Intel ® e-Business Engineering Release Management and Application Landing

To meet the rapid growth in the number of e-Business applications to be deployed and the demand for increasing the frequency for application releases, Intel’s e-Business release cycle has gone through many evolutions and has seen many improvements. This paper examines these changes from an IT e-Business Integration Engineering perspective. The e-Business release cycle may range from 6 weeks to 20 weeks depending on the functional and technical complexity of the release. A release may include up to 6 applications and in general, each application releases 4 or more times a year. There are over 65 core e-Business externalfacing applications. In this paper, we focus mostly on Business-to-Business (B2B) direct sales and marketing, the most active e-Business area, and we deal only with the e-Business Integration Engineering group’s role in e-Business release planning and management