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 StreamStep SmartRelease is an easy-to-use, web-based solution for collaboration, coordination, and automation of complex release processes. The system provides real-time, web-based release event control enabling you to drive up efficiency, remove bottlenecks, speed release cycle times and deliver more applications to your customers faster:
Reduce Development Costs – Make development and testing teams more effective by reducing deployment time and errors.
Reduce Release Risk – Ensure production releases are delivered on time, every time – within compliance requirements.
Increase Agility – Accelerate delivery of business applications critical to your ability to compete.
Improve Developer Productivity – Extract experts from the grind of release management so they can focus on what they do best.
Enable Global Collaboration – Bridge gaps between teams, reduce errors and increase release quality with centralized, team collaboration.
Automate Deployment Tasks – Get real-time release event control by automating and centralizing the release checklist for successful, error-free releases every time.
Increase Efficiency – Speed the release process, improve product quality and eliminate unnecessary trial runs with developer self-service and standardized templates.
Exceptional Release Planning – The Key to Great Releases
Since each release is a complex, iterative process with a high cost of failure – careful planning is critical. Unfortunately, release planning has been completely overlooked by automation solutions. Since the release checklist is created manually by a handful of people, there’s a lack of visibility into the release planning process, and no historical view of problems from previous releases. This puts a burden on development and impacts quality and schedules. StreamStep transforms release planning from a 100% manual and error-ridden process to one that is centralized, transparent, streamlined and flexible.
Centralized, Collaborative Release Checklist
The secret to successful releases lies in the release checklist – a combination of hundreds of manual steps, automated steps and domain expertise which reside in the minds of your most talented people. The problem is – the release checklist often goes “unchecked” – tracked manually by a few people using spreadsheets. When your release checklist goes unchecked – unmanaged, unsecured, unrepeatable, and untracked, you end up with errors, higher costs and compliance issues that put your organization at risk. SmartRelease captures complex release processes in an intuitive, web-based portal for better release planning, collaboration and execution – with the push of a button. Go beyond today’s release management with real-time release event control within a shared, collaborative Release Checklist where team knowledge is captured and leveraged as part of your end-to-end release process.
Get Visibility and Improve your End-to-End Release Process
Iron-clad, repeatable release processes are the key to application and environment stability. The reality is that business needs change – calling for process changes which IT must respond to fast. StreamStep gives authorized users the flexibility to quickly modify processes – within approved constraints – without coding. You can standardize processes across groups and adapt to changes faster, without losing control over the big picture. It’s all about getting visibility into the end-to-end release process so you can build-in repeatable best practices and improved, standardized processes across your organization. StreamStep gets everyone involved on the same page so you can answer critical questions such as: Where are we at with this release? What components have been deployed and what are the settings? Deal with inevitable problems faster by leveraging the expertise of your team.
Drive up Efficiency with Developer Self-Service
StreamStep provides developer self-service and standardized templates – speeding the release process and freeing developers from the crushing load of manual work involved in troubleshooting, execution, and tracking of release events. Developers queue up change requests in real-time and can easily incorporate environment changes as they come up. Release quality goes up as you increase throughput and responsiveness by enabling your experts to focus on more important matters of coding and going lean, mean, and efficient. StreamStep provides request templates so you can easily control process elements – developers can easily queue up change requests in real-time.
Property Management Gives You a Centralized, Logical View
StreamStep’s application property management function makes it easy to view and track configurations of QA, pre-production and production systems – all in one place. This makes it faster to reproduce a problem or bring up a new system in the event of a hardware failure. StreamStep presents a logical view of your applications, components and environments. You see and understand how different application pieces relate to one another – reducing errors and resulting in more reliable releases. You’ll easily see the relationships between elements in your environments, track release-driven changes to critical properties in your applications and infrastructure and see all of your application versions across environments in one place, at a glance.
StreamStep Makes Compliance Part of Everyday Work
StreamStep’s automated tracking, role-based security and reporting make compliance a part of everyday work. StreamStep centralizes and simplifies management of release events in a shared release checklist giving you complete audit and compliance traceability. Your team can quickly and easily answer questions such as “what changed from the previous deployment”, “who made changes and why” and “what changes, features, or defects were addressed” for each release. Many companies see ITIL as a critical standardization approach for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and other mission-critical financial controls such as PCI Security Standards. StreamStep allows you to get the best out of ITIL without breaking your budget or delaying your day-to-day projects. StreamStep process models and templates are based on ITIL Release Management best practices and deliver application release process control where you need it – for Sarbanes-Oxley and other enterprise compliance regulations.
Extensive Reporting and Release Process Metrics
StreamStep was built from the ground up with operational reporting and metrics woven into its structure – enabling you to target process improvements that deliver meaningful time and quality benefits. You can scale your implementation from one team to an entire application development flow, enabling you to deliver progressive value and report on measurable process improvements. SmartRelease ships with standard reports for process performance based on Lean Six Sigma principles. Plus, integration to your existing reporting tools for additional data analysis is straightforward. SmartRelease ships with standard reports for process performance based on Lean Six Sigma principles.
Use Existing Automation – Better
Most enterprise application releases are performed by running multiple low-level automation scripts. Who maintains these scripts, where are they located, how are they invoked and what happens when they fail? If your organization is like most - the answer to these questions is usually: “it depends”. StreamStep provides the perfect home for your release automation – allowing full control of your script revisions and their execution history for a more complete view of your processes and performance. If you’re like most development organizations — your focused on automation and have considerable tools in place. StreamStep fits right in. . enabling you to leverage your investments in the tools you already have by increasing their automation, providing a centralized control point and visibility end-to-end. In addition to transforming your release process, StreamStep extends the value of our existing tools.
Virtualize Hundreds of Servers - With Virtually No Coordination Delays.
Virtualizing a single server is not a complicated process. But when you get into large numbers of physical to virtual (P2V) environment migrations, the complexity and coordination effort grow exponentially, often swamping project teams. StreamStep puts everything related to your migration effort in one place and enables you to get the job done with fewer resources and delays.
StreamStep ships with pre-built P2V migration templates to coordinate your various teams and project stakeholders, enabling clear communication and reporting on progress for each server and application affected by the migration. And automation is baked in to each template, allowing you to accelerate many repetitive activities and improve ongoing maintenance and change management of your virtual environments, enabling tracking and control of changes to your virtual servers.
Migrate Your Infrastructure Without Losing Your Way.
You need the ability to see the applications affected by the migration effort and to drill down to the specific components, environments and release schedules. Seeing the path ahead through SmartRelease enables migration teams to collectively conquer roadblocks and detours earlier, reducing costly delays and outages.
Who is working on the migration and when? What are they doing and how are the specific migration tasks progressing? Current planning tools, such as MS Project, do not provide useful feedback to migration managers and business stakeholders. And, if the plan isn’t accurate or being followed, how reliable is the completion estimate? StreamStep provides the entire team with real-time progress updates on manual and automated processes, ensuring that deviations from the plan are resolved quickly.
COMPANY INFORMATION
 StreamStep is based in Austin, Texas and provides process management and collaboration software solutions for global enterprises to streamline and automate application release management, server virtualization and IT migrations. StreamStep embeds best practices in its open process collaboration server, reducing the time and resources your organization needs to support your business while providing increased repeatability visibility and accountability.
StreamStep, Inc.
888.603.5160
5500 Shoalwood Ave.
Austin, Texas 78756
www.streamstep.com
info@streamstep.com
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