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Anthill for Build Masters and Configuration Management Staff

Automation

With AnthillPro, build masters and configuration management staff can realize the real-world benefits of automated build, release, and deployment processes. Automation with AnthillPro also leads to reproducibility, because every time AnthillPro performs a build it will do it exactly the way you specified.

Free up Your Time for Higher Value Tasks

Because there is little value in performing manual tasks, AnthillPro's automated processes will free you to focus your energies on higher value tasks. By adopting AnthillPro you can focus on streamlining the build process, making it more efficient and/or faster; including more exhaustive automated tests as part of the process; and many other tasks.

Developer Self-Service

Once your build, release, and deployment processes are automated with AnthillPro, you can implement policies allowing developers to initiate builds on their own, thus eliminating the need for you to adjust your schedule to the development schedule (whatever time zone it may be in). Not only will you be happier, but developers will be happier as well, since they won't have to track you down to do a build.

AnthillPro's role-based security means you can define fine grained policies as to who can do what with the system. This means that developers can be restricted from building environments they're not supposed to. With AnthillPro's built in audit trail, you'll have complete visibility into who did what in the system, as well as complete, out of the box compliance.

Standardize on a Powerful and Extensible Automation Framework

By adopting AnthillPro, you'll be on a powerful automation framework, which includes an embedded workflow engine as well as distributed execution, that integrates with your existing tools. If you have existing ANT, NANT, make, or Maven scripts, AnthillPro can use them without requiring you to change the scripts. AnthillPro work with you, to make your life easier, not the other way around.

Integration

The AnthillPro Application Lifecycle Automation server (ALA) feature set automates not only the build process but any process involved in taking a build from development to production and beyond. When you automate the test process for builds, AnthillPro integrates with your existing testing tools. When automating the process for deploying builds into the QA, UAT or PROD environments, AnthillPro integrates with the issue tracking, SCM, and other tools you use.

Extensibility

AnthillPro is a completely extensible platform allowing easy integration with any tool. This means you will never be limited by the current capabilities of AnthillPro. If you you need AnthillPro to integrate with a tool that it does not already integrate with, our support staff can develop the integration for you. If you're integrating with a home-grown tool, we can help you develop the integration yourself.