Case Study: Simon Data streamlines preview and demo environments with Release

Simon AI delivers ephemeral environments and demo data with Release

The customer, Simon AI, an enterprise customer data platform, faced significant challenges with its pre-production environment ecosystem. Their development team struggled with inefficient code reviews and product acceptance testing, relying on a shared staging environment that was often outdated and a 'test in production' approach that led to errors. Furthermore, their sales team had a difficult and error-prone process for creating demos with industry-specific data, managed through a single, manually-refreshed environment.

The vendor, Release, provided an Environments as a Service solution to address these problems. Release enabled Simon AI to create ephemeral preview environments for every pull request, streamlining testing and improving software quality. For sales demos, Release's Instant Datasets allowed for the automatic loading of industry-specific data into on-demand environments, leading to more effective demonstrations that directly won new customers. This allowed Simon AI to focus on core development while Release managed their complex infrastructure.

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