FinalBuilder

Focus on writing great software. Let FinalBuilder take care of the build.

Thousands of Software Developers rely on FinalBuilder to automate the build, test and release process.

• Automise

You don't have to concoct batch files, script or XML to free yourself of manual builds. FinalBuilder provides a better way to automate your build by packaging an extensive library of pre-written scripts into a logically structured graphical interface.

FinalBuilder's library offers more than 600 pre-written scripts to:

• Interop with your Version Control System;
• Compile your source code;
• Compile your installer and help file;
• Send build notifications;
• Run automated tests with your existing testing tools;
• Schedule daily or nightly builds; and
• Deploy files with FTP or SFTP.

Why Use FinalBuilder?

Traditionally, batch files, XML and script have been used to automate builds. These methods create a build script that is difficult to maintain, difficult to understand and which suffers from a lack of proper error handling.

A visual build tool with the breadth of functionality of FinalBuilder makes it quick and easy to define, debug, maintain and run a reliable build process.

FinalBuilder will:

• Save you time - for any substantial software project, automated builds are much quicker than manual builds.
• Allow anyone in the team to run a build - FinalBuilder is so easy to use, you'll no longer need a sinle build guru to create, maintain and run your builds.
• Improve the quality of your releases - FinalBuilder cuts the human error factor substantially by automating tasks and running your tests every time your source code is built.
• Record what was built and when - FinalBuilder logs the output from every action it performs and tools it calls. Logs from previous builds are archived and can be exported for better record keeping.

Why Automate the Build?

Performing the build process for your software manually is time consuming and error prone. An automated build process provides a number of benefits.

Shorter Development Cycle	With an automated build process, you can reliably make a build with a single click, removing time consuming errors that occur in manual builds. With continuous integration and scheduled daily builds, you remove integration bottlenecks that occur when less frequently making builds.
Better Quality Software	Regularly testing your code dramatically improves the quality of your final release. An automated build process is the foundation for regular testing. FinalBuilder supports a number of testing tools for automatically running tests as part of your build process.
Improved Bus Factor	A manual build creates a steep learning curve for new developers. Automated builds abstract the process so new developers can run a build with a single click. A visual tool like FinalBuilder also presents the build in a way that any member of your team can understand.
Automated Logging	When a build breaks, debugging a process with a central log is much easier than retracing steps and manually searching the different log files for a number of different tools. FinalBuilder logs the output from all the tools it calls and these logs can be filtered to show only errors.

Continuous Integration Server

FinalBuilder Professional includes a continuous integration server. FinalBuilder's server centralises build management through a web interface giving you remote control over your build projects.

Access to FinalBuilder Server is included free with every FinalBuilder Professional license. It also uses FinalBuilder as the build engine, so you can run as many build servers as you have FinalBuilder Professional licenses and purchase additional user licenses to provide your team with access.

FinalBuilder's Continuous Integration Server

FinalBuilder Professional includes a free continuous integration server. This build server centralises build management through a rich web interface and gives your team remote control over your build projects.

Once a project is configured in FinalBuilder Server, you can run a build from the web interface, or it can be scheduled to run automatically with a time, process or continuous integration trigger.

The central status page provides a quick overview of the health of all your most recent builds, while the build logs, build history and metrics are also available. When a build fails or succeeds, FinalBuilder's build server will broadcast the result through email, RSS and tray application notifications.

Access to the build server's web interface is securely managed through a Team Management System. Role based permissions are the backbone of this system, allowing administrators to assign each user a set of permissions for interacting with build projects.

Automise

More than 250,000 PCs rely on Automise to automate administrative tasks.

You don't need to concoct scripts & batch files to automate Windows administration.

Automise packages hundreds of pre-written scripts into a drag-and-drop graphical interface.

Automate Windows Administration with Automise

Traditionally, batch files and scripts have been used to automate Windows administration. For complex processes, these can be slow to create, difficult to maintain and suffer from a lack of proper error handling. Automise offers a better solution.

Through a drag-and-drop graphical interface, Automise provides over 350 built-in scripts to perform many common administrative actions. To automate administrative tasks, these scripts, called actions, simply need to be added to a project in the order in which they should be executed. Once a project is complete, it can be run with a single click, keystroke or automatically on a schedule.

Automise projects can also handle complex processes. Actions can be conditionally executed by using built-in flow control and exception handling. If a project doesn't run as intended, Automise provides a built-in debugger to diagnose problems and log files to give a detailed record for errors that occur.

And if none of 350+ actions can automate your task, Automise includes ActionStudio to create a custom action with PowerShell, Python, JScript, VBScript or your favourite .Net language.

What can Automise automate?

Add any of Automise's hundreds of built-in actions to a workflow and you can automate:

• file and folder operations (copy, move, create, delete, etc)
• mouse clicks and keystrokes
• downloading files from the web
• Active Directory administration
• CD/DVD burning
• file transfers with FTP and SFTP (put, get, create directory, etc)
• IIS 5, 6 and 7 administration (start, stop, create website, etc)
• database management using SQL or stored procedures
• archiving by creating zip files, unpack RAR files, etc
• and much more!

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