Electric Cloud Introduces ElectricFlow 8.0 with New DevOps Insight Analytics to Automate Data Collection from the Entire Toolchain and Centralize Release Reporting

Extensible solution pulls key metrics from common DevOps tools like Jenkins, JIRA, HP ALM and ServiceNow to provide visibility into the business value, health and status of software releases

SAN FRANCISCO – Jenkins World – August 30, 2017 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery, today announced ElectricFlow 8.0 with DevOps Insight Analytics. DevOps Insight is an industry first, providing teams with automated data collection and powerful reporting to connect DevOps toolchain metrics and performance back to the milestones and business value (features, user stories) being delivered in every release. ElectricFlow Community Edition with DevOps Insight can be downloaded and used for FREE at (http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow/).
For a demo of ElectricFlow, visit Electric Cloud’s booth (#707) at Jenkins World!
As the frequency, volume and complexity of application releases increases, teams struggle to collect and report on metrics from the myriad of DevOps tools, environments and processes involved. Understanding the status of individual features or stories in a release requires manual scraping of data from various tools, and error-prone spreadsheet analysis to accurately map data points back to their pipeline stages.
Teams require a simple, repeatable way to collect and view information from any DevOps tool along the pipeline, in the context of a single release. With all data centralized in one place, teams can gain instant insights into the status of the releases, easier troubleshooting analysis of bottlenecks or specific tasks along the pipeline, and spot trends at a glance, in real time.
According to Forrester Research, Inc.’s August, 2017 TechRadar™: Continuous Software Delivery, Q3 2016, “Many vendors are focused on the ‘workflow’ problem, but few are focused on being able to link the status of a build in the pipeline back to the status of a user story, an epic, a business capability, or a customer outcome,” the report states. “As pipelines multiply and products are composed out of many different services, rolling this data up will become even more important. Right now, business leaders lack an easy way to understand whether a particular release will actually deliver the business value they were hoping for.”
“Our releases have many moving parts, and touch many teams. Manual data collection, the lack of consistent metric reporting and other ad-hoc analysis techniques and tools made it difficult for us to report on release payload and status quickly, accurately, and consistently,” said John Esser, senior director of data center operations and SaaS at AdvancedMD. “With the new ElectricFlow release, we look forward to simplifying data collection to make it easier to slice and dice the data to optimize our delivery pipelines and gain up-to-the-minute insights about individual application releases.”

ElectricFlow DevOps Insight, built on ElasticSearch and LogStash, is delivered as a tightly integrated stand-alone Business Intelligence (BI) server, which isolates reporting requests from pipeline orchestration to eliminate the threat of performance impact. By extending ElectricFlow’s existing catalog of off-the-shelf plug-ins, DevOps Insight is able to pull key metrics from any tools being orchestrated as part of the end-to-end delivery process—from user story tracking and build automation to test automation and operations. A software development kit (SDK) allows teams to easily extend the solution to capture custom metrics from new tools.

An out-of-the-box Release Command Center dashboard displays this toolchain information in a consolidated, easy-to-interpret view, enabling teams to instantly glean the quality, health and status of a release and its business value. In addition, a powerful drag-and-drop GUI allows users to easily create custom reports and dynamic dashboards to visualize information in a way that works for any audience.

“Many organizations we talk to report having 60 or more tools in their software delivery pipelines, which makes reporting cumbersome and ‘fast feedback’ difficult for them to achieve,” said Steve Brodie, CEO of Electric Cloud. “ElectricFlow 8.0 with DevOps Insight is the only product of its kind to give executives and technical users alike a timely, repeatable way to understand the status of their releases and the business value being delivered.”
For more information
Electric Cloud 8.0 with DevOps Insight is available now. DevOps Insight will be available for free for new ElectricFlow subscriptions during 2017. ElectricFlow Community Edition, including DevOps Insight, can be downloaded and used for FREE at (http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricflow/).

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About Electric Cloud, Inc.
Electric Cloud is the leader in DevOps Release Automation and Continuous Delivery. We help organizations like E*TRADE, Gap, HPE, Intel and Lockheed Martin deliver better software faster by accelerating development, automating deployments, and coordinating releases.

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CollabNet Announces Latest TeamForge for Enterprise Class Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) that Speeds Software Delivery and Supports Agile and DevOps
CollabNet demonstrates commitment and continual market leadership enabling complex, distributed enterprises to develop quality software at speed
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 29, 2017 – CollabNet (www.collabnet.com), a global leader in enterprise software development, release automation and DevOps solutions, today announced its latest release of TeamForge, the award-winning Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and enterprise version control platform. Updates focus on efficiency enhancements, high availability compatibility, heightened security and improved performance.
“The tenets and language of ALM have been recently popularized through the DevOps movement, yet the needs of organizations have not changed,” said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet. “The software industry cannot deny the continued need for integration, connectivity and collaboration that is scalable to the entire enterprise across teams, processes and tools. CollabNet has been successfully providing those abilities to organizations for years. When cross-functional teams share a virtual workspace and can view and trace the value of individual contributions to an initiative, empathy and continuous feedback are natural next steps.”
CollabNet has been rolling out new innovations over the previous year while remaining dedicated to serving enterprises and government organizations worldwide through its flagship product, TeamForge. Now releasing version 17.8, CollabNet consistently strives to respond to customer feedback and ensure that users have optimal flexibility and functionality while using the platform.
TeamForge’s version control capabilities ensure the security and integrity of source code and easily integrate with popular version control and workflow tools. TeamForge SCM 17.8 includes improvements to design and ease-of-use.
Specific updates to TeamForge 17.8 include:
• New HTML Email Templates for artifact create and update
• Tracker usability improvements
• Drag & drop attachments in artifacts
• Filtering capability within Association tab
• Improved Artifact Widget in My Workspace
• Track and Kanban board configuration saved to Project Template
• New High Availability compatibility and integrations
• Enhanced security measures
• Installer Improvements to support multi-box setup
To learn more about TeamForge or to view details on the 17.8 update, please visit: https://www.collab.net/products/teamforge-alm.
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About CollabNet
CollabNet helps enterprises and government organizations develop and deliver high-quality software at speed. CollabNet is a winner of the 2016 Best of Interop Award, a Best in Show winner in the application lifecycle management and development tools category of the SD Times 100 for 14 consecutive years, and a gold winner of the 2016 Golden Bridge Awards. CollabNet offers innovative solutions, consulting, and Agile training services. The company proudly supports more than 10,000 customers with 6 million users in 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.collabnet.com.

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Veracode and devopsy.kinsta.cloud Research Shows Formal Education Leaves Developers Without Necessary Skills to Succeed in DevSecOps World
76 percent of developers indicated security and secure development education needed for today’s world of coding is missing from formal curriculums

BURLINGTON, Mass. – August 17, 2017 – New research shows that software developers are not receiving the training they need to be successful as DevOps becomes the prevalent approach to building and operating digital products and services. In today’s application-centric economy that gap could have real impact on the productivity of businesses in every industry, as well as on the security and quality of the software that underpins the digital economy. To view the infographic and access to the full research report, visit the Veracode blog.

The 2017 DevSecOps Global Skills Survey, sponsored by Veracode, a leader in securing the world’s software, and acquired by CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA), and devopsy.kinsta.cloud, found that while 65 percent of DevOps professionals believe it is very important to have knowledge of DevOps when entering IT, they’re not receiving the necessary training through formal education to be successful in today’s DevSecOps world (70 percent). DevSecOps refers to the practice of integrating security into the development and testing of software for a “shift left” mentality for faster, better quality outcomes.

The on-demand nature of today’s digital economy has driven the need to focus on innovation and improve the overall workflow of the modern enterprise. Implementing DevSecOps processes, in software development and deployment as a means of fueling this effort, has highlighted the fact that today’s formal education for IT and development professionals has not evolved in the same way, or as quickly, as development has shifted. Those surveyed said that their IT workforce is only somewhat prepared (55 percent) or not prepared (nearly 30 percent) with the skills necessary to securely deliver software at the speed of DevOps. In fact, nearly 40 percent of hiring managers surveyed reported that the hardest employees to find are the all-purpose DevOps gurus with sufficient knowledge about security testing. This poses a significant challenge, as more than 50 percent of organizations said that either the entire organization or some of their teams are currently utilizing DevOps practices.

DevSecOps Adoption Requires Organizations to Minimize the Skills Gap

Although nearly 80 percent of respondents have a bachelor or master’s degree – with 50 percent reporting that they studied and earned degrees in computer science – there is still a lack of cybersecurity knowledge prior to entering the workforce. The survey found that 70 percent of respondents said the security education they received is not adequate for what their current positions require, and that they’re learning their most relevant professional skills on the job (65 percent).

“With major industry breaches further highlighting the need to integrate security into the DevOps process, organizations need to ensure that adequate security training is embedded in their DNA,” said Alan Shimel, editor-in-chief, devopsy.kinsta.cloud. “As formal education isn’t keeping up with the need for security, organizations need to fill the gap with increased support for education.”

According to the survey, slightly less than half of respondents said their employers paid for additional training since their entry into the workforce – and nearly seven in 10 developers report that their organizations provide them with inadequate security training. Third-party training, either in the classroom or through e-learning, was identified by one in three surveyed as the most effective way to gain new, relevant skills – but the study confirmed that very few are afforded the opportunity (four percent).

“WannaCry and Petya are just two recent examples of large-scale cyberattacks that further demonstrate the importance of security in today’s exceedingly digital world. Despite this apparent need, security practices and secure software development isn’t required to earn a degree in IT or computer science,” said Maria Loughlin, VP of Engineering, Veracode. “Our research with devopsy.kinsta.cloud highlights the fact that there are no clear shortcuts to address the skills gap. Higher education and enterprises need to have a more mature expectation around what colleges should teach and where organizations need to supplement education given the ever-changing nature of programming languages and frameworks. The industry will have to come together to ensure the safety of the application economy.”

Methodology

The study, commissioned by Veracode and conducted by devopsy.kinsta.cloud, surveyed nearly 400 DevOps professionals globally. To read more about how DevSecOps builds a bridge between fast and secure software development, download Veracode’s Developer’s Guide to the DevSecOps Galaxy.

About Veracode
Veracode, CA Technologies application security business, is a leader in helping organizations secure the software that powers their world. Veracode’s SaaS platform and integrated solutions help security teams and software developers find and fix security-related defects at all points in the software development lifecycle, before they can be exploited by hackers. Our complete set of offerings help customers reduce the risk of data breaches, increase the speed of secure software delivery, meet compliance requirements, and cost effectively secure their software assets- whether that’s software they make, buy or sell.

Veracode serves over a thousand customers across a wide range of industries, including nearly one-third of the Fortune 100, three of the top four U.S. commercial banks and more than 20 of Forbes’ 100 Most Valuable Brands. Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the Veracode blog and on Twitter.

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