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Urbancode AnthillPro
anthillpro AnthillPro is perfect for corporate IT development teams looking for end-to-end automation, transparency, and control for all the steps involved with taking source code and putting it in production. Avoid broken builds with the Preflight Build feature. Cut down your test cycle by executing long running functional tests in parallel. Avoid deployment delays and mistakes through self-service automation. With a globally scalable architecture, AnthillPro can serve the needs of even the largest development teams. And a rich set of integrations and automation throughout the lifecycle let AnthillPro meet all your reporting and governance needs.


PRODUCT FEATURES

Process Automation:
 AnthillPro takes your entire current process and automates it. Have a complex, multistep build? Need to build on multiple platforms? No problem. Does deployment require updating multiple applications on multiple systems? Gotcha covered. Need to run multiple test suites? We can handle it. Want manual sign-off before deployment to production? We can do that too. No need to rewrite your scripts, no need to start from scratch, and no need to make yourself fit into our way of doing things. Just achieve the productivity gains of automation and the confidence of knowing you'll never need to worry about missing a step again.


Pipeline Management:
 AnthillPro lets you manage the application lifecycle as a pipeline of stages that takes code in at one end and emits production software at the other. Integrated dependency management handles the flow of inputs and outputs from one stage to the next. Enjoy guaranteed end-to-end traceability across every stage with our integrated artifact repository. Escape the hassle of gluing together a series of point solutions for each stage, use AnthillPro to define and manage your entire pipeline.


Data Aggregation and Integrations:
Typical software projects have multiple systems for collecting data, but no good way for turning that data into answers. AnthillPro provides a wide range of integrations that break down the walls of those data silos and puts the information at your finger tips. Need to know what system in UAT has the latest build, its contents, and what regression tests have already passed and failed? That's a sample of the kind of questions you can answer with AnthillPro. With end-to-end traceability from code check-in to pushed-to-production, we have what you need for visibility into your projects today ... and effortless audits tomorrow.


Preflight Builds:
 Have too many broken builds? AnthillPro's Preflight builds can help. A common cause of post-check-in failures is that the developers don't have the resources to test their code prior to checking in. AnthillPro can allow your developers to test their changes on the standard build hardware before every commit. This saves both the expense of trying to maintain parallel systems for the developers and the time spent untangling the mess that comes from bad check-ins.



BENEFITS TO THE USER

Achieve Harmony between Agility and Control:
 Moving to Agile software development promises shorter cycle times and faster time to market. But supporting Agile or Lean brings new challenges in balancing the seemingly opposing forces of speed and safety. AnthillPro reconciles the need to move quickly with the needs of governance. Agile developers get fast feedback after check-in from one of the innovators in continuous integration. Testers get integrations with tools like Mercury Quality Center and VMware Lab Manager. Release managers get reusable deployment templates that can work in every environment: from development to test to staging and finally to production. And with role-based security, end-to-end traceability, and auditability, you can prove that there doesn't need to be a conflict between Agile and audit.


Painlessly Manage Deployments through Every Stage from Development to Release:
Is your team wasting time maintaining separate deployment scripts for every environment? Is there a separate set of steps for development, for Test, for UAT, and then for production? When every deployment involves running through a manual checklist, problems inevitably creep in between one install and the next. It can be difficult to even keep track of what build is deployed where. AnthillPro with save you the time and expense of these deployment hassles by enabling you to create adaptable deployment templates to use in all your environments; by providing visibility into exactly what builds are installed where; and by giving you the deployment automation that will let you put away your checklist for good.


Wrap Homegrown Scripts with Push-button Services:
 Do you have the "Bob the Builder" problem? Or perhaps you wait on "Dan the Deployer"? Be it Bob or Dan by any other name, each represents the select few who know their way around your mass of scripts, scripts that are a labyrinth to the uninitiated. Do you rely on these "humanly automated processes," and just hope the proverbial Bob or Dan is not on lunch break when you need them? AnthillPro can help. You don't need to go rewrite your build system. We can take your existing scripts and give them a common web interface. Give each team the ability to self-serve, to trigger builds and deployments when they need them, and to give Bob and Dan some new problems to solve. With support for a wide range of technologies and rich integrations, AnthillPro can help you make it easy for every team to Build, Deploy, Test, and Release on demand.


Standardization and Global Scalability:
Reporting efforts in large organizations face a special challenge: how do you get everyone speaking a common language? Whether by acquisition or by organic growth, you can easily end up with teams using different systems to perform very similar tasks. These differences in tools, process and vocabulary make unified reporting extremely difficult. For such organizations, AnthillPro provides a unified interface to manage the entire Build, Deploy, Test, and Release process across all projects. AnthillPro allows you to define your process vocabulary once, and then use it everywhere. And our scalable architecture can handle the largest organizations. No matter how many projects you have, or how you have them distributed around the world, we help you bring them all into focus.




Holistic Release Management:
 Release managers are concerned with the support and enforcement of all the processes that go into making software ready for production. The challenge is that these processes span multiple teams, multiple tools, and even multiple stages of development. So how do you achieve the visibility and control you need for release management? AnthillPro offers a holistic, end-to-end view of all the stages of development, including all the tools that play into it. Don't go wandering from report to report integrations with popular issue trackers, source control systems, test tools, and more means you now have one-stop shopping for the information you need.



COMPANY INFORMATION


Urbancode has been a leader in continuous integration and process automation tools since 2001. Now, in its third generation, AnthillPro enables complete automation and management of every process throughout the lifecycle: starting at the time a developer commits a code change and ending when that code reaches production. Complete visibility and traceability of the lifecycle, automated dependency management, and an integrated artifact repository are some of the reasons why thousands of companies across all industries, including 25 of the Fortune 100, have chosen our products.

urbancode Urbancode, Inc.
2044 Euclid Avenue
Suite 600
Cleveland, OH 44115
voice: (216) 858.9000
fax: (216) 858.9602
general: info@urbancode.com
sales: sales@urbancode.com
http://www.anthillpro.com

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