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  • CollabNet VersionOne Advances End-to-End DevOps Strategy

    CollabNet VersionOne Advances End-to-End DevOps Strategy

    At its Agile 2019 conference, CollabNet VersionOne announced it plans to extend the capabilities of its software delivery and management platforms later this month as part of an effort to provide organizations with more visibility into how changing software development project schedules impact the business.

    Company CEO Flint Brenton said updates to the VersionOne value stream enterprise management platform will include a revamped user interface that provides more visibility into events occurring within the Continuum continuous integration (CI) platform.

    Brenton also said those updates will further advance adoption of agile frameworks such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), a prescriptive approach to combining best agile development and DevOps practices.

    While organizations may opt to employ VersionOne in combination with other CI/CD platforms, Brenton said CollabNet VersionOne provides a more comprehensive understanding of the impact changes to software development schedules will have on the business.

    As part of that effort, CollabNet VersionOne also announced VS Exchange, a marketplace for custom and preconfigured Continuum and VersionOne extensions and workflows, and enhancement to the Continuum TestDrive component within the company’s implementation of Continuum that streamline provisioning.

    With more organizations than ever starting to appreciate how dependent they are on software, Brenton said business leaders are now looking to exercise more control over software development projects. It’s no longer enough to generate more code, he noted; rather, DevOps teams are now being asked to generate more reliable code that has the greatest impact on the business faster. CollabNet VersionOne enables organizations to achieve that goal by providing a management platform in the form of VersionOne that is layered on top of Continuum.

    CollabNet VersionOne is now taking part in a race to infuse more business analytics into a software development lifecycle (SDLC) platform. While SDLC platforms have typically been employed to gather technical metrics, organizations now want to correlate that data against business metrics.

    Less clear right now is whether having access to business metrics will influence the selection of one CI/CD platform over another. Over time, the expectation is that various forms of business intelligence capabilities will be a standard capability of the platform, especially as IT leaders continue to assume larger business responsibilities in the age of digital business processes.

    It may be a while yet before business and IT roles start to converge. In the meantime, CollabNet VersionOne is clearly betting there will be a lot more collaboration between these two camps going forward. In many ways, the DevOps best practices that organizations have adopted to become more agile are about to be extended to the business processes enabled by software. Savvy business leaders will realize their ability to meet financial goals for any given quarter is tied to the timely manner in which new digital customer experiences are enabled. In fact, there may come a day when IT organizations are able to deliver software updates faster than most businesses will be able to consume it.

    — Mike Vizard

  • 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 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.