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Electric Cloud ElectricAccelerator® accurately executes parallel builds across a cluster of inexpensive servers, delivering dramatic reduction in build times over sequential builds. The key to accurate parallel builds is our patented dependency management technology, which automatically detects and manages dependencies at the file level. No other tool on the market can provide this level of parallelism. ElectricAccelerator plugs seamlessly into existing build infrastructures, without modifying existing scripts. Faster, more accurate builds dramatically reduce the time developers spend waiting for builds to complete, and enables them to do complete builds before checking in their changes.



PRODUCT FEATURES


Dynamic dependency discovery and management:
Patented technology delivers as much as 20x faster builds over home-grown or commercial build management tools.  It captures complete dependency information with no human intervention for reliable incremental builds as well as full integration builds.


Network performance optimization:
On-the-fly compression and agent caching ensure that the LAN isn’t a bottleneck and ElectricAccelerator can even be used on ordinary developer desktops.


Works the way you work:
Works with any compiler or configuration management system.  Supports a wide variety of platforms and tool chains, including GNU Make/Symbian Make/Microsoft NMAKE, Microsoft Visual Studio, Apache Ant, Microsoft Platform Builder, Symbian SBSv1 and SBSv2, Epic UnrealBuildTool, Microsoft XNA.


Visibility and reporting: Unprecedented visibility into the build, including longest serial chain, successful builds over time, longest job, serialization analysis, etc. Error detection and performance tuning that once took hours or days can now be done in seconds.


Automatic performance improvement and minimal maintenance:

Electric Make updates dependency information after every build, so that even as files evolve, performance is automatically maintained.



BENEFITS TO THE USER

Speed your builds and improve throughput:
ElectricAccelerator’s unmatched dependency management system delivers improvements of up to 20x over a sequential build. The centerpiece of this solution, Electric Make®, plugs seamlessly into existing Make-, Ant- and Visual Studio-based build infrastructures, without modifying existing build scripts and tools. Developers, QA, and release teams spend much less time waiting for builds to finish, improving productivity and ultimately improving software quality.


Virtually eliminate broken builds: Our patented, automatic dependency detection and correction technology determines exactly which files were used to build every object file, library, or executable, such that when build steps are run out of order, it automatically detects this and re-runs them in the correct order. You can drive product quality earlier in the project lifecycle by having developers do builds prior to code check-in.


Identify and correct defects early:

Long software builds can be a software development bottleneck, wasting developer and QA time, and blocking the way to agile development techniques such as Continuous Integration.  ElectricAccelerator reduces build times as much as 20x, enabling many builds each day.  Plus, short integration builds enable developers to do full builds to every target before checking in code and affecting the rest of the team.

Visualize the build structure for rapid error detection and performance tuning:
There has traditionally been little visibility into the causes of build breakages or slowdowns, or where hidden dependencies may lie. ElectricInsight® is a software build visualization tool that exposes how the build is structured and run. Instead of manually pouring over tens of thousands of lines of information in a build output file, error detection and performance tuning that once took hours or days can now be done in seconds.



COMPANY INFORMATION



Electric CloudElectric Cloud is the leading provider of solutions that automate, accelerate and analyze software build-test-deploy processes to optimize both physical and virtual IT environments. The company's patented and award-winning products help development organizations to speed time to market, boost developer productivity, and improve software quality. Leading companies across a variety of industries, including semiconductors, enterprise IT, ISVs, mobile devices, and transactional Web sites rely on Electric Cloud solutions to transform software production from a liability to a competitive advantage.


Electric Cloud   
676 West Maude Ave
Sunnyvale, Ca. 94085
info@electric-cloud.com
www.electric-cloud.com

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