Business value
The BMC Release Process Management application helps you to manage software release planning, release coordination, and application deployment automation. Software systems, the software development process, and resources have become more distributed, highly specialized, and more complex. Software undergoes complicated processes during development, testing, and release. The development and testing platforms have grown more complicated. All these issues and complexities mean that the whole release process must be monitored closely, and the various pieces must be integrated in a controlled manner.
Benefits of release management software
Overseeing the integration and flow of development, testing, deployment, and support of the various systems and resources required in the release process requires dedicated resources. Project managers use various tools, mostly manual, and techniques to monitor and control software projects and software product development. Among those manual tools are many spreadsheets for monitoring the steps and stages of software projects. Data is carefully entered and saved regularly.
Software architects and project managers can be so concerned about the design aspects that they can overlook the necessary day-to-day tracking of the project, which can be critical in some stages. Release management software helps control and manage various aspects of the release process, including operating systems, tools, software application platforms, resource allocation, various business functions in software development, and deployment.
Release management software helps you meet the challenges of:
- Software defects
- Issues
- Risks
- Software change requests
- New development requests, including requests for extra features and other requests from end users
- Deployment and packaging
- New development tasks
Benefits of BMC Release Process Management
BMC Release Process Management addresses the challenges of the software release process and grants you high-level and automated control over the release process. BMC Release Process 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
- 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)
- 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