XebiaLabs

XebiaLabs, Inc.
Private
Industry Software development tools
Founded 2008
Headquarters

Key people
  • Daan Teunissen, Chairman of the Board
  • Derek Langone, CEO
Products
  • XL Deploy
  • XL Release
  • XL TestView
Number of employees
 60
Website xebialabs.com

XebiaLabs is a software company founded out of the International IT firm Xebia specializing in DevOps/Continuous Delivery tooling.

History

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, XebiaLabs was originally backed by Xebia, an international IT conglomerate based in the Netherlands. Now XebiaLabs is a stand-alone, venture-backed independent software company with over 60 employees. As a company they began with a singular goal of providing superior application release automation software.[1] After producing their flagship product XL Deploy for Continuous Delivery application release automation, they continued to produce other solutions for provisioning, testing, and complete pipeline orchestration.[2]

XebiaLabs has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and India, and is supported by a global network of distributors. As of April 2015 Derek Langone has assumed the role of CEO at XebiaLabs, replacing Coert Baart who served as CEO from 2008 to 2015.[3]

Products

Early on, XebiaLabs' offerings were limited to a single application called "Deployit", specializing in software deployment automation, the automatic spinning-up of environments, and ease of use across a range of platform middleware including Websphere, Weblogic, .NET/IIS, Glassfish and a number of other Java EE based providers as well as compatibility with Linux, Unix, and Windows. Deployit was later re-branded as XL Deploy to conform with the creation of other products in the stable, including a solution for continuous delivery pipeline orchestration with XL Release, and test management with XL TestView.[4]

From its initial creation XL Deploy (Deployit) was specifically designed to be an "agentless" deployment automation solution, and to bypass the need for the scripting and workflows used by other tools in order to provide an easier way to deploy to complex environments. Additionally, in conjunction with a number of plugins for Jenkins, Puppet Labs, Jboss, Websphere, Tomcat, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Visual Studio, Bamboo, VMware, Chef,[5] XL Deploy was also designed as an extensible solution to help teams leverage their existing tooling and IT investment streamlining continuous processes.[6]

Launching from experience with XL Deploy customers, Xebialabs then produced XL Release to serve as a holistic management system for entire Continuous Delivery pipelines, again extensible to existing tooling with the ability to automate tasks,[7] and XL TestView to manage and visualize the large volume of test-data resulting from increased volume of new software and features.[4] Most recently, XebiaLabs released XL Satellite as an extension of XL Deploy for easy global deployments to cloud or on premise data-centers around the world,[8] and has begun offering free community versions of XL Deploy, XL Release, and XL TestView.[9]

"With XL Platform, XebiaLabs is aiming to provide a hub for downstream software lifecycle activity, bridging the gap between development and operations. XebiaLabs' XL Deploy and XL Release are part of an integrated toolset that integrates with build-automation tools, offering functionality for environment provisioning, deployment automation, test management, and release coordination." [10] -Chandranshu Singh, Senior Analyst (Ovum Software)

Funding and Growth

In Q2 of 2014 XebiaLabs received funding from its first institutional investor, Updata Partners.[11][12] As part of the investment, Carter Griffin and James Socas, both of Updata Partners, joined XebiaLabs' board.[11]

According to the company, the funding would be directed towards developing superior reseller channels, further product development, and ramping up sales and marketing activities.[12] Even before diverting funding towards sales and marketing, the company has reportedly grown revenue 100% or greater year-over-year since its foundation.[13]

Users

XebiaLabs products have been adopted by a number of enterprise clients including General Electric, Expedia, Xerox, KLM, and Société Générale.[13]

According to their website, some other users of XebiaLabs products are Banque De France, Rabobank, Generali, 3M, Deutsche Telekom, John Deere, and Air France.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Colville, Ronni J.; Fletcher, Collin (May 7, 2013). "Know the Application Release Automation Vendor Landscape to Shortlist the Best Vendors for Your Organization". Gartner, Inc.: 9–10.
  2. ↑ Colville, Ronni J.; Wurster, Laurie F.; Haight, Cameron; Rastogi, Aditi (August 8, 2013). "Emerging Technology Analysis: DevOps a Culture Shift, Not a Technology". Gartner, Inc.: 6.
  3. ↑ "Derek Langone". BizJournals. April 21, 2015: 1.
  4. 1 2 Phillips, Andrew (September 12, 2014). "How to ensure the success of your Continuous Delivery initiative using testing". Network World. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ "XebiaLabs Plugins". XebiaLabs Website. July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Morgan, Lisa (September 29, 2014). "Kinks persist in continuous workflows". SD Times. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Parkerson, Stuart (March 24, 2015). "XebiaLabs Releases New Version of Continuous Delivery Management Platform". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ "XebiaLabs launches XL satellite technology for global software deployments". SD Times. February 23, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ "XebiaLabs Offers Free Community Edition of XL Deploy & XL Release". SD Times. November 18, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ Singh, Chandranshu (February 2014). "XebiaLabs". On The Radar (Ovum Ltd.) 44: 1–4. doi:10.1002/spe.2158.
  11. 1 2 "XebiaLabs Raises $12M in Growth Equity". Dow Jones: Private Equity and Venture Capital. June 9, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  12. 1 2 Resende, Patricia (June 6, 2014). "Software automation startup XebiaLabs raises $12M from first institutional investor". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  13. 1 2 "XebiaLabs Raises $12m in Growth Equity Round by Updata Partners: First Institutional Funding Will Drive Continued Growth in Fast Moving DevOps & Continuous Delivery Market". MarketWatch. June 9, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ "XebiaLabs Customers". XebiaLabs Website. July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.

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