Enov8 “Evaluation Edition” – IT Environments & Release
MAR, 2023
by Team Enov8
Enov8 is happy to announce the latest 2023 Quarterly Release and advise the latest “evaluation” edition is ready for consumption. A complete Release & IT Environment Management product with a full license for 3 months.
Our Environment & Release Management solution is designed to help you simplify and accelerate your digital transformation journey by providing key, out-of-the-box, capabilities. Including:
IT & Test Environment Management Capability
By leveraging Enov8’s Environment Management Edition, your teams will gain access to:
- A visual CMDB (Configuration Management Database) for easy and intuitive management of your environment assets and their relationships.
- Central planning and coordination through calendaring, enabling you to easily schedule and manage your environment resources, and avoid conflicts and contention.
- Booking management functionality, which allows you to book and reserve environment resources, ensuring that they are available when you need them.
- Runsheeting functionality for SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), which can be used to manage and track tasks and activities related to environment management.
- Lean IT Service Management support, which enables you to streamline your IT service delivery and optimize your environment management processes.
- DevOps Management for IT Environment Automation, which provides you with tools and capabilities to automate your environment management tasks and processes, thereby reducing the risk of errors and improving the speed and agility of your IT operations.
- Insights and visibility through customizable dashboards and reports, giving you a comprehensive view of your environment performance and enabling you to identify areas for improvement.
By implementing Enov8’s Evaluation Edition, you can streamline your environment management processes and ensure that your environment resources are utilized to their fullest potential. You’ll be able to minimize downtime, reduce costs, and improve your overall IT performance. Plus, with its customizable dashboards and reports, you can get the insights you need to make data-driven decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Enterprise Release Management Capability
By leveraging Enov8’s Release Management Edition, your teams will gain access to:
- Release Trains & Release Increments (aka Program Increments)
- Release Increment Scoping by Project/Product Teams
- Visibility into Release & System Dependencies
- Release cadence templating that includes milestones, gates & tasks.
- A comprehensive release calendar that allows you to manage the schedule and calendar dependencies between releases, as well as between Dev and Ops, with the ability to incorporate blackout periods.
- Implementation planning (deployment planning), enabling you to plan and track the deployment of your releases, ensuring that everything is in place and ready to go when it’s time to deploy.
- Deployment version tracking, which allows you to track and manage different versions of your releases, ensuring that you can easily identify and manage any issues that arise.
- Dashboards and automated reports that display key release & delivery information.
By implementing Enov8’s Evaluation Edition, you’ll be able to streamline your release management processes, increase efficiency, enhance stakeholder collaboration, and reduce downtime. With this platform, your teams will have the necessary visibility and insights to make informed decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Evaluation Support
In addition to the benefits mentioned earlier, the evaluation of Enov8’s Platform includes free access to the Support Training Portal. This portal provides valuable resources and training materials to help you and your team get the most out of the platform.
With free access to the Support Training Portal, you can ensure that you’re using the platform effectively and efficiently, maximizing the benefits and value it provides. This can help you achieve your goals more quickly and with greater success, allowing you to drive continuous improvement and stay ahead of the competition.
How to Get Started
Your Enov8 journey can be definded in 4 simple steps:
- Check the In Browser Evaluation *See if it looks about right
- Contact Us & Spin up an Evaluation SAAS container *It is your own private container & is backed up nighty
- Evaluate for upto 3 months *Reach out if you need help
- Go or No Go *Time to Productionize
Note: Our evaluation is also available on-premise via an easy to deploy container .
Interested? Then simply complete the Contact-Us form and let’s get things started.
More on our Solution
Enov8’s is a holistic Environment, Release & Data Management Platform that provides a solution to the immediate problems faced by software delivery teams. By addressing these early-stage problems, teams can work towards delivering high-quality software faster, using fewer resources, and in less time. This saves time and resources, which can be re-invested in process improvement and advancing DevOps practices. By doing so, teams can foster a culture of continuous improvement that can expand beyond the immediate team and set environment managers on the path to developing a world-class SDLC capability, making them a hero within the organization.
What is Release Management?
Release Management is a process that helps organizations manage the flow of software development from development to production. It ensures that the software is released on time, with the right features and quality. It also helps reduce risks associated with software development and deployment, including security and compatibility issues. Release Management helps ensure that the software is released on time and with the right features, while reducing the time and cost associated with software development and deployment. It also allows organizations to track changes and make sure that any problems are caught and fixed quickly. Additionally, Release Management helps organizations stay up to date with the latest technology and reduce the risk associated with new software.
Why Enov8 Enterprise Release Manager?
Streamline delivery of IT change through embracing “Scaled Agile” best practice.
The Enov8 ERM platform helps streamline IT change management by utilizing the best practices of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It facilitates Release Train Definition, Program Increment Planning, Product Identification, Team Registration, Project and Work Item Tracking, Environment and System Contention Management, Implementation Planning, Post Implementation Reviews, and Event Deployment Tracking.
Learn more on our Release Management Platform Page.
Enov8 Release Dashboard *Sneak Peak
What is Test Environment Management?
Test Environment Management is the process of managing test environments in order to ensure that software testing is conducted in an effective, consistent, and reliable manner. It involves setting up, configuring, and maintaining test environments for software development, testing, and deployment. It includes activities such as provisioning, configuring, maintaining, and decommissioning test environments. Test environment management also includes the monitoring, logging, and reporting of test environment usage and performance.
Why Enov8 IT & Test Environment Manager?
Streamlining delivery through effective transparency & control of your IT & Test Environments. Enov8’s IT & Test Environment Manager can maximize efficiency throughout the production and development process by providing a comprehensive view of your systems, enabling centralized planning and coordination, streamlining operations, and automating orchestration.
Learn more on our Environment Management Platform Page.
Enov8 Environment Dashboard *Sneak Peak
Other TEM & ERM Reading
Interested in reading more about Test Environment or Release Management. Why not start here:
Enov8 Blog: TEM Explained
Enov8 Blog: The Agile Release Train Explained
Enov8 Blog: Release – The Benefits of Deployment Planning
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