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Application Lifecycle Management
Synchronize Disparate Lifecycle Tools to Reduce Costs and Improve Manageability
Reliably delivering useful software requires more than just a collection of individual tools for various tasks; it also requires defined processes to coordinate users, assets, and activities across the phases of the development lifecycle. Most development organizations, however, consist of disconnected teams with siloed tools that make it difficult to establish and manage these cross-lifecycle processes.
CollabNet solves this problem by combining integrated ALM capabilities and an extensible ALM framework within a single Web-based environment. CollabNet integrates software configuration management, release management, change management, and project management capabilities into a unified ALM solution that allows organizations to quickly provision users and projects, centrally manage artifact and activity relationships, and establish process workflows.
CollabNet's Web service-based ALM integration framework and flexible artifact associations makes it easy for customers to synchronize third-party lifecycle tools (such as CruiseControl, IBM Rational ClearCase, HP Mercury QC/ITG, and Microsoft Project) with CollabNet's central repository to establish traceability, automate processes, improve visibility, and centralize management across heterogeneous lifecycle tools.
"To get ALM from IBM today, you need to buy all the tools and then the services to tie them all together. That's much more costly than turning on CollabNet tomorrow,"
—Carey Schwaber, Senior Forrester Research Analyst, in SD Times, Integration's the New Face of ALM, 2007
"The best companies are the best collaborators. In a flat world more and more business will be done through collaboration within and between companies."
—Thomas Friedman, author of National Best Seller The World is Flat
Proof Points
"We were able to deploy the collaborative software development environment in several hours, allowing the team both internally and externally to start sharing information and data within half-a-day."
—Eiji Asano, software development manager at Sharp
"CollabNet partner-focused programs... empower the channel community to move quickly to the forefront of distributed development."
—Laurie McCabe, VP of SMB Insights and Business Solutions, AMI Partners
- Reduce costs by simplifying and centralizing management of all projects, users, tools, and software assets. Reduce costs further by leveraging CollabNet's proven operational excellence in delivering secure, reliable, scalable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
- Improve visibility by enabling collaboration between internal and external projects, teams, and communities.
- Enable governance by establishing traceability and reporting across assets, issues, and resources.
- Speed innovation and drive competitive advantage by automating lifecycle processes.
- Minimize disruption by continuing to use existing tools and legacy systems while establishing a universal ALM framework that enables easy migration and incremental consolidation.
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