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Product Brief Automic® Continuous Delivery Compete in the Rapidly Changing Application Economy

Overview Key Benefits Software delivery in an enterprise tends to be fragmented, siloed, and lacking cohesion across the many different roles, tools, and platforms • Increase revenues. Increase involved in software delivery. The scale, scope, and standards of revenues by responding to market an enterprise make complexity a multiplier that creates barriers to pressures and changes on demand. achieving enterprise-level continuous delivery. CA Technologies, a • Transform IT. Transform IT from a Broadcom company, is a trusted advisor to leading financial, healthcare, cost center to a revenue producer. transportation, entertainment, and telecommunications companies • Reduce cost. Reduce the cost of worldwide. Automic® Continuous Delivery provides the capabilities to outages, failures, and glitches. build a coherent value delivery pipeline for improving software that • Reduce risk. Reduce security and works at all levels of the organization, from low-level technical staff to regulatory risks. business managers, and supports the most extensive variety of technology infrastructures. • Reduce costs. Reduce cloud infrastructure costs. Solutions Overview Automic Continuous Delivery includes the following features and capabilities that set it apart from other solutions:

• Value stream clarity. Ideas only matter when they are in the hands of users producing value. By managing the whole value stream, Automic Continuous Delivery ensures that innovations reach users in a rapid, predictable manner, with clear visibility into progress and any potential bottlenecks. • Largest scale. Support for 500k-to-1 deployment endpoint on a single clustered server. Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is the only tool that provides this level of scalability for a single installed instance. • Broadest scope. Support for the entire IT portfolio, including mainframe to , and everything in-between. Packaged apps, such as Siebel, are also supported. With Automic Continuous Delivery, the entire IT portfolio is empowered to drive measurable results to the business. • Deepest compliance and audit support. CA provides more than just visibility into deployment plans and pipelines. Beyond the who, what, when, where and how of every deployment, Automic Continuous Delivery also provides insight into what was changed outside of its control or purview. A unique snapshot mechanism lets you compare configurations and file contents between live deployment endpoints. Automic Continuous Delivery allow users to spot any changes made to apps outside of your automation mechanics.

Automic Continuous Delivery Product Brief

Solutions Overview platform. Such a platform ––For example, are you adopting allows businesses to scale their agile methodologies, test (cont.) investment across people, automation programs, or • Automation-as-code. Modern processes, and technology. The DevOps initiatives? cloud infrastructure is described platform executes core business, • What sort of challenges inhibit and managed as code. Modern application and infrastructure your ability to help the business DevOps and continuous delivery processes, whether on-premises, more? teams work in code; but the in the cloud or for the hybrid in role of code has moved beyond between, providing visibility and ––For example, you might developers. Automic Continuous control across the entire business. be struggling to release Delivery provides as-code applications from one capabilities allowing you to Next Steps environment to the next, with ensure an automation standard a process that is a combination The modern digital enterprise is across the enterprise with of manual and scripted struggling to provide consistent minimal adoption and process processes that are time- automation mechanics from friction. consuming and error-prone. microservices to mainframes, while As a result, releases cannot • Support of open source adapting to a workforce that is happen as often as everyone software. Automic Continuous shifting left. Now that everything is might like them to. Delivery provides a very large, code, the skillsets of ops personnel, and ever-increasing set of pre- or their development replacements, • What is the impact when built integrations that allow every are shifting towards development something goes wrong? team across the enterprise to use best practices. Simply architected ––For example, would you like the OSS and vendor tooling that release automation or DevOps tools to prevent the loss of revenue, best fits their skill set and needs, clearly do not provide the interface, free up overburdened staff, or while still providing the enterprise scope, and platform reach that keep your customer satisfaction with an automation standard that you need to provide the financial scores from dipping? delivers bottom-line financial bottom line benefits that are • How you would like to do things results to the business. demanded by business leaders. in the future? • Interface and adoption So, what do you about that? We ––For example, do you want to flexibility. Automic Continuous have outlined a few next steps that remove manual and scripted Delivery empowers development, you might take: components, automate the QA, and ops with self-service deployment process, reduce capabilities that leverage a Current State Workshop the current process to a click flexible interface layer. UI, The Current State Workshop is a of a button, or automate audit API, or Web services allow all half-day interactive session with compliance? knowledge workers to access your team and CA Technologies’ pre-built functionality (such technical and operation resources. Demos and Trials as provisioning a multi-cloud The goal is to discuss the business We provide on-site interactive environment) or to interoperate initiatives, the technical activities, solution demonstrations. We will with your deployment pipelines, and the related challenges for your work with you to ensure that you in the manner most comfortable core business-critical applications. get the most out of these meetings for them. This interface flexibility and that the right team members leads to higher productivity We want to understand: and CD contributors are present. output from your SDLC Additionally, we provide trials and personnel. • How do these core applications previews of our technology. For help the success of the business? more information, please visit the • Continuous delivery powered links below. by a pervasive automation ––For example, your core applications might include platform. Automic Continuous • Automic Continuous Delivery customer engagement and Delivery allows automation to Director become pervasive throughout omni-channel commerce. • Automic Continuous Delivery the enterprise by incrementally • How are you managing the Automation Trials replacing multiple spot tools enhancement of the system with a standard automation today?

Automic Continuous Delivery Product Brief

Next Steps (cont.) CA DevOps Assessment and Roadmap The CA DevOps Assessment and Roadmap helps organizations improve their DevOps capabilities and to remove obstacles to sustainable transformation.

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)-certified DevOps experts from CA assess your current state and collaborate with stakeholders to clarify your desired future state. Topics include technical environment, work processes, team skills, practices, and behaviors.

Through quantitative surveys and qualitative analysis, the team captures your and delivery value stream. The scope of the assessment covers requirements, management, application development, security, automation, testing, , and monitoring. Our team then provides recommendations and works with your organization to co-create a transformation roadmap.

For more information, please visit ca.com/continuous-delivery.

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