First Abu Dhabi Bank to accelerate DevOps success with Validata's Release Automation Suite

(MENAFNEditorial) FAB is one of the leading banks in the UAE, established from the merge of First Gulf Bank and National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), offering an extensive range of tailor-made solutions, products and services, in addition to customised experiences. Validata was selected through an exhaustive Proof of Concept exercise, where Validata demonstrated the value it can bring to support the banks DevOps initiatives.

Validatas Release Automation Suite drives the agility, speed and reliability required for Temenos clients to stay competitive in the digital age and automates the release processes for Temenos core banking apps with complete visibility. It makes it possible through reliable, low-risk releases, to continuously adapt software in line with user feedback, shifts in the market and changes to business strategy. QA and DevOps can work together as one delivery team to automate and streamline the build, test and release process. It facilitates deployment of new versions, new releases and features more efficiently by automating execution of tasks which are tedious and error prone to perform manually.

Vaios Vaitsis, CEO & Founder of Validata Group, added, It is pleasing to see that we have been recognized for the value that our products and services can bring to FAB projects and we are delighted to be their partners for their DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives. Our release automation solution for Temenos Core Banking will be making an important contribution to FABs business growth and innovation by reducing the efforts in deploying changes by half, and freeing up resources to deal with tasks of greater business value.

It provides the only unified DevOps and ALM platform for the financial services sector, that can address all DevOps initiatives such as Continuous Testing, Integration across all platforms and environments, Deployment and Agile Developer Operations including real-time Analytics. It is built from the ground up with Agile and Cloud in mind, to bring together requirements, testing, defects, planning, resources, development and deployment, capable of integrating with external systems such as HP QC, CA Clarity, IBM RTM, Atlassian Jira etc, and delivering a single version of the truth across all your projects.

Validata technologies offer a unique approach, focused on the only indicator that matters: the End User. Validata connects Continuous Testing with Development and Operations, and automates the design, development, quality assurance and deployment of new applications and systems. It creates Release Orchestration and DevOps automation that help Temenos Core Banking Upgrade and Implementation projects, highlighting where Quality is compromised, monitoring DevOps providing insights and ensuring application performance.
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