XebiaLabs, a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software, today announced that it has completed the year 2016 with triple-digit growth. XebiaLabs is the only Enterprise DevOps vendor focused one hundred percent on Continuous Delivery, with its Application Release Automation (ARA) tools helping large companies accelerate software delivery and reduce risk.
The company’s 2016 revenues were bolstered by accelerated product innovation and the addition of dozens of marquee clients to an already broad roster of global enterprise customers. This success was underscored by leading industry analysts, who rank the company as a top vendor for the quality of its products and strategic vision.
According to XebiaLabs CEO, Derek Langone, “In 2016, there was a meaningful increase in the number of large enterprises that recognized the need for—and the competitive advantage of—accelerated software delivery. As software has become the primary way that enterprises interact with their own customers, the need to deliver innovation, value and high quality user experience has become fundamental to a company’s potential to compete in its respective market. XebiaLabs lives at this convergence of software and business. We are excited that our focus on both business and technical value has translated into many new client relationships and the respect of industry influencers.”
2016 Highlights:
Application Release Automation at the Heart of DevOps Success
Enterprises
are recognizing the benefits of DevOps for improving the competitiveness
of their products and services. Application Release Automation has
emerged as central to successful DevOps implementations across an
enterprise, enabling companies to automate, analyze and control the
entire software delivery process across widely varied IT landscapes. ARA
helps companies ensure that high quality software is always ready for
delivery into fast-paced markets.
As ARA has become essential for DevOps success at the enterprise level, XebiaLabs has been a top driver in the ARA space, experiencing enormous advancements in the areas of customer adoption and growth, industry recognition, product innovation, office and staff expansion and more.
Customer Adoption and Growth
New business grew across all
sales regions, resulting in triple-digit year-over-year growth. Adoption
of the XebiaLabs DevOps platform was particularly strong in the
financial services, insurance, telco, technology and retail sectors with
customers such as Lloyds, HBO, Xerox, Orange, Express Scripts, NCR and
Aviva.
Top-Ranked by Leading Industry Analysts
In 2016, top
industry analysts recognized XebiaLabs as a front runner in the
Continuous Delivery/ARA space. Gartner, Inc. placed XebiaLabs in the
“Leaders” quadrant in its "Magic
Quadrant for Application Release Automation,” while Forrester ranked
the company highest in the Strategy category in its “Forrester
Wave™: Application Release Automation, Q3 2016” report.
Product Innovation in Application Release Automation
Throughout
the year, XebiaLabs introduced a string of new product releases that
helped drive the company’s triple-digit growth. Key product advancements
include a customizable reporting and analytics dashboard that delivers
never-before-available insights about the ARA process, such as release
progress, potential risk and compliance status; enhanced productivity
features for teams doing large-scale deployments; new DevOps tool
integrations for Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Docker, Ansible and others;
advanced release orchestration capabilities, including powerful
dependency management, multi-functional Release Folders and flexible
Release Tags; and automatic provisioning of cloud environments as part
of deployment.
Office and Staff Expansion
The XebiaLabs team grew
significantly in research and development, sales, customer support,
product management, and marketing, which spurred the expansion of its
global headquarters in Burlington, MA and its European headquarters in
Hilversum, the Netherlands.
Popular DevOps Resources
XebiaLabs released a major update
of its highly popular “Periodic
Table of DevOps,” a free, industry recognized DevOps landscape tool
that is a go-to reference for understanding the complex and fast-moving
DevOps market. It also introduced its “DevOps
Diagram Generator,” which allows users to dynamically map all their
DevOps tools across the pipeline to better understand how they relate to
each other.
Thought Leadership
Industry thought leaders Gene Kim
and Gary Gruver, along with several XebiaLabs customers, such as GE and
Societe Generale, participated in numerous XebiaLabs presentations and
webinars. The XebiaLabs Global DevOps Leadership Summit, a sold-out
event, featured industry thought leaders and authors Dave Farley and
Andrew Phillips, as well as DevOps experts from companies such as ING,
KPN, NJM Insurance Group, Rabobank, Dutch Ministry of Education, Stater
and Wirecard.
About XebiaLabs
XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale
Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the
visibility, automation and control they need to deliver software faster
and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs to meet the
increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases.
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