Case Study: Hartville Group achieves near-instant, reliable deployments and saves a developer-month with BuildMaster

Hartville Group - Customer Case Study

Hartville Group, Inc., a Canton, Ohio–based pet health insurance provider, faced growing complexity and regulatory scrutiny as rapid sales growth stretched its software delivery practices. Their deployment process was manual and error-prone: developers managed many configuration files across apps and environments, produced push plans, and spent hours on bookkeeping and repeated verification. To streamline and secure releases they adopted BuildMaster to automate and standardize builds and deployments.

BuildMaster was implemented quickly and used as a template across applications, letting DBAs review/approve scripts and testers validate smaller, more frequent pushes. The vendor’s self‑documenting automation cut manual push time from 15–30 minutes to about 30 seconds, and within 90 days Hartville Group reported saving 160 developer-hours across 40 builds in a single month (about a developer‑month), fewer errors, faster testing, and higher team morale — delivering repeatable, auditable releases and greater confidence for management.

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