Electric Cloud and AccuRev Host Management Seminars:
Optimizing Your Development, Build and Release Processes


Analyzing and Eradicating the Leading Causes of Failure in Build and Release Management

Sunnyvale, CA and Lexington, MA, November 5, 2008 – AccuRev Inc. and Electric Cloud, Inc. today announced seminars in Waltham, MA, Fairfax, VA and Chicago, IL aimed at solving the most significant challenges to effectively managing the build and release management process of software development.

An increase in integrated applications and their dependencies, more diverse and complex software supply chains, and customer-facing software are causing chaos and driving demand for improved build and release management processes. Common complaints this complex environment elicits from development organizations include:

  • Waiting for slow builds and tests;
  • An inability to scale continuous integration for large, geographically distributed teams;
  • Wasting time on script-intensive, manual systems;
  • Multiple, disconnected build and test systems across locations;
  • Home-built systems that are brittle, error-prone, and don't scale; and
  • Delaying releases due to broken builds.

“I attended the Austin, Texas seminar to acquire state-of-the-market techniques on build and change management.  I was impressed with the state of the market demonstrations. We shared valuable knowledge and practical best practices with speakers and attendees,” said Alan Guedeney, Software Configuration Management Engineer at one of the world’s leading suppliers of mailing solutions.

In addition to an interactive roundtable discussion with peers, these seminars will provide an analysis of the underlying causes of build and release process bottlenecks, as well as the real impact these issues are having on software development productivity and time to market. Attendees will leave the seminars with a better understanding of the leading causes of build and release management failure, and how to best implement some best practices such as Multi-stage Continuous Integration and preflight builds and tests for eradicating them.

The seminars will be presented by Lifecycle Management and Release Management experts from both companies, including agile software development expert, Damon Poole. Additional details and registration information on these three half-day events can be found here:

About Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions. Electric Cloud solutions 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's Software Production Management solutions to transform software production from a liability to a competitive advantage. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (408) 419-4300 or www.electric-cloud.com.

About AccuRev Inc.
AccuRev provides best-of-breed software change and configuration management (SCCM) with a flexible and efficient approach to managing the software release process together with code assets in a seamless manner using any preferred development process model (e.g., Scrum, Waterfall, Lean, XP, RUP, etc.). The AccuRev solution is designed for today’s complex and agile software development environments, including geographically distributed and offshore development teams working on multiple releases in parallel. AccuRev ensures greater project visibility, optimal team collaboration, and software asset reuse to deliver more software at over 30 percent faster than traditional file-based, branch and label SCCM solutions. AccuRev, the fastest growing SCCM company and two-time Jolt Product Excellence Award recipient, is used by a growing number of global enterprises including American Airlines, Orbitz, Polycom, Thomson Financial, T-Mobile and Lockheed Martin.

AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada), and 1-781-861-8700 (Outside North America).

Copyright © 2008 AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev is a registered trademark of AccuRev, Inc. Electric Cloud is a trademark of Electric Cloud. All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners.

 

Media contact:

AccuRev, Inc.
Alex Forbes
781.861.8700 ext. 163
aforbes@accurev.com		 Electric Cloud
Lisa Sheeran, Sheeran/Jager Communication
510.724.2267
sheeran@earthlink.net