StarTeam
StarTeam Software Change and Configuration Management
StarTeam software change and configuration management provides a robust platform for coordinating and managing the entire software delivery process across diverse methodologies and distributed teams. Team members can work whenever and wherever they like and benefit from integrated change management, defect tracking, file versioning, requirements management, project and task management capabilities for flexible project control. A choice of clients and integrations addresses the needs of both non-developer and technical audiences and extends the project stakeholder reach of your SCCM investment.
StarTeam® manages both assets and activities in a single repository without the need to manually integrate or synchronize multiple repositories or tools. This centralized control reduces complexity and risk through enhanced visibility and control.
StarTeam 12.0 enables organizations to extend and enrich their ALM repository by managing more artifact types than ever before. The inclusion of the Borland Connector for Tasktop adds a layer of ALM tool interoperability that makes it possible for more ALM tool practitioners to directly participate and contribute to the developer’s view of the world. Combined, these two new capabilities enable organizations to create their own unique ALM environments. Customizable workflow processes can be tailored and extended to drive optimal efficiency throughout the application lifecycle. Innovative caching technology running on inexpensive hardware lowers the cost of supporting geographically distributed development. This provides a development management layer with unsurpassed global reach and performance for remote teams.
The comprehensive range of abilities within StarTeam provides the functionality, security, and scalability required to meet the software configuration and change management needs of today’s software development teams, regardless of size, distribution or methodology.
Benefits:
StarTeam delivers the following benefits:
- Enables developers to focus on developing software. All requirements, tasks, and relevant source files brought directly to them and managed within their IDE
- Delivers greater accuracy, traceability and development efficiency. All delivery artifacts automatically link as a natural part of the development process, with automated time-tracking, snapshots and versioning, spanning the entire ALM tool landscape, without the need to manually integrate or synchronize multiple repositories or tools
- Provides maximum visibility across the entire software delivery process. Tasktop connectivity and the ability to define server managed artifacts combine to bring all relevant artifacts within the full power of the StarTeam change management platform
- Supports enterprise-scale development, including geographically distributed development. Hundreds of development projects for potentially thousands of users benefit from the central control and visibility provided by a single repository
StarTeam is available in two commercial editions that provide users with a choice of capabilities and scalability suited to their needs, while retaining a simple upgrade path to support changing organizational needs and growth:
StarTeam Enterprise Edition
StarTeam Enterprise Edition provides small- to medium-sized software development teams with a professional, easy-to-use, highly configurable software configuration management tool that improves collaboration and efficiency. This entry level edition of StarTeam delivers the benefits of a robust Software Configuration Management tool as well as integrated Change Management capabilities – all in one tool. Key features include:
- File Versioning: Check-in, Check-out, Labels, Views, Project, folder and branch structures.
- Change Management: Support for Change Requests, Defect Tracking, Tasks & Discussions.
- StarTeamMPX: providing true multicast communication to ensure that team members are always up to date
- Functional support for managing files, change requests, tasks and topical discussions: in an all-in-one unified repository
- Integration with ALM tools for test management, IDEs and modelling tools
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage Edition
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage delivers all the capabilities of StarTeam Enterprise Edition, plus further optimization to meet the needs of large, geographically distributed development environments. Teams gain near-network access to all digital assets and the activities that control them. Key features include:
- Search and query: Team members search for assets across multiple projects and repositories for optimal reuse and sharing; and combine with CaliberRM™ for a comprehensive search index on both requirements and development assets
- Fully automated cache agents: Support geographically distributed development with local repository caches for maximum scalability and high availability across global teams; and maintain high reliability with minimal maintenance
- Build & Release readiness: Manage and run manual and automated pre-release testing across projects with TeamInspector, providing users with consistent visibility into project risks and build readiness trends early on
- Requirements support: Functional support added for managing requirements in the repository and integration with ALM tools for requirements management
Related Products
- CaliberRM® to provide end-to-end visibility from requirement to code to change request.
- SilkCentral® Test Manager to provide flexible and well-managed software testing of changes.