Time and Money is Being Wasted Across the App Lifecycle

It is all too common that build, release, and deployment activities generally follow a somewhat informal and mostly manual "recipe" — a semi-manual process that spans a grab bag of tools, scripts, configurations, read-me files, emails, and recollections of random conversations with fellow developers and administrators. With each new release or additional deployment of an integrated software system, 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 release properly built, deployed, and configured.

Figure 2. Mostly Manual “Recipe” Approach to Release and Deployment

And as if that’s not enough, once things are finally up and running, they face yet another thorny problem: how to pass all of that process and configuration work they have just completed on to others, who will in turn repeat a similar recipe-based process. This repetitive set of inefficient tasks ends up being exceedingly wasteful. And worse still, it occurs many times a day across your various Development, QA, and Operations groups.

Figure 3. Build, Release, or Deployment Activity Happens Repeatedly, on a Daily Basis, Across the Entire Application Lifecycle

In fact, manual release and deployment activities can consume as much as:

* 15% of your Developer's time
* 30% of you Build & QA engineers' time
* 50% of you Deployment engineer's time

That’s a lot of time to waste, and in itself reason enough to rethink the “recipe” approach and give the ControlTier open source automation tools and proven methodology a try.

But the sheer amount of wasted manpower isn't the only reason to invest in a ControlTier solution. Mistakes and configuration or procedural inconsistencies are too often the root cause of site outages and other errors that impact your customers, as well as development-schedule slippage and change-request bottlenecks that can slow your business to a crawl.

The true financial impact of semi-manual build, release, and deployment activities is often overlooked because it is spread along the entire organization’s bottom line. But make no mistake, it’s enormously costly and can have a long-term strategic impact on your business.

ControlTier's open source tools and expert services transforms what was once costly, repetitive and unpredictable into a well-oiled and reliable machine.