Case Study: Canadian Research Facility achieves 4x faster releases and zero-downtime deployments with ZeroTurnaround's LiveRebel

Canadian Research Facility - Customer Case Study

The Canadian research facility is a joint venture of four hospitals that runs a critical web-based Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) used for project tracking, genetics, scheduling, finances and compliance. The LIMS team previously rolled out disruptive updates once or twice a month, requiring maintenance windows, after-hours work and frequent user notifications, which limited release frequency and hurt researcher productivity.

By adopting LiveRebel and integrating it with Bamboo, the team automated deployments and enabled zero‑downtime updates with automated rollback on failure, supporting a continuous delivery pipeline. This increased release velocity fourfold, reduced release windows sixfold, and delivered bug fixes and new features to users quickly with minimal interruption (major quarterly releases that include manual database changes still cause some downtime).

Canadian Research Facility