Slides from the "Introducing XL Release 4.1" webinar on 24th July 2014

1. Introducing XL Release 4.1
Andrew Phillips, VP Products | 24 July 2014

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Housekeeping
▪ This webinar is being recorded
▪ Links to the slides and the recording will be made
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▪ You can post questions via the GoToWebinar Control
Panel

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Agenda
▪ XL Release in 1min
▪ Key Features in 4.1
▪ Spotlight: Release Dashboard
▪ Spotlight: Webhooks & Triggers
▪ Spotlight: Value Stream Analysis
▪ Additional Features & Improvements

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XL Release in 1min
▪ Enterprise Release Pipeline Orchestrator
▪ Coordinate releases and build Continuous Delivery
Pipelines across teams and tools
▪ Start today with releases that combine manual tasks and
automation and build out delivery pipelines through
targeted improvement

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XL Release in 1min

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XL Release in 1min

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XL Release in 1min

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We’ve Been Busy…
▪ The “IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery”
▪ Events, Webinars and Thought Leadership
▪ Updates to XL Release and XL Deploy
▪ Ongoing R&D and improvements to XL Deploy, XL
Release, XL Scale and XL Test

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Key Features in 4.1
Drivers
▪ “One stop shop” overview
▪ Identifying and tracking areas for improvement
▪ Support additional automation use cases 4.1

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Key Features in 4.1
▪ Release Dashboard
▪ Webhooks & Triggers
▪ Value Stream Analysis
▪ …and plenty more
4.1

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Spotlight: Release Dashboard
▪ “One stop shop” for teams and release coordinators
▪ Overview of current status and action items
▪ Compare current state with previous performance and
identify “Top 10” challenges

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Spotlight: Release Dashboard

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Spotlight: Release Dashboard

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Spotlight: Release Dashboard

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Spotlight:Webhooks &Triggers
▪ Many, many services that need to automated as part of a
release/pipeline provide HTTP endpoints
▪ Easy way of flexibly calling an endpoint and handling the
response
▪ Support additional scenarios for starting releases
▪ Extensible trigger mechanism

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Spotlight:Webhooks &Triggers

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Spotlight:Webhooks &Triggers

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Spotlight:Webhooks &Triggers

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Spotlight:Webhooks &Triggers

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Spotlight:Value Stream Analysis
▪ Key Challenge: How do I most effectively improve
my current process/pipeline?
▪ “Scorecard” for your releases and pipelines based
on configurable criteria
▪ Easily visualize critical phases and drill down to
identify improvement opportunities

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Spotlight:Value Stream Analysis

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Spotlight:Value Stream Analysis

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Additional Features & Improvements
▪ Duration-based pipeline planning and tracking
▪ Automation failure handling
▪ Proxy support for HTTP endpoints
▪ UI improvements
▪ …and more
...more!

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Getting Started
▪ Get started with XL Release today!
go.xebialabs.com/XLRelease_Trial-Registration-Initial.html
▪ Learn more about XL Release:
www.xebialabs.com/products/xl-release
docs.xebialabs.com/releases/latest/xl-release
▪ Stay informed:
blog.xebialabs.com
@XebiaLabs
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25. Thank You!