Press Release
Reuters looks to CollabNet's CUBiT to optimize its global build and test environment
The recognized leader in distributed development extends its capabilities with an innovative build and test management platform
BRISBANE, Calif., November 7, 2006 — CollabNet, a leading provider of on-demand collaborative software development solutions, today announced CollabNet Centralized & Unified Build, Integration, Test (CUBiT), an on-demand service for centrally managing build and test environments for globally distributed development teams. CollabNet CUBiT and CollabNet® Enterprise Edition provide the industry's first multi-site development environment to incorporate the build and test phases of a software project into the application development lifecycle.
"We've been using CollabNet's products to optimize our software development teams for over three years and been very successful. We believe CUBiT can also enhance that process even further," said Martin Ashton, vice president of global IT process at Reuters. "We're very excited to see how CUBiT's new virtualization and cross-platform capabilities could assist us in achieving increased time to market efficiency."
An extension to CollabNet Enterprise Edition, CUBiT unifies project managers, developers, and business users within a single development environment accessible from anywhere in the world. CollabNet CUBiT solves technical and process issues with an open framework that helps development teams standardize and automate tasks and share build configurations. Using CollabNet CUBiT within their existing development frameworks, organizations can:
- Increase visibility into utilization and assignment of capital-intensive infrastructure;
- Globally maintain governance and compliance of build and test configurations with version controlled system profiles;
- Deploy/provision build and test environments worldwide in minutes through a simple Web Services interface;
- Encourage the re-use of project-based build and test assets by storing these in the provided library;
- Centralize control of build and test environments while securely and globally distributing access to these environments;
- Improve build and test performance by keeping the environment in close proximity to code repositories.
"CollabNet CUBiT is the industry's only integrated on demand and globally accessible platform for build and test," said Nick Bonfiglio, vice president of Worldwide Operations at CollabNet. "By providing automation and end-to-end process integration, companies like Reuters are able to eliminate development silos and productivity bottlenecks throughout their global business processes and development organizations."
The globalization trend has created development teams that are distributed around the world. These distributed teams must transcend geographic, time zone, and cultural differences in order to maintain productivity and avoid duplication of effort. These changes and pressures are ushering in a paradigm shift in software development from a centralized LAN-based approach to a distributed Collaborative Development Environment approach. CollabNet's flagship product, CollabNet Enterprise Edition, is the industry-leading Collaborative Development Environment, which help organizations transform how their development teams work.
To learn more about CollabNet CUBiT, please call 1-888-778-9793, e-mail info@collab.net, or visit www.collab.net.
About CollabNet
CollabNet is the most widely used on-demand collaborative development environment with more than 900,000 developers and IT projects managers collaborating on-line through CollabNet. The company is transforming the way software is being developed by enabling organizations to leverage global development talents to deliver better products and innovate faster.
Using CollabNet Enterprise Edition, project members can work as one team throughout the lifecycle of a project, regardless of their location. Unlike traditional software development tools, CollabNet supports globally distributed teams in a cost-effective way, yielding unprecedented annual savings through reduced development infrastructure costs, increased productivity, improved project visibility and shared access to software assets. Founded upon open source principles, CollabNet is also the primary sponsor of the Subversion™ open source project, the next-generation version control system.
Over 91 global companies have chosen CollabNet as the foundation for their collaborative development, off-shoring, open source, and partner co-development efforts. CollabNet has been recognized for its leadership with 10 major industry awards in 2006 including the Red Herring and Always On TOP 100 Awards, and the SIIA Codie Award. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at www.collab.net/subversion.
CollabNet is a registered trademark of CollabNet, Inc. or its affiliated companies. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
