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JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW LAB — USING HADOOP WITH .NET-BASED MAPPERS AND REDUCERS

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:47:52 +0000

Using out-of-the-box JNBridgePro, company provides specific instructions and source code demonstrating how to write .NET-based Hadoop mapreducers in process and without streaming

BOULDER, Colo., May 21, 2012 â�� JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), a leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks both on the ground and in the cloud, today announced a new JNBridge Lab demonstrating how to build and use .NET-based mapreducers with Apache Hadoop. Using the out-of-the-box functionality of JNBridgePro, JNBridgeâ��s flagship product, this new lab provides a faster and better way to create heterogeneous Hadoop applications than other current alternatives. JNBridge Labs is a series of newly developed interoperability kits designed to help developers address new ways of connecting disparate technologies both on the ground and in the cloud. Â The labs are distributed freely, with pointers to documentation and links to source code. They are announced on the companyâ��s blog (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/blog/) and are available on JNBridgeâ��s Â website (http://www.jnbridge.com/labs). The Hadoop lab demonstrates how developers can write .NET-based Hadoop mapreducers against the Java-based Hadoop API â�� without having to use Hadoop streaming or incurring the overhead costs of parsing the stream. The resulting .NET code can run inside the Hadoop process, greatly reducing both development time and performance costs. â��We expect developers who want to implement or use Hadoop mapreducers written in C# or other .NET languages will find this much easier than other alternatives,â�� explained Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��The beauty of this lab is that the hardest part was getting educated on Hadoop. JNBridgePro is versatile enough that once we understood the problem, a straightforward and elegant solution pretty much just fell into place.â�� JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with simple-to-use Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridgeâ��s interoperability software and adapters have received numerous accolades over the companyâ��s past 10 years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor and the Readerâ��s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine. JNBridge expects to offer several more labs throughout the course of the year. The Hadoop Lab is available now and can be downloaded at (www.jnbridge.com/labs). Share this story via Twitter: #JNBridge shows how to use #dotnet (.NET) #mapreduce with #Hadoop. Get the code at www.jnbridge.com/labs About JNBridge JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. See what JNBridge can do in 3.5 minutes on (www.jnbridge.com/videoscribe.htm). JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Celebrating 10 years, JNBridge counts 25 percent of the Fortune 100 as its customers. The company has more than 500 unique customers in 40 countries that use its award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit (www.jnbridge.com) for more information.

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COLLABNET RECOGNIZED AS CHAMPION IN INFO-TECH RESEARCH GROUP’S

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:16:59 +0000

Completeness of product offering and company strength places CollabNet in â��uppermost rightâ�� of Agile ALM Vendor Landscape quadrant

BRISBANE, Calif., March 26, 2012, CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), the global leader for enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced its ranking as Champion in the Info-Tech Research Groupâ��s Agile ALM Vendor Landscape report (www.collab.net/accolades). CollabNet and its TeamForge ALM platform help IT organizations adopt and scale Agile-based development and deployment practices to increase enterprise software collaboration, innovation and productivity. TeamForge received the highest combined vendor and product ratings of any of the eight vendors that were evaluated in the report. â��Itâ��s a great honor to have CollabNet and TeamForge recognized as a Champion in the Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscape â�� and equally important to see Agile ALM mature as an IT strategy that is driving continuous improvement in the way we develop and deploy software,â�� said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO of CollabNet. â��The globalization and consumerization of IT is causing Agile ALM, DevOps and hybrid cloud computing to converge, requiring new development methods to enable productivity and responsiveness in the enterprise.Â We are excited to be acknowledged for our contribution to these advancements.â�� Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscape reports recognize outstanding vendors in select technology marketplaces. Assessing vendors by the strength of their offering and their strategy for the enterprise, Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscapes pay tribute to the contribution of exceptional vendors in particular categories, in this case Agile ALM. Champions receive high scores for most evaluation criteria and offer excellent value. They have a strong market presence and are usually the trend setters for the industry. Info-Tech Research Group analysts recognized CollabNet and its TeamForge Agile ALM platform with consistently high scores for both its product offering and corporate strategy. During a thorough evaluation process it cited the completeness of CollabNetâ��s full-featured ALM platform, its success helping both large enterprise and SMB customers achieve Agile success, and the support it offers to clients and channel partners. For more information about CollabNetâ��s TeamForge Agile ALM platform please visit: (http://www.collab.net/products/ctf/). About Info-Tech Research Group With a paid membership of over 25,000 members worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (www.infotech.com) is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech Research Group has a fourteen-year history of delivering quality research and is North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firm. 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 TeamForgeÂ®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed development, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro for Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed source code management, Codesionâ�¢ 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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GORILLA LOGIC ANNOUNCES NEW CLOUD-BASED QUALITY AS A SERVICE (QAAS) OFFERING FOR AUTOMATED MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:03:26 +0000

New Cloud Service and Testing Platform Automates and Streamlines Mobile App Testing for Improved Time-to-market and Quality

BOULDER, Colo., March 6, 2012 â�� Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), the leader in enterprise application development and automated mobile testing tools and services, today announced the Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud: the industryâ��s first Quality as a Service (QaaS) offering that tests and tracks the quality of mobile apps across iPhone, iPad and Android platforms. Together with the latest version of the MonkeyTalk automated testing tool (see todayâ��s announcement entitled â��Gorilla Logic Releases MonkeyTalkâ��), Gorilla Logic now offers enterprises the tools and services needed to leverage a complete â��Continuous QAâ�� cycle when developing and deploying high quality mobile applications. â��Functional testing always has been a challenge for Agile development teams, and the new pressures in the mobile app space - shorter schedules, multiple device versions and more complex interactions - are driving teams nuts. Our customers are really seeking innovative solutions that can reduce their cost and time-to-market while improving overall application quality,â�� explained Ed Schwarz, vice president of engineering and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. â��Quality as a Service really cuts the Gordian Knot with an all-new approach that builds upon our years of experience building open source test tools and extending mobile app testing and quality to the cloud.â�� With Continuous QA Cloud, enterprises can focus on delivering quality apps to their customers by leveraging a â��Quality as a Serviceâ�� delivery model that eliminates time, cost and expertise barriers associated with QA of mobile applications. Gorilla Logicâ��s onshore/offshore service delivery model leverages both its U.S. and recently opened Bangalore, India office to provide a price point that represents real value for any serious project team. Processes, tools and expertise combine to provide the kind of reliability and quality teams frequently struggle to achieve - without imposing speed bumps in their Agile process. The new Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud service provides:

A revolutionary platform which allows customers to test their apps automatically, on demand, across dozens or hundreds of mobile devices and simulators.
The power of Gorilla Logicâ��s industry-leading open-source testing tool - MonkeyTalk (formerly FoneMonkey). MonkeyTalkâ��s unique capabilities, from easy-to-work with record-playback to sophisticated data-driven test suites, are solving real-world functional testing challenges for mobile app teams worldwide. The latest MonkeyTalk expands these capabilities to include simpler and more powerful scripting and playback across both major mobile app platforms - Â iOS and Android.
QuickStart Services â�� a no-hassle service offering allows teams to be up and running with QaaS - with real test results in their hands every day - in three weeks without any learning curve or additional staff.

Organizations creating mobile apps today are challenged when it comes to testing, elaborates Schwarz. The field needs support to manage delivery quality in the face of ever-more-demanding consumer audiences, ever-shorter timeframes, and ever-expanding functionality These challenges only increase in the mobile space (gestures, location, direction, hybrid web apps, etc.). Most approaches still center around manual testing in developer desktop environments, assuming infrequent releases at long intervals.Â Â Schwarz says up to this point, Gorilla Logicâ��s open source MonkeyTalk (previously FoneMonkey) tools have been the leading innovation to address this issue. But challenges remain: the speed and integration the Agile Projects thrive on have left the QA team underserved. They have had to scramble to do the work of developers, integrators and operators just to make a test environment available, and their tools and integration are still are on the â��the wild west/roll your ownâ�� model.Â Â By bringing together an automation toolset focused on QA professionals with a zero-configuration, cloud-based, on-demand test execution and management platform, Gorilla Logicâ��s Continuous QA Cloud solves these problems without impacting delivery speed or requiring extensive re-tooling or skills acquisition. â��We have Â spent the last six months bringing together a complete offering - tools, process, expertise and the Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud platform â�� to really change the game for Agile project teams delivering rich interactive applications - especially the QA teams,â�� said Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. â��Continuous QA Cloud combines the power of Agile practices, availability of on-demand cloud computing power and the business-point-of-view approach of functional testing in a way which the industry really hasnâ��t seen before.â�� Pricing and Availability Gorilla Logicâ��s Continuous QA Cloud Platform service is available immediately, priced based on customer need. For more information please visit (www.gorillalogic.com/quality-service/what-is-qaas). To read CEO Stu Sternâ��s blog on this announcement please visit (http://blog.gorillalogic.com/). About Gorilla Logic Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services on the ground and in the cloud to many of the worldâ��s leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Gorilla Logicâ��s innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, MonkeyTalk (iPhone/iPad/Android applications - formerly FoneMonkey), and FlexMonkey (Flex applications). To download Gorilla Logicâ��s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).Â

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COLLABNET’S NEW AGILE ASSESSMENT SERVICE JUMPSTARTS ENTERPRISE AGILE TRANSFORMATIONS

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:38:01 +0000

IT organizations can leverage CollabNetâ��s extensive experience with large-scale Agile transformations with comprehensive, on-site assessment offering

Brisbane, Calif., March 5, 2012, CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), the global leader for enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced Agile Assessment, a new consulting service that helps IT organizations assess the status of existing Agile practices and develop strategies to extend the benefits of Agile-based methodologies across the enterprise.Â â��Agile methodologies continue to mature, and many organizations are looking to move beyond team-level project management and apply Agile practices across the enterprise, from application development on through to deployment,â�� said Tony Farinaro, senior vice president of worldwide services for CollabNet. â��Our new Agile Assessment services are a crucial step in transforming entrenched organizational cultures into an environment where Agile is not only accepted but embraced throughout the enterprise.â��Â Agile Assessment is a formal, structured approach to Agile success that follows a tested methodology that has been proven through numerous enterprise customer engagements. Leveraging CollabNetâ��s years of Agile experience, it includes a 5-day assessment process that is conducted by senior consultants on the customerâ��s site. It supports Agile transformations within the enterprise and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each customer, and identifies a firm, quantifiable action plan for improvement. The Agile Assessment takes a quantitative approach so progress can be measured as the proposed action plan is executed. In addition to providing Agile ALM, version control systems and Cloud development tools and platforms, CollabNet provides a range of training, coaching and consulting services that help IT organizations address the challenges of Agile software development. It is the world leader in Certified Scrum Training, conducting more than 200 courses a year and certifying more than 3,000 ScrumMasters annually. It also recently launched â��Agility Beyond Scrum: Preparing for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Exam,â�� a one-day, PMI-certified workshop that provides a complete overview of Agile principles and prepares candidates for the Project Management Institute ACP exam. For more information about Agile Assessment and all of the CollabNet training and services offerings, please visit: (http://www.open.collab.net/media/pdfs/ds-the-agile-assess.pdf?_=d). 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 TeamForgeÂ®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed development, ScrumWorksÂ® Pro for Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed source code management, Codesionâ�¢ 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 SEES ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT AS THE NEXT WAVE IN AGILE ALM, DEVOPS INITIATIVES IN 2012

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:48:42 +0000

As Agile and DevOps movements mature so too does cloud development

BRISBANE, Calif., Dec. 19, 2011, CollabNetÂ® (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 Codesionâ�¢ cloud development platform over the past 12 months.

â��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,â�� said Bill Portelli, CEO and co-founder of CollabNet. â��In this context, â��enterpriseâ�� 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 .â��

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.

â��We see enterprise cloud development as a growing movement in the software development industry and the result of two megatrends in IT â�� cloud computing and Agile ALM,â�� said Guy Marion, vice president of cloud services for CollabNet. â��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.â��

CollabNet enables hybrid cloud development strategies with a portfolio of products and services that provide the performance, security and traceability todayâ��s maturing Agile-based environments require. CollabNetâ��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 SubversionÂ®, Git, Trac, Bugzilla, CollabNetâ��s Agile ALM platform TeamForgeÂ®, 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, ScrumWorksÂ® 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 BRINGS AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO THE CLOUD WITH SCRUMWORKS PRO HOSTED ON CODESION

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:31:45 +0000

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 â�� CollabNetÂ® (www.collab.net), the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, today announced the availability of its ScrumWorksÂ® 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).

â��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,â�� said Guy Marion, vice president, CollabNet cloud services. â��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.â��

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 todayâ��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, CollabNetâ��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:

â�¢ 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.

â�¢ Speed: teams can provision and be up and running with ScrumWorks Pro in minutes, with no software installation or hardware upgrades.

â�¢ Flexibility: Codesionâ��s open and extensible platform allows users to provision ScrumWorks Pro alongside a growing list of other common development tools.

â�¢ 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.

â�¢ Enterprise-grade Security and Reliability: the Codesion-enabled ScrumWorks Pro, hosted in world-class SAS-70 data centers, is â��Security Standards Compliantâ�� and protected with secure backup and disaster recovery systems.

â��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,â�� said Vinay Asthana, Team Lead, Veterans Enterprise Technology Solutions, Inc. â��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.â��

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 TeamForgeÂ®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed developers, the Codesion cloud hosting and integration platform, ScrumWorksÂ® 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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JNBRIDGE ENABLES GLOBAL REINSURANCE FIRM SWISS RE TO ELIMINATE REDEVELOPMENT OF CORE ANALYTICS API

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:32:54 +0000

SwissRe able to shorten development times, improve localization and gain consistent business results

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 26, 2011- JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, and Swiss Re, (www.swissre.com) one of the world's largest and most diversified reinsurers, together are now enabling actuaries all over the world to incorporate a common numerical analysis Java API in their local market Excel-based applications in order to eliminate the need for local code reinvention and duplication.

"Giving actuaries working in local markets access to key functions from their VBA/.NET environments has changed the way they develop applications," said Johannes M. Hug, Ph.D. director of information technology at Swiss Re. "Without the need to reinvent critical code, they now can focus on integrating local market conditions for even more accurate analysis."

Insurance underwriting relies on complex analysis to make critical business decisions - including reviewing financials, valuing potential losses and mitigating risk. At Swiss Re, these analyses are performed by actuaries who chart and analyze probabilistic data using a proprietary library containing hundreds of classes of numerical and business functions that capture reinsurance knowledge and perform key computations.

Prior to seeking out JNBridgePro, Swiss Re had spent considerable resources in developing the Swiss Re Actuarial Library (SAL), its proprietary Java-based API that contains rich numerical analysis functionality. SAL is readily available to actuaries working on corporate enterprise applications at the home office but it was not accessible to actuaries in local markets thus resulting in actuaries continuing to reinvent the wheel by writing their own logic, investing time and effort to create and test more limited function sets.

"A great deal of business knowledge is embedded in the API - cost models, internal overhead and profit margin calculations and critical numerical and business functionality - content local users might not think to create," said Thomas Kruppa, director of products at Swiss Re. "Yet the API cannot address every market or rapidly changing local conditions. Local markets have unique characteristics that our Java-based enterprise library does not address. That is why many of Swiss Re's actuaries develop standalone Microsoft Excel applications that are tailored to local markets."

JNBridgePro is an interoperability bridge between Java and .NET that simplifies the issue of cross-platform integration. Using JNBridgePro, SwissRe was able to:

Integrate the solution quickly with a simple deployment: JNBridgePro quickly made SAL available to users. Dr. Hug estimates it took only a few weeks to validate the proxied Java API and distribute it directly to each user's desktop.
Gain consistent, repeatable results without reinventing code. By exposing the Java API, VBA/.NET developers can take advantage of an extensively tested, common code base to ensure greater numerical accuracy and eliminate errors. Users no longer need to code functions in Visual Basic or C+ and test them to ensure they return the same answer with the same precision as those provided by SAL. The result is centralized numerical and business intelligence that can be accessed by all actuaries to deliver consistent and repeatable results.
Develop local applications faster. Access to powerful routines lets users take advantage of sophisticated functionality that is unavailable when creating code from scratch. As a result, actuaries can spend their valuable time developing market-specific logic and build localized solutions faster.

For more information on JNBridgePro or JNBridge's JMS Adapters for Java and .NET. please visit: (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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JNBRIDGE DELIVERS JAVA AND MICROSOFT .NET INTEGRATION FOR THE CLOUD WITH LAUNCH OF JNBRIDGEPRO 6.0

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:55:45 +0000

JNBridgePro 6.0 addresses interoperability between major cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure

BOULDER, Colo., May 25, 2011 (Glue Conference Booth # 11) - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, announced today the release of JNBridgePro 6.0, which enables developers to access both .NET-based and Java-based cloud services and APIs from ground or cloud-based clients written in the other platform, and to develop cloud-based services and APIs that incorporate both Java and .NET-based components.

"As enterprise development teams start including cloud technologies in their applications, incompatible cloud platforms and APIs will be a huge road block," said Michael Cote, analyst at RedMonk. "We're already seeing a clamoring for tools and services that integrate this spaghetti bowl of end-points, and they're only going to become more important to realizing the benefits of cloud development."

JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with simple-to-use Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridgePro 6.0 extends this interoperability to the cloud, allowing developers to build and distribute integrated applications anywhere, including:

Intra-cloud, where both platforms reside in the same cloud, either in the same or in different instances
Inter-cloud, where the instances belong to different clouds
Ground-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground, where the interoperability is between a cloud instance and an application running on the ground.

"JNBridge's vision of cloud interoperability is any object or API, on any platform, in any language, anywhere," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "JNBridgePro 6.0 will allow enterprises to build applications that access any API, or build rich APIs that are accessible to the other side, no matter where they reside, and whether or not they are services enabled."

Along with extending all the high-performance interoperability capabilities of JNBridgePro to the cloud, JNBridge has both simplified and extended the licensing options. Now a single edition, JNBridgePro 6.0 includes all the functions of the previous standard (JNBridgePro SE) and enterprise (JNBridgePro EE) editions. JNBridgePro 6.0 now offers an annual licensing option, in addition to perpetual, and supports licensing of virtual machines and cloud instances.

Availability

JNBridgePro 6.0 will be generally available on June 6, 2011. To download and purchase directly please visit (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm).For more information on JNBridge, please visit (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

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JNBRIDGE CTO WAYNE CITRIN TO DISCUSS CLOUD COMPUTING INTEROPERABILITY AT GLUECON 2011

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:04:43 +0000

Citrin to present and demo how JNBridgePro 6.0 will enable developers to integrate Java with .NET code in the Cloud

Who: Wayne Citrin

CTO

JNBridge

(www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridgePro and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

What: Java/.NET Interoperability in the Cloud

Cloud computing is without question here to stay. However, how do IT organizations moving applications to the cloud integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications? At the GLUE Conference, Citrin will outline the level of support and various approaches developers can take to call Java from .NET in the cloud. Citrin will explain why he believes that what is typically discussed under the rubric of cloud interoperability is so insufficient it will destroy the promise of the cloud. For cloud computing to be successful 'Cloud Interoperability' must encompass full Cloud-to-Cloud access, whereby any cloud service can be consumed from any client or on-premise platform, and full interoperability within a cloud service. Citrin will conclude with an explanation of the approaches developers can take to make interoperability in the cloud successful. He will share use cases and tools that provide the ability to write cloud services using any platform, easily, simply and quickly, and regardless of the cloud vendor.

When: Wed., May 25, 2011

2-3 p.m. MTN

Where: GLUE Conference 2011

Omni Interlocken Spa and Resort

500 Interlocken Boulevard

Broomfield, CO 80021

Contact: For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:

Christie Denniston

Catapult PR-IR

303-581-7760, ext. 13

(cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

TASKTOP EXECUTIVES TO KEYNOTE AND PRESENT AT JAX 2011

Tue, 03 May 2011 01:14:06 +0000

TASKTOP EXECUTIVES TO KEYNOTE AND PRESENT AT JAX 2011

In keynote, Kersten to explore Continuous Integration and how cloud computing is creating a shift in software development and lifecycle management

WHO:  Mik Kersten
CEO of Tasktop Technologies
  Creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project
  Tasktop Technologies
  www.tasktop.com

  Steffen Pingel
  Senior Software Developer
Tasktop Technologies
  www.tasktop.com

  Benjamin Muskalla
  Software Developer
  Tasktop Technologies
  www.tasktop.com

WHAT: The following presentations will be given at JAX 2011

Keynote - Mik Kersten
Task-focused Continuous Integration: Bringing Code to Cloud and Back Again
(May 3, 2011 - 8:15 p.m. - 9 p.m.)

The deployment destination for enterprise applications is going through its biggest transition since the creation of Java. Cloud infrastructure is changing the game for both application deployment and lifecycle management. Over the past decade, open source technologies such as Spring and Tomcat have defined how we build and run enterprise Java applications. Recent developments in open source collaboration Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are now transforming how we evolve and manage those applications.

Kersten will explore connecting enterprise Java stack with cloud deployment via a task-focused continuous integration loop. The SCM, code review, and Agile ALM technologies, based on the Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability platform, will be used to demonstrate how to achieve this new level of connectivity and automation between the team and the application. The talk will conclude with a roadmap of how we can apply these new lessons to define the next decade of enterprise Java productivity.

Q & A: State of Continuous Integration - Mik Kersten
(May 4, 2011 - 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)

The latest changes in the Hudson/Jenkins case cause quite a stir. But how important are these changes for Continuous Integration? What is the technical roadmap? Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Steffen Schluff, Mik Kersten and Björn Feustel will give some advice and answer your questions.

Git, Gerrit, Hudson and one Mylyn to Rule Them All - Steffen Pingel and Benjamin Muskalla
(May 5, 2011 - 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.)

Git, Gerrit and Hudson are being increasingly adopted. While these tools enable exciting improvements for developers, learning how to push, pull and fetch can be daunting. For tasks, Mylyn already streamlines workflow by providing first-class integration with the IDE. The recent project restructuring now enables the same integrated workflows for code reviews, builds and version control systems.

Mylyn 3.6: Agile, ALM and Task-Focused Continuous Integration - Mik Kersten
(May 5, 2011 - 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.)

A decade ago, heavyweight ALM tools did more to impede developers than to support collaboration. With the move to Agile methodologies, the time has come to embrace lightweight collaboration and social coding tools to increase our velocity. For many Java developers, Mylyn has become the tool of choice for connecting team communication with coding. In 2010, Mylyn became a top-level Eclipse project and grew to support the entire Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) stack. This talk will outline how Mylyn can double Java coding output by bringing the entire workday into the place where developers are most productive - the IDE. Demos will showcase how Mylyn's task-focused interface integrates all leading task and Agile tools, SCM tools such as SVN and Git, and build/CI tools including Hudson. We will then review productivity best practices learned from deploying Mylyn at scale both in open source projects and large organizations. The talk will conclude with a vision of how realigning collaboration around a unified notion of tasks can yield a measurable productivity and knowledge capture benefit across the entire organization.

WHERE: JAX 2011 - The Conference for Java, Enterprise Architecture & SOA
Rheingold Halle Mainz
Rhein Strasse 66
55116 Mainz
Germany

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)