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November 30, 2011
COLLABNET LAUNCHES COLLABNET CONNECT™ FOR FEDERATED APPLICATION DELIVERY ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE CLOUD
New integration framework delivers change management hub by connecting commercial and open source ALM tools – brings Git to the enterprise
BRISBANE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, today announced CollabNet Connect™, a new integration framework for its TeamForge® ALM platform. It enables customers to orchestrate and govern application delivery processes across commercial and open source ALM and cloud development tools. In addition to integrations with leading ALM tools like HP Application Lifecycle Management platform and JIRA, CollabNet Connect also brings the Git open source version control tool into an enterprise-grade ALM platform. The Git integration provides users complete freedom of development approach, while simultaneously providing, for the first time, enterprise-grade Git governance and consistency of lifecycle practices for coding practices, release standards and IP reuse.
CollabNet will host a free webinar on Jan. 12, 2012, to share insights into ALM interoperability, change management approaches and how IT organizations can accelerate application delivery through Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices. Participants include CollabNet CEO Bill Portelli, Forrester vice president Dave West and Michael Loetzsch, transition manager from Deutsche Post. To register please visit: (www.collab.net/almplus).
“As software delivery becomes a strategic business process, ALM strategies must keep pace with business needs. Modern development teams need a platform that supports diverse and fast-changing requirements for tools, technologies and processes,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO of CollabNet. “CollabNet Connect addresses that need, providing a complete ‘change management hub’ for IT enterprises that require central governance without locking customers into rigid software tools, repositories and configurations. Our approach is completely unique in that third-party tools can integrate natively to the TeamForge environment, both from a look and feel, as well as from a lifecycle traceability perspective.”
Software development and delivery processes, along with associated tool sets, continue to evolve and change with the mainstream adoption of Agile and DevOps practices. As a result, large and distributed organizations are struggling to gain cohesive visibility, traceability and automation from its growing assortment of commercial and open source tools, resulting in “siloed” practices and limited collaboration. CollabNet Connect with TeamForge accelerates enterprise software delivery by providing development and IT operations teams with a cross-functional, fully integrated governance platform to share and track ALM artifacts, and allow stakeholders to work collaboratively in the tools of their choice – on-premise or in the cloud.
Bringing Git to the enterprise, CollabNet is the first major ALM vendor to provide a comprehensive platform to govern and secure development with the Git DVCS tool, such as for mobile application development. Enterprises can now join more than 1,000 TeamForge users and take advantage of the speed and flexibility provided by the Git tool, without compromising corporate standards for compliance, security or management efficiency. Also unique in the industry, CollabNet, the founder of the Subversion open source project (now formally known as Apache Subversion®), allows TeamForge projects to use CollabNet Subversion, Git or both SCM environments. Find out more at (www.collab.net/go/Git).
In addition, developers can achieve increased productivity by connecting their point tools to an enterprise framework for collaboration, automation and IP discovery and reuse. Tools like Atlassian JIRA now become “first class citizens” in an enterprise ALM platform, gaining instant access to features for enterprise scalability, traceability and artifact discovery across multiple JIRA instances, and access to corporate templates for consistent software delivery processes. Find out more at (www.collab.net/go/JIRA).
Benefits of CollabNet Connect include:
• GUI Integration – Incorporates the third-party tools natively into TeamForge as a “first class citizen.”
• Lifecycle Traceability – Extends traceability for applications with uniquely identifiable elements (e.g. work items, requirements, tests, etc.) making these elements universally available through TeamForge associations for end-to-end traceability.
• Workflow Extension – Extends workflow for applications that need to subscribe, modify or respond to TeamForge transactions, allowing enterprises to implement workflows that cross conventional tool boundaries.
• Collaboration Extension – Enables enterprise-grade software and highly collaborative delivery processes across diverse and changing technology stacks and development clouds.
• Tool-chain Visibility – Provides unprecedented visibility across software delivery processes, resulting in software release productivity gains through IP sharing and coordination.
• Search Integration – Allows ALM stakeholders across the enterprise to search, discover and share artifacts and documents across workgroups and locations, no matter what tools are used.
• Governance Extension – Empowers developers to work with the tools they want without compromising any corporate governance mandates.
“ALM is not dead — it has become ALM 2.0+.” writes Dave West, vice president and Research Director in the October 2010 Forrester Research Inc. report: The Time Is Right For ALM 2.0+. “ALM 2.0+ tools and strategies accept tool and platform heterogeneity, imposing a boundary above practitioner tools and encouraging ALM to interact with those tools in the context of work and harvest information for traceability, reporting, and management.”
The TeamForge and CollabNet Connect solution provides:
• Empowerment of developers while, at the same time, enterprise visibility and governance of standards and data of disparate point tools.
• The ability to overcome JIRA scalability issues by providing a framework into which separate JIRA servers may be incorporated using the TeamForge services distribution capabilities.
• A mechanism to create repeatable processes using the TeamForge ALM Process template to create standards for silo’d teams that are configuring tools.
• IP reuse to help companies align individual and inconsistently configured point tools into a set of enterprise standards.
Availability
CollabNet Connect will be available through the release of TeamForge 6.1.1. More information and download instructions can be found at (http://www.collab.net/products/collabnetconnect/).
About CollabNet
CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise Cloud development, powering global software development for more than 7,000 companies, from workgroups to enterprises. As the company that spawned from deep open source roots with the sponsoring of industry-leading Subversion, we are dedicated to leveraging collaboration, Agile methods, and Cloud computing to transform the way software development organizations develop and deploy applications, in their cloud or ours. Through this transformation, CollabNet clients have recognized improved productivity by up to 70 percent and reduced their cost of software development by up to 80 percent due to the implementation of highly Agile and enterprise-wide collaborative and distributed techniques. Our solutions include TeamForge®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed developers, the Codesion cloud hosting and integration platform, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed SCM, and Agile training and transformation services. For more information, please visit www.collab.net.
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November 29, 2011
FreeWave Technologies Receives 2011 Smart Grid Excellence Award
FGR2-PE Honored for Exceptional Innovation
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 29, 2011 — FreeWave Technologies, (www.freewave.com) announced today that its FGR2-PE wireless data radio has received a 2011 Smart Grid Excellence Award from SmartGrid.TMCnet.com, a TMC and Crossfire Media sponsored technology media Website.
“FreeWave is honored to accept the 2011 Smart Grid Excellence Award,” said Ashish Sharma, chief marketing officer at FreeWave Technologies. “At FreeWave, customers are our top priority. We strive to provide the most reliable, cost effective wireless data radios for our Smart Grid customers. By utilizing the FGR2-PE for smart grid applications, our customers achieve seamless data communications that can help streamline operations. It is a great achievement for our product to be recognized by SmartGrid.TMCnet.com.”
FGR2-PE is a data radio ideal for Smart Grid applications including, distribution automation (DA), AMI back haul, distribution management (DMS), substation automation (SSA), load management (LM), demand response (DR), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and energy management (EMS). It offers both industrial serial and Ethernet wireless connectivity using license-free spread spectrum for data communication over long distances. The FGR2-PE is compatible with other FreeWave FGR plus family radios and offers users a second, switched Ethernet port as well as two serial ports to meet the demands of customers’ wireless automation requirements. The ports enable a transition from serial to Ethernet data communication a without having to replace wireless communication hardware later on, or operate both serial and Ethernet communication independently and simultaneously on the same platform.
“The solutions that have been recognized with the Smart Grid Excellence Award reflect the diverse range of innovation driving this market. Congratulations to FreeWave which best exemplified the best of smart grid technologies in 2011,” said stated Carl Ford, co-founder and community developer, Crossfire.
“I am pleased to acknowledge FreeWave for its contribution to the advancement of Smart Grid technologies by bestowing our Second Annual Smart Grid Excellence Award to them,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Congratulations and I look forward to more innovation in 2012.”
Winners are published on SmartGrid.TMCnet.com and included in its E-newsletter.
For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.
About FreeWave Technologies
Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies manufactures the most reliable, high performance, lowest power consumption, spread spectrum and licensed radios for mission-critical data transmission. Through engineering excellence and a relentless commitment to best-in-class manufacturing, FreeWave customers enjoy superior network up-time, range and the lowest cost of ownership in its class. Based in Boulder, Colorado, FreeWave designs and manufactures radios that are the leading choice for oil and gas, utility, military and numerous other industrial applications. Organizations that count on radio data communications for operational trust FreeWave for custom network design, system engineering and customer support that is unparalleled in the market. For additional information, contact FreeWave directly at 866.399.4930 or at newsinfo@freewave.com. Visit the company’s website at (www.freewave.com).
About Smart Grid
Smart Grid is the leading website dedicated to the rapidly developing technologies that enable and harness Smart Grids, with particular emphasis on applications, products and software for improving residential, business, institutional and facilities’ power consumption.
This Website offers information and analysis for anyone interested in researching, purchasing and applying smart grid technologies. It includes Smart Grid industry news and expert analysis by Carl Ford, Crossfire Media. Visitors will find free resources including Online Communities, blogs, feature articles, videos and more. SmartGrid.TMCnet.com is sponsored by TMC, an integrated, global media company helping clients in print, in person and online, and Crossfire Media, an integrated marketing company with a core focus on future trends in technology. Please visit http://smart-grid.tmcnet.com
About TMC
TMC is a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online. TMC publishes the Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, InfoTECH Spotlight and Cloud Computing magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by two million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events. Visit TMC Events for a complete listing and further information.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
About Crossfire Media:
Crossfire Media is an integrated marketing company with a core focus on future trends in technology. We service communities of interest with conferences, tradeshows, webinars and newsletters. Crossfire Media services also include providing insight to technology companies and associations to assist in the development of business and technical strategy as well as the development and implementation of effective communications and marketing strategy.
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TMC Contact:
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Marketing Manager
203-852-6800, ext. 228
TASKTOP PROVIDES MICRO FOCUS CUSTOMERS MYLYN-ENABLED ALM SYNCHRONIZATION AND IMPROVED DEVELOPER
Tasktop extends Borland StarTeam change management features across the enterprise via ALM synchronization and IDE integrations with Eclipse and Visual Studio
VANCOUVER, BC Nov. 29, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, and Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced the Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector. The new connector, available for both Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync, provides access to Micro Focus’ Borland StarTeam change management assets from within Eclipse or Visual Studio, and enables complete synchronization of ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects.
The two companies are demonstrating the Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1 in Las Vegas (http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/applications/).
“Tasktop, Borland and now Micro Focus have a shared vision of putting the developer at the center of ALM,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “We first started working together by way of Borland’s past contributions to the Eclipse Mylyn project. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Micro Focus, a leader in developer-centric ALM tools. With the integrations that we’re releasing today, StarTeam customers will get a first-class Eclipse and Visual Studio experience via Tasktop Dev and can integrate StarTeam with a broad range of third party and open source Agile and ALM solutions supported by Tasktop Sync.”
Developer productivity is increasingly being obstructed due to interruptions and the need to leave the IDE to update status and complete work. Even with the best intentions, developers often forget to relate the code they have changed to the task they were working on. With the Tasktop Dev Borland StarTeam Connector, developers’ work is automatically linked to the task, defect, requirement or custom artifact that the developer was focused on. With Tasktop Sync, enterprise teams using Borland StarTeam can integrate and synchronize mixed and best-of-breed ALM stacks, including HP ALM and HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Team Concert, and two dozen other leading Agile, ALM, and open source tools. It provides single-source traceability and reporting across the tools used for enterprise Agile ALM planning, software development and quality management.
Key benefits of Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector include:
• Consolidated Visibility: With Tasktop Sync, organizations can now view all artifacts, custom or otherwise, from third-party tools, bringing them into the same unified presentation as native StarTeam artifacts.
• Development Efficiency: With Tasktop Dev, developers are able to stay in their IDE where they are most productive, but still participate in the processes and workflows that management needs.
• Increased Visibility for Management: More accurate and frequent developer status and time reporting provides management with increased visibility for project planning.
• Enhanced Traceability: Organizations now have the flexibility to create traceability between StarTeam source code and change management artifacts and assets in third-party systems as needed to fit existing processes.
• ALM Synchronization: StarTeam is now supported by the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework which provides real-time synchronization, configurable automatic conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools’ tracking and reporting facilities.
“We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Tasktop around the Borland StarTeam Connector, which augments our next release of StarTeam 12.0 with new capabilities that are often requested by our customers,” said Archie Roboostoff, Borland Portfolio Director at Micro Focus. “Micro Focus is committed to delivering leading edge developer experience, productivity and ALM solution interoperability and we see Tasktop as a key partner in extending StarTeam’s capabilities in these areas.”
Availability
The Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector, both through Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync, will go into general availability on 16 Dec 2011. For more information please visit (http://tasktop.com/borland-starteam). To read the announcement blog post on the Tasktop Borland StarTeam Connector please visit: (http://tasktop.com/blog/eclipse/borland-starteam).
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com (www.microfocus.com) .
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About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies aims to transform the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the developer’s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. The company’s Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information visit http://tasktop.com
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November 28, 2011
TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES NEW SYNC 2.0 PROVIDES ALM ARCHITECTURE MAPPING AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE LINKING VIA OSLC
Tasktop continues to bring order and increased productivity from disparate and disconnected Agile ALM tool stacks within enterprise IT organizations
VANCOUVER , BC Nov. 28, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced Tasktop Sync 2.0, the latest version of its Task Federation™ platform that allows IT organizations to synchronize existing ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects. Tasktop Sync 2.0 makes it even easier for administrators to manage their ALM synchronizations through powerful visual tools and extends integration support via change management artifact linking via the Open Services for Lifecycle Management (OSLC) interoperability protocols.
“Complex sourcing has become the norm for most companies – including off-shoring and open source – and deployment across a multitude of platforms, such as mobile, embedded, cloud and on-premise, drives software development challenges,” said Melinda Ballou, program director for IDC’s Application lifecycle Management (ALM) service. “In this context, lack of coordination across lifecycle management phases and automation undermines business innovation and agility. Companies urgently need ways to effectively connect a broad range of lifecycle tools to enable visibility, metrics and control.”
Tasktop Sync is built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework to provide real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools. It unifies heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers, business analysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. Built on the company’s Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync brings task federation to ALM servers, by providing the only real-time, bi-directional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. The company’s Tasktop Dev product line supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developer’s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.
“Medium and large organizations’ ALM stacks have become so diverse and disconnected that the lack of traceability and cross-stakeholder collaboration has become the bottleneck of large-scale software delivery,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “Tasktop has spearheaded a new approach to connecting stakeholders in the application lifecycle, making it possible to capture an organization’s ALM architecture in a single tool and deliver real-time connectivity and traceability across a wide variety of open source, commercial and legacy ALM systems.” (To read Mik Kersten’s blog post on this announcement please visit: (http://tasktop.com/blog/news/tasktop-sync-2-0-released)
Tasktop Sync 2.0 includes several innovations for connecting ALM stacks and stakeholders. It provides new visual tools that allow ALM architects and administrators to connect to ALM repositories, conduct introspective analysis of repository schemas and intelligently connect previously disconnected tools via ALM artifact mappings. In addition to artifact synchronization, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides a new software lifecycle artifact linking facility built on the OSLC ALM interoperability protocols to serve as a broker for linking ALM artifacts
Based on Tasktop’s continued collaboration with IBM to define the OSLC protocols, Tasktop Sync 2.0 provides OSLC-based REST API access to more than 20 Tasktop Certified™ Mylyn connectors as well as dozens of other community-driven or in-house Mylyn connectors. For example, organization using IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools in the ALM stack, such as Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer, can now link with artifacts from a broad range of third-party and open-source ALM tools, such as HP ALM and Quality Center, Atlassian JIRA and Mozilla Bugzilla. OSLC linking extends Tasktop Sync’s synchronization facilities to support live connectivity and embedding of ALM artifacts in a similar way that social networking tools can embed each other’s feeds (e.g., Twitter within Facebook).
New Features in Tasktop Sync 2.0 include:
• Sync Quick start wizard to dramatically reduce the time to set up the first synchronization.
• Visual editor for configuring synchronization mappings.
• Fine-grained and automated conflict resolution and handling.
• Full support for custom fields, rich text and wiki transformations, attachments and user mappings.
• Synchronization support for all common ALM artifacts, including defects, tasks, work items, test summaries and requirements.
• Unlimited mappings and repositories to connect large-scale ALM stacks with numerous servers and tools.
• Bi-directional synchronization of task associations, ALM artifact hierarchies, and complex fields
• Groovy-based scripting support for complex field transformations.
• For IBM CLM users, full support for IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) synchronization rules and mappings, allowing administrators to update mappings within RTC.
In addition, Tasktop announced the availability of Tasktop Dev 2.2 that brings new connectivity for developers using HP ALM and Quality Center. Tasktop Dev 2.2 builds on HP’s Application Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI) feature to provide instant workspace provisioning for developers using Eclipse. Now, developers can simply connect to a release in HP ALM, and Tasktop’s Task Federation facilities load into the workspace the SCM and Continuous Integration (CI) artifacts needed to work on the release, for example, source code from Subversion or builds from Hudson/Jenkins. Tasktop Dev 2.2 also extends HP ALI traceability automation to ClearCase.
Availability
Tasktop Sync 2.0 and Tasktop Dev 2.2 are both available for download tomorrow. Tasktop Sync is offered through perpetual licenses with annual support and maintenance, or annual subscriptions. As a limited-time introductory offer, Tasktop Sync is available as a bundle with Tasktop Dev (Enterprise Edition) for $199 per user, per year. More information is available at (http://tasktop.com/sync).
About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies aims to transform the productivity of software delivery by unifying Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and empowering developers with task-focused tools. Tasktop invented the task-focused interface and created the popular Eclipse Mylyn project, which transformed the developer’s IDE experience to center around ALM tool-based collaboration. Building on top of Mylyn, Tasktop has been unifying the ALM landscape with its broad ecosystem of ALM partnerships that connect disparate tools from leading Agile, enterprise ALM and open source offerings. Tasktop’s Task Federation™ technology builds on this ecosystem to unify heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability and visibility across ALM artifacts. The company’s Tasktop Sync provides the only real-time bidirectional and fully automated synchronization between ALM servers. Tasktop Dev is the developer-centric ALM interface for the Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, making it dramatically easier for developers to work and collaborate, while keeping ALM tools up-to-date with development activity. For more information visit http://tasktop.com
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M: 303-827-5164
FREEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES TO EXHIBIT AND SHOWCASE LATEST WIRELESS DATA RADIOS FOR GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE APPLICATIONS AT I/ITSEC
First time exhibitors will feature latest industrial radios for soldier training applications at the World’s largest modeling, simulation and training conference
ORLANDO, Fla., I/ITSEC, (Booth #2914), Nov. 28, 2011 – FreeWave Technologies, (http://www.freewave.com), manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced it will exhibit for the first time at I/ITSEC (http://www.iitsec.org/Pages/default.aspx) and showcase its latest industrial grade wireless data radios for government and defense markets. FreeWave radios are used in these industries for a variety of applications, such as command and control of unmanned vehicles and robotics; biological and chemical sensing; asset tracking; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Micro UAV; guided parachutes; soldier training and range data systems applications; and, more.
“FreeWave is dedicated to serving its customers in the government and defense markets,” said Ashish Sharma, chief marketing officer at FreeWave Technologies. “Our customers choose our technologies based on their enduring performance, small footprint and lightweight format – making them ideal for mission critical and life or death applications where proven reliability is a necessity.”
At I/ITSEC, FreeWave will feature its popular radios which are currently used by the Department of Defense and other government organizations for several major training programs and ranges. The MM2, F Series and P Series radios are deployed during soldier training exercises to transmit performance data for after action review (AAR). Soldiers will wear the radios for GPS positioning and to register speed, hit data and other diagnostics for player units, targets and effects. Upon evaluation of the data, a soldier’s performance can be modified to better prepare for combat.
FreeWave’s MM2 radios offer all of the same features of its standard-sized radios but in a much smaller package. It weighs in at 14 grams with a size of 1.4-inches high by 2.0 inches wide. The MM2’s tiny features, long-range ability, reliability and security make it ideal for the government and defense market. The F Series operates in the 225 MHz-400 MHz frequency band and the P Series is available in 1.35 GHz-1.39 GHz. Both are designed to meet the rigorous demands of users worldwide in the most adverse environments.
FreeWave also will demonstrate a diverse collection of its popular ruggedized data radios in its booth at I/ITSEC (#2914). The entire Micro Mini family will be featured, including the MM2-MU (340 MHz-400 MHz), MM2 (900 MHz), GXM (2.4 GHz) and MM2-M13 (1.3 GHz). Additionally, FreeWave will display its F-Series (225 MHz-400 MHz) in enclosed and board level product variants. Attendees are encouraged to stop by FreeWave’s booth for an introduction to the company and to learn about its latest technology offerings.
“The applications our radios are used for directly align with the interest of attendees at I/ITSEC,” said Sharma. “ We hope our booth visitors will walk away from this event understanding the FreeWave difference, which is a combination of unmatched reliability, noise immunity, customer service and cost savings.”
For live updates from the show floor, please follow FreeWave on Twitter (@freewavetech). For more information about FreeWave’s line of wireless data radios, please visit the company’s website at (www.freewave.com).
About FreeWave Technologies
Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies manufactures the most reliable, high performance, lowest power consumption, spread spectrum and licensed radios for mission-critical data transmission. Through engineering excellence and a relentless commitment to best-in-class manufacturing, FreeWave customers enjoy superior network up-time, range and the lowest cost of ownership in its class. Based in Boulder, Colorado, FreeWave designs and manufactures radios that are the leading choice for oil and gas, utility, military and numerous other industrial applications. Organizations that count on radio data communications for operational trust FreeWave for custom network design, system engineering and customer support that is unparalleled in the market. For additional information, contact FreeWave directly at 866.399.4930 or at newsinfo@freewave.com. Visit the company’s website at (www.freewave.com).
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Christin Jeffers
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760 ext. 19
COLLABNET’S LAURENCE SWEENEY TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES ON DEVOPS AT GARTNER APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE SUMMIT
Sweeney to explain how enterprise IT departments can increase developer productivity, speed software delivery and realize governance by implementing DevOps
WHO: Laurence Sweeney
Vice President, Enterprise Transformation
Laurence Sweeney helps CollabNet’s enterprise customer adopt and scale Agile practices and DevOps programs. He has more than 25 years of software development experience, including director of software at HP. In this role he acquired, deployed and managed multiple Agile ALM platforms for tens of thousands of developers and managers in dozens of divisions.
CollabNet also will be exhibiting at the event at booth L.
WHAT: “Industrializing Agile Software Delivery with DevOps”
Nov. 30, 2011 1:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PST
In his presentation, Sweeney will explore the frequency with which code is released to production. He will share why monthly, weekly and daily software releases are increasingly commonplace, and not just for start-ups. Enterprise IT departments have increased developer productivity, saved millions and realized governance by implementing DevOps. Participants who attend this session will hear best practices learned from Fortune 500 implementations. Examples include: 1) U.S. financial services company that cut production release variants by 85 percent, 2) global logistics company that realized flexible delivery cycles ranging from monthly to daily. The session will conclude with an interactive Q & A session from the audience.
WHERE: Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit
Caesars Palace – Las Vegas
(http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/applications/about.jsp)
INFO: For more information on this presentation or to arrange an interview with the Mr. Sweeney please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
November 21, 2011
COLLABNET TO SHARE ENTERPRISE BEST PRACTICES FOR AGILE AND APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011
CollabNet to showcase its deep experience leading successful continuous integration and enterprise Agile implementations with industry partners and Deutsche Post DHL
WHO: CollabNet (www.collab.net) executives will lead several sessions at the upcoming HP Discover 2011 event in Vienna focused on best practices for scaling Agile methods and continuous integration practices in the enterprise.
WHAT: Agile Adoption is Opening New Doors for Enterprise IT Groups to Work Faster and Closer Together…called DevOps
WHEN: Nov. 29, 2011
11:45 a.m. CET
Speakers:
Paul Peissner, director, Business Development, CollabNet
Russ King, vice president, Product Development, Results Positive, Inc.
Todd DeCapua, vice president, Services, Shunra Software Ltd.
Rainer Heinold, senior director, Technical Services, CollabNet
The Vivit Special Interest Roundtable at HP Discover will cover:
1. How DevOps improves IT through development and testing efforts focused on continuous integration including application development integrations with HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and HP Unified Functional Testing.
2. Development and release efforts focused on continuous delivery and continuous improvements including application development for HP Operations Orchestration and HP Server Automation.
3. Development and corporate alignment focused on project optimization including development cost-cutting and speeding up time-to-market, as well as Agile and HP Project and Portfolio Management integrations.
WHAT: Automation and Control of IT Run Services at Deutsche Post DHL
WHEN: Dec. 1, 2011
11:30 a.m. CET
Speakers:
Ralf Knobloch, senior expert, IT Service Control, Deutsche Post DHL
Dominique Wurzler, vice president and EMEA general manager, CollabNet
Guillaume Runser, worldwide solutions marketing manager, Software, HP
Every working day 70 million letters are delivered by Deutsche Post DHL in Germany. This requires exceptional technology and an integration of tools from the development and IT operations domains.. This case study session will outline how the organization went through a massive transformation, from common siloed processes and manual-driven IT to a reliable, consistent and automated Application Lifecycle Management platform with cloud-enabled elements. The presentation examines the implementation and deployment of a simplified governance framework through the standardization of tools, processes and requests. It will highlight the benefits Deutsche Post DHL gained with the help of automation, DevOps tools consolidation and the power of cloud computing.
WHAT: An Automated End-to-End DevOps Solution with CollabNet and HP
WHEN: Dec. 1, 2011
12:30 p.m. CET
Speakers:
Paul Peissner, director, Business Development, CollabNet
J.R. Horton, senior product line manager, Software, HP
Industry research shows that up to 80 percent of development handoffs to production are unsuccessful. This is a growing concern for IT decision makers responsible for cost-effectively meeting the changing business needs, while delivering critical undisruptive services. This session will showcase a new approach to solving the challenge of managing IT with a business-centric DevOps model. The session will show how HP Server Automation, HP Operations Orchestration, HP Application Lifecycle Management, and CollabNet’s TeamForge framework work together to align IT with business needs. Attendees will learn how this end-to-end solution creates graceful transitions from the business need, to IT project, to application release, and to the new business service while providing visibility, traceability and robust tracking capabilities, creating effective applications and relationships between IT and the business. Explore customer use cases that will illustrate how IT teams can increase productivity as the result of HP and CollabNet bridging the business and IT gap through defining the direction of DevOps.
WHERE: HP Discover 2011
Vienna, Austria
INFO: For more information on these presentations or to arrange an interview with CollabNet please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
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TASKTOP’S AGILE ALM SYNCHRONIZATION TOOL NAMED FINALIST FOR THE 2011 JOLT AWARD
Tasktop Sync recognized in coding category for enabling developers to increase their productivity and collaboration
VANCOUVER , BC Nov. 21, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced that its product, Tasktop Sync (http://tasktop.com/sync) has been selected as a finalist for Dr. Dobb’s 21st Annual Jolt Awards (http://drdobbs.com/joltawards) in the Coding category.
For the past 21 years, Dr. Dobb’s Jolt Awards have been presented annually to products that have “jolted” the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient. This year, finalists are selected on an ongoing basis across several categories.
“We’re proud Dr. Dobb’s has recognized Tasktop Sync for its ability to help large organizations produce and deliver software more efficiently and effectively communicate across multiple stakeholders with increased traceability,” said Neelan Choksi, President & COO of Tasktop. “Today’s modern software development world is fraught with chaos characterized by decentralized decision making, frequent iterations, outsourced and remote workers, and information overload. Tasktop Sync is our response to those challenges. It provides the only real-time and transparent connectivity between the various stakeholders in the software delivery process from management, business analysts, testers and developers, allowing each stakeholder to be successful while improving the combined results of the organization.”
Unlike previous approaches to ALM synchronization, Tasktop Sync is built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework to provide real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools’ tracking and reporting facilities. Building on the company’s Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder in the software development lifecycle has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice, even if the data resides across requirements management, Agile development and traditional quality management systems.
For more information on Tasktop Sync please visit: (http://tasktop.com/sync)
About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration and task-focused interface framework, provides desktop and enterprise-grade solutions that improve productivity, collaboration and Agile ALM success. Its Tasktop Dev products provide task-focused support for Agile planning, tool integration, web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Its Tasktop Sync provides real-time ALM server synchronization to unify and connect heterogeneous technologies with development and IT operations teams that are scaling Agile methods in the enterprise. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to IT organizations that are adopting the task-focused paradigm and Agile ALM. For more information please visit (www.tasktop.com) .
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November 17, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE AGILE ALM STRATEGIES WITH HP’S RAZIEL TABIB AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011
Development professionals will learn how to manage the increasingly complex and heterogeneous set of tools and processes that make up today’s ALM practices
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder, Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Raziel Tabib – product line manager, Software, HP
WHAT: Managing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategies
The reality of today’s development world is agility; speed and time to market are no longer a luxury but are essential ingredients to maintaining market leadership. Organizations have to move fast and embrace changes without any compromise on quality. In order to execute successfully on such goals, organizational process and culture will need to adjust. During this session, Kersten and Tabib will outline and demonstrate how HP and Tasktop provide development managers with visibility and traceability across heterogeneous tools, processes and technologies to address challenges and provide best practices for organizations. Wherever development teams are located and whatever tools or technologies they work with, HP ALM solutions can serve as a single system of record, providing development managers with the intelligence they need to increase quality and shorten release cycles.
WHEN: Thurs., Dec. 1, 2011 – 12:30 p.m. CET
WHERE: HP Discover 2011
Vienna, Austria
INFO: For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
COLLABNET BRINGS AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO THE CLOUD WITH SCRUMWORKS PRO HOSTED ON CODESION
Cloud development platform enables Agile teams to quickly spin up development projects in the cloud; more than 1,500 customers chose Codesion in past 12 months
BRISBANE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2011 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, today announced the availability of its ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management tool hosted on the Codesion cloud development platform. The new ScrumWorks Pro service can be provisioned instantly on the Codesion platform, enabling Agile developers to code, connect and deploy software on an enterprise-grade platform backed by 24/7 support, uptime SLAs and integrations with leading development solutions and production environments (public/private clouds). Now, for the first time, development teams have access to a fully integrated, cloud-based Agile development platform that spans Agile project management, source code management and deployment.
General availability starts today and a free 30-day trial is available at: (https://app.codesion.com/ajax#signup?mode=swpdemo&source=swp).
“A growing number of development organizations are moving beyond traditional Agile project management SaaS offerings and looking to gain the speed, cost and productivity gains that cloud computing offers,” said Guy Marion, vice president, CollabNet cloud services. “Having ScrumWorks Pro offered within a flexible, hosted cloud environment, tightly coupled with leading source code and deployment ALM tools, further extends the benefits of Agile methods for rapid development and delivery of software.”
CollabNet continues to lead the industry adoption of enterprise cloud development with a portfolio of products and services that provide the performance, security and traceability today’s maturing Agile-based environments require. The Codesion cloud platform, designed to meet these enterprise needs, has been adopted by more than 1,500 customers in the past 12 months, reflecting the increasing number of companies shifting development and IT operations to the cloud. The Codesion platform empowers thousands of developers to streamline the development and deployment process using a growing ecosystem of hosted open source and commercial tools, including Apache Subversion, Git, Trac, Bugzilla, CollabNet’s Agile ALM platform TeamForge, and other leading Agile project management tools.
The hosted version of ScrumWorks Pro, used by more than 100,000 developers globally through on-premise installations, now is available on-demand directly from the Codesion cloud platform. It enables Agile organizations to quickly provision source code management, tracking, project management and delivery tools to manage a variety of development processes and needs. Development managers now have a breadth of choice and flexibility from a tooling perspective, while maintaining visibility and ensuring process uniformity across teams.
The benefits of the new ScrumWorks Pro cloud development offering include:
• Agile in the Cloud: best of breed Agile project management offered through a hosted cloud, and coupled with leading source code management and deployment solutions.
• Speed: teams can provision and be up and running with ScrumWorks Pro in minutes, with no software installation or hardware upgrades.
• Flexibility: Codesion’s open and extensible platform allows users to provision ScrumWorks Pro alongside a growing list of other common development tools.
• Ease of Use: ScrumWorks Pro is very intuitive to use and requires no custom configurations or lengthy set up. It also is supported by an extensive library of training videos to help development teams succeed with Agile-based methods.
• Enterprise-grade Security and Reliability: the Codesion-enabled ScrumWorks Pro, hosted in world-class SAS-70 data centers, is “Security Standards Compliant” and protected with secure backup and disaster recovery systems.
“CollabNet is helping our organization embrace cloud development as a means of improving productivity and reducing costs while, at the same time, providing structure and visibility we need from a business standpoint,” said Vinay Asthana, Team Lead, Veterans Enterprise Technology Solutions, Inc. “Having Agile project management available through ScrumWorks Pro on Codesion is a major step in moving more of our development projects to the cloud where we can code, collaborate and deploy software more efficiently.”
About CollabNet
CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise Cloud development, powering global software development for more than 7,000 companies, from workgroups to enterprises. As the company that spawned from deep open source roots with the sponsoring of industry-leading Subversion, we are dedicated to leveraging collaboration, Agile methods, and Cloud computing to transform the way software development organizations develop and deploy applications, in their cloud or ours. Through this transformation, CollabNet clients have recognized improved productivity by up to 70 percent and reduced their cost of software development by up to 80 percent due to the implementation of highly Agile and enterprise-wide collaborative and distributed techniques. Our solutions include TeamForge®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed developers, the Codesion cloud hosting and integration platform, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed SCM, and Agile training and transformation services. For more information, please visit www.collab.net.
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