XebiaLabs provides an automation platform called XL Release that helps companies plan, track, and execute application releases from code deployment to production. It facilitates collaboration between teams, accelerates delivery through automation, and reduces errors through a centralized system. XL Release integrates with other tools to orchestrate builds, tests, deployments and manage the full release lifecycle for continuous delivery.

1. Delivery
Automation
&
Acceleration
Enterprise Release Management for DevOps &
Continuous Delivery – XL Release

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About
XebiaLabs
Success stories
▪ Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
▪ Global development and support offices in US,
NL, UK, France and India
Automate & Accelerate Application Delivery
XL Platform combines:
− Deployment Automation
− Enterprise Release Management for DevOps &
Continuous Delivery
− Agile Test Management
− Environment Provisioning
… for the faster delivery of higher quality
software
And more…

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Delivery
Automation
Platform
App
1.0
App
2.1
App
2.0
App
1.2
Dev
Test
1
Test
2
QA1
QA2
PROD
Private
/
Public
Cloud

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Release
Management
Challenges
▪ Many disparate information sources: Wikis, emails, Excel sheets,
CI tools, Change Management tools etc. + mix of manual &
automated steps
▪ Results in lots of unpleasant surprises, stressful problem fixing,
reactive management, no shared insight
▪ No audit trail when the release deviates from the plan
Releases are:
▪ Unpredictable and inefficient
▪ Prone to “unpleasant surprises”
▪ Nobody knows what’s going on

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Advanced
Enterprise
Release
Management
XL Release is an advanced enterprise release management software solution for
DevOps & Continuous Delivery that allows you to:
▪ Plan, track and execute release plans from code drop to end user
▪ Pro-actively avoid delays and release failures by tracking resource conflicts,
dependencies and pending tasks
▪ Accelerate your delivery process by replacing manual with automated tasks
and standardizing release plans
By
providing
a
single
source
of
truth
and
increasing
the
level
of
automa4on
and
standardizing
the
release
process,
XL
Release
helps
customer
deliver
higher
quality
so7ware
faster.

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XL
Release
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Key
Features
Collaborate:
▪ Easy modeling of your release plan
▪ Support for gates, conditions, dependencies
▪ Calendar overview of planned and ongoing releases
Accelerate
Reduce
Collaborate

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XL
Release
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Key
Features
Accelerate:
▪ Combine manual and automated tasks
▪ Grow automation progressively
▪ Adapt plans during a release with full audit trail
Reduce
Collaborate
Accelerate

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XL
Release
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Key
Features
Reduce:
▪ Full audit trail - what happened where, when, why & by whom
▪ Delivery pipelines giving a high-level overview of on-going releases
▪ Drive automation based on metrics vs. “feel”
Collaborate
Accelerate
Reduce

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XL
Release
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Key
Benefits
Plan:
▪ Making releases more predictable, more efficient, less manual and less
error-prone
▪ Results in less downtime and more higher quality delivery achieved faster
▪ One place to document and track what needs to happen for an entire
application/platform release across multiple teams
Execute
Automate
Plan

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XL
Release
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Key
Benefits
Execute:
▪ Manage Dependencies and Conflicts
▪ Insight into overlapping and conflicting release activities and overloaded
resources across projects
▪ Gain oversight and effect change proactively where needed
Automate
Plan
Execute

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XL
Release
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Key
Benefits
Automate:
▪ One place to document and track what needs to happen for an entire
application/platform release across multiple teams
▪ Single source of truth for all team members to see the state of the release
process
▪ Measurable path towards more automated, standardized releases
Plan
Execute
Automate

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How
Does
XL
Release
Work
with
Other
Tools?
Change
Management/
ITIL
tools
Build,
Test,
Deployment,
Provisioning
Automa4on
Planners
&
organizers
Create
and
update
requests
Orchestrate
Synchronize
data

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XL
Release:
Release
Detail

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XL
Release:
Calendar
Overview

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XL
Release:
Total
Visibility
&
Reporting

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The
Power
of
the
XL
Release
Higher Quality Software Faster:
▪ Accelerate Delivery
▪ Enable DevOps & CD
▪ Manage Dependencies & Conflicts
▪ Enterprise Control & Security
▪ Reduce Costs
“Both
Dev
and
Ops
are
much
more
produc4ve”
Dev
Team
Manager
PagesJaunes
“We
reduced
deployment
4mes
for
weeks
to
minutes”
Senior
Solu?on
Architect,
RBC
Investor
Services

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Demo

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Thank
You!
Contact Details
▪ TJ Randall, Director, Sales Engineering, trandall@xebialabs.com
Next Steps
▪ Download trial now:
http://go.xebialabs.com/XLRelease_Trial-Registration-Initial.html
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