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DROPS orchestrates a continuous value stream from business owner to end-user, with release visibility and control across all teams, technologies, and tools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike other solutions on the market, DROPS manages releases at the ‘application’ level, deploying functions, rather than just technical components. This makes DROPS intuitive and easy to use, allowing development and operations teams to work closely together to increase deployment frequency and respond smoothly to the demands of the business while guaranteeing service continuity in production.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a powerful \u2018platform abstraction\u2019 <\/b>layer, DROPS manages releases across multiple platforms<\/b> such as Windows, UNIX, Linux, IBM i and also private, public, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Multiplatform<\/h2><\/div>

Applications today are often a complex mix of technologies – legacy and new tech<\/b> evolving at different rates on different platforms, driven by different teams, each with their own custom toolchain. How to manage the dependencies within these applications, at the critical deployment phase?<\/p>\n

DROPS offers a single point of control over the deployment of ALL your applications<\/b>, legacy or open systems, on premise, private, hybrid or multi-cloud. Manage your backend transaction processing system together with microservices and Web front-end from a single deployment board. Deploy software and database upgrades across IBM i, System z, AIX, Windows, Linux, any UNIX flavor, and any DBMS.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>

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DROPS comes with unique, \u2018built-in\u2019 integrations<\/b> with leading provisioning and containerization tools. Use the unique \u2018DevOps for Data\u2019 capability in DROPS to synchronize the deployment of your software and data, with built-in rollback on error.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Universal<\/h2><\/div>

Chances are your information system comprises a mix of in-house development and 3rd party vendor packages.<\/b> Most vendor packages will have been customized for your specific business, using configuration data, settings, or even custom code. Any new release from the vendor must be re-integrated and re-customized, before deploying to your end-users \u2013 a error-prone and time-consuming task! And then, how to synchronize the deployment of all your standard, custom, and in-house developed code?<\/p>\n

DROPS is a \u2018universal\u2019 deployment solution<\/b>, taking care of your vendor packages, in-house development, and configuration data all from the same point of control.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Integrable<\/h2><\/div>

DROPS is an open system and integrates easily into any CI\/CD pipeline.<\/b><\/p>\n

Check out the RESTful DROPS API documentation(OpenAPI V3.0.3) \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n

DROPS integrates with enterprise DevOps tools such as Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Azure DevOps, HCL DevOps, ARCAD for DevOps and project tracking solutions such as Jira.<\/p>\n

Drive DROPS from Azure DevOps or Jenkins via RESTful API.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Jenkins pipelines<\/h4><\/div>

Use Jenkins to orchestrate DROPS import of artifacts and continuous deployment across multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Jira<\/h4><\/div>

DROPS bi-directional integration with Jira enables easy tracking of tickets during import of artifacts and deployment of applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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With the Azure DevOps extension, configure and run an import Instance on a DROPS server, with import of pipeline artifacts:<\/p>\n

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  • Configure and run a deployment instance on a Drops server<\/li>\n
  • Retrieve the execution status of instances launched on a Drops server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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    You can automate the import and deployment into DROPS using an Azure Release pipeline. You supply:<\/p>\n

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    • DROPS import stage<\/li>\n
    • Deployment stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>
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