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Accelerate time-to-market with

hosted mobile DevOps

lease processes and increased the app's frequency of feature
releases and app updates to a weekly cadence, he added.

Improved efficiencies, time to market
Kris Read, co-founder and CTO at Neo Financial, agreed
that partnering with Bitrise has helped Neo expedite new
product rollouts and attract investors. In addition, he stated,
it has helped the company automate vital stages of the app
development lifecycle, such as security checks and testing
itrise, a mobile development operations com- to prevent bugs and expedite delivery of new features.
pany, created a platform designed to help com-
panies maximize the business impact of their "Reimagining the way Canadians bank is no small under-
B mobile apps. The company stated that more taking, and our partnership with Bitrise has enabled our
than 6,000 businesses have used the platform to create and team to not only accelerate our mobile development and re-
improve mobile applications, and that working with Bitrise lease time, but focus our resources on building innovative
has helped these organizations get their apps to market products and features for all Canadians," Read said.
faster and improve security while keeping up with con-
stantly changing mobile requirements. Pointing out that improved time to market can be a key dif-
ferentiator in today's crowded fintech market, Read com-
Participating companies, including WISE, Virgin Mobile, mented that Neo's engineering team harnessed Bitrise's
Grindr, Tag Heuer, Compass, Mozilla, Phelps Hue and Neo automation to expand its mobile app's products and fea-
Financial, have claimed that Bitrise has helped them auto- tures beyond standard banking and savings offerings. For
mate testing, accelerate build times, and understand how example, he noted, Neo developers incorporated buy now,
new pieces of code will affect live apps. The Y Combinator pay later options for consumers and businesses, a managed
company, headquartered in Budapest, has offices in Lon- investment experience and online mortgage product with
don, San Francisco, Boston and Osaka. renewal and refinancing options into the Neo mobile app.

Transforming Canadian banking End-to-end support
Barnabás Birmacher, CEO of Bitrise, mentioned that Neo, a Bitrise representatives mentioned that the company's host-
Canadian neobank, recently partnered with Bitrise to bring ed DevOps platform supports users through every stage
banking outside of brick-and-mortar confines and onto of mobile application development, from developing and
consumer-friendly platforms. "A mobile app is no longer building, through testing and deployment, to new releases
just an accessory for banks," he said. "In order to succeed, and optimization. Companies can leverage these capabili-
mobile needs to become a prominent aspect of banks' busi- ties to decrease build times, speed up releases and deploy
ness models. Neo's success shows that when development mobile apps with confidence, they added.
is handled efficiently, mobile has the power to transform
the banking industry." By using Bitrise's build machines and Bitrise Build Cache,
companies can develop and enhance mobile apps signifi-
Birmacher further noted that five major incumbent finan- cantly faster than by working with conventional continu-
cial institutions have dominated Canada's banking land- ous integration (CI) workflows, Bitrise representatives
scape for hundreds of years. These legacy banks have been stated, noting the platform's collocated build workers and
slow to digitize and introduce new capabilities, which cre- remote caches can eliminate network latency to ensure
ated a void between Canada's financial offerings and the streamlined access to cached data and agile build speeds.
evolving demands of today's mobile consumer, he added.

Through its collaboration with Bitrise, Birmacher noted, Company: Bitrise
Neo was able to bridge this gap while addressing features
like account security, easy-to-understand transaction de- Product: DevOps Platform
tails, and credit score monitoring that Canadians consider Website: https://bitrise.io
most valuable in a mobile banking experience. Through its
partnership with Bitrise and its second generation GEN2 Contact: https://bitrise.io/contact
machines, Neo enhanced its mobile development and re-

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