CollabNet TeamForge

With CollabNet TeamForge, you can accelerate software delivery, from idea to code, build and test, to application release. Customers achieve up to 50% and more improvements in delivery times, while reducing cost by 80%. TeamForge does this by realizing efficiencies, automating governance, and engaging all stakeholders, from workgroups to enterprises and beyond.

The CollabNet TeamForge platform provides a complete set of integrated, modular capabilities for application lifecycle management (ALM) for the enterprise.

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• Plan
• Code
• Track
• Build & Test
• Lab Management
• Release

• Report & Analyze
• Collaborate
• Document Management
• Administration
• Desktop and application integration

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Capabilities

Features / Benefits

Plan: Simplify planning for defects, releases, iterations, and code changes, with flexible and Agile planning and workflow modeling capabilities.

• Simultaneously plan by features / scope and timeline / releases
• Get started quickly, with Agile planning and workflow templates built on industry best practice
• Model your own process (Agile, waterfall, and hybrid), and save as corporate template
• Map planning object to epics, stories and task lists, and to project artifacts
• Aggregate work items and automatically roll-up effort and capacity
• Monitor project progress and compare against plan

Code: Gain leading software configuration and change management (SCCM) capabilities, optimized for Subversion.

• Create, configure and browse Subversion repositories from a simple-to-use Web console
• Automatically discover Subversion Edge repositories deployed across your network
• Check out large files at LAN-speed over WAN, using Subversion replication management
• Enforce workflows to ensure commits are associated with issues, requirements, and artifacts
• Trace code commits back to documents, discussions, change requests, test cases
• Maintain ironclad security to protect your organization’s code and intellectual property
• Assign granular, path based permissions, for code trunks and branches
• Manage Subversion repositories, and integrate with other repositories like CVS or Git

Track: Automate tracking of defects, projects and change requests.

• Personalize tracker views per project teams and roles
• Customize tracker fields, deploy validation routines, and model field dependencies
• Alert project members proactively about tracker updates
• Automatically assign artifacts to project members, based on parameters like category or release
• Update tracker based on code commits, and build and test activities
• Monitor tracker status, via easy-to-use graphical interface

Build & Test: Implement Continuous Integration (CI) scenarios, by launching and monitoring build and test activities using TeamForge and Hudson.

• Integrate Hudson using certified plugins, and manage from within TeamForge
• Launch and control build & test activities, from within your development environment
• Automatically update tracker status, or generate new tracker defects, based on test results
• Upload build artifacts directly to TeamForge, and roll up binaries to packages
• Access servers directly, provisioned using CollabNet Lab Management functionality, in Amazon EC2, CollabNet’s server cloud, or your own data center

Lab Management: Cloud provision servers for code, build and test, using CollabNet Lab Management functionality.

• Dynamically allocate servers for code, build and test  – whenever you need them, from within your web browser or IDE
• Access servers directly, in Amazon EC2, CollabNet’s server cloud, or your own data center
• Choose from a range of pre-built profiles and templates, or build your own library
• Share build artifacts with your teams, using a project build library
• View status reports to understand machine capacity, allocation and access, by users or roles

Release: Manage complete file release packages in one central location.

• Conveniently manage complete file release packages, from within one central location
• Manage release images, and more (including documents, notes, links)
• Manage release steps with built-in workflow, for example releases triggered by successful build jobs, and track milestone progress
• Securely control availability of release packages to selected individuals or roles
• Monitor release download statistics

Report & Analyze: Gain visibility across the entire code, build, and test lifecycle.

• Track project status, including release and iteration status, with rich reports and charts
• Generate burn-down chart and reports, for any planning tree object
• Visualize project status with stunning graphics based on Flex 3.0 technology
• Initiate expert reports and database queries, from within TeamForge
• Deploy custom reporting with open accessible data mart for the application lifecycle

Collaborate: Enable social coding to drive innovation and efficiency, and increasing asset re-use.

• Search and discover artifacts, discussion and documents, within and across projects
• Engage in discussion forum, with flexible subscriptions, moderation and management options
• Maintain rich development and project wikis, and link back to artifacts
• Ensure role-based access control for privacy and security across all communications
• Structure workflows for document reviews and approvals, and maintain full change history
• Receive alerts about discussion posts, document updates or code commits
• Deploy branded micro-sites for your projects, structured along product and business lines

Document Management: Manage documents for your entire projects, with check-in, check-out and versioning.

• Easily share documents across cross-functional and distributed teams
• Manage documents with check-in and check-out capabilities
• Automate document version management, track and alert about modifications
• Simply implement structured team document reviews
• Integrate with Microsoft office applications

Administration: Simple and secure administration of end-to-end ALM platform.

• Centrally manage global ALM platform, with simple Web interface
• Ensure tight security, with role-based access control (RBAC) management
• Greatly simplify permissions and role management, with groupings and role inheritance
• Integrate with LDAP systems
• Easily deploy project workspaces, complete with associated roles, and customize content
• Tailor TeamForge look & feel to corporate branding
• Automate manual tasks, for example with bulk user creation or permissions management

Desktop and application integration: Access TeamForge functionality directly from within your favorite integrated development environment (IDE) or productivity tool.

• CollabNet Desktops for Eclipse, Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook
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• Open integration with API’s and plug-ins, and vibrant partner eco-system