Electric Cloud has introduced new versions of its software production management products, adding multi-level reporting and analytics across the board. Collectively, its three products automate, accelerate and analyze the software build, package, test, and deploy process, working much faster and generating a more repeatable process than homegrown scripts, according to CEO Mike Maciag.

Specifically, ElectricCommander automates the software build and release process while ElectricAccelerator executes parallel builds across clusters of inexpensive servers, greatly enhancing speed. ElectricInsight is a visualization tool providing job-level detail of software builds. Collectively, they answer questions such as: Did yesterday’s builds work? What is their track record over time? How many servers are working? Are we on track?

Electric Cloud’s products can drill directly to find the source of a failure, retrieving the answer in minutes versus hours, and keep the build process going, Maciag says.

He adds that the company has simultaneously introduced Commander 2.0, Accelerator 4.0, and Insight 2.0, adding reporting, analytics and dashboards to help developers keep tabs on the most critical aspect of the build: the integration point where it all comes together.

“We’re the first to bring together acceleration, automation and an analyzer,” he says. “There’s a big advantage to finding problems early and correcting them. Time to market is much faster.”

With the new versions, Commander now includes project summaries, variant trends and daily reports for better management decision-making. Commander and Accelerator added new reports on the production process itself, and Commander and Insight provide detailed data about specific builds, including time to build, a manifest of build components, and the location of dependencies.

Electric Cloud’s competitive advantage is its unique ability to store historical data of any type about the build process and its post-processing engine that automatically crawls through any type of log file, recognizes patterns and summarizes them in reports, Maciag says. He adds that its patented accelerator finds and fixes dependencies that would break a build, considerably faster than other methods.

“More information is available about the build process, which many customers regard as the heartbeat of development,” Maciag says. “This helps them to develop better products and get them to market faster.”

Electric Cloud’s main competitors are IBM, CruiseControl and homegrown tools. Its customers include Intuit, Qualcomm, Expedia and PayPal.

Pricing starts at $50,000.

For more information, go to: www.electriccloud.com