Balance Agility with Control
Going Lean with AnthillPro
AnthillPro is a component of the AgileCycle Application Lifecycle Management Suite. Built on seven years of leadership, and the experiences of hundreds of customers, these capabilities make AnthillPro the first Application Lifecycle Automation server.Increase Developer Productivity
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.
Increase Visibility
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.
Build Management
The benefits of rapid feedback are making Continuous Integration (CI) a standard practice among teams adopting Agile software development. AnthillPro, built on seven years of experience, provides everything you expect from a mature Continuous Integration solution. But when you scale CI from a single team up to the enterprise, you need more than just rapid feedback. You need a system that:
- Serves all projects regardless of operating system, programming language, or build technology.
- Brings hundreds of agents into the build grid.
- Assembles an application from many subprojects.
- Captures and automates your entire release process, from check-in through release, with end-to-end traceability.
- Enables role-based security that will leverage your existing authorization systems.
AnthillPro delivers all of this. Which is why 25 percent of Fortune 100 companies use AnthillPro.
Life-Cycle Model
2The starting point of the build management system is the Life-Cycle Model, which brings your vocabulary into the build system. Each reusable Life-Cycle Model captures the stages — such as Development, QA, UAT, and Production — that matter for the projects in your organization.Configurable Workflows
With AnthillPro, you concurrently run build-verification tests across any number of machines, orchestrating sophisticated test automation. AnthillPro also enables you to deploy the server piece (of a three-tiered application) to a cluster of servers while, at the same time, deploying a client piece to any number of client machines — and then you can have the clients run tests on the cluster of servers. AnthillPro also supports automated, customizable promotion processes. This could be as simple as creating a new baseline in the SCM; including repackaging of the build artifacts; or deploying to a particular environment. Whatever you need in your environments, AnthillPro enables you to capture these steps as part of your own custom Workflow Library so they can be used across multiple projects.Enterprise Continuous Integration
End-to-end Continuous Integration means that you capture your entire process, every step that turns your source code into software:
- Build your code on every commit, on a schedule or on demand, with sophisticated build management.
- Deploy the code to any environment, including development, test, and staging with workflow-based deployment automation.
- Test in complex environments using test orchestration.
- Release with confidence with the visibility and control required for proper release management.
AnthillPro has all the features you need for a single Agile team or distributed enterprise IT organization.