Accelerating Innovation at {unscripted} 2024: Shaping the Future of AI-Native Software Delivery

Software developers are the force behind the world’s innovation. They are the architects of the future, shaping how we live, work, and interact with everything around us. From the infrastructure that keeps our digital lives connected and secure to the apps we use to communicate, shop, and create, their work enables us to experience the benefits of modern technology across nearly every industry.

At Harness, our mission is to create the best possible experiences for software developers, enabling them to deliver code to end users quickly, reliably, and securely - without manual toil. By removing the friction of repetitive tasks and complex workflows, we help developers focus on what they do best—innovating at speed.

Today at {unscripted} 2024, our annual AI-Native Software Delivery conference, I’m excited to share our latest product innovations, including how we are embedding AI deeper into the core of our platform. With nine brand-new or significantly updated products, and hundreds of additional enhancements, we’ve made significant progress toward our goal of building the world’s most comprehensive software delivery platform.

The momentum of today’s announcements builds on our incredible progress over the last year. More than 900 customers are using the Harness AI-Native Software Delivery Platform and making real progress in their modernization initiatives, getting more work done faster, seeing tangible gains in their business, and vastly improving their developer experience. 

Thank you to our customers for your support, trust, and partnership. We are incredibly proud to have the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative companies on the planet, and we are inspired by the results they have achieved with Harness. These success stories represent just a glimpse of the meaningful impact our platform delivers across so many industries: 

• Ulta Beauty increased deployment volume by 50x using Harness CI/CD, allowing developers to focus on strategic projects.
• United Airlines improved the development efficiency of 3,000 engineers, cutting build times by 17 minutes per build with Harness CI Test Intelligence.
• Citibank transformed its software delivery for 20,000 engineers, reducing release times from days to just 7 minutes.
• Experian increased deployments from 2x to 100x per month for 3,000+ product managers and software engineers using Feature Flags and Experimentation.

And that’s just to name a few!

Our commitment to innovation has never been stronger. We have systematically built out our platform to transform your DevOps modernization journey and developer experience. Our engineering velocity has never been higher—today, it’s 27% faster than it was a year ago, allowing us to deliver more powerful features and improvements that accelerate your development process and enhance your productivity.

Over the last year, we added five new modules, shipped 11,000 new features and enhancements, and made the game-changing acquisition of Split Software — boosting our capabilities in feature management and experimentation. And for the first time, Harness was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, citing our pace of innovation as one of the key strengths. And those are just a few of the highlights! 

The new products we’re announcing today mark the next chapter in our vision for the future of AI-native software delivery. Below is an overview of what’s new. We invite you to be the first to experience these innovations by signing up for early access. I am excited for you to dive in and see what is possible!

– Jyoti

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AI-Native DevOps 

Our vision is a multi-agent architecture embedded directly into the fabric of the Harness Platform.  We are building a powerful library of ‘assistants’ designed to make software delivery faster, more efficient, and more enjoyable for developers. These AI-powered agents work seamlessly within our platform, handling everything from automating complex tasks to providing real-time insights, freeing developers to focus on what they do best: creating innovative solutions to some of the most challenging problems with software.

Today, we are announcing our first three AI Assistants and an enhanced offering to measure and assess the productivity impact of AI. 

• Harness AI DevOps Assistant: With the explosion of developer tools, integrations, and cloud offerings, DevOps teams are stretched to keep up with the basics, let alone refine their pipelines. Teams are eager to hand over manual, repetitive tasks to AI and focus on value-added, innovation-led projects. The Harness AI DevOps Assistant helps developers keep up with routine DevOps tasks like pipeline generation, diagnosing common sources of pipeline failure, and repairing issues in your pipeline. It recommends enhancements to existing pipelines to make them faster and more robust. Learn more. 

• Harness AI QA Assistant: Comprehensive, automated testing provides a critical safety net for application teams who are releasing quickly. However, building and maintaining the functional test suites that validate good customer experience is notoriously labor intensive. The Harness AI QA Assistant simplifies end-to-end test automation and accelerates migration from manual to automated testing. It enhances test creation speed by up to 80% and reduces maintenance by the same margin, ensuring high-quality applications are delivered with confidence.
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• Harness AI Code Assistant: Developers often spend time writing repetitive code, finding issues in code, looking for things in their code base, converting their ideas into actual code, and doing repetitive tasks such as summarizing pull requests. All of this toil is time that developers do not spend actually writing code. The Harness AI Code Assistant recommends code snippets and auto-generates entire functions, unit tests, and comments. It also includes an intuitive chatbot that can quickly answer questions and search code with natural language.
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• Harness AI Productivity Insights: AI Code Assistants are growing in popularity, but engineering leaders struggle to understand how to validate, optimize, and monitor the impact and progress they get from these investments. Harness AI Productivity Insights helps organizations measure and optimize the impact of AI Code Assistants on developers by providing accurate metrics and data to enable intelligent decision-making for organizational investments.
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Comprehensive Software Delivery 

Our goal is to build the most comprehensive end-to-end software delivery platform in the world. That means providing you and your teams with the tools to accelerate your entire software development lifecycle. Our platform delivers a unified experience that supports everything from developer onboarding to coding, deployment, security, measurement, and everything in between. 

Today, we are excited to build this foundation with powerful new products and capabilities designed to streamline your processes, tackle the challenges you face, and unleash the full potential of your software development teams.

• Harness Cloud Development Environments (CDEs): Developers often face challenges with local environments, including significant time spent on setup and maintenance, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues. This not only hampers productivity but also risks code security, leading to a frustrating experience. Harness Cloud Development Environments are ready-to-use cloud-hosted environments that can be quickly spun up at the click of a button. Each environment is pre-configured with everything a developer needs to start writing code, including dependencies, tools, and source code, and connects directly to their preferred IDE.
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• Harness Artifact Registry: Tooling for artifact registries isn’t new, yet critical challenges persist. Developers continue to waste valuable time manually managing artifacts across multiple systems instead of innovating. Our modern Artifact Registry accelerates builds with universal package management and end-to-end artifact governance that automatically integrates with Harness Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery products, and is designed for scale of some of the most demanding enterprise software engineering organizations.
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• Harness Database DevOps: Many companies ship updates several times a day, but those deployments often get stalled the instant a database change is needed because they often rely on manual processes, which are slow and error-prone. Harness Database DevOps simplifies the deployment, management, and governance of database changes that integrate seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline while increasing visibility into database changes across environments and automating policy enforcement for database changes.
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• Harness Supply Chain Security: Modern software supply chains are highly complex, distributed, and challenging to secure. In fact, by 2025, almost 50% of organizations will have experienced a software supply chain attack. Harness Supply Chain Security provides CI/CD security posture management and offers a feature-rich solution for continuous supply chain governance, risk, and compliance. Learn more

Commitment to Open Source 

Renowned organizations like Citibank, United Airlines, Choice Hotels, and Ancestry rely on Harness to expedite their software development life cycle and enhance their development experiences. We’re excited to extend the benefits of our platform to all software organizations, regardless of size or budget, and continue our commitment to open source.

• Harness Open Source: Developers have to learn, maintain, and juggle multiple tools to develop, build, store artifacts, and ship their code. Currently, no solution offers all the tools required for this process in one place. Harness Open Source is an end-to-end open-source software delivery platform that developers can use to code, build, manage artifacts, and deploy software from one centralized place. Harness Open Source includes Harness flagship products: Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Code Repository as well as our new Artifact Registry and Cloud Development Environments (CDE) offerings.
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Visit harness.io for more information on these new capabilities and experience the power of our platform firsthand!