AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT PROCESS WITHIN ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS : Case Episerver

Abstract

This research focused on studying the concept of automated deployment in Web hosted applications. The work, conducted for within Episerver, had three objectives, i.e. to reduce deployment times, cost and dependency on managed services engineers; to introduce a more reliable deployment solution with the current infrastructure in order to minimize human error; and to develop an agile and secure automated deployment process for the case company.

The research presents a fully functional deployment system that was developed for the case company. The study used one of the case company’s clients to illustrate the development process and as well as the end results of the new automated deployment platform. Due to sensitivity of company data, a replica deployment model was developed for use in this study. The model is identical to the system built for the case company.

This study concludes that the case company had been using an obsolete and inefficient deployment process. As a result, an automated deployment process was developed. Through using the new system, it was reported that less service requests were created, human errors were minimized, over 150 hours of manual labour were saved for the customer, and customer satisfaction increased.