Case Study: ING Bank cuts release time from 6 weeks to 34 minutes with XebiaLabs' XL Release

Orchestrating Release Pipelines to Optimize Continuous Delivery

ING Bank’s Lease IT team, which supports five countries and millions of customers, faced slow, manual and error-prone release processes with no visibility or metrics—software delivery could take six weeks from test to production and frequently caused incidents, blocking their push toward Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices.

By implementing XL Release to automate and orchestrate the end-to-end pipeline (integrating with Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, security and test tools) ING gained control, compliance and real-time visibility. The change cut release time from six weeks to 34 minutes, enabled twice-daily Dev deployments for fast feedback, produced only one incident in eight months, and delivered predictable, auditable releases and faster time to market.

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Andréas Prins

Manager, Lease IT