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Jan 18, 2010
Electric Cloud’s Software Development Predictions for 2010
There is certainly more optimism among app dev organizations than was the case a year ago. While the shock of early 2009 has passed, they are left with the sobering reality that every investment in tools, processes and people must make a significant contribution to the bottom line. In 2010 ... more »
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Jan 15, 2010
ALM tools evolve in face of agile processes
Agile development is spreading like wildfire through the ranks of development teams, and application life-cycle management software providers are taking notice. With the industry's focus on faster product releases, organizations are adopting the just-in-time mentality and greater ... more »
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Dec 14, 2009
Electric Cloud focuses on relevant parts of builds to boost performance
Electric Cloud is trying to help developers eliminate unnecessary parts of software builds without sacrificing the quality of those builds. SparkBuild, released today, is a free software builder that is based on the concept of what Electric Cloud calls "build avoidance," which avoids parts ... more »
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Dec 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Launches SparkBuild
Electric Cloud announces the availability of SparkBuild, a free software build tool that the company claims makes developer builds up to 10 times faster than alternative solutions. Electric Cloud has announced the availability of SparkBuild, a free software build tool that makes developer ... more »
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Dec 8, 2009
SparkBuild: A "How Developer Tools Surface" Story
It's long been my belief that the most useful developer tools come from "what I need" rather than "what if." You know the tools I'm talking about — the ones you use everyday. The ones that may not be pretty, that aren't (yet) a product, but were devised by developers to solve specific problems ... more »
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Jul 17, 2009
Electric Cloud floats into Amazon's EC2
Electric Cloud has modified its build-automation and performance tools to work natively in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, opening the cloud to development and test teams. EC2 integration has been added to the feature set of ElectricCommander, a Web-based application that ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Announces Public Cloud Support
Electric Cloud has extended its developer tools in support of the public cloud. According to the company, software developers will be able to automate and accelerate the software production process on physical, virtual, or public cloud computing resources. The company's ElectricCommander ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Announces Support for Building and Testing Software in the Public Cloud
Sunnyvale, Calif., July 14, 2009 - Electric Cloud® the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced the extension of its offerings to the public cloud. For the first time, it is possible for software developers to automate and accelerate the software ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Adds Amazon EC2 Support
Electric Cloud, provider of software build automation and testing software, has added pre-configured Amazon EC2 support to its full product line, which includes Electric Commander, Electric Accelerator, and Electric Insight. Electric Commander, the company's automated build-test-deploy ... more »
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Jun 29, 2009
When is Open Source not Enough?
Answer these 7 questions to quickly assess if you should upgrade to an enterprise-class CI environment Because of the fast evolution of Continuous Integration (CI), the first generation of enablement tools proliferated at lightning speed. Open source CI tools became widely used due to the ... more »
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Jun 18, 2009
Electric Cloud Named to 2009 SD Times 100 Application Lifecycle Management Category
Sunnyvale, Calif., June 18, 2009 - Electric Cloud® the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced that it has been awarded a place in the SD Times 100 list of 2009, the seventh annual compilation of elite companies, organizations, and individuals ... more »
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Jun 17, 2009
Electric Cloud® and Coverity® Announce Software Integrity Partnership
Sunnyvale, Calif., June 17, 2009 - Coverity®, the software integrity company and Electric Cloud® the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, today announced a partnership to help companies improve the integrity of their business-critical software. This ... more »
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Jun 16, 2009
Independent Analyst Firm, voke, inc. Names Electric Cloud as a 2009 voke Innovator
Sunnyvale, Calif., June 16, 2009 - Electric Cloud®, the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced that it has been named a 2009 voke Innovator by the independent analyst firm voke, inc., for making a significant impact on the application lifecycle ... more »
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Jun 9, 2009
Integration Watch: The quickly changing market for continuous integration
Continuous integration (CI) is a practice that, I believe, is very quietly gaining acceptance in IT. Two years ago, when I first wrote about CI, most folks who were not active in the agile community had never heard of it. Today, most everyone I speak to knows something about it. I am a ... more »
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May 28, 2009
Electric Cloud Named to Red Herring 100 North America List
Sunnyvale, Calif., May 28, 2009 - Electric Cloud®, the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America Award for the second time in its 7-year history. The Red Herring list is a mark ... more »
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Nov 21, 2008
Preflight builds spread wings for smoother projects
Preflight builds are taking wing as a way to prevent build failures in software development projects. The builds let developers test changes without committing them to the source code. Two companies betting the concept will appeal to development teams are Electric Cloud and Urbancode, which ... more »
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Sep 28, 2008
Q and A with Electric Cloud CEO Mike Maciag
With ElectricCommander 3.0 set to begin shipping this week, I caught up with Electric Cloud CEO Mike Maciag to better understand the build automation tool's new "preflight" capability. That's a feature that determines whether changes to code will integrate correctly with the main build before ... more »
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Sep 17, 2008
BioWare picks ElectricCommander
BioWare has chosen Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander, a software production management solution that allows studios to achieve the Agile ambition of 'continuous integration'. It does this through simple one-button 'pre-flight' builds, which check and test changes before code is checked-in, ... more »
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Sep 16, 2008
Electric Cloud Adds Preflight Builds
Electric Cloud has announced that version 3 of its ElectricCommander software production management software will support "preflight" builds and tests, letting developers run builds and tests on production hardware before they check in their changes. This lets developers catch errors before ... more »
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Aug 10, 2008
Do the Pre-Flight Check so Your Code Doesn't Crash and Burn After Takeoff
To travel by air, you get to the airport, check in, with any luck get on a plane, and get to your destination. Perhaps you do not arrive precisely on time, but close enough that you make that important meeting or family event. Like jumbo jet pilots, software development teams and project ... more »
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Apr 26, 2008
Electric Cloud, Klocwork Announce Technology Partnership to Promote Early, Frequent Software Testing
Electric Cloud®, a leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, and Klocwork, a global leader in automated source code analysis solutions for improving software security and quality, today announced that Electric Cloud's ElectricCommander® and ... more »
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Nov 1, 2006
Electric Cloud Takes Command Of App Production Process
Automated build tool maker Electric Cloud has announced plans to ship ElectricCommander, a browser-based tool for automating the build, package, test and deploy processes, later this year. The company positions ElectricCommander as the finishing touch on its suite of so-called production ... more »
