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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.
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January 5, 2012
COLLABNET TO OUTLINE ‘INDUSTRIALIZING AGILE SOFTWARE DELIVERY WITH ALM2.0+’ DURING FREE WEBINAR FEATURING ANALYST DAVE WEST AND DEUTSCHE POST
WHO: Bill Portelli, CEO, CollabNet (www.collab.net)
Dave West, Vice President, Research Director, Forrester Research, Inc. (www.forrester.com)
Michael Loetzsch, Transition Manager, Deutsche Post (http://www.deutschepost.de/)
WHAT: Enterprise IT departments have increased developer productivity, saved millions and realized governance with DevOps. However, as the value and importance of software delivery increases, the importance of applying business management to the discipline of software also grows. ALM 2.0+ describes changes to traditional ALM in terms of breadth and depth. ALM 2.0+ tools and strategies expand integration with operations and accept tool and platform heterogeneity. They impose a boundary above practitioner tools and encourage ALM to interact with those tools in the context of work and harvest information for traceability, reporting and management.
Attendees of this webinar will learn why ALM 2.0+ is vital for implementing Agile software delivery and DevOps on enterprise scale, and how it’s different from traditional ALM approaches. How CollabNet’s TeamForge platform enables central governance, without mandating end-user tools or repositories, or locking customers into rigid software configurations. And, what key factors contributed to Deutsche Post realizing 30 percent faster time to market and saving more than 20 percent in IT operations cost, across 800 diverse projects
WHEN: Thursday, January 12, 2012
10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET
REGISTER: (http://www.open.collab.net/webinar/117)
INFO: For more information on this Webinar or to arrange an interview with CollabNet please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
December 20, 2011
TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES ENJOYS BREAKOUT YEAR IN 2011 AS AGILE ALM INTEGRATION HITS CRITICAL MASS
Enterprise IT organizations turn to Tasktop to synchronize ALM tool stacks and improve productivity, collaboration and software delivery velocity
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 20, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tools and a leader in Agile ALM integration and productivity, experienced strong organic growth during 2011 as maturing Agile development practices mandate tighter integration of project management, quality assurance, release management and development tools to achieve success at the enterprise level. Tasktop responded to this growing need with the launch of Tasktop Sync, the most powerful and broadest reaching synchronization server that unifies ALM tool stacks and provides team members working throughout the application lifecycle the ability to collaborate across functions within their tool of choice.
“By focusing on the needs of the developer and creating the Mylyn open source frameworks, we long ago established ourselves as the leaders of ALM integration. But it was not until this year’s release of Tasktop Sync that we were able to meet the ALM integration needs of mid and large scale Agile deployments and ALM modernizations.” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “The interest and adoption of Tasktop Sync since that release has been tremendous, and indicative that integration has now become a leading concern of ALM deployments. For a growing number of industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing, software is becoming a core aspect of what they do, and many organizations need the cross-vendor traceability, visibility and collaboration that Tasktop provides.”
Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tasktop now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, and has seen its staff grow to more than 30 employees. In 2011, it was named a Best Company to Work for in British Columbia and Best Employer by Small Business British Columbia, was a finalist for the prestigious software industry Jolt Award and received the 2011 AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award from HP. Tasktop now offers integrations with more than 80 leading open source, Agile and enterprise ALM suites recently adding or expanding integrations with Borland StarTeam, Accept360, Microsoft Visual Studio, and IBM Rational Team Concert.
Both Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev (for desktop productivity and integration) are built on the industry-standard, open source Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework. Tasktop Sync provides 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. Tasktop Dev supports Tasktop Sync by federating tasks and other ALM artifacts on the developer’s Eclipse and Visual Studio desktops.
The company’s thought leadership also was very strong during 2011, with Kersten and other Tasktop experts presenting more than 30 times at leading industry events, including CeBIT, EclipseCon, JAX, JavaOne, IBM Innovate, Agile2011, Microsoft ALM Summit, SQE East and HP Discover. Kersten also is sought-after source for media and industry analysts, and contributes to a widely read blog at (http://tasktop.com/blog/). In 2011, Tasktop was active in the open source community with contributions and support for more than a dozen open source projects.
“Tasktop is helping a growing number of enterprise IT customers build better software faster and more efficiently,” said Neelan Choksi, Tasktop’s president and chief operating officer. “Over the past year, we made significant strides, nearly doubling our revenue and headcount. In conjunction with our ever-growing and deepening ecosystem of partners, we are advancing the productivity of software teams and IT organizations. The next year will be even more exciting and rewarding as we roll out new, innovative technology that helps bring teams together by expanding not just across the software development stack but beyond to an even broader set of constituents.”
For more information on Tasktop Sync or Dev please visit: (www.tasktop.com).
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://www.tasktop.com
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December 19, 2011
COLLABNET SEES ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT AS THE NEXT WAVE IN AGILE ALM, DEVOPS INITIATIVES IN 2012
As Agile and DevOps movements mature so too does cloud development
BRISBANE, Calif., Dec. 19, 2011, CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, expects the adoption of cloud development practices to increase in 2012 as a growing number of IT organizations build and deploy software directly in the cloud. During 2011, CollabNet saw a 40 percent increase in cloud development projects developed, deployed and hosted on its private and public cloud offerings, with more than 1,500 new customers adopting its Codesion™ cloud development platform over the past 12 months.
“The software development industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and we see the convergence of Agile ALM, Continuous Delivery and hybrid cloud strategies making enterprise-wide cloud development practices increasingly attractive to IT organizations,” said Bill Portelli, CEO and co-founder of CollabNet. “In this context, ‘enterprise’ applies to the compliance, traceability and security standards that software-driven organizations require from the cloud to increase productivity, global collaboration and the pace of releasing quality software .”
From an industry perspective, CollabNet cites the following factors that are leading to enterprise cloud development as the next wave in software development: 1) maturing cloud development platforms that provide enterprise-grade security and regulatory compliance, 2) the ability to integrate commercial and open source ALM tools in the cloud, 3) the increase in Continuous Delivery in the cloud, and 4) the mainstream adoption of hybrid computing strategies that blend public and private cloud platforms based on application type and usage requirements.
CollabNet is well-suited to gauge the increased adoption of cloud development practices. The company maintains six world-class data centers that provide up to 99.99 percent average availability and stringent security controls for more than 1.5 petabytes of annual data traffic and 3.5 billion Subversion transactions per year. It maintains a highly trained operations team for managing large enterprise ALM sites, managing more than 10 terabytes of data annually and 1.6 million Subversion transactions per day for more than 25,000 users. It hosts approximately 800,000 documents and 350,000 artifacts for more than 5,000 projects using 7,000 trackers.
“We see enterprise cloud development as a growing movement in the software development industry and the result of two megatrends in IT – cloud computing and Agile ALM,” said Guy Marion, vice president of cloud services for CollabNet. “Just as Agile processes are scaling across IT organizations, cloud development is moving from smaller projects to more strategic implementations that larger IT organizations are using to adopt and scale software development and deployment directly in the cloud.”
CollabNet enables hybrid cloud development strategies with a portfolio of products and services that provide the performance, security and traceability today’s maturing Agile-based environments require. CollabNet’s cloud platforms meet enterprise needs and 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.
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 (now formally known as Apache 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.
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December 14, 2011
COLLABNET ADDS GIT SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT TO CODESION ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
IT organizations using multiple source code tools now have a single, enterprise-grade hosting platform that offers the flexibility and cost-savings of cloud development
BRISBANE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2011 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader for enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced that the Git source code management (SCM) tool is now available as a fully hosted, enterprise-grade solution directly from its Codesion cloud development platform. This cloud-enabled version of Git follows the company’s recent launch of CollabNet Connect™ that made Git available as an integrated tool within the TeamForge® Agile ALM platform. Both options make Git a viable choice for enterprise IT organizations where the highest standards in support, security, availability and back-up are a “must” requirement.
“The continued convergence and adoption of open source and commercial ALM tools within cloud development platforms requires new levels of assurance for both performance and security,” said Guy Marion, vice president of CollabNet Cloud Services. “Now development teams working on mission-critical projects have access to Git within a highly secure, reliable and enterprise-grade cloud development environment that includes other popular SCM tools, such as Subversion, and leading ALM solutions.”
Many IT organizations find that development teams use a wide range of both open source and commercial SCM and ALM tools. With Git now available on Codesion, organizations can deploy and manage Git, Subversion and other SCM tools “under one roof,” with code stored in a single, secure, enterprise-ready location. For enterprise customers managing hundreds of projects across multiple tool stacks, Codesion now offers both integrated SCM hosting along with access to a growing suite of development tools, including: Trac, BugZilla and CollabNet’s ScrumWorks® Pro and TeamForge for Agile ALM, and Codesion Publisher for software deployment.
CollabNet is the first company to provide a cloud-enabled platform to govern and secure development with the Git DVCS tool, such as for mobile application development. Enterprises can now take advantage of the speed and flexibility provided by Git without compromising corporate standards for compliance, security or management efficiency – all in the cloud.
To trial the new version of Git hosted on Codesion please visit (http://Codesion.com/free-trial)
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 (now formally known as Apache 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.
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December 7, 2011
AGILE ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES DATES AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR AGILE2012
Industry’s leading conference on Agile development seeks community ideas and thought leaders for presentations at event
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7, 2011 – Agile Alliance, (http://agilealliance.org/), a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced the “call for speakers” for Agile2012 is now open. The conference is scheduled for August 13-17, 2012 in Dallas, Texas (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/). Agile2012 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices.
“The Agile2012 conference is presented by the community, for the community,” said Mitch Lacey, Agile2012 conference chair. “We invite those who are passionate about providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information to submit a topic of interest to the general Agile community. There will be much competition – we expect more than 1,000 submissions for roughly 200 presentations.”
As in prior years, public users of the submission system (any registered user) will be able to browse proposals and post comments. Submitters may also post comments on reviews or public comments of their own proposals to provide clarifications, explain revisions and respond to questions. The review committees are distributed by stages. Each stage has an area of focus. Presenters will be able to submit their presentation to the stage that they feel most nearly represents a given topic.
In its 11th year, Agile2012 is the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development, bringing together many disciplines in the fields of information systems and software development to foster the exchange of fresh ideas and best practices. It provides independent software vendors, software consultants and in-house corporate development teams with the knowledge and shared experiences that lead to successful Agile programs. Agile2012 connects attendees with the foremost leaders in the Agile domain, enriching the collective body of knowledge and influencing the line of thought in the field. It encourages debate and fosters innovative ideas based on real-world implementations for executives, managers, software development practitioners and researchers from labs and academia.
The submission system is open now and will remain open until Feb. 19, 2012. For more information or to submit a presentation please visit: (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/for-speakers/).
About Agile Alliance
Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the globe, Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry’s leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2012 Conference is scheduled for August 13-17 in Dallas, Texas. For more information about the organization, please visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/).
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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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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.
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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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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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