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November 30, 2011
COLLABNET LAUNCHES COLLABNET CONNECT™ FOR FEDERATED APPLICATION DELIVERY ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE CLOUD
New integration framework delivers change management hub by connecting commercial and open source ALM tools – brings Git to the enterprise
BRISBANE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 – CollabNet® (www.collab.net), the global leader in enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM, today announced CollabNet Connect™, a new integration framework for its TeamForge® ALM platform. It enables customers to orchestrate and govern application delivery processes across commercial and open source ALM and cloud development tools. In addition to integrations with leading ALM tools like HP Application Lifecycle Management platform and JIRA, CollabNet Connect also brings the Git open source version control tool into an enterprise-grade ALM platform. The Git integration provides users complete freedom of development approach, while simultaneously providing, for the first time, enterprise-grade Git governance and consistency of lifecycle practices for coding practices, release standards and IP reuse.
CollabNet will host a free webinar on Jan. 12, 2012, to share insights into ALM interoperability, change management approaches and how IT organizations can accelerate application delivery through Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices. Participants include CollabNet CEO Bill Portelli, Forrester vice president Dave West and Michael Loetzsch, transition manager from Deutsche Post. To register please visit: (www.collab.net/almplus).
“As software delivery becomes a strategic business process, ALM strategies must keep pace with business needs. Modern development teams need a platform that supports diverse and fast-changing requirements for tools, technologies and processes,” said Bill Portelli, co-founder and CEO of CollabNet. “CollabNet Connect addresses that need, providing a complete ‘change management hub’ for IT enterprises that require central governance without locking customers into rigid software tools, repositories and configurations. Our approach is completely unique in that third-party tools can integrate natively to the TeamForge environment, both from a look and feel, as well as from a lifecycle traceability perspective.”
Software development and delivery processes, along with associated tool sets, continue to evolve and change with the mainstream adoption of Agile and DevOps practices. As a result, large and distributed organizations are struggling to gain cohesive visibility, traceability and automation from its growing assortment of commercial and open source tools, resulting in “siloed” practices and limited collaboration. CollabNet Connect with TeamForge accelerates enterprise software delivery by providing development and IT operations teams with a cross-functional, fully integrated governance platform to share and track ALM artifacts, and allow stakeholders to work collaboratively in the tools of their choice – on-premise or in the cloud.
Bringing Git to the enterprise, CollabNet is the first major ALM vendor to provide a comprehensive platform to govern and secure development with the Git DVCS tool, such as for mobile application development. Enterprises can now join more than 1,000 TeamForge users and take advantage of the speed and flexibility provided by the Git tool, without compromising corporate standards for compliance, security or management efficiency. Also unique in the industry, CollabNet, the founder of the Subversion open source project (now formally known as Apache Subversion®), allows TeamForge projects to use CollabNet Subversion, Git or both SCM environments. Find out more at (www.collab.net/go/Git).
In addition, developers can achieve increased productivity by connecting their point tools to an enterprise framework for collaboration, automation and IP discovery and reuse. Tools like Atlassian JIRA now become “first class citizens” in an enterprise ALM platform, gaining instant access to features for enterprise scalability, traceability and artifact discovery across multiple JIRA instances, and access to corporate templates for consistent software delivery processes. Find out more at (www.collab.net/go/JIRA).
Benefits of CollabNet Connect include:
• GUI Integration – Incorporates the third-party tools natively into TeamForge as a “first class citizen.”
• Lifecycle Traceability – Extends traceability for applications with uniquely identifiable elements (e.g. work items, requirements, tests, etc.) making these elements universally available through TeamForge associations for end-to-end traceability.
• Workflow Extension – Extends workflow for applications that need to subscribe, modify or respond to TeamForge transactions, allowing enterprises to implement workflows that cross conventional tool boundaries.
• Collaboration Extension – Enables enterprise-grade software and highly collaborative delivery processes across diverse and changing technology stacks and development clouds.
• Tool-chain Visibility – Provides unprecedented visibility across software delivery processes, resulting in software release productivity gains through IP sharing and coordination.
• Search Integration – Allows ALM stakeholders across the enterprise to search, discover and share artifacts and documents across workgroups and locations, no matter what tools are used.
• Governance Extension – Empowers developers to work with the tools they want without compromising any corporate governance mandates.
“ALM is not dead — it has become ALM 2.0+.” writes Dave West, vice president and Research Director in the October 2010 Forrester Research Inc. report: The Time Is Right For ALM 2.0+. “ALM 2.0+ tools and strategies accept tool and platform heterogeneity, imposing a boundary above practitioner tools and encouraging ALM to interact with those tools in the context of work and harvest information for traceability, reporting, and management.”
The TeamForge and CollabNet Connect solution provides:
• Empowerment of developers while, at the same time, enterprise visibility and governance of standards and data of disparate point tools.
• The ability to overcome JIRA scalability issues by providing a framework into which separate JIRA servers may be incorporated using the TeamForge services distribution capabilities.
• A mechanism to create repeatable processes using the TeamForge ALM Process template to create standards for silo’d teams that are configuring tools.
• IP reuse to help companies align individual and inconsistently configured point tools into a set of enterprise standards.
Availability
CollabNet Connect will be available through the release of TeamForge 6.1.1. More information and download instructions can be found at (http://www.collab.net/products/collabnetconnect/).
About CollabNet
CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise Cloud development, powering global software development for more than 7,000 companies, from workgroups to enterprises. As the company that spawned from deep open source roots with the sponsoring of industry-leading Subversion, we are dedicated to leveraging collaboration, Agile methods, and Cloud computing to transform the way software development organizations develop and deploy applications, in their cloud or ours. Through this transformation, CollabNet clients have recognized improved productivity by up to 70 percent and reduced their cost of software development by up to 80 percent due to the implementation of highly Agile and enterprise-wide collaborative and distributed techniques. Our solutions include TeamForge®, the industry-leading Agile ALM platform for distributed developers, the Codesion cloud hosting and integration platform, ScrumWorks® Pro Agile project management, Subversion Edge for managed SCM, and Agile training and transformation services. For more information, please visit www.collab.net.
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November 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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TASKTOP’S AGILE ALM SYNCHRONIZATION TOOL NAMED FINALIST FOR THE 2011 JOLT AWARD
Tasktop Sync recognized in coding category for enabling developers to increase their productivity and collaboration
VANCOUVER , BC Nov. 21, 2011 – Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and a global leader in ALM integration and developer tools, today announced that its product, Tasktop Sync (http://tasktop.com/sync) has been selected as a finalist for Dr. Dobb’s 21st Annual Jolt Awards (http://drdobbs.com/joltawards) in the Coding category.
For the past 21 years, Dr. Dobb’s Jolt Awards have been presented annually to products that have “jolted” the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier and more efficient. This year, finalists are selected on an ongoing basis across several categories.
“We’re proud Dr. Dobb’s has recognized Tasktop Sync for its ability to help large organizations produce and deliver software more efficiently and effectively communicate across multiple stakeholders with increased traceability,” said Neelan Choksi, President & COO of Tasktop. “Today’s modern software development world is fraught with chaos characterized by decentralized decision making, frequent iterations, outsourced and remote workers, and information overload. Tasktop Sync is our response to those challenges. It provides the only real-time and transparent connectivity between the various stakeholders in the software delivery process from management, business analysts, testers and developers, allowing each stakeholder to be successful while improving the combined results of the organization.”
Unlike previous approaches to ALM synchronization, Tasktop Sync is built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework to provide real-time synchronization, automatic and configurable conflict resolution, and support for more than two dozen ALM tools’ tracking and reporting facilities. Building on the company’s Task Federation™ technology, Tasktop Sync ensures that each stakeholder in the software development lifecycle has access to the data that they need within their tool of choice, even if the data resides across requirements management, Agile development and traditional quality management systems.
For more information on Tasktop Sync please visit: (http://tasktop.com/sync)
About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies, the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration and task-focused interface framework, provides desktop and enterprise-grade solutions that improve productivity, collaboration and Agile ALM success. Its Tasktop Dev products provide task-focused support for Agile planning, tool integration, web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Its Tasktop Sync provides real-time ALM server synchronization to unify and connect heterogeneous technologies with development and IT operations teams that are scaling Agile methods in the enterprise. Tasktop also provides consulting, connector development services and training to IT organizations that are adopting the task-focused paradigm and Agile ALM. For more information please visit (www.tasktop.com) .
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November 17, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO OUTLINE AGILE ALM STRATEGIES WITH HP’S RAZIEL TABIB AT HP DISCOVER VIENNA 2011
Development professionals will learn how to manage the increasingly complex and heterogeneous set of tools and processes that make up today’s ALM practices
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder, Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Raziel Tabib – product line manager, Software, HP
WHAT: Managing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategies
The reality of today’s development world is agility; speed and time to market are no longer a luxury but are essential ingredients to maintaining market leadership. Organizations have to move fast and embrace changes without any compromise on quality. In order to execute successfully on such goals, organizational process and culture will need to adjust. During this session, Kersten and Tabib will outline and demonstrate how HP and Tasktop provide development managers with visibility and traceability across heterogeneous tools, processes and technologies to address challenges and provide best practices for organizations. Wherever development teams are located and whatever tools or technologies they work with, HP ALM solutions can serve as a single system of record, providing development managers with the intelligence they need to increase quality and shorten release cycles.
WHEN: Thurs., Dec. 1, 2011 – 12:30 p.m. CET
WHERE: HP Discover 2011
Vienna, Austria
INFO: For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
November 14, 2011
COLLABNET’S ANIL BAKSHI TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES FOR ENTERPRISE AGILE DURING KEYNOTE AT INDIA AGILE TOUR
Bakshi to present and explain how Agility is being redefined in the enterprise
WHO: Anil Bakshi
General Manager and Country Head – India
CollabNet
Bakshi is responsible for the corporate management of CollabNet Software Private Limited, CollabNet’s subsidiary in Chennai, India. He oversees market development and growth of CollabNet in the Indian market, as well as other APAC countries like Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore.
WHAT: “Agility Redefined: Ways to be Agile”
Nov. 12, 2011 – 9:30 a.m. IST
Agile software development continues to evolve and mature. During this keynote, Agile expert Bakshi will provide insights into current best practices for establishing an Agile enterprise and outline breakthrough thinking on extending the value of Agile beyond small teams. Topics to be addressed include: defining software agility, the need for “Agile Absorption” across the enterprise, steps to become and remain Agile, and how to maintain a culture of agility. He then will present “10 Ways to Build Agile Absorption” that attendees can use to gain the utmost value from Agile methods.
WHERE: Agile Tour 2011
Chennai
Hotel RainTree
INFO: For more information on this presentation or to arrange an interview with the presenter please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
November 10, 2011
TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO SHARE LESSONS LEARNED FROM LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN OPEN SOURCE ALM AT MICROSOFT ALM SUMMIT
Kersten to outline why ALM architectures must be untangled and legacy systems connected for modernization in ALM to occur
WHO: Mik Kersten – CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)
Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.
WHAT: “ALM in the Jungle”
Tue., Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. Pacific
Over the past decade, many ALM stacks have shifted from vertically integrated silos to tangled and disconnected systems reminiscent of the London tube map. Layer upon layer of legacy, piecemeal Agile deployments and open source tools have brought traceability to a halt, forcing us into overloaded email inboxes and lengthy meetings for tracking delivery. The path forward is to either standardize the entire ALM stack, or to embrace heterogeneity. Either way, the ALM architecture must be untangled and the legacy connected for the modernization to happen. For inspiration, we can look to how ALM strategies have formed bottom-up in the very heterogeneous jungle of open source projects. Open source ALM combines distributed teams, heterogeneous stacks, resource constraints, massive amounts of stakeholder input, and an overload of cross-project dependencies. Despite these challenges, the velocity of many popular open source projects is measurably higher than that of their enterprise counterparts. In this talk, we will examine the key lessons learned from the latest developments in open source ALM, and examine how to apply the practices, ALM architecture patterns and strategies for embracing heterogeneity in order to help pave a path for your Agile and ALM modernization efforts.
WHERE: Microsoft ALM Summit (http://www.alm-summit.com/home.aspx) Microsoft Campus Redmond, WA
INFO: For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
November 7, 2011
CollabNet Launches Free Continuous Delivery Webinar Series for Enterprise Cloud and Agile Development
Series of Six Webinars Will Cover Best Practices and Tools for Successful Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Implementations; Free Registration Available Now
BRISBANE, Calif., Nov. 7, 2011 – CollabNet®, the leader in enterprise Agile development in the Cloud, today announced a new webinar series on Continuous Delivery. The “Closing the Agile Loop” series consists of six free webinars that will provide attendees with suggested best practices and case studies on how to deploy Continuous Delivery pipelines in a step-by-step process. Senior systems architect Darryl Bowler and senior consultant Brian Dawson will present the practical advice, case studies and common tools that IT organizations can use for successful Continuous Delivery implementations in the enterprise. The first webinar in the series, “Continuous Integration (CI) 101,” is now available for on-demand replay at: (http://www.open.collab.net/webinar/108/).
Business leaders worldwide recognize the need to automate the software delivery processes to increase predictability, reduce risk, drive cost savings and improve alignment between development and IT operations. CollabNet helps enterprises become more Agile and responsive through its TeamForge® ALM platform and Agile project management application, ScrumWorks® Pro. CollabNet also provides workshops to help companies start CI projects and automate the build management process using Hudson/Jenkins. Complete information on the workshops can be found at (www.collab.net/getCI).
“Together with our enterprise customers we have developed a set of continuous integration practices that scales tools and processes from the workgroup to IT operations,” said Bowler. “This webinar series will outline proven cloud-based Continuous Delivery practices that development and IT professionals can use to streamline the delivery process.”
The November edition of the series, “Keeping Track: Version Control & Change Management for CI,” will address issues management, Subversion and Git best practices that are proven to maximize value in a CI process and lower technical debt.
WHO: CollabNet senior systems architect Darryl Bowler and CollabNet senior consultant Brian Dawson.
WHAT: “Closing the Agile Loop,” a free monthly webinar series on Continuous Delivery for the enterprise
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WHEN: October 2011
“Continuous Integration 101”
On-demand replay available at (http://www.open.collab.net/webinar/108/)
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 9a.m. -10a.m PDT
“Keeping Track: Version Control & Change Management for Continuous Integration”
Free registration: (https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/434629494)
December 2011 (Date and time TBA)
“End of Ticketing Hell: Integrating Code Quality”
January 2012 (Date and time TBA)
“Closing the Agile Loop: Continuous Feedback”
February 2012 (Date and time TBA)
“Beyond Continuous Build: Build Grids”
March 2012 (Date and time TBA)
“Continuous Delivery: The Last Mile”
For more information, please visit http://visit.collab.net/getci_webinar.html.
About CollabNet
CollabNet is the recognized leader in enterprise Cloud development, powering global software development for over 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% and reduced their cost of software development by up to 80% 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, 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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JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES LATEST RELEASE OF JMS ADAPTERS FOR .NET AND BIZTALK SERVERS
Version 3.0 of the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server adds support for JMS Map Messages
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 7, 2011 — JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connects the Java and .NET Frameworks, today announced the release of Version 3.0 of its JMS Adapters, which enables developers to access JMS (Java Messaging Service) directly from BizTalk Server or from their .NET-based applications. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server V3.0 adds support for JMS Map Messages, automatically converting received map messages to XML documents based on user provided schemas. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET adds full support for Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) SDK. Both adapters also have expanded licensing options, including support for virtual machines and annual licensing.
“The new map messages interface especially is timely for our organization as it is vital in our environment to ensure we can seamlessly integrate our enterprise service bus and our existing application assets,” said Richard Townsend, director of information systems at Farm Bureau Financial Services. “JNBridge’s adapters filled the void our enterprise had when we were looking to access JMS directly from BizTalk Server,” said Townsend.
The JNBridge JMS Adapters enable enterprises to integrate any existing JMS (Java Message Service) infrastructure with BizTalk Server or with Microsoft .NET Framework-based desktop applications, server solutions and cloud deployments.
With the adapters, customers are able to quickly configure transports and integrate applications, simplifying the complexity and therefore allowing development teams to reduce risk and focus on automating other businesses processes.
“This latest release of the adapters is another step forward in our vision of interoperability, allowing users to deploy interoperable solutions anywhere,” said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. “The latest version of each adapter allows enterprises to purchase and deploy according to their business needs: from conventional perpetual machine-based licensing to annual licenses on virtual machines, or even to instances in the cloud.”
Availability
Version 3.0 of the JMS Adapters for .NET and for BizTalk Server are available today. To download and purchase directly please visit: (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm). For more information on JNBridge, 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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Contact information:
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Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
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