Business value

The BMC Release Lifecycle Management 4.3.00 suite helps you manage software release planning, coordination, application packaging and deployment automation. Business requirements drive frequent application releases, performed by multiple teams, and deployed to multiple environments. The rate of change across these activities is also increasing, and the changes that you make are increasingly visible to consumers. The high risk associated with these activities requires a platform that ensures that all participants in this process, such as release managers, coordinators, deployers, administrators, and testers, can operate, monitor and track release processes from a single pane of glass.

BMC Release Lifecycle Management addresses the challenges of the software release process by enabling all active participants to perform their tasks in a coordinated fashion across multiple releases, environments, and teams. BMC Release Lifecycle Management supports the following functions:

• Release planning and release management: release calendar, lifecycle planning, activity scheduling, and resource allocations
• Controls: real-time status updates, notifications, and managed teamwork during the release process
• Collaboration: groupware-style functions, roles, and functional assignments
• Application packaging
• Repository of deployment artifacts
• Deployment processes
• Self-service automation: complex provisioning sequences
• Agile software development: frequent movement of application software out of development and into operations

These functions enable an organization to:

• Deploy business-critical application changes faster, at lower cost, and with fewer errors
• Obtain a single source of truth for all releases (past, current, and planned) with a centralized, graphical, web-based interface
• Elevate invisible release processes into visible, measurable process flows
• Pinpoint bottlenecks, enabling process optimization and increased automation
• Support collaboration between Development and Operations (DevOps)
• Create repeatable deployment processes across multiple environments
• Model processes, applications, and environments with reusable templates
• Ensure consistency and flexibility in release planning and execution
• Leverage logging, alerts, and reports to ensure release process compliance and provide transparency across organizations