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May 22, 2012
JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW LAB — USING HADOOP WITH .NET-BASED MAPPERS AND REDUCERS
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 — 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, JNBridge’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. The labs are distributed freely, with pointers to documentation and links to source code. They are announced on the company’s blog (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/blog/) and are available on JNBridge’s website (http://www.jnbridge.com/labs).
The Hadoop lab demonstrates how developers can write .NET-based Hadoop mapreducers against the Java-based Hadoop API — 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.
“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,” explained Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. “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.”
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. JNBridge’s interoperability software and adapters have received numerous accolades over the company’s past 10 years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor and the Reader’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).
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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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May 16, 2012
COLLABNET OUTLINES FIVE PRINCIPLES OF ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT IN ANIMATED VIDEO SCRIBE
CollabNet outlines a five-step blueprint for embracing Enterprise Cloud Development as the next evolution in software development and deployment
BRISBANE, Calif., May 16, 2012 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, has created an animated video scribe that succinctly outlines five principles IT organizations can use to adopt and scale cloud development practices. CollabNet worked collectively with its internal experts, cloud platform partners and enterprise customers to develop a practical roadmap for Enterprise Cloud Development that addresses the cultural, technical and process aspects of cloud development and how it extends the value of Agile and DevOps in the enterprise.
Animated video scribes are fun, highly engaging presentations that highlight and simplify often complex concepts through the use of visual and audio learning queues. Through a blend of audio storytelling and professional animation, video scribes help magnify and reinforce key learning points for enterprise and industry organizations. To view CollabNet’s video scribe, Five Steps to Software Development and DevOps in the Hybrid Cloud please visit: (http://tinyurl.com/bwmwqm5).
“The rate or change and the accompanying complexity within the IT industry can be overwhelming, especially within the software development and cloud computing industries,” said Jim Ensell, chief marketing and strategy officer for CollabNet. “We challenged ourselves to outline the core principles of Enterprise Cloud Development in five practical steps and to detail them within a fun and engaging video scribe that runs just more than three minutes.”
Based on its years of experience and patterns of customer success, CollabNet has outlined a blueprint containing five practical steps to guide organizations on their path to Enterprise Cloud Development as they adopt hybrid cloud IT into the application development and deployment lifecycle. The steps include: 1) embrace the cloud for centralizing access and visibility to tools and processes; 2) create a robust coding community to encourage reuse; 3) codify development processes by standardizing tools, workflows and processes; 4) automate DevOps practices; and 5) take a hybrid approach by leveraging public and on-premise private cloud resources in a secure, compliant and optimal way.
In addition to the video scribe, CollabNet has developed additional videos and a white paper that outlines in more detail the principles of Enterprise Cloud Development. All of the content is available free by visiting (www.collab.net/ecd).
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About CollabNet CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. CloudForge 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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April 30, 2012
COLLABNET LAUNCHES CLOUDFORGE, INDUSTRY’S FIRST ENTERPRISE-GRADE DEVELOPMENT-PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE (dPaaS)
CloudForge enables software development teams to develop and deploy in seconds, using a hybrid mix of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds
BRISBANE, Calif., April 30, 2012 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced CloudForge™, a new development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) that helps distributed teams and enterprise IT organizations adopt, manage and scale cloud-based development activities using a hybrid mix of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds. For teams, CloudForge provides ease-of-use, instant access to popular development tools, integrations with cloud services and one-click deployment to public PaaS or private datacenters. For IT organizations, it provides centralized role-based security, automated backups, visibility and compliance needed to code, connect and deploy software applications within a hybrid mix of public, private and on-premise cloud environments. CollabNet also announced that its on-premise TeamForge® and Subversion Edge installations seamlessly integrate into CloudForge.
“Rapid developer adoption of cloud-based services has enabled companies of all sizes to build and release new categories of software, including mobile, local and cloud-based applications, without assuming the upfront capital costs associated with supporting requisite new IT,” said Guy Marion, vice president and general manager for CollabNet Cloud Services. “As cloud development matures, CloudForge addresses the glaring need for a secure, flexible and scalable platform to help enterprises gain control of and benefit from hybrid cloud development.”
CloudForge represents the industry’s first enterprise-grade dPaaS offering, and underpins CollabNet’s strategy to lead the adoption and growth of Enterprise Cloud Development. It provides code repository hosting (Subversion and Git), access to hosted and third-party Agile tools, and facilitates the deployment of applications to public and private cloud environments. It uniquely extends to and integrates with on-premise applications like TeamForge, Subversion Edge and leading commercial and open source tools, or to affiliated cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry and SOASTA. This mix of hybrid cloud and lifecycle capabilities enables development teams to leverage the power of Agile processes and DevOps initiatives – while providing the enterprise with a centralized view of productivity, cost management and compliance.
“Having a flexible platform to quickly build and ramp up a cloud development program has helped our company become more agile and responsive to the market,” said Rahul Subramanian, managing director for DevFactory, a Trilogy company. “CollabNet and its CloudForge platform provide a much needed development and deployment front-end to the IaaS and PaaS offerings that are available today – our developers love it and it provides the visibility and control we need to run the business.”
CloudForge is an entirely new platform that is built upon the industry leading Codesion® cloud development framework that more than 4,000 global customers use daily. It is more than a year in the making and leverages CollabNet’s extensive experience building development communities and helping enterprise IT organizations manage complex distributed team environments. While CloudForge offers an easy, flexible and low-cost “on-ramp” to cloud development, it is 100 percent enterprise-ready, with the high availability, backup, compliance, security, user management and support expected from a world-class cloud offering.
“By partnering with CollabNet, CloudForge provides a front-end development platform that provides easy access to the Cloud Foundry™ PaaS environment – whether hosted in the public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise environment,” said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services at VMware. “With CloudForge, CollabNet is bringing cloud development and Cloud Foundry to the enterprise in a way that makes sense for development and operations teams, and provides a centralized platform for executives.”
Starting today, CollabNet is making CloudForge Cloud Services accessible from within all of its products, including its TeamForge ALM and Subversion Edge SCM platforms. Initially, the new Subversion Edge CloudBackup service provides seamless Subversion data archiving, redundancy and migration capabilities for any on-premise user of Subversion Edge or TeamForge, without leaving their own desktop environment. Future hybrid cloud services will become available later in 2012 within Subversion and TeamForge, and may range from elastic server provisioning for build and test, to data analytics services and access to knowledge communities.
The CloudForge hybrid cloud development platform includes the following capabilities:
- Collaborative UI: A newly designed user interface that promotes open, collaborative development in the cloud and for the cloud, with an emphasis on sharing, speed, simplicity and built-in training.
- Developer Feed: Aggregates development activities in real time through a streaming, searchable dashboard for easy reference and data access.
- Reporting Center: Provides centralized visibility for development managers and IT administrators with a focus on project performance against milestones, coding progress and system/access logs.
- CollabNet App Center: Building and managing a cloud development platform is easy through two “App Zones,”
- My Services – provides easy-to-provision development services included within the CloudForge Public Hosting plan, including SCM (Subversion, Git and CVS), trackers (Trac, Bugzilla and DAV) and Agile ALM (ScrumWorks® Pro and TeamForge) tools. Integrated services include basic (Basecamp, Pivotal, FogBuzz and Lighthouse) and premium (JIRA, Rally and VersionOne) levels.
- Marketplace – additional add-on services may be purchased through the CollabNet partner ecosystem, including: Cornerstone, ALMWorks, BrainEngine, SOASTA, New Relic and Zendesk.
- Hybrid Cloud Deployment – Includes one-click deployment to public PaaS or private datacenters
Share this story via Twitter: @CollabNet launches @CloudForge to drive #cloud #software #development in the #enterprise. Learn more today at www.collab.net/ecd
Availability
CloudForge is being rolled out as part of CollabNet’s corporate re-launch and alignment to support Enterprise Cloud Development. It is currently available for free public beta by visiting http://cloudforge.com/try. CloudForge will be commercially available, with full enterprise support, starting later in the second quarter of this year.
About CollabNet
CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
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CollabNet, TeamForge and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. CloudForge 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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COLLABNET USHERS IN THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: ENTERPRISE CLOUD DEVELOPMENT
CollabNet aligns strategy with Enterprise Cloud Development; adds and integrates CloudForge into its product portfolio to drive hybrid cloud development and deployment
BRISBANE, Calif., April 30, 2012 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today unveiled its new corporate strategy to support the enterprise adoption of hybrid cloud development and deployment. It is the culmination of 12 years of development vision, innovation and community-building to better connect teams, processes and tools, both on premise and in private and public clouds. In addition to launching its new strategy, corporate website and a host of thought leadership content around Enterprise Cloud Development, CollabNet today launched CloudForge™, the industry’s first enterprise-grade development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS), and also integrated CloudForge into its on-premise TeamForge® and Subversion Edge products.
“The information technology sector, and the software development industry in particular, is rapidly evolving into a mix of Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud practices to accelerate application development and deployment,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. “Enterprise Cloud Development is the evolution of basic cloud development, as it enables enterprises to extend their internal IT practices to the external cloud in a flexible and hybrid nature by leveraging existing systems and embracing new platforms. Our customers are telling us that their software engineering processes must be enhanced to introduce new spans of control as their teams adopt hybrid cloud development and deployment.”
As part of its corporate alignment to support Enterprise Cloud Development, CollabNet unveiled its new website that includes a series of online presentations, and is sponsoring an IDG TechCast called “What you need to know about Enterprise Cloud Development.” The TechCast is available for immediate viewing and includes videos of CollabNet executives, partners and industry influencers, a white paper and animated video scribe outlining five practical steps to incorporate cloud development into Agile and DevOps practices.
To register for CollabNet’s free webinar on Enterprise Cloud Development, please visit: (http://visit.collab.net/ecdevent.html).
Follow this link (http://www.collab.net/ecd) for useful content:
- Online presentations of CollabNet executives, partners and industry influencers.
- Download the 5 Steps to Enterprise Cloud Development white paper.
- View the Enterprise Cloud Development animated video scribe.
Follow these links to:
- Try the free beta of CloudForge at (http://cloudforge.com/try).
- Visit CollabNet’s new website at (www.collab.net).
Industry research shows that cloud development is quickly working its way into the overall enterprise IT mix. For instance, a 2011 study conducted by Saugatuck Technology indicated that “75 percent of all companies will be doing some of their development in the cloud in 2012, and an average of 50 percent of new software deployments worldwide will be made in the cloud by the end of 2014.”
Based on its years of experience and patterns of customer success, CollabNet has outlined a blueprint containing five practical steps to guide organizations on their path to Enterprise Cloud Development as they adopt hybrid cloud IT into the application development and deployment lifecycle. The steps include: 1) embrace the cloud for centralizing access and visibility to tools and processes; 2) create a robust coding community to encourage reuse; 3) codify development processes by standardizing tools, workflows and processes; 4) automate DevOps practices; and 5) take a hybrid approach by leveraging public and on-premise private cloud resources in a secure, compliant and optimal way.
To deliver customer and industry value, CollabNet’s Enterprise Cloud Development strategy is strengthened by three new product offerings:
1) The launch of CloudForge: CollabNet’s next-generation dPaaS is built from the previously acquired Codesion® public cloud hosting platform, and meets the needs of professional teams throughout the entire organization. It helps developers and IT managers instantly develop and deploy software using a hybrid mix of tools, application frameworks and deployment clouds – all with enterprise security and compliance in place.
2) Standardizing Enterprise Cloud Development for the industry: CloudForge adds unique capabilities for its users, and creates new dPaaS business opportunities for third-parties through its new App Center. By offering complimentary, best-of-breed development and deployment services, including Cloud Foundry and SOASTA, users gain integrated functionality and platform partners can directly access CollabNet’s more than 10,000 customers. It also helps CollabNet rapidly expand its menu of services offered within the CloudForge user interface.
3) ALM and SCM hybrid cloud services: Initially, CloudForge Cloud Services will be available to customers with on-premise deployments of Subversion Edge and TeamForge. A new Subversion Edge CloudBackup service now provides seamless Subversion data archiving, redundancy and migration capabilities for any on-premise user of Subversion Edge or TeamForge, without leaving their own desktop environment. Later in the year, additional hybrid cloud services will be available in TeamForge and Subversion Edge, such as elastic server provisioning for build, test and deployment.
“Software development is changing, due in part to the growth of cloud computing. Smaller teams are taking the lead with cloud-based development, and in turn proving value and gaining the attention of executives responsible for the bottom-line,” said Ben Kepes, principal at research firm Diversity Analysis. “As enterprise IT looks to cloud development, offerings such as CollabNet’s, that provide the foundation for companies to embrace the cloud in a manner that integrates into and extends existing development processes, will be seen as the best way of ensuring efficiency and effectiveness.”
Share this story via Twitter: @CollabNet launches new #cloud #software #development for the #enterprise. Learn more today at www.collab.net/ecd
About CollabNet
CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge™ development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge® ALM, ScrumWorks® Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
CollabNet, TeamForge, and ScrumWorks are registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. CloudForge 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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April 24, 2012
COLLABNET AND MSDEVELOP PARTNER TO OFFER AGILE AND CLOUD DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS TO FAST-GROWING IT INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL
Strong adoption of Agile, open source, DevOps and cloud development in Brazil bodes well for partnership of leading IT companies
BRISBANE, CALIF. AND SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL, April 23, 2012, CollabNet®, a leading provider of enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM solutions, and MSDevelop, a Brazil-based IT services firm, today announced a partnership to jointly deliver Agile- and cloud-based development and deployment solutions to software-driven organizations in Brazil. MSDevelop will now offer and fully support CollabNet’s suite of products and services to help enterprise IT organizations adopt and scale Agile methodologies and emerging cloud development practices to improve productivity, collaboration and customer value.
In addition to supporting CollabNet products and services in the region, MSDevelop is establishing a new development practice based on CollabNet platforms and its deep domain expertise, with targeted emphasis on government and financial markets. The companies also will conduct a four-city seminar tour slated for Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Recife and São Paulo later in the year. For complete and continued information please visit a new web page the companies have established at (http://visit.collab.net/msdevelop.html).
“Latin American countries, and Brazil in particular, are emerging as technology leaders with a highly educated workforce, support from all levels of society and an acceptance of the innovations being made around open source, Agile and cloud computing,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO for CollabNet. “We are extremely excited about the opportunity to join forces with MSDevelop and to expand our global reach into one of the fastest-growing IT markets in the world.”
CollabNet helps organizations adopt modern and collaborative approaches to software development, with an emphasis on distributed team environments, Agile methods and cloud development and deployment. Its products support application lifecycle management (ALM), Agile project management and cloud development across the enterprise – with world-class training and consulting services available to help with transformation success. MSDevelop brings more than 19 years of IT experience, combining strong domain expertise in the areas of governance, business intelligence, consulting and outsourcing. Through its partnership with CollabNet, MSDevelop is poised to increase its leadership role in the area of software development.
“Software innovation is a key component to the success and growth of the IT industry in Brazil, and MSDevelop is committed to advancing the art of software development and deployment together with our customers and partners,” said Augusto Streppel, president of MSDevelop. “Partnering with CollabNet, and having access to both its technology platforms and customer success experience, will be a great value to our current and future customers throughout all regions of Brazil.”
Together with CollabNet, MS Develop will now offer expanded services around Agile, Scrum, ALM, DevOps and cloud development and deployment to enterprises throughout Brazil. The company has assigned a dedicated delivery team to support and deploy CollabNet products and services to its customers, and the two companies will jointly collaborate to help early adopters of Agile scale practices across the enterprise. It has and will continue to be an active member of the thriving Agile community in Brazil, participating in industry events like Agile Brazil.
For more information on this partnership and MSDevelop’s expanded offerings please visit (http://visit.collab.net/msdevelop.html).
About MSDevelop
As a professional IT services resource for almost two decades in Brazil, MSDevelop combines domain expertise and experience with leading technologies for a complete IT solution, producing positive ROI for its customers. It provides IT services in the areas of governance, business intelligence, consulting and outsourcing – whether a single project or managing all of a customers’ IT assets. With CollabNet, MSDevelop now offers expanded services around cloud development, Agile, ALM and DevOps-IT to enterprises throughout Brazil, as well as to Brazil’s public sector entities. The company is strategically located in the heart of Brazil’s greatest business centers: Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Recife and São Paulo. For more information please visit: http://www.msdevelop.com.br
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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March 6, 2012
GORILLA LOGIC RELEASES MONKEYTALK FOR CROSS-PLATFORM IOS, ANDROID FUNCTIONAL TESTING
New Open Source Testing Platform Helps Streamline the Delivery of Quality Mobile Applications
BOULDER, Colo., March 6, 2012 – Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), the leader in enterprise application development and automated mobile testing tools and services, today announced the availability of MonkeyTalk, a new cross-platform iOS/Android functional record/playback functional testing platform that unites the industry leading FoneMonkey for iOS and FoneMonkey for Android open source tools. MonkeyTalk provides a single, powerful, cross-platform testing environment that helps development teams speed the delivery of higher quality mobile applications. The power of MonkeyTalk is multiplied by Gorilla Logic’s new Continuous QA in the Cloud service offering (see today’s announcement entitled, “Gorilla Logic Announces New Cloud-based Quality as a Service (QaaS) Offering.”
“Mobile application testing services are poised for enormous growth in 2012 with U.S. companies rapidly accelerating their demand for the use of third-party mobile application testing tools and services,” said Rona Shuchat, program director at IDC. “With Gorilla Logic’s new Continuous QA Cloud offering, QA professionals can effectively and efficiently automate the testing of mobile apps across multiple devices and simulators (in any combinations) to meet the increasing demand for highly usable and high performing mobile apps.”
For the first time, QA professionals have a comprehensive solution for mobile application testing. MonkeyTalk fills a huge void in the application development/delivery toolkit by recording, playing back and validating any user interaction on any mobile device or tablet. MonkeyTalk handles any gesture on any component, and supports both iOS and Android, simulators or devices.
As part of MonkeyTalk platform, Gorilla Logic has introduced the MonkeyTalk Command Language, a simple, but powerful, keyword- and data-driven language for specifying functional test scripts. Designed for QA professionals, MonkeyTalk Command Language is intuitive, readable and easy-to-learn. MonkeyTalk can be generated automatically through recording or composed from scratch with the MonkeyTalk IDE or with any text editor. In addition, testers and QA professionals can extend MonkeyTalk with their own application-specific commands without any programming. MonkeyTalk’s JavaScript API also allows tests to freely mix JavaScript and MonkeyTalk for enhanced control.
“We’ve immersed ourselves in the functional testing tools space for four years with thousands of teams using FlexMonkey and FoneMonkey, so we were able to step back and redesign with a focus on how people work in the real world,” said Edward Schwarz, vice president of engineering and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. “The MonkeyTalk command language as well as comprehensive support for JavaScript-based test scripting are examples of listening to QA pros talk about what they need to really drive value.”
Key features of MonkeyTalk include:
- Powerful data-driven functional testing for iOS and Android
- Recording and playback of user interface interactions
- Verifying expected versus actual results
- Generating readable, maintainable scripts, as well as supporting easy creation of scripts from scratch
- Automatically converting scripts to JavaScript which can be extended with custom logic
- The ability to run in continuous integration environments
- Free, open source licensing
“With MonkeyTalk, we’re taking the whole mobile testing space to the next level – not only uniting our tools across platforms, but also focusing on the entire process of mobile QA and how to make as a seamless part of a Continuous Delivery process, or what we call Continuous QA,” said Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic.
Availability
MonkeyTalk is a free and open source tool and is available now. It can be downloaded at (www.gorillalogic.com/testing-tools/monkeytalk). To read more about the latest announcement and what it means for the MonkeyTalk community, please visit (http://blog.gorillalogic.com/). For more information on Gorilla Logic, please visit: (www.gorillalogic.com). To read CEO Stu Stern’s blog on this announcement please visit: (www.stu-stern.blogspot.com).
About Gorilla Logic
Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services on the ground and in the cloud to many of the world’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. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey, now called MonkeyTalk (iPhone/iPad/Android applications). To download Gorilla Logic’s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).
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Christie Denniston Catapult PR-IR Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13 Mobile: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.comGORILLA LOGIC ANNOUNCES NEW CLOUD-BASED QUALITY AS A SERVICE (QAAS) OFFERING FOR AUTOMATED MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING
New Cloud Service and Testing Platform Automates and Streamlines Mobile App Testing for Improved Time-to-market and Quality
BOULDER, Colo., March 6, 2012 – 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 industry’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 today’s announcement entitled “Gorilla Logic Releases MonkeyTalk”), Gorilla Logic now offers enterprises the tools and services needed to leverage a complete “Continuous QA” cycle when developing and deploying high quality mobile applications.
“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,” explained Ed Schwarz, vice president of engineering and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. “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.”
With Continuous QA Cloud, enterprises can focus on delivering quality apps to their customers by leveraging a “Quality as a Service” delivery model that eliminates time, cost and expertise barriers associated with QA of mobile applications. Gorilla Logic’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 Logic’s industry-leading open-source testing tool – MonkeyTalk (formerly FoneMonkey). MonkeyTalk’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 – iOS and Android.
- QuickStart Services – 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.
Schwarz says up to this point, Gorilla Logic’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 “the wild west/roll your own” model.
By bringing together an automation toolset focused on QA professionals with a zero-configuration, cloud-based, on-demand test execution and management platform, Gorilla Logic’s Continuous QA Cloud solves these problems without impacting delivery speed or requiring extensive re-tooling or skills acquisition. “We have spent the last six months bringing together a complete offering – tools, process, expertise and the Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud platform – to really change the game for Agile project teams delivering rich interactive applications – especially the QA teams,” said Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. “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 hasn’t seen before.”
Pricing and Availability
Gorilla Logic’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 Stern’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 world’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 Logic’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 Logic’s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).
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JNBRIDGE PREDICTS INTEROPERABILITY WILL BECOME LYNCHPIN FOR CLOUD TECHNOLOGY SUCCESS IN 2011 AND BEYOND
JNBRIDGE PREDICTS INTEROPERABILITY WILL BECOME LYNCHPIN FOR CLOUD TECHNOLOGY SUCCESS IN 2011 AND BEYOND
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 15, 2010 – JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, today said interoperability will make or break cloud computing success in 2011 and beyond.
”We believe that what is typically discussed under the rubric of cloud interoperability is so insufficient it will destroy the promise of the cloud,” said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge and interoperability expert. “Our vision of cloud interoperability is one where applications and services can be developed in any technology and deployed to any cloud, where cloud services can be accessed by any other cloud service or from any client on the ground. In other words, any platform, anywhere. And until that exists, there will be severe limits on user adoption of cloud computing.”
Citrin predicts the top three trends that enterprises should expect in 2011:
1. The realization among cloud users (if not also among cloud providers) that true cloud interoperability really doesn’t yet exist – despite cloud vendors’ claims to the contrary. There’s an “emperor’s new clothes” situation with regard to cloud interoperability. Despite what many vendors say, it just doesn’t work. Citrin says this will become important in the coming year as users continue to adopt cloud platforms. Initially they will be migrating legacy applications to the cloud, since those applications will be immediately available. But the roadblocks that will come up, particularly with “platform as a service” offerings, may cause users to sour on cloud offerings and cause adoption to be delayed.
2. The introduction of tools and technologies to support interoperability – particularly, the ability to migrate legacy non-cloud applications into the cloud (regardless of the platform for which they were written, and regardless of the cloud platform to which they are being migrated), and the ability to access cloud services from clients running on any platform, regardless of the cloud platform upon which the service resides.
However, he cautions that it needs to be easy. “Customers want things to ‘just work,’” Citrin said. “For interoperability to ‘just work,’ it either will need to be built into the cloud platform offerings themselves, or will need to be third-party cloud services that can just be plugged into directly. The more technically sophisticated customers who create their own cloud services from scratch will have no problem adopting conventional tool-based offerings, but other customers who want to wire their offerings together from best-of-breed services (that are available regardless of platform) will just want these offerings to work together – either right out of the box or through the addition of easy-to-use interoperability services. These customers are used to the idea of connecting services together, and they will be comfortable plugging in a service that allows interoperability.”
3. Initial steps supporting the notion that interoperability can be a service, too, – as well as a conventional tool. Cloud services supporting interoperability will begin to be introduced, and will start gathering early adopters. However, Citrin says customers may be disappointed that the services they create will not be usable by up to half their potential market. If they write Java-based services, they will shut out .NET-based customers, and if they write .NET-based (Azure) services, they will shut out Java-based customers. Creators of cloud services may be disappointed by the adoption of their offerings, which again will slow the further roll-out of cloud services.
“Interoperability in the cloud is currently a real problem. Supporting real interoperability is critical to the success and survival of the cloud computing model, and right now it is a large stumbling block that prevents adoption,” said Mark Driver, vice president of research at Gartner. “Initiatives that support cloud interoperability in its various aspects will benefit cloud users, vendors of cloud services, and vendors of the underlying cloud platforms.”
Aside from interoperability, Citrin sees one other cloud trend in the coming year. “We will see greater support for the ‘housekeeping’ capabilities that will need to be part of any offering built on cloud platforms. Particularly, features like user access and feature control (also known as ‘licensing’) and metering/billing support. I suspect these will arrive in the form of service offerings themselves that can be plugged into the newly developed cloud offerings,” he said. “However, without robust support for licensing and billing, software developed for cloud platforms won’t be anything more than just a toy.”
For more information on JNBridge and its family of interoperability solutions please visit: (www.jnbridge.com). To stay abreast of JNBridge’s plans for the cloud, please visit (www.jnbridge.com/cloud).
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. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 400 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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October 16, 2009
LTECH AND GOOGLE TO HOST EXECUTIVE BREAKFAST IN CHICAGO TO OUTLINE BENEFITS OF GOOGLE APPS AND CLOUD COMPUTING
Technology executives interested in enterprise cloud computing can learn practical approaches from case studies and industry experts
Bridgewater, NJ – October 15, 2009 – LTech (www.ltech.com), a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing products and services, and Google (http://www.google.com/) will host an Executive Breakfast on Thursday, Oct. 22 at Google’s Chicago offices outlining the latest trends, developments and uses of Google Apps in large enterprise environments. LTech and Google representatives will share their experience and case studies to outline how a growing number of larger organizations are dramatically lowering IT costs while increasing user productivity with Google Apps. 
Technology executives interested in this event, held at Google’s Chicago office, 20 West Kinzie St. Chicago, IL 60610, on Thursday, Oct. 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., can register at: (http://www.ltech.com/events/Apply-Google-Chicago/)
“An increasing number of large enterprise organizations are turning to Google Apps to improve the effectiveness of their IT operations,” said Joe Koziol, head of enterprise sales for Google. “Our long-time partners like LTech have been instrumental in helping customers deploy Google Apps in the enterprise and we’re pleased to jointly share our knowledge and experience with them here in Chicago.”
The Chicago Google Executive Breakfast will provide executives and IT Leaders an opportunity to meet and share ideas, as well as gain insights into how to leverage Google Apps and cloud computing to maximize IT budgets and improve enterprise productivity. Topics to be discussed include: the evolution of cloud computing, market analysis and research in SaaS applications, the economics of Google Apps, how to improve messaging and collaboration and best practices for deploying Google Apps in large companies.
About LTech
LTech is a leading provider of products and services focused on connecting business to the cloud. LTech’s cloud integration products include Google Docs Backup and LTech’s recently launched Power Panel for Google Apps. LTech also helps enterprises leverage the cloud by providing products, implementation, configuration, and support services. As an early Google Enterprise PartnerTM founded in 2001, LTech has successfully completed dozens of Google Apps deployments spanning hundreds of thousands of users. LTech merged with The Matlen Silver Group Inc., a business and technology solutions company for Fortune 500 companies, in January of 2009. For more information on LTech and its services please visit www.ltech.com, or call 866-583-2473.
Google and Google Apps are trademarks of Google Inc.
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