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Vistaprint Uses ActiveControl to Achieve Agile Development in SAP
About Vistaprint
Vistaprint is an e-commerce company that delivers physical and digital marketing products to small business around the world. It was a pioneer of offering desktop publishing capabilities to customers over the internet when it began in 1995. The company became a pure e-commerce enterprise in 2000 and after a decade of strong growth, knew they needed to become more agile to deliver value to customers faster. They began a complete agile transformation of their IT systems in 2013 which including bringing agile development into SAP.
The Challenge
The company needed an automation tool that could integrate with Jira to enable multiple sprints and daily deployments to production. They were seeking a solution that included a suite of quality checks and balances as well as deep analysis capabilities to identify sequencing and dependency issues.
The Goal
Vistaprint was looking to align SAP with the company's enterprise-wide agile approach in order to deliver value to customers faster. It became clear that they needed SAP-specific automation, including the ability to integrate SAP development with Jira and support for an upcoming S/4HANA migration.
The Solution: ActiveControl
Vistaprint chose ActiveControl because they were focused on two main business outcomes: reducing time to market and accelerating delivery of value to customers. With automation in place, the company was able to bring SAP development in line with the rest of the IT organization, adopting an agile approach that enables daily deployments. They now have the confidence to deliver high quality change more frequently to meet the needs of the business.
More Production Deployments
Moved from deploying every 3 weeks to once per day
Analyzers
Analyzers detect issues earlier for safer deployments
QA Deployment cycle
Faster development with rapid QA deployment cycles
Vistaprint leveraged SAP automation to facilitate an agile transformation
Embracing automation enabled Vistaprint to adopt agile development within its SAP landscape and move from deploying SAP changes once every three weeks, to daily deployments. Automation also helped accelerate their migration to S/4HANA safely, with less risk of downtime.
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