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Flexagon Releases FlexDeploy 3.7 by Dan Goerdt

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Flexagon today announced FlexDeploy 3.7 is now available. FlexDeploy 3.7 provides enhancements for existing plugins such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Atlassian Jira, Fusion Middleware, and other new plugins, features, and usability enhancements driven by customer feedback.

FlexDeploy is a DevOps and Application Release Automation platform that lowers project risk and cost, while accelerating software delivery. It provides a comprehensive and integrated platform for managing the entire provisioning, build, deploy, test, and release lifecycle. Users are able to capitalize on their investments and innovate faster, with extensive automation, improved controls, and visibility to information like never before. FlexDeploy is an open platform which includes pre-built content for many Oracle and non-Oracle tools and technologies.

FlexDeploy 3.7 Highlights

Oracle E-Business Suite – Support for EBS was introduced in FlexDeploy 3.0 and extended to support a 2nd model called partial deploy in 3.5. Customers and Partners are rapidly taking advantage of FlexDeploy for EBS and the 3.7 release provides enhancements for both partial and full deployment models including the following:

· Partial Deployment Projects

o Build request form allows lookup of SCM revisions by file

o Select files from another package(s) when building a new package

o Extraction of project files from SCM has been optimized for performance and scalability

· Full Deployment Projects

o Project Files tab now available, allowing for file sequencing and metadata override

Jira Integration – Jira is a popular issues tracking tool from Atlassian which was first supported by FlexDeploy in release 3.5. The integration between FlexDeploy and Jira has been a big hit and the following features in 3.7 are based on customer feedback:

· Update Jira comments and status by environment

· Associate Jira tickets via build request form in addition to SCM commit messages

· Integration with CVS and Microsoft TFS

· Read the complete article here.

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Published by Jürgen Kress

As a middleware expert Jürgen works at Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels, responsible for Oracle’s EMEA Fusion Middleware partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle SOA & BPM and the WebLogic Partner Communities and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. With more than 5000 members from all over the world the Middleware Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen manages the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and conferences. He hosts his annual Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forums and the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps, where more than 200 partners get product updates, roadmap insights and hands-on trainings. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. For the SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl, Jürgen is a member of the steering board. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences like the SOA & BPM Integration Days, JAX, UKOUG, OUGN, or OOP.

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