Nolio Release Automation Valuable Features

Akhilesh B N - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Delivery Engineer at Barclays Capital

One standout aspect is its architecture. We can configure multiple instances on a single server using different system names or usernames. 

Another feature I like is that the graphical user interface is user-friendly and aids in efficient design and deployment.

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

The frictionless end-to-end, automated deployments. Before we did manual deployments working with different parties, we removed those handovers which makes it frictionless. It’s fault-tolerant without human errors; it's agnostic. It’s consolidated on one tool instead of multiple solutions with manual implementations.

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

One, it's agent-based. It allows us to do multiple things at once as opposed to serially, which we had a home grown tool that did it serially. We've reduced our time frames. I think the pre-codified actions for doing the release activities, also is a major benefit. It's something that we don't have to write scripts for, they're already written. We just need to pull them together. Those are the two major things.

The other thing that the tool does that we're beginning to realize is it's addressing what Gartner's calling this bi-modal approach. What we're realizing is that Mode 1, which is your old legacy type of approach, which is why we got the tool. It's fantastic for, but now the new fast speeds using it in the Mode 2 type thing, we're finding it bullet-proof there as well.

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

One of the major value we assigned the tool is it's a agent-based deployment tool. Our job is pushing code through all, consistently, 24/7 so we want the tool to handle our deployment volume.

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

We are currently going through a period of trying to implement CICD, Continuous Integration and Delivery. We've quite a lot of tools in the CI space. Now we want to expand that out to try and allow for automated deployments, so that we can get a more integrated process and workflow, between actually building and creating code, and the actually deploying that into the systems. So that's really what our main focus is of implementing RA. 

The most valuable features for us all revolve around the automated deployments, so it's more around the governance and consistency across all the different technologies that we have. We're just in the process of implementing Release Automation, so I think once we've implemented it, and started to get to grips with the initial functionality that's available, we can start to look a little bit deeper, and see what other functionalities are useful.

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

For our team, CA RA has made the one-click deployment a reality. It provides a web-based GUI with a convenient dashboard, Release Operations Center (ROC) to manage deployments, and agent health checks.

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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

This product provides pre-built action packs for many of the most popular platforms and appliances. The product allows users to create custom actions when action packs are not yet available. This allows us to leverage this studio across our entire organization.

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

The most valuable features are the ability to shorten our release cycles and to reduce the number of mistakes we make.

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it_user558291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a financial services firm

The most valuable features are the automation tools. We use them mainly for automating our application releases across various technologies. The tools have enabled us to reduce the downtime that is required to make any release. The release time has gone down from a number of days to a few minutes. I can get that done easier with this tool.

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RK
Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The graphical view of when you're writing flow is the most valuable feature.

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

The built-in action packs for different systems is the most valuable feature. The CA RA install comes with built-in plugins for tools such as TIBCO, WebSphere, IIS and so on. This helps to avoid writing custom scripts to deploy to those kinds of servers. We use those plugins instead.

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RV
CA Lisa Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The CA Application Insight feature is the solution's most valuable aspect.

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MC
SQA Manager at a tech services company
  • Ability to maintain the maps of different environments in a single tool. The way the tool organizes and manages the information to be used in the automation deployment is one of its strengths. It is possible to have a map of all the environments involved in the Software Lifecycle (Dev|Pre|Pro), and maintain, in a centralized point, the actions that are shared between the environments and the specific actions of some environments.
  • Ability to design and manage DevOps activities from a graphical viewpoint. The core of the tool is the workflow. These workflows are designed in a graphical point of view. This is an excellent functionality which is better than XML or other file based actions definitions. You can perform workflows using other workflows, so this increases the reuse of actions and reduces the copy/paste of actions.
  • Ability to manage large installations with more than 5,000 servers due to the 100% scalable architecture. You can install the tool in a simple machine for simple installations or development environments. You can install the solution with redundant servers for critical installations. Also, you can distribute several components of the solution in the way you need in order of manage the deployment of large organizations with a large number of servers, a large number of applications, several technologies, CPDs distributed around the world, mix models including cloud and on premise hardware, etc. You maintain a unique point of access for all of this, sharing actions, dashboards, etc.
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it_user572826 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Some of the most valuable features of CA Release Automation are definitely the shared components, as well as the tokens. Shared components within this application are repeatable processes that you can assign throughout multiple applications, such as your business types, funding, credit, whatever else, that are repeatable processes. For example, if you wanted to set up an IS site or something along those lines, you would create a repeatable flow process with the application, and then you can leverage token values to fill in something like the service account, the passwords, that kind of stuff, that would actually be populated as part of your IS site deployment. It's pretty cool and a pretty awesome feature that we leverage all the time.

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it_user572853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at EchoStar

We were running approximately 40 manual steps, and we're getting this down to two manual steps, thereby alleviating some of the copy-paste errors, some of the transposition errors that we're currently doing that affect our customers.

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

CA RA supports most of the OSs (unix, Linux, Windows) out there used in corporate environments. So one of the most valuable features is flexibility, as you can deploy virtually any app on any OS using this platform.

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

A valuable feature of this product is faster delivery time. Initially, we had 4 days for deployment which has now changed to only a few minutes for core deployment. For database schema changes, we are performing automated deployment.

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it_user572850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Program Manager at EchoStar Corporation

As an engineering program manager, I was responsible for making sure that we're taking the 43 steps that are our manual process, and automating those. That actually takes our software delivery to our set-top boxes and automates the process to send this technology up to the satellites and down to set-top box. It's total automation of a manual process.

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

The process design tools included are easy to use and very good at deploying applications across various platforms and operating systems.

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

CA Release Automation has a GUI which is easy to use and develop the solutions.
Most of the day-to-day tasks which need automation have been already covered by built-in actions. So you just have to drag and drop to start using it.

It has various plugins, which make integration with other tools like ServiceNow, Jenkins, and JIRA, etc. easy and helps in implementing CI and CD, following an agile approach.

The ROC provides features that help in release management and ServiceNow authentication when enabled, and can make production deployments safe and error free.

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

I really appreciate how easy and fast it is develop a flow that can deploy artifacts and applications.

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it_user210456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, DevOps with 51-200 employees
  • The most flexible product to automate deployment process based on the existing infrastructure
  • Capacity to rationalize deployment process according to technologies
  • Capacity to manage deployment error with the option to start, stop or pause the process
  • Dashboard to follow deployment life-cycle
  • Capacity to interact with all technologies of information system as change management, load balancing, application server, database etc.
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MC
SQA Manager at a tech services company

The valuable features are:

  • Ability to keep the map of different environments in a single tool.
  • Ability to design and manage DevOps activity from a graphical point of view.
  • Ability to manage large installations with more than 5,000 servers due to its 100% scalable architecture.
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it_user558582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Their products are near the market. They cover everything that we need on the customers’ side. Their products also get frequently upgraded, so they keep apace with new technology and new stacks.

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

Most importantly, it provides an agile solution that is based on DevOps concepts. This is very good for DevOps teams, and I can say that it is a very helpful feature. Some other features which are used by our organization, includes the migration of process design for the Release Operations Center (ROC), the ability to share components across an enterprise, and integration with Chef Tool.

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

The UI makes it easier for non-engineers to understand. It's reliable and works well once you figure out its quirks.

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

Visual Design. I've worked with shell scripts in bash all my life, so when I need to do control statements or flows, this used to be a nightmare, but with LISA RA it is easier for me to create flows and control statements, and detect errors.

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it_user280932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Engineer with 10,001+ employees
  1. Manifest driven
  2. Multi-tier release automation
  3. Comprehensive set of action packs and plug-ins to achieve business requirements
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it_user576462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company
  • Zero-code deployment process design: With this feature, it's easy to share, discuss, and debug the deployment logic with non-technical people.
  • Easy to orchestrate activities across multiple servers.
  • Easy to synchronize the changes so they happen at the right time in relation to each other and even to pass information between those servers.
  • Has a vast library of standard actions and action packs that cover 99% of use cases of the customers.
  • Has REST APIs and plugins to integrate with external systems such as Jenkins, ServiceNow, Puppet, and Chef.
  • Has a manifest-driven deployment and artifact package to easily reuse the same artifacts.
  • Reuses the flow logic in multiple applications for deployment on different environments and shared components.
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NV
Software Build & Release Architect/ DevOps at HMS

We were using an in-house developed release tool, but we wanted to achieve better orchestration in our workflow. We wanted to be able to release more frequently and have greater visibility for our team. CA Release Automation gave us the flexibility to deploy multiple components in multiple environments. We do data warehousing so we have Java and WebLogic components, as well as web services, and everything can be deployed with a single tool. I really value that. As one who designed our release workflow, with the help of my team, I think that CA Release Automation is a very, very good product. We can now deploy whenever we want. We have more visibility with more logins. Our users are very happy too.

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

The dashboard is the most valuable feature as it allows you to monitor all agents installed on all app servers.

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it_user205227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Automation Specialist with 10,001+ employees
  • Process Design
  • Logic Design
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it_user558447 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer III at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for data deployment. Before implementing this tool, we used to do deployment manually and it used to take us close to two months at a time. Once we got this tool, it initially took close to 6 months to create a complete framework and work flow. But once everything was done, everything was set up and could be performed with the click of a button. It now takes around two hours for us to deploy any product. It used to take close to two months, including preparation.

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

Usability – it’s good for developers who are both technical and non-technical. This has been particularly helpful for us.

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

The wide range of actions and flexibility in creating the workflows.

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it_user215880 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • No scripting
  • GUI based
  • Roll back feature
  • No need of specialized skills for deployment, as the intention is that a tester should be able to do a deployment using CA RA
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it_user589380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I like the shared components and version control.

Shared components:

In my work, we have about 30 Java standalone applications, although every application is different and has specific behaviors. Nonetheless, I realized that all of them can be installed in the same way. I had to design only one flow for all of them. I found that the "Shared components" feature helps me.

I had to create my common flow like a "shared component". For every application, I only had to "import" that shared component. Another amazing thing was that if I had to change something in my shared component, I could easily reflect my changes to all of the applications.

Version Control:

The version control is important because the changes that I make in my shared component can be controlled. I can decide which version will work with which Java application.

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it_user295626 - PeerSpot reviewer
Middleware and Automation Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Continuous Integration is easy to automate.
  • It can be integrated and used for handling releases for many different platforms and tools such as .Net, Java based Application Servers, load balancers, and many others using Standard Action Packs.
  • It's easy to build flows using Standard Action Packs without writing any scripts.
  • It includes plug-ins to integrate with different ITSM and Source Control tools to automate deployments with REST API.
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it_user207675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Build and Release Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The product provides readily-available actions to use in the deployment process. The external connectors are made available to integrate the tool with other SCM applications.

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it_user216678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release/Build Technologist, PM with 51-200 employees
  • Streamlined deployment
  • Visual
  • Progressive feature list
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it_user215889 - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Release Operation Center
  • Workflow
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it_user585873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Engineering at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • UI-based orchestration
  • Ease of use of the application from anyone who is technical to completely non-tech folk
  • Great visualization and consolidation of reports across the organization
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it_user373512 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, SCM and Release at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best thing that it offers us is the opportunity to streamline our deployment so that we can have serial and horizontal dependencies. We have been able to stack multiple different server type deployments along the database deployments, have them all dependent on each other appropriately and report out the successes or problems at the end of the process.

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

The software deployment tool.

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

I really appreciate the Deployment Pipeline where you can see the environment and release version artifact that was deployed and whether it was successful (green) or failed (red) for each application.

The release deployment pipeline in CA RA is the most valuable feature of them all, as it shows the environment and the release version currently deployed for each application.

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

For us, Release Automation is a very critical tool that allows us to reproduce, redeliver, and redeploy all our various code in a timely manner and with minimum number of errors. We are very careful about compliance and Release Automation gives us full control of the logs. Basically, we can program all this into CA Release Automation. Then, it can be reproduced in a few hours. This used to take days.

CA Release Automation has been so helpful. Our company is very distributed and once our various groups saw the results of using Release Automation, they started using it and management started seeing the real output.

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it_user3036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Expert at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
- Very User Friendly GUI. - Flexible tool which allow you to build process and flows in simple way without knowledge in programing. - Improve my team activity in 75%. View full review »
it_user570954 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer - Release Management with 501-1,000 employees

Using a VPL to configure a release process is a valuable feature. A VPL is a visual programming language where you program visually instead of normal coding.

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it_user3063 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
In our company, deployments for complex Java applications can take up to two hours each. We needed to significantly reduce this time in order to keep up with business demands and maintain agility in the development group: We were able to achieve this using Nolio. With Nolio we can also monitor precise details, figures and measurements of each deployment, including specifics on the changes made, dates and times of releases and success rates. So w've dramatically reduced our release times by using Nolio's automated solutions. We are confident that by running Nolio across all our environments, we will reduce times for complicated deployments from two hours to twenty minutes. This will enable us to maintain our competitive edge and reduce operational costs without compromising security. View full review »
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