most critical to us was that the turnaround time for any particular migration would be predictable. It is much more effective than before.

Release Automation is another baby step towards getting the full environment, fully automated. That is where we are going and Release Automation is a first step in that particular direction. We are making sure that all the steps are in place and automated without human intervention.

Regarding compliance and governance, we need to be sure that certain specific reports are generated for every migration and Release Automation helps us do that. Another issue is what we call job segregation, where, for example, the developer should not have access to the migration to the production. These kinds of things are what we can demonstrate clearly to our compliance team saying that it is possible to do it this way.

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it_user570954 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer - Release Management with 501-1,000 employees

It has improved the working of our organization by:

  • Accelerating the release development process
  • Enabling smaller development teams to achieve faster development times
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