When building an effective enterprise architecture framework, the following five primary architectural components need to be defined and addressed:
- Enterprise Services: Shared enterprise services business architecture
- Information Systems Services: use of a service oriented approach to deliver application integration and information services
- Infrastructure: - description of the approach for establishing and operating data centers, networks and platform hardware and or software
- Security Services: processes, governance and associated technologies required to achieve and maintain information security for enterprise services
- Service Management: Support and Delivery processes to enable effective management of Enterprise Services
The Service Management component, which is becoming increasingly important to executives and IT architects, comprises Incident Management, Services Level Management, Configuration Management, Change Management, Release Management, as well as other related processes.
In this blog, we will focus on the Release Management process and evaluate the benefits to organizations of automating their Build and Release Delivery Process and consequently achieve business improvements.
Build and Release Delivery Automation delivers value to organizations by reducing the cost of software delivery. This increased development efficiency is achieved by reducing manual steps and leveraging quality processes across multiple projects.
Decreasing overall time to market is another benefit of Build and Release Delivery Automation. Accelerated development cycles by enabling server pools, parallel processing and performance queues enables of a given project into independent tasks, which can execute in parallel on one or several servers.
This process automation could translate into increased quality of products delivered by accommodating more frequent code builds, providing developers with immediate feedback on the success or failure of their coding efforts to keep them on the right track and providing QA teams key information about builds so they know what changed and what tests should be run.
To better understand the benefits associated with Build and Release Delivery Automation, we need to look at reduction of the cost and the overall time to market of software delivery and gains in quality of products delivered.
Last but not least, having a complete history and audit trails for every build, test and deploy activity helps with compliance and improve collaboration of distributed teams.
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