| Electric Software, Inc. | |
| Type: | Software technology |
| Founder: | Milton L. Taam |
Electric Software, Inc. is a privately held software technology corporation based in Ithaca, New York. Its current products are hpsModeler, system design software for optimally incorporating seasonal thermal storage to match inflexible heating/cooling demand with intermittent renewable-based electric supply; and GlowCode, a performance analysis profiler used in software engineering.
In 1984, Electric Software, Inc. commercially launched Electric Desk, one of the first all-in-one integrated office products for the IBM-PC, including a word processor, spreadsheets, databases, and communications.Electric Software, Inc. licensed the Electric Desk program and trademarked name exclusively to Alpha Software Corp, as publisher and distributor.[1] Electric Desk, while owned by Electric Software and marketed by Alpha Software, became known as AlphaWorks.[2] In 1990 the product became LotusWorks, with its sale by Electric Software, Inc. to Alpha Software and then Lotus Software.[3]
Electric Software, Inc. commercially released GlowCode in 1998. GlowCode is a real-time performance and memory profiler used by programmers in the development and optimization of Windows applications.[4] [5] While the profiled application runs, GlowCode shows the duration, frequency and use of function calls, and identifies which functions play the most significant role in time-intensive tasks, which execution nodes are the source of multiple memory leaks, and which allocations are the source of excessive consumption of memory and resources. GlowCode also identifies problems specific to managed code, including boxing errors, and hyperactive and loitering objects.[6] GlowCode customers include the Mathworks (Matlab), Siemens, Oracle, and others.[7] [8]
In 2023 Electric Software, Inc. launched the web application hpsModeler, which simulates the comprehensive set of components that can be leveraged to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in the heating and cooling of large-scale residential and commercial buildings. A key component is seasonal thermal storage with counter-season heat injection or extraction. hpsModeler is used to design cost-effective integrated systems that optimally match inflexible heating/cooling demand with intermittent renewable-based electric supply, with minimal CO2 emissions.[9]