Visibility and Traceability for Compliance Efforts

Too often, build and release processes are hidden behind the scenes, visible to only a few. Consequently, engineering decision makers do not have information about the back-end processes so critical to achieving product delivery deadlines and quality standards. In addition, to meet the external compliance demands of today's enterprise, all processes must be consistent, reproducible, and controllable.

Electric Cloud supports a repeatable, transparent, and auditable software production process with:

		Framework for procedure reuse and standardization
		Reporting and analytics

Challenge				Impact				Electric Cloud Solution
Most SPM processes are manual and script-driven, so are inherently undocumented and not repeatable				Can't document the full process of how a package was built and who built it				Detailed job information is stored in the database so any procedure can be documented or recreated after the fact Fine-grained access controls meet separation of duty requirements
Typically, development organizations have minimal reporting around build/test/deploy processes				Development organizations are unable to show a repeatable, transparent process, which is critical for effective management decision making				Powerful, out of the box reporting provides visibility across projects, within a project, and at the job level within a build
Reproducing a build or test environment after the fact is difficult to impossible				Getting back to the state needed to recreate a particular release is a time-consuming nightmare of figuring out the compiler versions, system headers and source code				Virtual build or test environments can be versioned so can be opened again for troubleshooting or auditing

Learn more about how Electric Cloud helps bring visibility and traceability to software build-test-deploy tasks.