Challenge
- Hiscox needed to increase the pace of change to release new products quickly into a highly competitive and fast-moving market.
Solution
- Introduced DevOps practices and automated with Puppet Enterprise.
Results
- Reduced cost per release on a major application by 97%.
- Release cycle improved from 10 weeks per deployment to 50 deployments per week.
- Reduced time per release by 89%.
- Reduced staff required to release by 75%.
- Now builds VMware virtual machines twice as fast.