Embarcadero ToolCloud

Features

The Embarcadero ToolCloud lets organisations:

• Simplify license management by putting you in control of license inventory & allocation; centrally, in house
• Easy control over who has access to tools, with complete visibility into usage, including reporting
• Centrally deploy new versions in minutes not months to your entire user base
• Automatically download new versions of software as they are posted by Embarcadero
• Lets users easily switch forward and backward between versions
• Makes licensing seamless for the end user. Greatly eases deployment & licensing complexity for your organisation.

Additionally, with All-Access they can:

• Deploy an adaptable tool set that is different things to different roles, projects, and platforms. All-Access is about getting users the right tool at the right time
• Greatly reduce the number of standalone tool licenses and consolidate vendors
• React faster to changing business demands by having the right tools available to manage key technologies
• Reduce costs by more than 3x over point tools, with an on-demand tool chest model.

Benefits

Licensing Benefits

At the core, ToolCloud provides license management for tools. Embarcadero is the leader in tool manageability solutions and has been building this into products for more than half a decade.

Central Licence Management

Centralised Licence Management enables complete, control over who can access the tools, and who cannot - and to very easily reallocate licenses and make changes. Administrators will be able to standardise and simplify tool management, with one vendor and one place to administer all tool licenses.

Compliance

Centralised license management guarantees compliance by enforcing licensing policies centrally from one location. This helps avoid expensive vendor true-up surprises.

Tracking

The ToolCloud provides usage tracking by user, products, and groups so you'll always know how many licenses are being used, at any time.

Reporting

With usage tracking and reporting, compliance is fast and easy. Not only do the out of the box reports make compliance a breeze, but you'll be able to optimise license spend. You'll know at any time exactly what tools are being used by which users and how often, to ultimately save on license purchases.

Named/Shared

You can flexibly manage both your network named user or concurrent 'shared' licenses from the same Web-based administrative console.

Delivery and Deployment Benefits

With centralised provisioning, you can get tools to users on demand, so they have quick access to the tools they need to respond to changing projects and business demands.

Versioning

ToolCloud provides versioning, so end users will be able to run multiple versions without installation or desktop conflicts, saving time and frustration by avoiding time consuming installs and uninstalls of multiple product versions.

Configurations

The configuration feature lets you create sets of tools that can be automatically provisioned together - as toolset. For example, a DBA might get a certain set of tools when they are assigned to a project.

InstantOn

ToolCloud delivers the tools on-demand via InstantOn, to run on desktops with no installation, no application or dll conflicts. Save hundreds of hours by not having to keep desktops up-to-date with the proper tool configurations. InstantOn delivers tools via streaming, anywhere on the network and to locked down desktops.

Licensing

Should I buy a networked named user licence or concurrent user licence?
A network named user licence is for one named individual and is the only person permitted to use the product anywhere within the network.

A concurrent user licence allows multiple individuals to use the product, but only up to the number of concurrent licenses purchased. Once that limit is exceeded, anyone else trying to access the software is denied access. A concurrent licence requires a licence server in this instance it has to be the ELS (Embarcadero License Server).

What is ELS?
ELS are used when you wish to manage your licences over a network. Embarcadero License Server (ELS) is a license server installed at a central location and maintains a list of named users/concurrent users who can use the product.

What is Support and Maintenance for Toolcloud?
Support and Maintenance can be purchased at the time you purchase your product. The support and maintenance agreement gives you a year of upgrades (including major and minor upgrades) and a specified number of support incidents.

Editions

ToolCloud is available on the following products:

C++Builder 2010

C++Builder is Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment for C++. C++Builder comes with a powerful ANSI C++ compiler with early support for the new C++0x standards and a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for rapid development. The IDE has numerous productivity enhancing features including a drag-and-drop Visual Component Library (VCL) with 250 reuseable classes/components, an advanced debugger supporting code visualisations, support for unit testing, support for numerous databases and much more.

The latest version of C++Builder is C++Builder 2010. New features in this version include support for programming touch-based applications, enhancements to the IDE including IDE Insight to easily locate any IDE settings, support for Windows 7, support for Firebird 2.1 and much more.

Delphi 2010

Delphi is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool that produces high performance native Windows executables. Delphi comes with a powerful object-oriented language with a fast compiler and Windows API access, advanced debugging and refactoring tools, a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with time saving tools, support for multiple local and server databases and a Visual Component Library (VCL) with easy to use drag and drop components to speed up application design. Delphi comes in a variety of different editions to suit your requirements and budget and is also included within RAD Studio.

J Optimizer 2009

J Optimizer is delivers a breakthrough solution for isolating and resolving performance issues during the development of Java programs and Java EE applications. Providing Java developers with a comprehensive environment for optimizing application performance and managing application quality throughout the development lifecycle, J Optimizer enables you to deliver fast, scalable, and reliable applications.

JBuilder 2008

JBuilder, now with revolutionary code reuse capabilities, provides you with the analysis and profiling tools you need to enhance code quality and improve application performance. In addition, JBuilder also offers UML modelling, team development and collaboration, and a wide variety of visual designers to improve productivity, making it one of the most complete and powerful Java IDEs available.

RAD Studio 2010

Embarcadero RAD Studio comes with Delphi and C++Builder for building native Windows executables and Delphi Prism for building .NET applications. Delphi and C++Builder can produce high performance desktop, web and database applications which run on any maintained Windows platform whilst Delphi Prism can produce. NET applications using your existing Delphi programming skills.

System Req.

Hardware Requirements

• Intel Pentium or compatible, 1.4 GHz minimum, 2GHz+ recommended
• 1GB RAM, 2GB+ recommended
• 3GB HDD space
• 750MB free HDD space for prerequisites
• DVD-ROM Drive
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 (requires admin rights)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional (SP2/SP3)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1) or 2008