CA Technologies introduced new DevOps solutions and enhancements at CA World '14 to further unify IT development and operations teams to drive faster and more effective development, deployment and management of high-quality applications.
New seamless integration of service virtualization with API management allows customers to deliver more powerful applications quickly and more effectively. As businesses seek to use APIs to build applications and open new revenue opportunities, CA has extended Agile Parallel Development in the enterprise to power innovation and growth for customers.
Melinda Ballou, Program Director, Application Life-Cycle Management and Executive Strategies at IDC, said: “APIs are becoming the primary customer interface for technology-driven products and services on mobile and other environments and a key channel for driving revenue and brand engagement. Yet organizations lag at being able to test and improve API quality. By integrating CA Service Virtualization and automated testing with API management capabilities, CA is helping to enable parallel development efforts and improve application quality. We believe CA made the right decision to integrate their service virtualization and test with API management solutions. Offering these kinds of combined capabilities is differentiating and can enable rapid application delivery.”
The CA DevOps portfolio on display at CA World includes solutions across all platforms, from mobile to mainframe. Using CA DevOps solutions, customers have reported significant improvements in productivity (up to 60 percent), development speed (between 25 and 50 percent) and deployment (with up to 15 times reduction in manual effort).
Additional enhancements to the CA DevOps solutions include: new CA Mobile App Analytics to extend application performance management across all platforms and important new CA Release Automation features that further accelerate multi-tiered application deployments.
Raj Rao, SVP and GM, Application Delivery at CA Technologies, said: “CA is providing the software backbone needed to transform enterprises into high-quality application factories. Our new and enhanced DevOps solutions include industry-first capabilities that will accelerate development and deployment cycles and drive higher performance to meet growing end-user demands. Applications are the face of business, and we are helping our customers gain new competitive advantage in a world powered by applications.”
The following solutions are part of the broad portfolio of DevOps capability on display at CA World ’14.
Agile Parallel Development– New capability unleashes development velocity
Newly released connectivity between CA Service Virtualization 8.0 and CA’s industry-leading API Management brings APIs into the DevOps process, and delivers improved time-to-market and quality for customers. CA Service Virtualization 8.0 improves the speed of error and defect detection and resolution, and provides more powerful and automated simulated test environments.
Continuous Delivery – Connects with any open-source DevOps tool to offer high-speed, high-quality release automation
With CA Release Automation 5.5, CA further strengthens customers’ ability to drive the continuous delivery of multi-tiered application deployments. New customer integrations can now be delivered in minutes – instead of days, with automated deployment across the application lifecycle. And, the industry’s most comprehensive third party, open-source integration library protects customers’ prior IT investments.
Chandranshu Singh, Senior Analyst at Ovum commented on CA’s DevOps offerings in a September 2014, OVUM SWOT Assessment report: “The application release process is still being run manually in many organizations; not only is it resource intensive and inefficient but also error prone. The business impact of faulty releases is two-fold: on the one hand, there is revenue loss or penalties are imposed by the client; and on the other hand, there is the loss of reputation. Release automation tools help organizations avoid production issues caused by erroneous releases ... CA Service Virtualization and CA Release Automation are tightly integrated and make for a compelling offering for organizations looking to speed up their application delivery. Furthermore, the two products are among the market-leading tools in their respective categories. CA Technologies has managed to establish itself in a fast-growing and competitive market segment and is well placed to capitalize on its position.”
Agile Operations – Deeper application performance analytics to enable a higher quality user-experience
New CA Mobile App Analytics (CA MAA) extends CA’s performance management across all enterprise applications and supporting infrastructure, from mobile to mainframe. Tighter business KPI alignment allows customers to identify and remedy issues faster, and track application performance against key business measures.
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