Flexagon

OUT OF THE BOX DEVOPS PLATFORM FOR YOUR BUSINESS AND OPEN SYSTEMS

Out of the Box DevOps Platform for your Business and Open Systems

Flexagon was founded by six people who battled for years with the struggles of enterprise software platforms. They experienced first-hand how hard it is to deliver high-quality software at an optimal rate, so they then set out to evolve the complex processes into simple, easy-to-use tools, to maximize software development productivity and ultimately reduce risk.

The result of this idea was FlexDeploy, a purpose-built DevOps platform for continuous innovation made easy.

With every release, Flexagon adds more customer-requested features, plugins and

integrations to stay on top of its client’s software delivery landscape. The company believes that continuous innovation from Flexagon means continuous innovation for all.

One of the key goals for Flexagon is to eliminate time-consuming manual and scripted steps, and similarly reduce the need for long exhausting nights spent at the office. Deployment automation is at the heart of streamlined software development and operations and in this way FlexDeploy automates deployments to any environment for rapid testing and

improvement, delivering the software businesses need faster.

Today, Flexagon partners with key global system and technology vendors to ensure that it is delivering the latest capabilities and integrating with best-in-class tools and emerging technology.

North America Outlook (NAO): Who is Flexagon and what is FlexDeploy in the broad sense?

Dan Goerdt, CEO (DG): Enterprise software development and delivery in general is terribly ineffective.

The technology is complex, the processes and tools are disjointed, and ultimately that results in slow, error-prone, costly and higher-risk development and delivery.

Flexagon provides DevOps software to really help enterprise customers deliver high-quality software faster with lower cost and risk.

We started Flexagon about 10 years ago to address these complexities, which within the software development and delivery life cycle were causing a lot of issues for customers across all industries.

At that time, it was a nightmare for developers, administrators, release managers, and all levels of management

which of course then impacts the wider business. We started the company and built FlexDeploy, our DevOps platform which focuses on enterprise software ecosystems like Oracle and Salesforce.

FlexDeploy unifies all of your DevOps responsibilities into a single solution. We take the larger roles of build automation, continuous integration, artifact management, deployment automation and release orchestration into account, and this result is an end-to-end solution that’s tool and platform agnostic.

At Flexagon, we just knew there had to be a better way to help customers compete and improve how they were doing business, including bettering the lives of their own internal employees and of course their end users.

NAO: How did the partnership form with Schreiber Foods and how has it evolved?

DG: Our partnership is a great success story and frankly one of my favourites in the broader context of Flexagon.

Schreiber was one of many customers that we discovered early on in the forming of the company. We understood the challenges that they were facing with their existing technology and processes and that they needed to make some drastic changes to improve their technology and the ability to support their business as part of their broader global expansion.

We worked with the technology team and saw an opportunity to fundamentally improve Schreiber’s ability to increase

the speed and quality of their software development and delivery.

Schreiber was Flexagon’s first customer back in 2015 after forming the company in 2014 and we have built a fantastic partnership whilst enabling their growth, evolution and transformation over the last decade.

NAO: Given Schreiber’s technology transformation includes a large Oracle footprint, how does FlexDeploy help with the Oracle ecosystem?

DG: In terms of FlexDeploy, one of the key differentiators is that we not only have a DevOps platform that can work for any technology, but we have differentiating technology in and around these ecosystems like Oracle and Salesforce.

With Oracle, we have a very broad and deep level of support for the technology.

Schreiber has evolved its use of FlexDeploy over the last decade to cut across many of

the Oracle technologies, which has been a key enabler for their adoption of Oracle cloud.

Currently, many enterprises are evolving their digital landscape whilst continuing to leverage some of the existing tools and also adopting new ones into their processes. I think the key for Schreiber, and also in the broader sense for many of our other customers is that FlexDeploy makes it easier for their journey to progress at whatever rate and pace that particular enterprise prefers.

This is alongside also providing extensive support for the Oracle Ecosystem, both traditional and cloud, and ultimately enabling a hybrid type of approach which can transform and evolve a client at whatever speed they are comfortable with.

NAO: As Schreiber has a multi-vendor cloud strategy, how does FlexDeploy help with multi-vendor/cloud use cases?

DG: FlexDeploy, as a platform is enabled to support everything from open source to commercial data centres, to heavy cloud whether that be Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, Amazon, or Google, it supports all of these.

This tool enables and empowers your team with automated development and delivery, built-in security, and infrastructure automation to yield measurable results with improved software delivery performance.

3040 Allied St Green Bay, WI 54304 +1(800) 410-1321 info@flexagon.com

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