Featured Pitch: Replay Solutions
Web Site: www.replaysolutions.com
Headquarters: Redwood City, Calif.
Year Founded: 2004
Founders: Jonathan Lindo and Jeff Daudel
Investors: Hummer Winblad, Partech International, Sigma Partners and UV Partners
Employees: About 30
By Jonathan Lindo, Co-Founder and CEO
Software defects are an inevitable part of building and running applications in today’s complex environments. Companies spend incredible amounts of time and money working to reproduce and resolve defects, keeping them from far more important tasks that will actually contribute to building their businesses.
The first challenge when fixing defects is to reproduce the conditions that caused the error. It sounds simple enough, but for an enterprise application, this is a very complex process. Recreating the environment, re-populating the database, and then generating the required traffic and load on the servers is a tedious, manual process.
Replay Solutions was created to solve this problem. Jeff Daudel and I founded the company in 2004 as a result of being inspired by another revolutionary technology: TiVo. With the ability to record and replay television content on-demand, you were finally in control of the viewing experience. We quickly recognized the potential of applying this concept to software applications. As developers ourselves, we had become tired of watching software ship dates slip because bugs could not be reproduced. We began building Replay, and became known to many of our customers as a “TiVo for software.”
Defects that can crash applications and bring servers down may be inevitable, but with Replay Solutions, application teams can playback recordings and actually “fast-forward” the running application to the moment of error, exposing the root cause of any issue. Replay instantly reveals what is happening in the code, and within minutes developers and testers are able to identify the source of any software issue.
Replay is not an improvement on existing technology, but a completely new approach to solving a problem that has plagued the application problem resolution process for the last 30 years. Fundamentally, Replay Solutions technology is designed with an understanding of the importance of collaboration between teams. ReplayDIRECTOR, our flagship product, is transparent and lightweight, allowing recordings to be shared between teams around the world seamlessly.Replay recently raised a $13 million series B financing round, and we look forward to growing our company and rolling out future products that transform the application problem resolution process.
