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About Harness is an AI-native software delivery platform that helps engineering teams achieve excellence by automating and streamlining the entire software delivery lifecycle. It enables continuous integration, continuous delivery, and GitOps for multi-cloud, multi-region deployments with increased speed and reliability. Harness simplifies infrastructure as code, database DevOps, and artifact management to improve collaboration and reduce errors. The platform offers AI-powered testing, incident response, chaos engineering, and feature management to enhance quality and resilience. Harness also provides cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, and developer insights to optimize performance and governance. Trusted by leading enterprises, Harness accelerates innovation while reducing manual effort and risk.	About Continuously build, test, release, and monitor apps for every platform. Connect to GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, or Azure DevOps and build your app in the cloud on every commit. Automatically run unit tests, release to testers and stores, or test your UI on real devices. Commit to a feature branch to build and test. Commit to a beta branch to distribute to testers. Commit to master to submit to the App Store. Customize to fit your team’s workflow. Does your app still work after your latest change? How does it perform on an LG G2? Find out by testing your app in a hosted device lab with 1000s of real iOS and Android devices. You’ll receive test results, full-resolution screenshots of every step, along with performance metrics. Whether you prefer private distribution, public open betas, Microsoft Intune, TestFlight, Google Play, or the App Store, App Center makes releasing your app a delight.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Harness is ideal for engineering and DevOps teams in enterprises seeking to modernize software delivery with AI-powered automation, continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure management, and enhanced security and cost optimization	Audience App developers searching for a solution that helps build, test, release, and monitor mobile and desktop apps
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Company Information Harness Founded: 2016 United States harness.io/products/platform/	Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States appcenter.ms/
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