Winter 2020 Continuous Delivery & Release Automation
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2020 WINTER CUSTOMER SUCCESS REPORT CONTINUOUS DELIVERY & RELEASE AUTOMATION CATEGORY CONTINUOUS DELIVERY & RELEASE AUTOMATION OVERVIEW Continuous delivery is a process that assists developers to create deployment-ready code swiftly and efficiently. It reduces development cycles with workflows, automation, and more to aid developers to write, stage, and test software updates. They need to manually deploy the code written via continuous delivery. In addition, continuous delivery & release automation software solutions enable development teams to save money and time. The applications facilitate a robust feedback cycle that can bolster the strength of a company’s final product. These tools also provide visibility into the development cycle, assisting management, product managers, and team leads to receive deep analytics and insight on development success. Continuous delivery programs go beyond continuous integration till the juncture of being implementation-ready. But unlike continuous deployment platforms, they do not automatically implement code alteration in production after clearing automated testing. 2 Customer Success Report Ranking Methodology The FeaturedCustomers Customer Success ranking is based on data from our customer reference Customer Success Report platform, market presence, web presence, & social Award Levels presence as well as additional data aggregated from online sources and media properties. Our ranking engine applies an algorithm to all data collected to calculate the final Customer Success Report rankings. The overall Customer Success ranking is a weighted average based on 3 parts: Market Leader Content Score is affected by: Vendor on FeaturedCustomers.com with 1. Total # of vendor generated customer substantial customer base & market share. references (case studies, success stories, Leaders have the highest ratio of customer testimonials, and customer videos) success content, content quality score, and social media presence relative to company size. 2. Customer reference rating score 3. Year-over-year change in amount of customer references on FeaturedCustomers platform 4. Total # of profile views on FeaturedCustomers platform Top Performer 5. Total # of customer reference views on FeaturedCustomers platform Vendor on FeaturedCustomers.com with significant market presence and resources and enough Market Presence Score is affected by: customer reference content to validate their vision. 1. Social media followers including LinkedIn, Top Performer's products are highly rated by its Twitter, & Facebook customers but have not achieved the customer base and scale of a Market Leader. 2. Vendor momentum based on web traffic and search trends 3. Organic SEO key term rankings 4. Company presence including # of press mentions Rising Star Company Score is affected by: Vendor on FeaturedCustomers.com that does not 1. Total # of employees (based on social media have the market presence of Market Leaders or and public resources) Top Performers, but understands where the market is going and has disruptive technology. Rising 2. Year-over-year change in # of employees over Stars have been around long enough to establish past 12 months momentum and a minimum amount of customer 3. Glassdoor ranking reference content along with a growing social 4. Venture capital raised presence. 3 2020 Customer Success Awards Check out this list of the highest rated Continuous Delivery & Release Automation software based on the FeaturedCustomers Customer Success Report. 4 OVERALL BEST OF CONTINUOUS DELIVERY & RELEASE AUTOMATION 5 TRUSTED BY ABOUT PUPPET Puppet is driving the movement to a world of unconstrained software change. Its revolutionary platform is the industry standard 182 for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 37,000 Customer references from companies—including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100—use Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to adopt DevOps happy Puppet users practices, achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with more than 500 employees around the VIEW ALL REFERENCES world. "From the start, we saw Puppet as a key enabler of the services we offer our customers. Puppet let us deliver an easy to manage, customized system, cheaper and more efficiently compared to other configuration management tools on the market. Using anything else would consume too much time and resources for our customers." Guy Naor Founder and CTO, MorphLabs "Configuration management automation is critical to the success of our SaaS-enablement cloud platform. It allows us to be more efficient with human resources and ensures consistency and reproducibility for deployed applications. The community is supportive, and Puppet Labs keeps Puppet evolving to adapt to the ever-changing needs of enterprise IT." Matthew Porter CEO, Contegix “In the future, we would like to help our customers automatically scale, something that we couldn’t turn our attention to previously, due to it being such a large task. But now with Puppet Enterprise, everything has become a lot simpler. This really puts my mind at ease, and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.” Ioan Bercea Technical Director, ResponseConcepts “Automating the actual building of systems means I can concentrate on the other pieces, while Puppet manages building the systems for me.” Bill Wellington Network & System Administrator, DevOps, Fulcrum Technologies 6 7 2020 MARKET LEADERS 8 TRUSTED BY ABOUT ATLASSIAN BAMBOO Atlassian Bamboo is a continuous integration (CI) and deployment server. Bamboo assists software 51 development teams by providing automated Customer references from happy building and testing of software source-code Atlassian Bamboo users status, updates on successful and failed builds and reporting tools for statistical analysis. VIEW ALL REFERENCES "With Git and Bitbucket, we’re able to complete 3x as many code reviews, which ultimately results in fewer bugs, fewer support tickets, and better software." Kurt Chase Director of Release Engineering, Splunk "We love Hipchat’s screen-sharing and video chat capability. With one screen-sharing session alone, we’re spared at least 20 email exchanges." Corey Merkel Software Developer, OGSystems “Atlassian support and project management tools allow us to rapidly develop, deploy, and support software for our customers. We save time and effort, which is critical for us as a small business. In doing so, we're able to deliver great products and support to our customers who are working on finding cures for serious diseases." Andy Fleming Founder and Lead Developer, Halogenics "Bitbucket takes a lot of uncertainty out of the development process, and it really adds a lot to the quality of the software we’re developing." Paul Dunham Principal Application Developer, TriNet 9 TRUSTED BY ABOUT CHEF Chef is the leader in web-scale IT automation. It 134 gives us a model for automating IT infrastructure and applications that drive self-reliance across Customer references development and operations teams and helping from happy Chef users businesses become faster, safer and more flexible. VIEW ALL REFERENCES "With Chef, we can sleep well knowing our services are always configured and running exactly as needed, without needing to spend hundreds of thousands to do it ourselves." Jeremy Przygode CEO, Stratalux "With Chef we are in a better position to scale our organization quickly, which allows us to offer our customers reliable access to our popular social games. Getting on board with Chef was one of the best things that we did." Shadow Roldan Director of Technical Operations, iWin "Chef allows us to do in minutes what used to take a day or more, it’s just that easy to work with. You write some simple code, then reuse again and again. This not only makes life a lot easier, but also makes our infrastructure error-proof, as there’s no risk of potential human error." Ashley Streb Vice President of Technology, Brightcove “We can push a button and have a completely new VPC, with new application stacks, operational in less than 10 minutes. It has created a highly resilient ecosystem in which we’ve had zero data loss in five years.” Robert Morrish Chief Technology Officer, Haventec 10 TRUSTED BY ABOUT CLOUDBEES CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for automating 198 software development and delivery. CloudBees starts with Jenkins, the most trusted and widely-adopted continuous Customer references from delivery platform, and adds enterprise-grade security, happy CloudBees users scalability, manageability and expert-level support. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on VIEW ALL REFERENCES the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software and returning value to the business more quickly. "The CloudBees Platform is helping us achieve our goals to open source our code by making it easier for developers to contribute, give rapid feedback on pull requests, provide the current status of projects and support low cost public builds. This spurs an increased pace of innovation that benefits not only Netflix and our customers, but the entire… Gareth Bowles Senior Tools Engineer, Netflix "High availability and frequent upgrades are vital to our business, so we need to deliver updates without maintenance windows. This sounds simple, but it is difficult to implement,