April 2019 Summaries

Harness has enhanced its Continuous Delivery platform by integrating with ServiceNow, facilitating streamlined change management across development and IT operations teams. This integration allows enterprises to track and audit production deployments and approve pipeline stages directly through ServiceNow tickets. The addition complements previous integrations with Atlassian Jira, catering to the needs of enterprises where Jira serves as the system of record for development teams and ServiceNow for IT operations. The integration supports two main use cases: tracking and auditing the progress of production deployments and approving or rejecting deployment pipeline stages using ServiceNow tickets. It offers features such as role-based access control and enables updates and approvals of deployment workflows to be managed within ServiceNow, enhancing the efficiency and automation of deployment processes.

Harness, a company co-founded by Jyoti Bansal in 2017, secured a $60 million Series B funding round led by IVP, with participation from GV, ServiceNow Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures, to expand its Continuous-Delivery-as-a-Service platform. The platform aims to simplify software delivery for developers by significantly reducing deployment times and improving efficiency, as evidenced by customers like NCR and Bank of Santander, who have seen substantial improvements in their deployment processes. Harness has rapidly grown its customer base, offering solutions that integrate with various tools used by DevOps teams and providing features like Continuous Verification and automated rollbacks. The company's success is attributed to its innovative product development and strong company culture, which emphasizes customer care, adaptability, and rapid innovation. As Harness continues to grow, it plans to introduce new features and products to further address the complexities of software delivery, with the ultimate goal of making engineering teams unstoppable in their deployment efforts.