Yes, Hudson (or another CI server) can definitely co-exist. Some of our customers simply have BuildMaster pickup artifacts or build output from another tool like Hudson and use BuildMaster to deployment and implement the approval processes. However, BuildMaster does have CI capabilites (see Automatic Builds at the bottom of the Builds documentation: http://inedo.com/support/documentation/buildmaster/core-concepts/builds ), and can completely replace your Hudson/CI tool in the future