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Build and Release Solution Provides Multi-Level View into the Critical Back-End Phase of Application Lifecycle Management
Mountain View, CA, June 12, 2007 — Electric Cloud®, a leading provider of software production management solutions, announced today the industry's first analytics for software build and release management. Software development teams -- whether enterprise IT or those creating commercial software -- can now use Electric Cloud's award-winning technology to gain real-time summary and detailed information about the critical back-end phase of the application development lifecycle.
The software build and release process is the first time the various components of an application are integrated into working software. Because it is such a vital step in the application lifecycle, it can represent the "heartbeat" of software development. When the builds are healthy, the project is healthy. Intelligence and visibility into these processes enable teams to uncover problems early, keep the project on time, on budget, and meeting increasingly stringent quality requirements.
"The best indicator of software development success is working code," said Mike Maciag, Electric Cloud CEO. "The build-and-release process is where all the pieces come together -- or not -- and thus it becomes the definitive measure of a project's overall health. Electric Cloud's new analytics provide unprecedented visibility into build-and-release activity, giving managers the confidence to commit to delivery dates, make informed decisions, and ultimately create better software."
"As development environments become increasingly complex, the 'backend' of software development -- building, testing, and deploying -- is an obvious pain point for most software development shops," said Melinda-Carol Ballou, program director at market analyst firm IDC. "Global 2000 organizations are increasingly recognizing the need to push forward with more effective build management. The costs of poor builds are visceral; production builds are the final artifact experienced by end users. The evolution of disruptive factors such as complex sourcing, compliance, agile development, and new development paradigms such as SOA and Web 2.0 demand more effective automated approaches to build management and deployment."
Business Intelligence for Software Development
Electric Cloud's product family, ElectricCommander™, ElectricAccelerator™ and ElectricInsight™ are designed to automate, accelerate and analyze software production management, or the "back-end" of software development. New versions of these products now provide multi-level reporting and analytics that deliver powerful business intelligence about software development, including:
Management Reports: ElectricCommander now includes management-level reports that provide cross-project summaries, variant trends, and daily summaries, to provide managers with information on key project trends for better predictability and informed decision-making.
Production Process Reports: ElectricCommander and ElectricAccelerator deliver new reporting capabilities for production processes that provide information such as how many tests were run, how many failed and which step caused the build to fail.
Individual Build Intelligence: ElectricAccelerator and ElectricInsight provide new detailed analytics about specific builds, such as how long each step in a build takes to run, exactly where dependencies exist (whether explicit or not), and a complete manifest of the components of a particular build.
For more information about the analytics and reporting and other new capabilities in Electric Cloud's products, please go to http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/index.php.
About Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management solutions that automate, accelerate, and analyze the software development tasks that follow the check-in of new code. These include the software build, package, test and deploy processes. The company's patented and award-winning solutions improve productivity in the face of increasing product complexity and time-to-market pressures for software delivery. Leading companies such as Qualcomm, Intuit, and Expedia rely on Electric Cloud's Software Production Management solutions to change software production from a liability to a competitive advantage. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.
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