Aldon Brings Powerful Deployment Package Management Functionality to Adon Lifecyle Manager

Smart Labeling Feature, Built-in Project Manifest Elevate Deployment Best Practices

Emeryville, CA—January-13-2009—Aldon, the ALM company for IT compliance, today announced Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition) 5.4, the latest version of its software change management solution with powerful new deployment package management capabilities making application re-deployment easy and software roll-outs painless. With smart labeling features and a built-in project manifest, users can easily restore systems back to a previously labeled state if the deployment outcome was not exactly what the user wanted. For software roll-outs or other IT updates across a network, users simply assign target end points and then point-and-click to deliver. The new features not only support deployment best practices, but create confidence across both development and operations, ensuring valuable work is preserved and productivity is increased.

When it comes to application development, deployment is often the most sensitive stage. It can involve multiple development environments, many hardware destination points, clusters of servers (HTTP, load and database servers), and large databases. If there is a glitch at any point, it can send the whole deployment process off course. Aldon's deployment package management feature creates a powerful safety net for the deployment process, so users can securely move applications into production without fear of losing valuable work. The users simply label the last state of the application pre-deployment before moving into production. If something goes wrong, they can quickly and easily roll back the machine to the point before the deployment started. Once the issue is discovered, re-deployment is easy.

The developers are not the only ones benefiting from the new features. Aldon Lifecycle Manager also allows system administrators to easily install the latest version of in-house applications onto new machines being added to the network. Aldon eliminates the time consuming effort of extracting, building and deploying code from simple version control repositories or having to manage build results manually. Also, if the application code running on a particular machine is corrupted, the appropriate application package can be selected straight from the deployment console and installed on the right machine with just a few clicks of the mouse. How it works is Aldon produces a manifest (list of files, versions and configurations) plus a deployment profile that contains the target machine's configuration, where it is located and what needs to be sent. Users can easily pinpoint what they need and act appropriately.

For application testers, using Aldon means they can re-create any previous version of the application on a test machine by simply selecting the appropriate package and sending it to the desired test machines. Software vendors can use deployment package management to recreate a customer's version of the application on their internal machines or to resend particular versions to customers.

Highlights of the Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition) 5.4 include:

The solution is available immediately and more information can be found by going here.

About Aldon

Aldon is the ALM company for IT compliance. For over 25 years, we have been the experts in providing application lifecycle management solutions to ensure that change management, collaboration, and compliance are applied consistently across all areas of IT. Through our user-centric approach to process management, our service, change, and release management products help you focus on what you do best—providing superior services, rapidly developing applications, and efficiently managing your IT operations. Behind the scenes, we help you increase productivity, accelerate time-to-market, fully understand your IT assets, and easily achieve compliance with regulatory standards. A true testament to our products is our customer base with over 1,300 companies worldwide in over 70 of the Fortune 100. These companies rely upon our solutions to manage their global IT business and operations processes including application development, network operations, and services management. We are headquartered in Emeryville, California and have offices around the world serving more than 60 countries.