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Release Management and Deployment

One Way > Check-out, Check-in, Lose Track.

There are plenty of version control tools that help your developers manage their software when coding. But when you are done, how do you keep track of different builds of code? How do you route your application components into the software development lifecycle for testing or QA? How do you make sure that you have deployed your software to the correct target machines? How do you roll back to a previous version of a release if something goes wrong? Developing applications can be a daunting task even in the most simplistic development environment. But combine multiple applications with multiple development teams in multiple locations, and you add a degree of complexity that can become unmanageable. And then, what happens if you get audited? How can you pass an IT audit with flying colors?

The Aldon Way >Release Management, Deployment, and Easy Rollback.

While version control tools give you the ability to manage software versioning through check-outs and check-ins, they can't help you with the software build and release process. Aldon's Release Management and Deployment solution gives you total control of the entire process by taking advantage of the benefits that an application lifecycle management solution brings with the additional benefit of getting compliant. From the time a build is assembled and imported into Aldon, our Release Management and Deployment solution tracks, manages, and deploys your application through our automated workflows and best practices. Once your build is assembled, you can see, capture, promote, and report on changes in the software development cycle. What's more, we give you complete version control flexibility—your developers can use any version control system they choose, even Aldon’s.

And because Aldon traces all the steps your build package takes and automatically deploys them out to deployment targets, you can easily cut costs by saving time you would have spent when you routed the packages manually. By replacing tedious manual processes, you can reduce costs, ensure application integrity, gain efficiencies, and speed up software delivery times. And because our solution offers you a structured application lifecycle process with complete traceability, you can easily meet regulatory compliance.

Working on Multiple Releases and Applications Simultaneously.

Applications can be broken down into versions or releases. This helps maintain custom versions or modified packaged applications. Our solutions even let your developers maintain a production version concurrently with a new version under development.Aldon Release Management also quickly identifies and resolves version conflicts allowing for parallel development of multiple versions.

Making Auditors Happy.

Managers can always view, control, and report to auditors every change, all along the development road. Aldon makes achieving IT compliance easy; plus you’ll improve productivity and deliver higher quality software.

Seeing Everything That Happened.

Any build package can be associated with one or more tasks. The association applies to all files in the package. This allows you to view all history.

Keeping Build Package Integrity.

With the complete ability to capture, see, track, and report on all changes, you now have the capability to maintain package integrity and automate workflow.

Keeping Developers Happy.

Developers can continue to use whatever version control tool they like such as Subversion or CVS. Development teams can work independently in their own environment with their favorite tools, until it's time to build the release. Then Aldon Release Management takes over, and if the package has to go back to developers, it brings the history of what happened with it helping them know what happened.

Failsafe Build Promotion.

When a partial failure of a build package happens the target environment is marked, preventing promotion or deployment of the package until the problem is solved.

Air Traffic Control for Build Packages.

Aldon ensures that the appropriate files are automatically deployed to the correct locations throughout the software development process. And when it comes to application deployment, we deploy the components to appropriate target locations at every stage. This means that we automatically gather, package, distribute, and install application components to all target platforms with the greatest of ease.

Telling Your Boss “I Have it Under Control.”

Wouldn’t it be great to tell your bosses that you have it all under control and, that you will release an application on time, on budget, and deployed to all the correct destinations? Well now you can. You can always view, control, and report to auditors every change, all along the development road.

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