We asked these tool providers to share more information on how their solutions help companies with automated testing. Their responses are below.
HCL Software
Ryley Robinson, product marketing manager at HCL Software
HCL Accelerate with HCL Launch is an enterprise grade continuous release orchestration solution within powerful HCL DevSecOps tool chain. HCL Accelerate is the Value Stream Management product with extensive release management capabilities. With HCL Accelerate plugins that can be integrated into any deployment solution through native plugins or through an API-driven-pipeline, businesses can easily orchestrate their complex releases through HCL Accelerate.
As enterprises divide their monolithic applications into cloud-native microservices, it becomes increasingly important to orchestrate releases through an enterprise grade release management product like HCL Accelerate that understands dependencies, complex , and all-or-nothing deployment strategies.
HCL Accelerate provides automated management for release orchestration with data-driven insights. Accelerate as a Value Stream Management tool and as a release orchestrator has deep insight into DevOps processes and can help businesses identify bottlenecks before individual teams become aware of the pain. HCL Accelerate provides visibility of the entire pipeline and provides a bird’s eye view of where and when changes that will significantly impact the business are in the delivery pipeline. Accelerate also provides full visibility for developers into the impact of the changes they make.
HCL Accelerate working with HCL Launch provides the best-in-class release management / deployment automation solution out there. With HCL Launch’s “deploy from anywhere to anywhere” capabilities, enterprise DevOps teams will be pleased to find they can automate deployments across a broad combination of environments such as mainframes, microservices , on-prem, public, private, and hybrid clouds. HCL Launch works everywhere with a massive plugin site that includes over 300 integrations and easily connects to source configuration repositories, change management systems, or middleware.
Octopus Deploy
Colin Bowern, senior vice president of product at Octopus Deploy
Octopus Deploy is the universal deployment automation company. We help software teams deploy software in a seamless and stress-free manner.
Octopus simplifies complex deployment processes allowing software solutions to be delivered faster and in a unified manner across different deployment environments. Octopus Deploy addresses the needs of enterprise organizations that no longer have to choose between speed and quality of their software deployments. It also provides robust authorization and auditing capabilities to ensure internal and external compliance. Octopus Deploy integrates out-of-the-box with leading CI/CD solutions to streamline deployment pipelines and to provide added value to organizations’ existing systems, such as services ITSM such as Jira and ServiceNow.
Based on its work with more than 350,000 IT professionals, Octopus Deploy has seen firsthand how DevOps success aligns with good deployment automation practices. It helps enterprise DevOps teams deploy software more effectively by eliminating error-prone manual processes associated with software change management and provides insights into DevOps performance based on the four DORA metrics.
Octopus Deploy is offered as both a self-hosted and SaaS offering. As part of the growing trend towards moving to SaaS in the DevOps tooling space, the company is committed to making Octopus reliable, secure and scalable.