Why ControlTier?
The Problem
The Solution: Best Practices
The Solution: Automation

Deployment Automation
SCM & Build Automation
Production Mangement
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Getting Started

Application Deployment and Configuration Management

Whether you are working in a Development, QA, or Production environment, deployment and configuration activity is time consuming and errorprone. It eats up your team's time and is a major source of errors that cause outages and schedule slippage.

When it comes to deploying and configuring applications, its not uncommon for organizations to rely on informal and mostly manual "recipes" — a grab bag of scripts, configuration templates, read-me files, emails, and recollections of random conversations captured and formalized anew each time a deployment or change is made. Developers and administrators responsible for implementing those recipes have to process volumes of complex information, hand-edit scripts and configurations, and then, through trial and error, get the application release properly deployed and configured.

If your business depends on your applications, the recipe approach just isn't good enough. Not only does it waste the time of your most precious resource - your people - but it makes it difficult to scale your business and leaves you unnecessarily exposed to risk.

Our automation experts specialize in designing and implementing end-to-end deployment automation. This portable automation gives you pushbutton control over the installation, configuration, and control of a complete integrated stack of applications in any environment. Built on a flexible open source platform, the solution is customized to the specific requirements of your environment and business processes.

We pride ourselves on helping our customers achieve levels of automation that they previously thought were either technically impossible or financially out of reach.

Each solution is customized to address the specific business and technical pressures unique to each organization. Below are some of solution options:

Automated Software Distribution and Installation	Ensures that the correct software releases and content artifacts are automatically distributed to the correct machines. Also enables instant visibility into knowing what versions of what software are running where.
Configuration Management	Automatically generates and delivers context specific configuration files to the correct locations. Ensures consistency across multiple locations, but allows for differences between different environments.
Application Control	Coordinates and sequences commands across all of the components of an integrated software system. Gives you consistency and repeatability, while still allowing for flexibility. Provides a consistent and logical control interface for all of your application stacks (e.g. start, stop, configure, update, etc..)
Validation and Status Checking	Automatically determine if each of the components of a business application, an in turn the entire business application as a whole, are configured correctly and properly functioning. This level of validation and deep status checking augments traditional monitoring and regression testing tools.

To find out how to get started with ControlTier Services, visit our getting started page.