Case Study: NBCUniversal achieves faster application releases and lower testing costs with IBM UrbanCode and IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions

NBCUniversal - Customer Case Study

NBCUniversal, a large multi-business enterprise with 17 business units, needed a DevOps approach to improve code quality, speed up delivery, and lower development and deployment costs across its mixed on-premises and cloud environments. IBM helped address this challenge using IBM UrbanCode Build, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, and IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions to standardize the software delivery lifecycle and reduce silos across development, QA, run, and SDLC teams.

IBM’s solution automated continuous integration, delivery, testing, feedback, and monitoring in a single workflow, while also streamlining test environment management and parallelizing regression testing. As a result, NBCUniversal cut new application release time by 75%, reduced regression testing from 6–8 weeks to as little as 3 hours, and increased delivery agility, helping the company move from roughly 10 applications to more than 60 projects.

NBCUniversal

John Comas

Manager, Platform DevlOps