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January 26, 2012
COLLABNET ADDS BOARD MEMBER AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES TO FUEL CONTINUED GROWTH IN AGILE ALM AND ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT
CollabNet continues to execute on its long-term strategy to bring enterprise collaboration and Agile development to the cloud
Brisbane, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012, CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced the addition of Promod Haque, a managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners, as a new board member, and the appointment of two senior executives to its management team. In addition to Haque, CollabNet added Tony Farinaro as senior vice president, worldwide services and Laurence Sweeney as vice president, enterprise transformation.
“CollabNet is coming off a record year of growth and success as we continue to help a growing number of enterprise customers adopt and scale Agile and cloud-based development strategies from concept through deployment,” said Bill Portelli, CollabNet’s CEO and co-founder. “To build upon our momentum and better serve our customers we are very pleased to strengthen our management roster with highly experienced industry leaders.”
CollabNet continues to lead the software development industry in bringing Agile and cloud development practices to software-driven organizations through a suite of products and services that promote enterprise collaboration, innovation and flexibility. Its Agile ALM offerings, delivered on-premise and in the public cloud, including TeamForge®, ScrumWorks® Pro and world-class training and consulting, help customers adopt and scale Agile-based methods across and through the entire application lifecycle. CollabNet’s Codesion platform-as-a-service brings enterprise-grade, on-demand development and deployment capabilities to developers and teams looking to harness the benefits of cloud computing.
The following outlines the experience of CollabNet’s newly appointed executives:
Promod Haque: New Board Member
Haque is a managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and brings more than 20 years of experience building successful technology firms. At NVP, he has invested in more than 60 companies, producing nearly $30 billion in exit values to date. More than 20 of his portfolio companies have gone public, and nearly 35 have been acquired. Haque’s expertise reaches a variety of technology sectors, including systems and IT infrastructure, software and services. Prior to NVP, he spent 18 years in various operational roles, ranging from product development, marketing, COO and CEO at various public and private companies, including Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine.
Tony Farinaro: Senior Vice President, Worldwide Services
In his role at CollabNet, Farinaro is responsible for the development and delivery of world-class services that help organizations transform to a fully integrated and scalable Agile enterprise. He has extensive experience building and leading services teams in the areas of enterprise transformation, project management, systems and software development, IC design and training. His teams have helped companies around the world adapt new development processes, tools and methodologies to increase overall organization performance and reduce time to market for new product development. His industry experience includes telecommunications, federal, consumer, aerospace, medical, security and computer technology. Most recently, Farinaro was VP and General Manager of Global Services at Actel, where he led the global services team for contract design, product development and methodology consulting to accelerate corporate product development and reduce R&D costs.
Laurence Sweeney: Vice President, Enterprise Transformation
Sweeney brings to CollabNet deep technical and business experience that will help CollabNet customers transform their methodologies to Agile and Lean development in the cloud. He has more than 25 years of experience in the software development industry, where he has served a variety of roles, ranging from field-based consulting as a system performance specialist to factory based R&D management roles. Prior to CollabNet, he served as a director of software at HP, where he acquired, deployed and managed multiple Agile ALM platforms for tens of thousands of developers and managers in dozens of divisions. As leader of the HP Enterprise Software Transformation, Sweeney led the IT group that established the world’s largest centrally managed instance of HP Quality Center, as well as building out a 12,000+ seat CollabNet platform instance.
About CollabNet
CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, with more than 7,000 global customers that range from single workgroups to large enterprises. Its deep open source roots include the creation of Subversion, the industry leading version control system with millions of users. CollabNet helps enterprise customers build and deploy better software through its focus on collaboration, enterprise Agile methods and cloud development and computing. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. Its solutions include TeamForge, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed development, ScrumWorks Pro for Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed source code management, Codesion for cloud-based development and deployment, and a range of Agile-based training, consulting and transformation services. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
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CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. Codesion is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc. Subversion is a registered trademark of the Apache Software Foundation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders.
Media Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
O: (303) 581-7760
M: (303) 827-5164
November 17, 2011
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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CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. Codesion is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective holders.
Media Contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
O: (303) 581-7760
M: (303) 827-5164
