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Balance Agility with Control

Going Lean with AnthillPro

Built on seven years of leadership, and the experiences of hundreds of customers, these capabilities make AnthillPro the first Application Lifecycle Automation server.

Reduce Waste

  • Automated builds — AnthillPro is an Enterprise Continuous Integration Server. Builds are run consistently and can be triggered to run automatically on every developer commit. Learn more about Enterprise Continuous Integration.
  • Automated deployments — Slow, manual deployments clogging the release pipeline? AnthillPro can automate deployments. This means that anyone (with the correct permissions of course) can press a button and deploy the application to test or production environments.
  • Automated tests — Have big test suites that aren't run all the time? AnthillPro ensures that test hardware doesn't sit idle by deploying your application, triggering the tests, and collecting the results. Learn more about test automation with AnthillPro.

Reduce Risk

AnthillPro brings together the responsiveness and agility of automation with role-based security, strict auditability, and traceability. This enables your team to get to market faster while filling out less paperwork — and passing audit more quickly. Want to answer questions about which build was released six months ago, who released it, and how it performed in testing? AnthillPro answers those questions easily. Learn more about using AnthillPro as a compliance solution.

Build Better Software

  • Metrics for making better decisions — Which tests break the most? How often are developers integrating their work? Is our code coverage getting better or worse? As we add new functionality are we incurring technical debt? AnthillPro provides a dashboard that clearly lays out metrics about a build, and how those metrics are changing with time.
  • Directing effort at driving value — Teams should spend their effort creating value, not running through rote manual practices. AnthillPro helps teams direct their efforts towards creating meaningful value. By making processes push button, teams are able to avoid the Bob the Builder Anti-Pattern.

Integrate Your ALM Tool-Chain

In order to automate the entire Build Life, AnthillPro needs to integrate with numerous tools. Integrations with source control, issue management, testing, static analysis, code coverage and other ALM tools. AnthillPro integrations act in both command and data modes. Command integrations tell tools what to do. Data integrations pull data from the tools. Learn more about the tools AnthillPro integrates with.

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by: eric minick -::- august 30, 2010
Speaking to a customer recently, I was told: Honestly, our favorite thing about moving to AnthillPro is that we've moved beyond 'Plug-n-Pray' deployments.


by: eric minick -::- august 16, 2010
AnthillPro's integrated build artifact repository is one of our favorite things about the tool. After all, if you're going to support moving a build through it's lifecycle towards production with de


by: eric minick -::- august 11, 2010
Michael Sayko, a software configuration management consultant based in Austin, Texas, wrote a great article for CM Crossroads on the


by: eric minick -::- july 27, 2010
I was recently chastised in the comments for referring to QA as a group of people. The commenter fairly pointed out that quality improvements come from everyone who touches the software al


by: eric minick -::- july 19, 2010
A pattern we are increasingly seeing in our customers employ is on-demand testing environments using virtualization. These can take many forms and be accessible just to automation or face development



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