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Automate to Thrive: Driving Business Agility with Effective Release Management

Increasingly, organizations must coordinate development, operations, and business teams to cut costs and speed innovation through faster, more effective release management strategies. While businesses and IT have focused on improving pre-deployment approaches to software development, the transition to operations teams for software release management remains ad hoc, inefficient, problematic, and costly. Companies typically have manual deployment processes and scripts, which can be resource consumptive, error prone, and arduous.

Read this paper to learn how to improve release management strategies and transition to a complete release management solution.

Melinda-Carol Ballou serves as Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management research. In this role, Ms. Ballou provides thought leadership, expert opinion, research, and analysis through comprehensive research on application life-cycle management (ALM), with specific focus on software life-cycle process configuration and management, software quality, and IT governance software. Ms. Ballou also offers competitive intelligence and consulting on key aspects of the ALM market to service providers, investment firms, and G2000 end-user companies.

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