xtype News

DZone article from Scott Willson about DevSecOps and why embracing it can mitigate the next security disaster.

Poor developer practices, driven by time pressures, lack of secure coding education, and over-reliance on tools, pose a significant security risk, necessitating a security-first culture, continuous training, and robust automated tools to safeguard systems.

AI tools are evolving from simple assistants to intelligent agents that automate and optimize various development phases, enabling developers to focus on complex tasks and innovation.

AI’s growing role in automating repetitive tasks, improving quality, and aiding knowledge transfer, thereby streamlining SDLC workflows.

xtype Raises $21M from Norwest Venture Partners and ServiceNow Ventures to Fuel Innovation on the ServiceNow Platform xtype has attracted the attention of global investors due to the success of its innovative multi-instance management platform, helping enterprise customers scale their ServiceNow investments. The new funding will support xtype’s mission to help companies globally expand their ServiceNow operations. This round also included participation from returning investors Columbia Capital, Inner Loop Capital, and SaaS Ventures.

IT leaders can mitigate risk for IT outages by auditing infrastructure, training staff, using automation, and ensuring clear communication.

"Aren't We Transformed Yet?" delves into digital transformation challenges using enterprise platforms and emphasizes the need for automation and multi-environment visibility.

The New Stack Article: Platform owners must optimize by addressing inefficiencies, improving automation, and enhancing governance to drive innovation.

DevOps practices are being challenged by the rise of platform-based development. This article explores the unique challenges and opportunities presented by this shift, providing practical strategies for applying DevOps principles in a platform context.

Here's how low-code/no-code solutions are addressing the developer shortage and transforming application development.

Platforms like ServiceNow and Salesforce (to name a few) were introduced to address and solve the many overwhelmingly burdensome tasks associated with building enterprise-specific applications and keeping companies agile, automated, and scalable. However, to adopt these platforms in the organization and maximize their value, they require development practices, principles, and discipline similar to classic software development.

Digital businesses demand faster application delivery. Platform engineering offers a solution by creating self-service platforms that improve developer productivity, security, and time-to-value.

xtype has unveiled its latest product to assist ServiceNow customers. xtype Clone View is now available on the ServiceNow marketplace. The new product is also included within xtype Enterprise. The platform engineering solution that helps enterprises to deliver new ServiceNow features and applications. By automating software deployment and release management, increasing productivity, security, and compliance.

Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype.io, a technology company that accelerates software development for large companies like Zurich Insurance, Heineken, HP, Abbot Laboratories, and IBM. Xtype has also recorded over 75,000 customer deployments using its product in the past year and has raised $10.8 million to date.

Every organisation relies on a range of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of its projects and processes. These measurements are integral to understanding where improvement is needed and, ultimately, ensuring that initiatives are on track to meet their goals. Typically, organisations rely on measures like cost, time, efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction. Software development is no different. A robust suite of metrics will cover process, product, project, people and quality. But, with a significant emphasis on agility and efficiency, one area that is often overlooked is developer satisfaction.

xtype, a platform engineering startup that triples value for ServiceNow customers, is announcing their latest partnership with Precision Bridge, a smart cross-platform data migration and integration service. Dedicated to enhancing the ServiceNow customer experience, xtype and Precision Bridge have entered into a strategic partnership that will help their customers deliver value at an increased rate on the ServiceNow platform.

xtype, a platform engineering startup, is announcing its partnership with NewRocket, a global, full-service Elite ServiceNow partner. The partnership will see the organizations collaborating to help customers deliver value on ServiceNow faster, extending their combined reach to support and positively impact even more customers using the platform. The announcement is a testament to the xtype's upward trajectory in the ServiceNow global community and follows only shortly after xtype was awarded Build Platform Partner status on ServiceNow.

Ron shares insights from his background growing up on a farm in Israel to becoming an entrepreneur in the tech industry. Despite his humble beginnings, Ron's journey led him to work with companies like Mercury Interactive before venturing into entrepreneurship. He emphasizes the entrepreneurial spirit he developed from his farming roots, highlighting the similarities between farming and entrepreneurship.

This podcast interview focuses on the entrepreneurial journey to create a serious business by daring to focus on some fundamental flaws of one enterprise platform. My guest is Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO of Xtype.

Here are four steps IT leaders can take to create an enabling and sustainable workplace culture for their teams.

If 2023 has proved anything in DevOps, it's that staying ahead of the curve is not a strategic choice but a necessity. The software development landscape has experienced a plethora of changes this past year, including the swift and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, agile frameworks becoming mainstream, and evolving job roles within the DevOps sector. If 2023 was an opportunity to explore the enhanced DevOps methodologies that could expedite software delivery, 2024 is the year to embrace them wholeheartedly.

Perhaps the biggest challenge with digital transformation lies in understanding where the transformation occurs. Digital transformation doesn't begin or end by offloading workloads or moving core systems to the cloud. It doesn't come about through the development a cool customer-facing app. Paralleling its philosophical forerunner, DevOps, the process of digital transformation begins by looking inward. It is a matter of organization. "Digital transformation initiatives should be focused not on customer solutions, but on day-to-day business fundamentals," says Scott Willson, head of product marketing for xtype.io, a software startup that works primarily with large enterprise clients that use the ServiceNow cloud computing management platform. "You've got to be the best version of yourself before you can put your best foot forward for your customers."

Continuing xtype's mission of empowering ServiceNow teams to meet any level of demand from the business, the update will give developers the ability to drive improved business outcomes using native ServiceNow tools on xtype.

About a year ago, faced with the end of support of a tool used to sync instances of its ServiceNow platform, Zurich Insurance turned to ServiceNow development partner Xtype.io for a replacement, which has saved its development team days every time new applications are developed and rolled out.

Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey in the tech industry can be like a roller coaster ride - it’s exciting, filled with energy, and demands unyielding dedication. In this episode of Scale Your SaaS, host and B2B SaaS Sales Coach Matt Wolach had a candid conversation with Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO at xtype. Read on to delve into the whirlwind of experiences, insights, and lessons learned while scaling a tech startup, particularly in targeting the enterprise sector.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, DevOps has emerged as an essential philosophy, bridging the gap between software development and IT operations. A successful DevOps team not only speeds up the delivery process but ensures quality and reliability. However, creating such a team requires a harmonious amalgamation of tools, culture, processes, collaboration, and more.

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, enterprises are constantly seeking ways to innovate, stay competitive, and drive growth. But with legacy systems that can’t keep up, and being outpaced by dynamic startups and the demands of customers, they need to transform in a way that is sustainable and allows for digital transformation goals to be reached.

Welcome to The Messy Growth Show – the podcast that explores the messy journey of growth in business and life. In this episode, hosts Christian Godoy Jørgensen and Søren Skovdahl Hansen sit down with Ron Gidron, founder of xtype, to uncover the raw and insightful truths about starting and growing a business from the ground up.

The startup has seen accelerated growth with major enterprise deals with a number of global enterprises across healthcare, financial services and manufacturing, including Zurich Insurance and Heineken.

Das Startup verzeichnete ein rasches Wachstum und schloss mit einer Reihe globaler Unternehmen aus den Bereichen Gesundheitswesen, Finanzdienstleistungen und Produktion, darunter Zurich Insurance und Heineken, bedeutende Verträge ab.

Today’s guest is Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO at xtype. Today ServiceNow teams struggle with environments inconsistency which inhibits their ability to deliver at speed. xtype believe that the ServiceNow platform is the most agile development platform on the market and provides native ServiceNow products to meet any level of demand from the platform with speed, reliability and compliance. They serve some of the largest organizations in the world, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformation with ServiceNow at unprecedented scale and velocity.

We hope that Ron Gidron isn’t easily offended. In particular, we hope that he doesn’t mind if we suggest that xtype is one of the least sexy products we are covering in our TakeOff series of interviews with startup founders. No blockchain, no ridiculous claims, no glamorous offices. Instead, xtype does what so many less successful startups forget: it solves a clear, well-defined problem. “I founded xtype to help customers unleash the full potential of ServiceNow, the most robust platform for managing IT and developing enterprise applications,” he told us. But only, as he explains later, after finding the right team to create it. One of Ron’s key messages to wannabe startup founders: you can’t go it alone.

Zurich Insurance has reduced the time it takes to develop and roll out ServiceNow applications from a week and a half to a day and a half through a syncing tool. About a year ago, faced with the end of support of a tool used to sync instances of its ServiceNow platform, Zurich Insurance turned to ServiceNow development partner Xtype for a replacement, which has saved its development team days every time new applications are developed and rolled out.

As part of our series called “Five Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective C-Suite Executive” we had the pleasure of interviewing Ron Gidron. Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype, a platform engineering solution for ServiceNow (R) that allows enterprise customers to meet any level of demand from the platform and drive improved business outcomes at scale. Passionate about the intersection of software, users, and market trends, Ron has over two decades of experience in enterprise technologies and cloud computing, and has held various product and leadership roles within startups and some of the world’s largest technology companies.

Ron joins the EM360 Podcast to discuss The Future of Automation for Enterprises.

Scott Willson, Head of Product Marketing, has joined the DEVOPSdigest Vendor Forum. His blog discusses how environment synchronization is key to optimizing automated CI/CD pipelines.

People have long talked about digital transformation as an end goal. Once businesses transform, they will realize their ambitions, achieve their goals and enjoy the rewards.

Meet the founders of xtype. The company provides native ServiceNow products to meet any level of demand from the Now platform with speed, reliability, and compliance.

Since its founding twenty years ago, ServiceNow has grown to become the operating system for running a business. Companies love it because no matter what they need to do, ServiceNow likely has a module for it. Whether the focus is customer, employee, tech or operations, ServiceNow has it covered.

As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ron Gidron, Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of xtype, about software development, accelerating digital transformation, and their ambition to become the de facto standard product for platform engineering in ServiceNow.

The power of automation can enable a greater pace of digital acceleration for ServiceNow customers, supporting them to achieve better business outcomes, particularly in these challenging economic times. By letting intelligent automation take the lead in application deployments, increasing delivery speed, and in tackling backlogs, ServiceNow professionals have time to focus on driving innovation that will give their companies a competitive edge. xtype allows native ServiceNow products to meet any level of demand with speed, reliability, and compliance, serving some of the largest organizations in the world, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformation with ServiceNow at unprecedented scale and velocity.

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xtype, the agile software delivery company, today launches xtype View™, the world’s first multi-instance viewer and platform engineering dashboard designed for ServiceNow professionals.

WIEN, 19. April 2023 -- xtype, ein Unternehmen für agile Softwarebereitstellung, hat sein speziell für die ServiceNow-Plattform entwickeltes und natives Produkt auf den Markt gebracht. xtype ist das erste Out-of-the-Box Produkt für ServiceNow, das die Automatisierung für die schnelle Bereitstellung und Freigabe von Anwendungen und Updates sowie den Abbau von Backlogs effektiv nutzt.

COVINA, Calif., April 19, 2023 -- xtype, an agile software delivery company, has launched its purpose-built and native to ServiceNow platform engineering product to market. xtype is the first out-of-the-box product for ServiceNow to effectively use automation to quickly deploy and release applications and updates and clear software development backlogs.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 -- xtype, the DevOps platform that accelerates ServiceNow app development, announced today $5.8 million in seed funding in a round led by Columbia Capital with participation from Inner Loop Capital and SaaS Ventures. The company will use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap by growing the development team, as well as increase its presence in the US market, expanding its sales and customer success teams.