Electric Cloud joins Symbian Platinum Program

Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading operating system for smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers and, to date, over 110 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to over 250 mobile network operators.

Electric Cloud's solutions, ElectricAccelerator, ElectricInsight and ElectricCommander, are designed to accelerate, analyse and automate software production management, which is the build/package/test/deploy process that follows software design and coding. With Electric Cloud solutions, software developers can reduce build times by as much as 20 times, improve engineering productivity and get to market faster.

With the proliferation of handset models, mobile phone manufacturers are under increasing pressure to build software more quickly, more frequently and to more targets than ever before, said Mike Maciag, CEO at Electric Cloud. Electric Cloud has established a strong presence in the mobile and wireless markets with solutions that boost engineering productivity and enable lightning-fast, top-quality software builds. As a Symbian Platinum Partner, we look forward to strengthening our relationships with Symbian and Symbian smartphone manufacturers contributing to continued innovation on Symbian OS.

“As an open, standards-based operating system, Symbian OS is highly configurable and extensible, enabling mobile phone manufacturers to tailor smartphone products to meet the most demanding needs across a range of market segments - whether it’s supporting five megapixel camera phones for consumers or push email devices for corporate users. To facilitate this rapid and continued innovation, our customers require best-in-class production tools for testing and managing their software builds as quickly and efficiently as possible”, said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of US operations, Symbian. “Electric Cloud’s production management technology addresses this need and helps fuel innovation by enabling our customers to accelerate product time-to–market.”

The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the programme, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team.