Case Study: Hiscox achieves 97% lower release costs with Puppet Enterprise

Hiscox reduces cost per release by 97% with Puppet

Hiscox, an insurance provider, faced challenges with inefficient IT processes, siloed teams, and a lack of alignment between its IT and business goals. This led to slow, expensive, and manual software releases. To address this, the company turned to vendor Puppet and implemented Puppet Enterprise for automation and configuration management to power a new DevOps initiative.

Using Puppet Enterprise, Hiscox automated middleware configurations and maintained a consistent state across its entire fleet of virtual machines. The solution delivered dramatic results, including a 97% reduction in the cost per software release, an increase in deployment frequency to 50 times per week, and a doubling of virtual machine build speed. Puppet was central to achieving this measurable impact and creating a more unified and efficient IT operation.

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