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Date Published
Author
Dan Lamm
Word count
749
Language
English
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None

Summary

By adopting the Harness platform for continuous delivery, Advanced, the UK's third-largest provider of business software and services, achieved a 10X return on investment in just two months, significantly enhancing its deployment efficiency. The company, which supports over 16,000 customers with 2,200 employees, transitioned from traditional on-premise to AWS cloud solutions, initiating an internal CI/CD initiative to empower its 700 software engineers across 100 product teams. Previously, deployment processes were cumbersome, requiring extensive manual intervention and often taking months to build and hours to execute. Harness provided a self-service platform that streamlined deployments, reducing average deployment time from two days to two hours and onboarding time from two days to 90 minutes, while also automating tasks such as Jenkins upgrades. This resulted in a 50-60% reduction in DevOps and engineering time spent on deployments, allowing teams to templatize and reuse deployment pipelines, significantly cutting time-to-market and enhancing overall productivity.