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Thursday, 5 July 2018

CA Technologies releases updated CA Automic One automation platform

CA Technologies, a leader in business automation software, has a new release of the CA Automic One automation platform, a suite of products delivering intelligent automation to the enterprise.

The new release empowers operations teams (ops) with new lifecycle management capabilities of automation artifacts, intelligent critical-path management and support for PostgreSQL. It also enables “shift-left” automation capabilities for developers with new automation-as-code functionality and connects automation silos through new integrations with CA Workload Automation, CA Continuous Delivery Director. CA Jarvis is now incorporated for new analytics capabilities.

Shifting left refers to incorporating testing earlier into the software development cycle, decreasing time to market and increasing the quality of software builds.

Implementation of enterprise-wide automation is a key component of continuous delivery in every modern software factory, CA said. Within the worldwide infrastructure operations software market, the delivery automation and delivery application release automation subsector has increased considerably, with Gartner forecasting 11% total delivery automation market growth (27% for application release automation) in 2017*.

CA’s Automation portfolio equips IT organisations with the tools they need to move from opportunistic to systemic automation, responding to customer needs by unifying automation silos and driving automation across core business processes. The portfolio, built on a foundation of intelligent automation that helps systems to undertake more complex tasks, applies better awareness and understanding to the underlying business context for accurate and efficient decision-making.

“Adidas is committed to be the best sports company. For several years, CA Automation has helped drive agility across our core Internet-based applications to offer a high level of customer service,” said Robert Lenz, Solution Architect for Process Automation at adidas. 

“The result is being able to meet customer demand, especially during busy international events - for example redesigning our retail replenishment process with CA Automation (Automic). By bridging our automation silos into one single platform with CA Automation and improving processes with automation, we have cut 95% of the manual efforts. CA Automation's new functionality improves our solution experience, so that we can better serve adidas business requirements as well as our customers.”

Unlike other solutions on the market, the CA Automic One Automation platform encompasses a suite of products running on a single, unified platform. Enterprises can easily track, automate and accelerate the entire delivery process – from development to operations, through testing and release.

Updated features and benefits of CA Automic include:

- Empowering ops for faster delivery

- Advanced “shift-left” automation capabilities for developers
 
- Connecting automation silos: new integrations between CA Workload Automation and CA Continuous Delivery Director, plus new analytics integration with CA Jarvis.

“best-blu consulting with energy GmbH maintains a steady cadence of technology innovation in order to deliver the best consulting services possible to customers, including users of CA Automation,” said Andreas Büsching, senior automation consultant at best-blu. “Featuring the new REST API enhancements, it is easy and very fast to generate the basic code for client applications which integrate with CA Automic Workload Automation. We can use the functionality to build custom integrations and environment-specific solutions for our customers.”

“Enterprise-wide automation is becoming increasingly relevant for every business across Asia Pacific and Japan as they look to compete and succeed in today’s data-driven digital economy. To date, CA is the only automation provider to deliver intelligent automation to enable DevOps requirements of continuous everything to support our customers’ ongoing evolution to become modern software factories,” said Abhilash Purushothaman, VP, DevOps & Automation – Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) at CA Technologies.

“As organisations across APJ reinvent themselves by developing new ways of working through embracing concepts like DevOps, microservices and agile/lean methodologies, automation is rapidly becoming a new lifeline to reduce manual hand-offs between development, operations, and the customers,” he added.

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