This past December, I joined CloudBees as CEO after many years in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space at Serena Software, Skytap, HP/Mercury Interactive and IBM/Rational Software. I made the decision to join CloudBees because it has an exceptional team, blue-chip install base and unique, patented technology for automating and accelerating the software delivery process. Software is becoming the key business differentiator across all industries and the ability to deliver innovative, high-quality software faster than the competition is a critical success factor. CloudBees is already helping hundreds of customers accelerate software time to market and we are experiencing strong growth as software becomes even more important across all verticals This week at the Android Builder’s Summit in San Francisco, we introduced an industry-first software delivery solution that addresses the big challenges Android™ device manufacturers face as they look to release products to market faster and faster while maintaining high quality. With more than a million new Android devices activated each day, the Android market is quite literally exploding.
Android is being leveraged across all verticals – aerospace, automotive, consumer products, medical, mobile and others – to enable new functionality and deliver a more satisfying user experience. Unfortunately, adding functionality and enhancing the user experience usually requires increasingly complex software. To stay ahead in the Android market, manufacturers must differentiate their offerings with high quality, highly usable value-add software. Unfortunately, releasing such complex and sophisticated software for the various Android OS versions and product variants is an extremely involved and time-consuming process that, if rushed, can result in poor quality. In January, we conducted a survey of more than 350 embedded and Android software device delivery professionals to learn more about the challenges that they face. We learned that overwhelmingly, these professionals are struggling with increasingly complex software releases, poor quality and time-to-market issues. In fact, over 70 of our survey respondents indicated that long release builds and testing cycles were slowing their delivery release cycles.
The challenge for Android device manufacturers is determining how to shorten time-to-market in a scalable way, without sacrificing quality. To address these challenges, we built an industry-first software acceleration solution optimized for Android that dramatically reduces delivery times by up to 75 percent. This solution truly helps Android device manufacturers succeed in today’s highly competitive and fast-paced mobile and embedded devices marketplace by accelerating the end-to-end Android software build, test, and release cycles. To learn more about this solution, please visit our website. Software is becoming one of the primary differentiators across all verticals, and CloudBees is known for creating the most innovative software acceleration solutions on the market. Our new solution for Android is the perfect example of the sort of innovation that we will continue to bring to the software delivery market in 2013 and beyond. If you have thoughts, ideas or requests for us, I’d love to hear from you. Please contact us directly. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.