Electric Cloud Makes Incremental Software Builds Trustworthy With New Version of Leading Build Accelerator

Electric Cloud, the software build
infrastructure company, today enhanced its build acceleration platform with
a new automated dependency tool, eDepend, that for the first time makes
incremental software builds 100% trustworthy. A breakthrough in software
development, Electric Cloud 2.3 featuring eDepend eliminates build errors
resulting from missing dependencies. For the first time, developers can
confidently run incremental builds, enabling more agile development with
frequent builds of executable code.

Software developers know that the fastest way to compile their work is an
incremental build. Unfortunately, they also know that incremental builds
can't always be trusted to be correct. Rather than regenerating each of
potentially thousands of components in the full application, developers
prefer "incremental builds," where the only components regenerated are
those that were impacted by their changes. Incremental builds require
accurate "dependency" information: if one component is changed, the
dependency information indicates which other components must be regenerated
because they depend on information in the modified component.

Historically, developers have been forced to track dependencies manually, a
time-consuming and error-prone task, or used freeware tools, which do not
gather complete dependency information. As a result, incremental builds
are often unreliable, failing to regenerate all the components impacted by
a change. Developers must then choose between wasting time waiting for a
full build, or "taking their chances" on an incremental build that could
misbehave in confusing and time-consuming ways.

Electric Cloud's eDepend is the first tool to capture complete dependency
information automatically and efficiently, with no human intervention. As
a result, Electric Cloud provides accurate and reliable incremental builds
and eliminates the need for frequent full builds for small changes. With
Electric Cloud developers can now trust an incremental build to recompile
correctly -- every time.

"We have helped companies across a broad spectrum of industries eliminate
the build bottleneck due to full software builds. With Electric Cloud 2.3
we are now optimizing the incremental build process for every developer,"
said Mike Maciag, Electric Cloud CEO. "Our customers benefit from
technology that helps them achieve faster time to market and improved
quality in their products via faster and more agile development."

eDepend is part of the Electric Cloud software build solution that is
helping customers like Intuit, Qualcomm, and Force 10 Networks to speed
their build times, increase productivity, and enable greater build
frequency.

Electric Cloud 2.3 is for medium-to-large software development teams that
want to speed the software development process. Electric Cloud 2.3
accelerates builds by as much 20 times by distributing software builds in
parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive servers.

Also new with the 2.3 release are enhancements to the Electric Cloud
platform that improve build scalability and visibility for engineers and
release teams:
-- Electric Cloud Cluster Manager, a Web server that deploys and reports
on builds, can now scale to several hundred build agents running dozens of
simultaneous builds without affecting build performance
-- Electric Cloud 2.3 also includes tools for greater visibility into the
inputs and outputs of the build process, including automated build log
capture and cluster utilization reports

About Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering
technologies that shorten time-to-market, increase productivity, and
improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud addresses the
build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares that
every software development team endures. The company's products are in use
by leading organizations in telecommunications, automotive, software,
networking and high-technology. Based in Mountain View, California,
Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, Mayfield, U.S. Venture
Partners and RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric
Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.

Electric Cloud and Electric Make are registered trademarks of Electric
Cloud. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.







Contact:
Peter Evers
Double Forte for Electric Cloud
(415) 863-4900 x206
pevers@double-forte.com
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