XebiaLabs

History

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, XebiaLabs was originally backed by Xebia, based in the Netherlands. Now XebiaLabs is a stand-alone, venture-backed independent software company with over 60 employees. It began with a goal of providing application release automation software. After producing their flagship product XL Deploy for continuous delivery application release automation, they continued to produce other solutions for provisioning, testing, and complete pipeline orchestration. In Q2 of 2014 XebiaLabs received funding from its first institutional investor, Updata Partners. As part of the investment, Carter Griffin and James Socas, both of Updata Partners, joined XebiaLabs' board.

According to the company, the funding would be directed towards developing superior reseller channels, further product development, and ramping up sales and marketing activities. Even before diverting funding towards sales and marketing, the company has reportedly grown revenue 100% or greater year-over-year since its foundation.

XebiaLabs has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and India, and is supported by a global network of distributors. In April 2015 Derek Langone assumed the role of CEO, replacing Coert Baart who served as CEO from 2008 to 2015.

Products

XebiaLabs' first product was an application called "Deployit", specializing in software deployment automation, the automatic spinning-up of environments, and ease of use across a range of platform middleware including Websphere, Weblogic, .NET/IIS, Glassfish and a number of other Java EE based providers as well as compatibility with Linux, Unix, and Windows. Deployit was later re-branded as XL Deploy to conform with the creation of other products in the stable, including a solution for continuous delivery pipeline orchestration with XL Release, and test management with XL TestView.

From its initial creation XL Deploy (Deployit) was specifically designed to be an "agentless" deployment automation solution, and to bypass the need for the scripting and workflows used by other tools in order to provide an easier way to deploy to complex environments. Additionally, in conjunction with a number of plugins for Jenkins, Puppet Labs, Jboss, Websphere, Tomcat, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Visual Studio, Bamboo, VMware, Chef, XL Deploy was also designed as an extensible solution to help teams leverage their existing tooling and IT investment streamlining continuous processes.

Xebialabs then produced XL Release to serve as a management system for entire continuous delivery pipelines, again extensible to existing tooling with the ability to automate tasks, and XL TestView to manage and visualize the large volume of test-data resulting from increased volume of new software and features. In 2015, XebiaLabs released XL Satellite as an extension of XL Deploy for easy global deployments to cloud or on premise data centers, and has begun offering free community versions of XL Deploy, XL Release, and XL TestView.

Users

XebiaLabs customers include General Electric, Expedia, Xerox, KLM, and Société Générale. Other users are Banque de France, Rabobank, Generali, 3M, Deutsche Telekom, John Deere, and Air France.