"In the past we released products in one to three months;
now we can go from commit to production every 10 minutes. Automation is a key part of making that happen."
Bob Hartley, Development Manager, FamilySearch
Electric Cloud addresses the challenge of managing the incredible complexity involved in developing and delivering software of all kinds. Today, bringing a new application to market is an incredibly complex process requiring significant resources in terms of time, people, and infrastructure. Many organizations struggle to tame this beast to speed their time-to-market while also streamlining their resources.
This is no easy task. Software development efforts can include hundreds of individual tasks (build, test, release, deploy) and processes that spans across distributed development projects, dozens of tools, and myriad platforms and operating environments.
What's more, two major market trends have made management of the application development and delivery process more challenging:
- Agile development methodologies - While Agile enables developers to create applications faster than ever before, it also increases the frequency and speed of the application delivery process, as the process has become much more complex, consuming more resources.
- Virtualization and cloud computing - Ironically, the ease with which operations teams can provision on-demand resources with high scalability has made configuring/customizing these resources all the more critical. Without an solution that automates and streamlines the efficient use of these resources for development, testing, and deployment the value of virtualization and cloud will not be attained.
To solve these issues, enterprises need advanced solutions that can meet the unique needs of their software development and delivery process. That is where Electric Cloud can help.
Why are we unique?
Electric Cloud is the only software delivery company capable of adapting to the unique needs of any application development and delivery organization. This is critical, since no two organizations approach application development in the same way. The diverse elements that go into a world-class development and delivery process—tools, operating systems, programming languages, available resources and more—will always be specific to that process alone. As a result, software organizations need a tool flexible enough to adjust to their workflow instead of the other way around.
Only Electric Cloud offers:
- Accelerated processes and build tasks with patented parallelization and distributed processing
- Complete and integrated end-to-end (build-test-deploy) process automation with full visibility, control and analytics
- The flexibility required to model any process, script, language or software methodology
- Comprehensive support for physical, virtual and cloud-based resources
- Enterprise grade scalability and security
