CollabNet Goes Global With ALM Solution
Establishes process to manage distributed development life cycle
October 1, 2005 —
Armed with US$9.5 million in new equity funding, CollabNet last month released version 4.0 of its namesake Enterprise Edition software development platform with new capabilities for application life-cycle management and to measure the effectiveness of an organization’s globally distributed development.
The new release has two new modules: CollabNet Application Lifecycle Manager and CollabNet Connectors. The ALM module provides a baseline process that covers requirements, defect reports, customer cases, test plans and use cases, but ALM also allows customers to define their own company or industry processes, according to Bill Portelli, president and CEO of CollabNet. “We’ve come up with a set of things you want to track through the life cycle, but it’s also flexible in terms of the process you want to employ,” he said.
The Connectors open the platform to third-party tools; with this release, Mercury TestDirector and CruiseControl have been added to existing connectors to Borland’s JBuilder, the Eclipse development framework, IBM Rational ClearCase, Oracle 9i JDeveloper, and Sun’s NetBeans and SunOne Studio.
Along with new features such as continued support for internationalization for global development, and enhancements such as WebDAV support through the Subversion 1.2 open-source code control system, CollabNet introduced an ALM Maturity Model for organizations trying to assess their ability to manage distributed application development.
There are five levels to the model. The first is project team development, with no collaboration and everyone in the same room, using random point tools. Level 2 is single-location development, as teams start tying their point tools together. Level 3, single-location ALM, ties in third-party vendor tools, such as those from IBM Rational, Serena or Telelogic, along with e-mail and IDEs. “We compete with the prior investment companies have made in their broad set of tools at this level,” Portelli said.
Level 4 addresses distributed application life-cycle development, while Level 5 is about process-enabled globally distributed development. “We measure the tools an organization is using, along with attributes such as partner integration, process enforcement, security and the location of development assets, and then see where you’re at” along the maturity model, Portelli said.
CollabNet plans to invest the equity capital, which closed last month from Intel, Norwest Venture Partners and WR Hambrecht, among others, in sales, marketing and strategic investments, Portelli said. “We are focused on leading the evolution of collaborative development environments and evoking change in business processes,” he said in a statement.
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