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  • Edge Testing Solutions expands testing tools suite with TestWizard

    Test automation framework now available to speed up repetitive and regression testing

    One of the UK’s fastest growing and largest independent software testing companies, Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing, has expanded its testing tools suite with the addition of test automation framework TestWizard.

    A comprehensive set of tools for the automated testing of software applications, TestWizard is the first product from its parent company, Eurofins, that Edge Testing has introduced to its client base. Using TestWizard, Edge Testing can reduce time spent on repetitive testing tasks, while guaranteeing test coverage and consistency.

    Sharon Hamilton, Managing Director, Edge Testing, commented: “TestWizard is already widely used across Europe from our parent company Eurofins and has proven to be very popular with businesses of all sizes, especially in the broadcast sector. We are always looking to improve the testing experience that we offer our clients, so introducing the tried and tested TestWizard framework will significantly speed up regression and automated testing.”

    Edge Testing clients can take advantage of TestWizard’s easy to use test creation and debug environments, and secure, cloud-based test manager support. TestWizard architecture enables automated open testing of full end-to-end user scenarios involving multiple device types such as web applications, mobile devices and web services.

    The TestWizard tool can be implemented from both onsite and remotely from Edge Testing’s Glasgow and Birmingham Digital Test Hubs. The first of which was launched in Scotland in 2013, with the second opening last year in the Midlands. The company’s road map for 2019 also includes a third Digital Test Hub based in the North of England to offer clients UK-wide an easily accessible remote testing service for their in-house applications and back office systems.

    For more information, visit: http://www.edgetesting.co.uk/

  • Device42 Launches Integration with Atlassian to Power Smart and Responsive IT Asset Management

    NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ Device42, Inc., a provider of IT infrastructure management software, today announced an integration with Atlassian, the leading collaboration and software development management company. Customers of Atlassian’s Jira Service Desk, the IT helpdesk ticketing system, can now benefit from Device42’s comprehensive solutions to gain better visibility and control over their technology assets.

    Jira Service Desk is a popular platform for IT teams to receive, track, manage and resolve customer requests. With Device42’s integration, every ticket sent to a company’s service desk is accompanied by the associated hardware and software specifications, as well as a history of incidents related to that issue. Having access to such information helps both onsite and offsite support agents quickly identify which technology assets to troubleshoot so they can immediately provide a solution, whether it’s replacing a hard disk or switching the power supply.

    “Using the new cloud asset management integration with Device42, our customers will now gain a holistic view and more context across all their assets right within Jira Service Desk,” said Bryant Lee, head of partnerships and integration at Atlassian.

    Device42 has more than 500 enterprise clients in 55 countries that rely on its software to manage their complex IT infrastructure quickly, easily, and effectively. The company was recently ranked as the fastest growing technology company in Connecticut, with a whopping 1,300 percent revenue growth from 2015 to 2017.

    “Enterprises are faced with a mounting challenge as they attempt to maintain up-to-date inventories of their physical, virtual, and cloud servers,” said Raj Jalan, founder and CEO of Device42. “The integration will provide Atlassian customers with a robust tool that will not only help them solve mission-critical issues at breakneck speed, but also glean powerful insights about their technology infrastructures that will take their IT departments to a whole new level.”

    About Device42

    Device 42, Inc., a leader in Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), delivers comprehensive, low-cost, high-value solutions that enable organizations around the globe to manage their complex IT infrastructure quickly, easily, and effectively. Device42 software centralizes data center management, making IT assets visible, understandable, and controllable. Additional information about Device42 can be found at device42.com.

     

  • Cockroach Labs Launches Managed CockroachDB: The Geo-Distributed Database as a Service

    Available on Google and AWS at Launch

    NEW YORK, October 30, 2018 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, the ultra-resilient SQL database for global business, today announced Managed CockroachDB, the company’s entry into the database-as-a-service (DBaaS) market. Managed CockroachDB significantly reduces the time to value for companies without expertise deploying globally-distributed database systems.

    Demand for SQL databases with the capabilities necessary to serve customers located across geographies is growing exponentially. While CockroachDB has traditionally been deployed on-premise by companies looking to take advantage of its unparalleled resilience, correctness, and scalability, many are challenged developing the internal expertise to deploy and manage rapidly evolving new technologies.

    Managed CockroachDB is the first cloud-neutral, geo-distributed SQL DBaaS, launching initially on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It was developed to give CockroachDB’s customers across the finance, gaming, health, and retail industries a fully-managed database for building resilient, globally-scaled services. Features such as geo-partitioning minimize latency for users by locating data in close proximity to demand; row-level data-domiciling constraints ensure compliance with data localization requirements. These are just some of the capabilities CockroachDB provides which can make a critical difference for companies doing business in, or looking to expand into new markets under the constraints of fast-evolving data sovereignty regulations.

    “We’re launching Managed CockroachDB to meet the surging demand from customers who prefer to outsource the operational burden of deploying and managing a geo-distributed database,” says Cockroach Labs CEO and co-founder Spencer Kimball. “We’ve been seeing significant migration activity away from Oracle, AWS Aurora, and Cassandra, and we’re now able to get our customers to market faster with Managed CockroachDB.”

    The launch of Cockroach Labs’ geo-distributed DBaaS coincides with the release of CockroachDB 2.1, which delivers powerful migration tools for MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as significant performance and scale improvements. CockroachDB 2.1 has been tested to handle 5x as much transactional volume as 2.0 and more than 50x the transactional volume as Amazon Aurora, when compared using the industry-standard TPC-C benchmark.

    Businesses investing in the future are choosing CockroachDB because it brings SQL into the cloud era. It accommodates growing businesses by scaling elastically, even across the globe, to where customers are, with unparalleled resilience. With this release, it’s now available as a fully-managed and cloud-neutral DBaaS.

    “I don’t fundamentally believe in Swiss Army knives or solutions that solve every problem, but CockroachDB gets surprisingly close to solving a large number of relevant challenges that we see in the industry,” says Simon Kissler, Associate Director of Emerging Technology at Accenture.

    About Cockroach Labs

    Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB, the ultra-resilient SQL database for global business. With a mission to Make Data Easy, Cockroach Labs is led by a team of former Google engineers who have had front row seats to nearly two decades of database evolution. The company is headquartered in New York City and is backed by an outstanding group of investors including Benchmark, G/V (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Redpoint, and Sequoia. Learn more at www.cockroachlabs.com.

  • SmartBear Reinvents Load Testing for Web Applications with LoadNinja

    SmartBear Releases Groundbreaking Technology that Reduces Script Creation Time by 50 Percent, Replaces Emulators with Real Browsers, and Arms Agile Teams with Metrics that Matter to Diagnose Problems at Ninja Speed

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Oct. 29, 2018 – SmartBear, the leader in software quality tools for teams, released LoadNinja, a cloud-based platform for engineers and performance professionals who load test web applications. LoadNinja delivers a rare combination of efficiency, accuracy, and actionable performance data, allowing teams to incorporate load testing easily in an agile and devops environment. Unlike traditional load testing platforms that are protocol based and require tedious programming and correlation of dynamic application aspects, LoadNinja allows the engineer to focus more on building applications that scale and less on building load testing scripts.

    “Application performance is critical to ensure the continued success of a digital business,” said Anand Sundaram, VP of Performance Testing and Monitoring at SmartBear. “Teams struggle to incorporate performance testing of their applications due to the unreasonable amount of time it takes to get the load testing scripts right using conventional tools. LoadNinja removes this manual effort, helps you generate the most realistic load using real browsers, and provides actionable performance data about the behavior of the web applications under conditions of stress.”

    Conventional protocol based tools have a steep learning curve and require tedious programming of recorded scripts, before they can be played back. LoadNinja, with its InstaPlay recorder, eliminates this step so recorded scripts can be played back immediately. The efficiency gains from this approach, especially when load tests are run frequently in an agile and devops setting, enable teams to focus their efforts solely on load testing and saves time previously spent in creating and massaging scripts in advance of load tests.

    Unlike the load generated by conventional tools that use vendor developed proprietary browser emulators, the TrueLoad technology within LoadNinja uses real browsers at scale for load tests, creating the most realistic and accurate representation of load on the infrastructure supporting the web application under test.

    The power of using real browsers for all of your load generation is also seen in the performance data returned by LoadNinja. Traditionally, load testing tools return request-response times in test results, which need to be further introspected and deciphered in order to be usable by developers and performance testers. LoadNinja obviates this additional step and directly provides actionable data in the form of browser based navigation timings that developers and performance testers are used to working with every day.

    LoadNinja also provides two additional innovations in the form of the VU Inspector and the VU Debugger. The VU Inspector allows you to visualize the degradation as your virtual users generate load against the application. When a virtual user encounters an issue, the VU Debugger can be used to connect and interact with the erring virtual user’s browser to gather additional diagnostic information about the problem.

    LoadNinja is being unveiled to customers at SmartBear Connect 2018, the company’s annual user conference, taking place on October 29-30, 2018 in Boston. The event brings together hundreds of testing, development, and technology enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas and get hands-on training on the company’s software quality products. Stay up-to-date on Twitter using #SBConnect. 

    To learn more about LoadNinja, visit: https://loadninja.com/

    About SmartBear Software Supporting more than six million software professionals and over 22,000 companies in 194 countries, SmartBear is the leader in software quality tools for teams. The company’s products help deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible while helping teams ship code at nearly impossible velocities. With products for API testing, UI testing, code review and performance monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, SmartBear equips every development, testing and operations team member with the tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

  • Rollout Adds Configuration as Code Support and Integration with GitHub to Treat Feature Flags as Mission Critical Operations

    Plans to Open Source Flagship Platform to Drive Innovation and Provide Operational Benefits of Software Production Changes Without Sacrificing Management Processes

     San Francisco, October 24, 2018 – Rollout.io, a feature delivery and management company, today announced its feature management platform will leverage Configuration as Code (CaC) and a powerful integration with GitHub, so developers can treat feature flags as they treat any other mission-critical infrastructure.

    Additionally, Rollout plans to open source its feature management platform, providing greater flexibility and stronger ownership of feature changes in production. Both moves allow development organizations to gain the benefits of using feature flags – such as increased speed of development and deployment, and reduced risks of deploying new code – without sacrificing any of the known management processes that govern the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

    “Rollout’s CaC approach, the integration with GitHub, and the decision to open source its feature flag technology means that developers now enjoy the benefit of both worlds – faster development and deployment of new features without the risk of breaking things,” said Kyle Daigle, director of Ecosystem Engineering for GitHub.

    Feature flags modeled with CaC means that for the first time, software developers can design, implement, and deploy application features using the same processes used to manage code changes, like full change management, ability to rollback, track ownership of changes, and more, to reduce the inherent risks of breaking production. The ability to treat feature flags like configuration as code and use the same tools as any other software project allows dev teams to be more agile, and rapidly deploy features that add value to a business much faster than before.

    “Until now, control of feature flags has circumvented existing software development and deployment processes or known checks and balances for software development and production changes,” said Erez Rusovsky, co-founder and CEO of Rollout.io. “The decision to integrate our configuration as code with Git & GitHub and open source our platform means that product and development teams have consistent and reliable control of every feature in production, resulting in applications that are easier to develop and maintain.”

    Rollout’s feature management solution with CaC will initially leverage GitHub as an integration point with support for Atlassian, Gitlab and other hosting services coming soon.

    “We use feature flags to continuously deploy new features to production without risk so, it was important to find a solution that is engineering-friendly. One platform met those requirements, and it was Rollout,” explained Ron Shoshani, vice president of R&D at Testim.io. “Integration with GitHub allows our dev teams to work faster in collaboration on dev and deploy goals. Rollout’s plans for open source will ultimately provide us with more flexibility and ownership over the code that drives our business.”

    Using Rollout, developers, DevOps and product managers can speed the development and deployment of software, while reducing risk and improving customer satisfaction and experience. Rollout designed its management system with feature flags and controls for gradually releasing features in development and production with the ability to rollout back features when needed. This is possible by separating version release from feature deployments, and it provides companies with flexibility to deliver features to specific users at a granular level.

    Rollout supports multiple clients and backend platforms. It adds feature level support across an organization’s entire stack. The company also recently announced its integration with Atlassian’s Jira Software.

    Pricing for Rollout’s feature management is based on seats and MAU and starts at $75.00. To try Rollout, please visit www.rollout.io.

     Learn more:

    For more information on feature flags, check out Rollout’s eBook The Ultimate Feature Flag Guide or follow Rollout’s blog, or on Twitter @RolloutIO and LinkedIn.

    About Rollout.io

    Rollout.io is a feature delivery and management company that accelerates software development and release and minimizes the risk of deploying new code. It is the only unified platform for feature delivery, experimentation, and application-layer remote configuration. Built for engineers, developers and product managers, to rollout, rollback, test and adapt features at scale, in real time. Rollout gives teams full visibility and control of all application features to deliver the right feature to the right user at the right time. Founded in 2014, Rollout has offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Israel. Learn more at www.rollout.io.

  • Platform.sh Launches White Label SaaS Factory for Faster SaaS Deployments

    New rapid-launch capabilities and APIs enable software companies to move to the cloud and create new recurring revenue businesses in weeks, not years

    [October 24, San Francisco, CA] Platform.sh, the Idea-to-Cloud Application Platform that simplifies cloud infrastructure, today announced the availability of its white-label platform, which enables software companies and SaaS entrepreneurs to transform their existing on-premise software or build new SaaS businesses with unprecedented speed.

    Organizations spend increasingly significant amounts of time and budget on the development and maintenance of infrastructure, distracting focus from the core value that they provide to their customers – amazing applications and digital experiences. Platform.sh allows them to put their energy towards exciting and engaging customers – rather than building teams and technical debt to manage tooling, servers, containers, and cloud infrastructure – and eliminates capital expenditures needed to launch new lines of business.

    In a matter of days, Platform.sh can provide a fully branded experience for the rapid deployment of SaaS software, commerce apps, mobile back-ends, and web applications at scale, built in multiple languages or frameworks. This capability leverages Platform.sh’s API-first approach to development, its unique instant-cloning technology, and its complete “batteries included” continuous deployment workflow, where infrastructure becomes composable and managed with the same tools as application code.

    Partners simply need to provide basic branding information, load their existing application code as a template, decide on which cloud they want to settle within the options that Platform.sh provides (AWS, Azure and Orange, or all of them), and then leverage Platform.sh’s robust billing and provisioning APIs to integrate with their existing business processes.

    Orange, a leading global cloud company; Magento Commerce (recently acquired by Adobe for $1.68B); eZ Systems; Sensio Labs (software vendor or Symfony) and many early-stage SaaS entrepreneurs have built new business models on the Platform.sh white-label SaaS factory, leading to massive valuation increases, higher deal win rates, and better margins.

    “We built Platform.sh to allow organizations to move faster and drive business transformation by investing in what their customers really care about: great experiences with their applications. Our white-label platform has driven valuation for software companies by helping them move from licensing to SaaS, and gives enterprises and digital agencies the ability to deliver reliably and consistently with less cost.”

    – Frederic Plais, CEO, Platform.sh

    “With Platform.sh’s new white-label platform, we’re able to provide our customers with an end-to-end solution for the development, deployment, and management of their content-centric projects – within just a few business days. This enables our customers to create engaging content faster than ever before, and allows us to generate new revenue streams through a SaaS delivery model.”    

    – Roland Benedetti, Chief Product Officer, eZ Systems

    “We moved Magento from being just an on premises product, sending people code and launching it, to enabling them to buy a fully hosted version out-of-the-box. We enabled customers to do that really quickly, really easily, and really seamlessly.”

    – Mark Lenhard, SVP Strategy, Magento Commerce, an Adobe Company

    Creating a true SaaS product no longer requires massive investments, capital, or distraction from your core mission. With Platform.sh, businesses can launch and generate recurring revenue in weeks, not years.

    About Platform.sh
    Platform.sh is the idea-to-cloud application platform that simplifies cloud infrastructure. Its unique git-driven technology enables development teams to develop, test, deploy and run with speed and confidence. Adopters of Platform.sh typically experience a 90 percent reduction in DevOps efforts as compared to other container management frameworks and 40 percent better productivity as compared to managed hosting providers, at a significantly lower total cost of ownership. The company is recognized as a leader and laureate of the European Commission H2020 program. Headquartered in Paris, France and San Francisco, Platform.sh serves thousands of self-serve and enterprise customers worldwide, including The Financial Times, Gap, Magento Commerce, Orange, Hachette, Stanford University, Harvard University, The British Council, and Lufthansa.

  • Imaginea partners with WaveMaker to deliver low-code digital transformation and application modernization solution

    Partnership will enable enterprises to execute quickly, efficiently, and flexibly on digital transformation efforts

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 24, 2018 – Imaginea Technologies Inc., a Silicon Valley-based software engineering and professional services provider, today announced a collaboration with WaveMaker, Inc., a leading enterprise low-code Rapid Application Development platform, to provide critical digital transformation solutions for customers looking to modernize their applications efficiently and strategically.

    WaveMaker will make its low-code platform available to Imaginea customers seeking the tools needed to modernize their software stacks and industry solutions in order to remain competitive. The WaveMaker platform is characterized by a wide range of capabilities and features, including open technology standards, containers, microservices, and API connectivity across any combination of cloud and legacy on-premise applications.

    Through this partnership, Imaginea will be better positioned to help customers easily turn around non-performing systems rapidly with modern, comprehensive solutions.

    “As two companies that are focused on enterprise productivity and agility, our synergy will enable customers to accelerate their transformations into modern digital enterprises,” says Imaginea Chief Revenue Officer, Suresh Babu. “Partnering with WaveMaker gives our customers the new technology they need to gain a competitive advantage in their industries.”

    “Our customers must be able to easily identify the tools they need to quickly and successfully implement a digital transformation or extend the useful life of a legacy application. A low-code approach enables enterprises to jumpstart and complete large and complex digital projects faster and without losing steam,” says Babu.

    “Low-code platforms not only empower enterprises to effectively execute on digital transformations and application modernization projects, but they also enable customers to future-proof their efforts and safeguard their software investments. With WaveMaker, customers can avoid the challenges of vendor lock-in through unmatched flexibility combined with full code access that is portable and based on open standards,” says WaveMaker VP of Engineering, Deepak Anupalli.

    “Our partnership targets forward-thinking companies that are looking to transform their businesses with software development methodology that is fast, flexible, and leverages modern cloud-native technology,” says Suresh Babu.

    The collaboration comes at a time when both Imaginea and WaveMaker are seeing rapid growth as they work with a rising number of Fortune 1000 companies seeking to implement digital transformation strategies and modernization plans.

    Modernization is a strategic imperative for most organizations seeking to remain competitive in their industries, and a low-code approach can help enterprises transform aging applications quickly and economically based on their unique business goals. For more information on Imaginea’s Enterprise offering, visit https://www.imaginea.com/enterprise/or write to connect@imaginea.com.

    ABOUT IMAGINEA

    From startups to Fortune 500s, Imaginea helps customers leverage product thinking in their domain, to solve their toughest technology problems, as they rush to meet rising customer expectations and tackle unpredictable moves by digital competitors. Headquartered in Mountain View, they work with over 200 global customers across US, Europe, and India turning ideas into amazing products. For more information, visit www.imaginea.com, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    ABOUT WAVEMAKER

    WaveMaker’s software platform revolutionizes how enterprises build, deliver, and manage modern custom applications, improving business agility and fostering innovation. WaveMaker leverages the latest trends and technologies in low-code such as multi-device auto-responsive interfaces and componentized app assembly, Docker for app-optimized container deployment on private infrastructures, and APIs and Microservices Architecture (MSA) for scalable integration. For more information, visit www.wavemaker.com, or like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or connect with us on LinkedIn.

  • Redgate enhances the appeal of compliant database DevOps with new provisioning dashboard for SQL Clone

    Cambridge UK, Wednesday 24 October 2018 – The leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, Redgate, has introduced a new at-a-glance dashboard to its database provisioning solution, giving users an easy way to manage, organize and make available masked copies of databases.

    Copies of production databases are commonly used in development to test changes against and ensure they are not breaking changes. Shifting left the testing in such a manner is one of the ways a DevOps approach can be applied to the database in order to speed up development and minimize deployment errors.

    Redgate’s provisioning solution uses the tried and tested virtualization technology built into 64-bit Windows to create database copies, or clones, which are a fraction of the size of the original. While they work just like normal SQL Server databases and can be connected to and edited with any program, they typically take up only megabytes of space, even for databases of 64TB in size.

    As importantly in an age when data breaches are prompting the introduction of stricter data privacy legislation, the provisioning solution also enables sensitive data in the clones to be masked at the time they are created.

    Rather than simply randomizing the data, it uses pseudonymization and anonymization techniques to ensure the database is truly representative of the original and retains its referential integrity and distribution characteristics. The sanitized copies can then be used to speed up development, accurately test code, and fix issues faster. Their small size also encourages a dedicated development model where developers are free to have their own personal copy of the database to work with.

    The increasing demand for and use of masked copies, however, can make managing multiple copies across disparate teams a complicated task. To address this, Redgate has developed a dashboard to make the searching, grouping, renaming and management of copies fast and easy.

    The copies in use can now be grouped by location, the database version they were created from, and the instance they are on, and searched by name, creation date or size from the dashboard. Importantly, if a developer tests a change which breaks their copy of the database, it can be reset to its original state in seconds rather than having to be deleted and recreated.

    The activity view additionally gives Database Administrators an instant picture of what has happened over the last seven days, who did it, and any errors that occurred. For errors that occurred previously, the log files can be retrieved in a couple of keystrokes.

    To increase security and further demonstrate compliance with data protection legislation, Active Directory role-based access can also be used so that users without appropriate permission only have access to masked copies of the database.

    As Rebecca Edwards, Redgate Product Marketing Manager, concludes: “At Redgate, we’re constantly talking to companies to discover what challenges they face in their desire to develop applications and databases faster while also keeping data safe. This latest addition to our database provisioning solution will help them comply with data protection legislation – and demonstrate compliance – while making their jobs easier.”

  • macOS Goes Password-Free with Introduction of Octopus Authentication

    Octopus Authentication is the market’s first password-free multi-factor authentication solution for Mac business users

     Tel Aviv, Israel – October 24, 2018 – Secret Double Octopus, the leader in password-free authentication technology, announced today its Octopus Authentication solution is now available for Mac enterprise users. Octopus Authentication is the first high-assurance, password-free authentication for macOS within corporate networks managed by Microsoft’s Active Directory.

    As companies implement increasingly strict password policies, users have to manage downgraded experiences and reduced productivity. This has led to enterprise companies looking to eliminate the workplace password altogether. With Mac now a fixture in every enterprise company in the world, delivering password-free authentication for macOS will change the way work is done, freeing up valuable time that was otherwise spent searching for, memorizing and entering passwords.

    Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) centralizes authentication and authorization for domain resources, however, by only using one password to access all resources, AD passwords are a lucrative target for attacks. In place of passwords, Octopus Authentication enables login from a macOS host using a high-assurance, password-free authenticator.

    Octopus Authentication for macOS supports access to all enterprise resources, whether on-premise, remotely accessed or in the cloud. The solution is built upon unbreakable cryptography that is highly resistant to common attacks, such as phishing, MitM and cracking.

    “The Mac is all about top notch user experience, but at the workplace things get complicated due to security concerns, as users need to memorize and change complex passwords,” said Raz Rafaeli CEO of Secret Double Octopus. “Octopus Authentication for macOS eliminates the nuisance of passwords at work, introducing multi-factor authentication at every login.”

    About Secret Double Octopus

    Secret Double Octopus is pioneering the password-free workplace. Its high-assurance authentication solutions are built on provably unbreakable cryptography that is highly resistant to attacks and provide superior user experience. Secret Double Octopus is a Gartner Cool Vendor, Business Insider ‘Startup that will boom in 2018’, PwC game-changer for Global Financial Services Innovation, and recipient of the Frost and Sullivan ‘Technology Innovation Award‘. Its customer-base includes US, European and Asian companies.

  • Compuware and CollabNet VersionOne Announce Integration of ISPW and Continuum

    Partnership Enables Value Stream Management with Unified View of Cross-Platform Development and Deployment

    • Application Development and Delivery Professionals are under pressure to track the progress of code deliverables across the DevOps lifecycle based on their value to the business.
    • Large enterprises are additionally seeking increased visibility and control over agile development work across all platforms—from inception to delivery.
    • The integration of ISPW, Compuware’s DevOps-enabled source code management solution for the mainframe, and CollabNet VersionOne’s Continuum release delivery platform, will serve this customer need.

    LAS VEGAS, Oct. 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Compuware and CollabNet VersionOne today announced the completed integration of their respective products, ISPW and Continuum. The companies previously announced they were partnering to help large enterprises unify their Value Stream Management (VSM) by incorporating their critical mainframe software development activities into their digital value chain. Both companies are at DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES18), featuring the integration in Compuware booth 827 and CollabNet VersionOne booth 219.

    ISPW provides DevOps-enabled source code management (SCM) capabilities for mainframe code while CollabNet VersionOne’s Continuum tracks, automates and orchestrates software value streams across the DevOps lifecycle. Continuum’s visual interface helps users see and understand the progression of what is happening in the process of development.

    The initial integration will enable Application Development and Delivery managers to view and control the status of user stories moving through the mainframe software development pipeline from the same Continuum dashboard as they use to manage those pipelines across other platforms. This dashboard enables managers to quickly identify which stories are progressing on schedule, which have been delayed by defects, and which contain trailing commits.

    Large enterprises are relying increasingly on their core mainframe systems of record as essential back-end support for critical mobile and web front-end customer engagement. They must therefore orchestrate the delivery of new software across all platforms at the same speed and frequency to deliver value to customers.

    “As planned, our partnership with Compuware is already delivering capabilities that make it easier for mainframe users to scale Agile and DevOps. We are helping them connect their mainframe-based development activities into broader cross-platform efforts that can be incorporated into unified value streams,” said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet VersionOne. “Value Stream Management keeps software aligned with business objectives, which is essential for today’s dynamic and continuous application development processes.”

    “Enterprises need greater automation, better visibility and a mainframe-inclusive DevOps tool-chain to increase the quality, velocity and efficiency with which they create new digital experiences for customers,” said Chris O’Malley, CEO of Compuware. “Our partnership with CollabNet VersionOne will provide such capabilities, empowering development and delivery teams to accelerate their DevOps journeys to better meet their customers’ digital demands.”

    About CollabNet VersionOne
    CollabNet VersionOne is the Enterprise Value Stream Management leader that accelerates high value software development and delivery, while improving quality and reducing risk. Our offerings provide global enterprise and government market leaders a cohesive solution, spanning idea through delivery, that enable them to capture, create, deliver and measure the flow of business value throughout their application development lifecycles. For more information, visit www.collabnet.com.

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    Compuware Corporation
    Compuware empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by fully leveraging their high-value mainframe investments. We do this by delivering highly innovative solutions that uniquely enable IT professionals with mainstream skills to manage mainframe applications, data, and platform operations. Learn more at compuware.com.