Nolio Release Automation Reviews

Using a VPL to configure a release process is a valuable feature. A VPL is a visual programming language where you program visually instead of normal coding.

It has improved the working of our organization by:

• Accelerating the release development process
• Enabling smaller development teams to achieve faster development times

The level of abstraction in the VPL needs to improve. There needs to be some improvement in the technical issues, in order to better relate with the machine's infrastructure and network support.

For it to work properly, a VPL must abstract the concept to where it applies, which in this case is a release process. Although in my opinion it is very nice to see it applied in this process in the market, I found, however, that it still needed to improve and abstract more in the aspects of infrastructures, where they were applied. This could make the process more easier for the batch setting variables for an instance.

I have used this product for approximately six months.

Some deployment issues were experienced when dealing with some unexpected network case's architecture.

The technical support is good from CA's part.

I worked as a consultant, so we had very different tools applied. It all depended on the client itself.

It ended a bit more complex than it should. The variables customization per environment formed a cluster of boxes, in the beginning, for instances.

We implemented this product through a vendor team in order to simplify the process and abstract the maximum from the old ways of the release process.

Look at it as a fresh start and a "clean" environment without any need of prior release methods. You can use it to simplify most of the processes.

It is a good product but still needs some improvement.

In our company, deployments for complex Java applications can take up to two hours each. We needed to significantly reduce this time in order to keep up with business demands and maintain agility in the development group: We were able to achieve this using Nolio. With Nolio we can also monitor precise details, figures and measurements of each deployment, including specifics on the changes made, dates and times of releases and success rates. So w've dramatically reduced our release times by using Nolio's automated solutions. We are confident that by running Nolio across all our environments, we will reduce times for complicated deployments from two hours to twenty minutes. This will enable us to maintain our competitive edge and reduce operational costs without compromising security.

A task for using a dynamic language like Groovy could be very useful in order to create easily simple tasks. But I am sure it will come...