The last mile in software is the final step that links you to your users, and it’s also the first pathway for them to get back in touch with you. Just like in the physical telecommunications realm, the last little length of the delivery cord – directly to end users from your infrastructure – is the most complex, expensive and varying in needs.
So, shouldn’t your teams be focused on smoothing out the last mile as much as working on the project itself? How will users consume your goods? How will you keep them updated? How will they communicate with you? Is your solution flexible enough to handle varying delivery needs?
If you’re unsure about the answers to any of those questions, give our Pulse team a shout. We’re delivering software to 80 percent of the Fortune 500 with today’s most flexible, inexpensive and easily-integrated software delivery solution.
You create software for your business. That’s why you’re here. But, do you want be in the software management and delivery business? Probably not, as that’s not your core competency – building solutions for your customers is. If you’re tired of the delivery headaches, consider utilizing Genuitec’s Pulse. It’s an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technology that acts as a supply chain; in essence you build it and Pulse partners with you to ship it.
Check out the video below to see one example of how the Pulse dashboard primes your team to deliver software by getting everyone on the same page. Pulse is used for team collaboration, loading and synchronizing team projects and prepping the entire organization to intelligently get your goods from point A (you) to point B (the folks who matter the most – your customers).
To learn how Pulse can help your enterprise get back to doing business please contact us: infoATgenuitecDOTcom or call 888.267.4176
With the newest release of Pulse Private Label (version 3.0.1) we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight what our customers are finding valuable in Pulse. After all, Pulse is an agile product, delivering updates on a continual basis to serve you more effectively.
But, some have been asking: what exactly IS Pulse Private Label? Well, Pulse Private Label is an enterprise Application LifeCycle Management (ALM) technology for software delivery and management.
That’s nice, but what does that mean?
It means that Pulse gives companies unmatched visibility into the software delivery process. After all, most companies don’t want to be in the software management business – they want to focus on their core competencies. So in essence, you build it, Pulse ships it. It’s just like any physical supply chain, where Pulse lets you get your goods to market faster than anyone else and lets you worry about making your customers happy.
Pulse even allows you to deliver your goods to customers in multiple ways, including standard installer (.exe-style) mechanisms, zip files, Web flows and more. You have control of how your valued customers – internal or external – get your goods.
Sound awesome? We bet it does, but sounding good doesn’t deliver the pizazz you need to save the day. To really get you plugged into solving problems, not talking about them, the Pulse Private Label distribution is completely self-contained – that includes everything you need to deploy Pulse to your current servers. The distribution includes the client-side software, the server-side software, management tools as well as configuration files. We anticipate your questions, and don’t want you to have to struggle to get Pulse installed on your existing systems. There’s no excuse for any delay in getting your products to customers!
In short, Pulse Private Label is a powerful, yet easy-to-use technology that is taking the field of ALM to a new level with its software management and distribution.
For the technical crowd – you may be wondering how can Pulse’s ALM technology help you take back control of your delivery process. Here are some high-level, grisly details:
Customized software delivery and updates available as a service
Completely automated plug-in dependency management, resolution and installation
Policy-driven automated updates that are pushed to the user as either optional or mandatory
Software updates can be downloaded and installed upon launch in the foreground or in the background, during software usage or for later installation
Standardizes software usage across an organization, it can support literally a million users
Can enforce software usage policies to ensure that approved software is utilized while preventing the use of unapproved software
All server interactions are based on secure Web service calls
Scalable at every level to enable large-scale support for large Enterprises and organizations that are distributed around the world
Much more!
Want to know more? See what Pulse Private Label can do for you today by contacting Genuitec.
This webinar focuses on how users of Genuitec technologies can go from “zero to hero” with their enterprise tooling story without the need for IBM tools, expensive processes or headaches.
Thursday, January 21 11am CST (UTC -6) ~ 1 hour
Are currently using RAD, Jazz or both? Want to know how you could insulate yourself from high costs and get your whole team on alternate technologies in minutes? This is the spot for you.
The webinar will run for approximately one hour and include a QA session following the technical presentation.
The webinar recording will be available following the presentation.
An interview with Genuitec CEO Maher Masri on the economy, IT tooling and what 2010 holds
What a difference a year makes. The fallout from the global meltdown in 2008 is giving way to cautious optimism for 2010. But, the many trials of 2009 were not surprising for Genuitec. After all, Genuitec can be considered the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to predicting global IT expenditures. Why? With a global presence and offerings of overwhelming value for incredibly low price points, it’s easy for us to see when companies are tightening their belts and/or reducing headcount. It gives us a crystal ball of sorts to see where the markets are leaning in the coming months, and we saw the financial meltdown coming. But, being self-funded without reliance on credit for operations, we’ve been able to continue to fund research and development of all our product lines; our mature MyEclipse IDE product, the growing Pulse life-cycle management system and MobiOne for enterprise mobile Web modernization.
Today, we share broad market optimism, as we can see clear signs of enterprise IT expenditure and headcount expansion in 2010.
On the growing mobile space…
One significant investment we made in 2009 was in the mobile space with the creation of the quickly-adopted MobiOne development tool for Web and hybrid mobile applications. What’s interesting is that we are witnessing a paradigm shift, possibly the largest since the invention of the desktop computer. It’s no longer a matter “if” but “when” the mobile shift will be felt by enterprises worldwide, and Genuitec is poised to provide the broader community with the development tools they will need to enable their mobile strategies.
Another fascinating thing about the emerging mobile development space is that for first time in IT, it’s actually consumers who are driving demand. Historically, enterprises or the government innovate seeking competitive advantage and bully the IT market through standards. However, consumers are now demanding advancements in mobile technology driven through convenience and social phenomena– it’s an upside down model that Genuitec is excited to see mature.
Since companies are not used to this model, there has been a decided lack of standards emerging for tooling, platforms, stores, etc. So far, this has equated to no clear “winners and losers” in the mobile space – just speculation on who will emerge.
There is no clear mobile tool vendor to standardize on, so the 900-lb IT gorillas stagnate in a “wait and see” mode to discover what standard emerges. As of now, both Google and Apple are doing everything in their powers to lead this market, but only time will tell if either can create the critical mass needed to drive standards.
On software provisioning…
Something that did surprise us in 2009 was the fast emergence of the software provisioning market. We of course have had software for two years in this market: Genuitec’s Pulse. But, we are seeing organizations now start to consider the life cycle of their software lines; from conception to expiration and the all the management in between. This will become an increasing concern for companies seeking to reduce life cycle costs for software development, distribution and the increasing number of moving parts and dependencies.
Genuitec is uniquely positioned to provide inexpensive customer solutions in this space. Today, Genuitec is connecting our offerings that not only complement each other, but build off each other as well so that scalability, reliability and high performance functionality are hallmarks of our brands. Pulse has become the baseline for all of our products, lending an air of true enterprise inter-connectivity that is rapidly branching into management of all RCP applications – not just Eclipse tooling.
What’s coming in 2010?
Standards will accelerate in the mobile Web development marketplace in 2010, making it possible for Enterprises to have a mobile presence. For the first time in more than a decade, the promise of write once and deploy on any platform (fixed or mobile) may be practically attainable in the mobile Web.
Also in 2010, social media will continue to grow. At its basic level, being constantly connected and over-stimulated takes our human inherent value-driven social comparison to new heights. It will continue to be hard to monetize social concepts (as Facebook has shown) outside traditional marketing. The indirect benefits, such as reach, leverage and influence will continue to fund these mediums. Will we see a subscription model for access or value-add? Time will tell.
Another item that we anticipate is the emergence of “micro-services” – a highly specialized use-model. There is a likelihood that mobile phones will enable the use of micro-services and micro-payment vehicles – like what is seen in Japan where they are used to paying for railway passes with mobile devices. The phone could easily become the credit card.
Companies to watch…
Some companies to watch next year are obvious, like Apple. Unfortunately for Apple, the very late NetPad has significantly diminished their momentum in the mobile market and has allowed Amazon, Sony and even Barnes & Noble a significant head start in the digital content market. Steve Jobs’ commitment to ship the tablet in January will be key for Apple’s foothold. Apple, however, will continue to struggle with the cultural mismatch in trying to control all aspects of a customer experience while building a community around its products. It’s both an asset for the need to move fast and an Achilles’ heel when trying to scale beyond their traditional two to five percent market share. IBM paid a hefty price using the same tactics in the 1980s with their “micro-channel architecture” based personal computer.
Google will remain at the top of the food chain next year, as they have everything to gain and nothing to lose; the perfect predator. A continued Apple and Google alliance will serve both companies; Google with an unmatched ability to democratize content and Apple with the cool technology to showcase that information.
Microsoft’s Bing merits some attention. But Microsoft will have to figure out a way to maintain information currency to emerge as the consumer choice. But, with the cultural environment being what it is, Microsoft might have an uphill battle given company historical perception.
IBM has yet to make an overt move in the mobile web market. Oracle’s commitment to continue investing into JavaFX doesn’t have any visible artifact. Given these companies’ acquisition history, both will likely take a “wait and see” attitude in the coming year for the emergence of a clear leader, then likely acquire it.
All in all, 2010 should be year where the markets show noticeable recovery and well-known technology companies push for standards in the area of mobile development. The market for integrated development environments will continue its slow move toward maturity with the possible emergence of new developer languages. As for the software provisioning space, this market will absolutely continue to grow as IBM pours more funding into marketing awareness with its Smarter Planet initiative; though Genuitec is already poised to be a winner in this space with our more mature and well-tested Pulse platform.
Genuitec is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pulse 3.0 – the unbreakable, cross-enterprise life cycle management platform. Pulse gives global corporations a less expensive but powerful solution for smarter software delivery across teams, and individuals the easiest way to locate, manage and maintain their software tool stacks.
This long-awaited release includes our innovative, interactive dashboard that allows software developers, system engineers and architects to easily synchronize the entire process of software creation, management and delivery to end-users.
Users will enjoy many new enhancements including using the invitations feature to invite friends and colleagues to Pulse so that you can share your custom software profiles.
The user interface is sexy now as well; Pulse has been re-tailored to provide an even more intuitive, but powerful environment. Now you can manage your tools, sharing, add-ons and more from directly within your installed tool stack.
Check out the Pulse 3.0 unified dashboard, it incorporates more control without the clutter. You will see your software, workspaces, team changes, pending events and more from the easy user interface. We love it, and you will too.
Are you a control freak? No matter, as you now have an enhanced ability to manage your software updates and allow your team to makes changes to the profile, but you retain control over what updates happen when.
Go TEAM! (Yeah, we’re sports fans too) Pulse now has a dedicated collaboration console where you can take control of your team environments. You see more, control more, do more and keep it all personal, or share everything. We’ve made it easy as pie.
Oh yeah, there’s more. The Pulse development team has been hard at work to make Pulse what you always hoped it would be. In this release no detail has gone unnoticed, so if it’s been a while, you really should give Pulse 3.0 a look.
Cheers and as always let us know what you think about our software.
In my last blog I showed you how to get started with Pulse.
Now that you know how to use Pulse to get a copy of the classic Eclipse SDK installed, I’m going to walk you through customizing my tinstall by adding Mylyn to it. Naturally, we’ll need to launch the Pulse Explorer – and that’s easy to do off the shortcut on the Programs menu on Windows. (Similar shortcuts are created on Linux and Macintosh as well.)
1. Since I ran Pulse anonymously last time for testing, it prompts me again to register for a free account. You’ll notice on the right that one of the benefits of getting a Pulse account is the ability to run customized profiles on multiple systems (like if I have a Mac at work and a PC at home). I can also use the support forums if I need to, so I’ll go ahead and register. It’s free, and requires only an email address. We need your email address so that Pulse can remember your software "recipe" when you move to a different machine.
2. Registration is easy. Pulse just needs an email address, a display name and a password. Hit "next," and Pulse will fetch the software catalog data and get you all set up.
3. Pulse will now open the Pulse Explorer. The first thing you will notice is that the title line has been changed to greet you by your entered display name. The catalog looks pretty much the same as it did under "anonymous."
4. If you don’t see any profiles in your "My Profiles" area, go ahead and recreate them now, just like you did when you were anonymous. Then, you can get to the fun part: adding Mylyn to your Eclipse profile. It’s really easy to do. You start by clicking on the ‘Browse Categories’ link under ‘Add-on Software.’
5. As you’ll see, there are lots of categories. There are many more than shown, in fact. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, but you want to browse and see what’s available; you can do that by expanding each category, selecting an item and viewing the detailed description. However, if you do know what you want; it’s much simpler just to use the Search box to find it easily. And, since I know I want Mylyn, that’s what I’ll search for.
6. OK, that’s interesting. You certainly found Mylyn, which is what you wanted, but the search also turned up the Eclipse Timeline Plugin as well, which is built for Mylyn. We’ll address that one in a second.
7. Adding Mylyn is simply a matter of dragging it over and dropping it on my Eclipse Galileo Classic profile.
8. After you drop Mylyn, you’re automatically asked which of the optional components you’d like to install as well. Nice and easy! Suppose you don’t use Trac, but you do use Bugzilla, and the rest of it looks good too. So, you just select everything but Trac (sorry Trac guys).
9. That still leaves that ‘Timeline Plugin’ you’ve maybe not heard of. Clicking on it and looking at the summary Pulse provides lets you know that it’s from MIT and tries to create a timeline out of Mylyn tasks. Suppose you like Mylyn a lot and am mildly intrigued by the timeline idea. You’ll install it too. However, this time just right-click on it and select ‘Add to profile…’ from the context menu. It does the same thing as dragging and dropping but since we’re demonstrating stuff I thought I’d show the "other way" to do the same thing. Use whichever method you prefer.
10. Now, we can click on the Eclipse Classic profile and see the base software and these new add-ons that are part of the package.
11. Running the new profile is a simple click on one of the ‘Run’ icons.
12. The first time you select ‘Run,’ Pulse will notice that you changed your profile and needed some more software installed. To let you know what’s needed, a simple ‘Install’ dialog is displayed.You’ll probably need to accept some licenses before Pulse proceeds to the familiar downloads and locations page. Hit "Install."
13. Now, let Pulse handle the rest. After less than a minute of automated download and configuration, you should be looking at an Eclipse Welcome Page that lists Mylyn as well as the normal Eclipse topics.
That’s all there is to it. With a few drag-and-drops and a little button pushing, you can create and configure any Eclipse stack in just a few minutes.
That’s the beauty of Pulse. In just a minute or two, you can save yourself and your team from hours, if not days, of work configuring profiles.
