CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise

CollabNet SourceForge® Enterprise is an integrated suite of Web-based SCM, issue tracking, project management, and collaboration tools that empowers teams to build great software. By centralizing management of users, projects, processes, and assets, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise dramatically reduces costs, increases productivity, and improves project visibility.

CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise can be deployed on-site or as a secure on-demand offering to further reduce infrastructure costs. A 25-user trial is available.

• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Common user and project administration
• Software Configuration Management (SCM)
• Change management
• Project management
• Integrated collaboration tools
• Open Web Services APIs
• CollabNet Software as a Service (SaaS)

Capabilities

Features / Benefits

Coordinate the entire lifecycle with complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

• Improve visibility and establish end-to-end traceability by associating source code with requirements, issues, tasks, documents, discussions and other artifacts.
• Model ALM process with customizable project pages and dynamic portlet-like components.
• Use project templates to capture and share workflows, best practices, and other project content to promote process standardization.
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Simplify management and security with common user and project administration

• Easily model and enforce organizational structures and relationships (such as outsourced development or QA teams, partner co-development) with a rich role-based access framework.
• Map specific tool- or resource-access levels (for example, bug and feature databases, source code repositories, mailing lists, wikis, document folders, or file releases) to the needs of a particular role or group to comply with security policies.
• Validate users against existing LDAP systems for centralized access control.
• Easily create and manage project workspaces to standardize or customize project resources, content, and organization.
• Easily customize the entire site to align community and corporate identities.
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Enable distributed SCM with Subversion and file release system

• Standardize SCM with industry-leading Subversion.
• Establish a secure, central source code and project content inventory to support audit and compliance requirements.
• Simplify SCM repository creation, configuration, and browsing.
• Associate issues, requirements, and other artifacts with commits in one or multiple different SCM repositories to protect investments in tools and expertise.
• Get instant e-mail notifications of changes to monitored SCM repositories.
• Post and manage approved file release packages to give coworkers and customers access to the latest assets.
• Use fine-grained access controls and download statistics to control and gauge release effectiveness.
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Track issues and other development artifacts with integrated change management

• Flexibly track, manage, and establish workflows between any development artifact, including requirements, feature requests, defects, issues, support cases, tasks, and more via e-mail, web, or Eclipse.
• Automatically notify stakeholders of changes.
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Improve visibility with integrated project management tools

• Manage project plans and deliverables to gain visibility into development status.
• Track activity metrics to gain real-time insight into project activity.
• Integrate Microsoft Project for bi-directional task synchronization and updates.
• View dashboards with graphical point-in-time or trend reports across a number of project artifact types.
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Improve collaboration with integrated forums, mailing lists, wikis, and document management

• Provide structured, traceable and globally searchable project communication within and across teams.
• Automatically capture and archive forum/mailing list history as a knowledge base.
• Improve security and privacy by consistently applying role-based access across all types of project communications.
• Maintain a complete history and versioning of documents and wikis.
• View, edit, and update documents directly from Microsoft Office tools.
• Initiate and manage document reviews via web or email, including comments, approvals, and publication.
• Allow users to work in their favorite browser, e-mail client, or IDE.
• Get instant e-mail notifications of changes to monitored discussions, wikis, documents, or artifacts.
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Simplify interoperability and extensibility with Open Web Services APIs

• Simplify integration with a universal artifact hub and ALM association framework.
• Securely synchronize data between CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and third-party lifecycle tools, such as HP Quality Center, IBM Rational ClearCase, Salesforce.com CRM, or Eclipse.
• Establish workflows, enable cross-lifecycle visibility, and ensure alignment between QA, business analyst, customer support, and development teams.
• Take advantage of the CollabNet Integration Framework to quickly build integrations, protecting and extending existing investments.
• Browse or contribute to the large and growing ecosystem of partner integrations.
• Join the 1.5 million CollabNet users who share best practices and develop and exchange extensions. Become a member of the openCollabNet Community.
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Reduce infrastructure and administration costs with CollabNet Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Use the CollabNet Managed Service Option to reduce the cost of software development infrastructure, hardware, and system administration.
• Get the fastest and most reliable SaaS user experience.
  • With nearly 500 peering relationships at its datacenter facilities, CollabNet can connect its datacenter network directly to other Internet providers to work seamlessly around network problems and do "traffic shaping."
  • Each piece of network equipment is fully redundant with a sister unit designed for both load-sharing and on-the-fly fail-over for maximum reliability and availability. In addition, each server is hardened to ensure that all unnecessary services and daemons are disabled, eliminating risk of attack via back doors in non-essential services.
• Rely on CollabNet's secure and safe facilities that are:
  • Reinforced against possible earthquake damage.
  • Protected by physical access security, including human security guards, a passcard system, video surveillance, and other security measures.
  • Equipped with power management and redundancy.
• Consider private network hosting options. CollabNet can also provide virtual private network (VPN) connections and private leased lines from the CollabNet datacenters to the customer's own facilities.

Get CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise now!

• Order a 25-user license of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise today.
• For more information or to purchase CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise support, training and consulting services, contact CollabNet directly at +1 (650) 228-2578 or use our contact form.