CollabNet

About

CollabNet TeamForge is an ALM platform used to organize complex, distributed teams and projects from a single platform. CollabNet DevOps Lifecycle Manager (CollabNet DLM) is an enterprise DevOps product used to help organizations integrate DevOps toolchains for tracking and reporting of the entire software development lifecycle. The company also partners closely with Clarive Software, which provides a release management solution to automate software deployment and releases. CollabNet offers Clarive solutions directly to customers. CollabNet also has a long history in the Agile space and is one of the industries’ largest Scrum trainers. It also provides Agile consulting and training services to supplement its product offerings.

CollabNet customers span finance, healthcare, government, high-tech, and other industries in 100 countries. CollabNet partners with technology providers such as HP and Microsoft, solutions providers and systems integrators including UNICOM and Hitachi Solutions, and resellers such as Carahsoft and Code Experts. The company also partners with #YesWeCode, a Dream Corps initiative designed to bring free technology training and industry connections to 100,000 young people in communities of color and increase local talent for the technology industry.

CollabNet has been recognized with the Code Project’s Members Choice Award (2011) for producing “products that application developers value most,” with two Golden Bridge Awards (2016) for “excellence in application delivery software,” and as an AlwaysOn Global 250 winner (2012) for its “game-changing technologies.” The company has also been acknowledged by the World Economic Forum (2012) as a “technology pioneer,” by CIO Solutions (2016) for creating “DevOps solutions transforming business,” by CIO Review (2016) as one of the “20 most promising application lifecycle management solutions providers,” and by the Best Place to Work Institute (2012) as a “best place to work In India.”

History

CollabNet was founded in 1999 by Tim O’Reilly, Brian Behlendorf, and Bill Portelli, who also served as the company’s chief executive officer. The company was founded with a mission to create software that helps organizations manage and improve software development processes and make them more efficient while producing higher quality software.In May 2015, Flint Brenton became president and chief executive officer with Portelli remaining on the board of directors. The company remains privately owned. Strategic acquisitions that support the company’s objectives and current standing include its 2010 acquisition of Danube Technologies, a company specializing in Agile/Scrum management software tools (including ScrumWorks Pro) and consulting and training services for organizations implementing Agile. CollabNet also acquired Codesion in 2010. Codesion specialized in cloud development.

Products

Two major enterprise products the company offers are TeamForge and DevOps Lifecyle Manager.

TeamForge -- TeamForge was adopted by the Department of Defense and used to power Forge.mil, a program of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Since 2012, CollabNet continues to evolve and release new versions of the TeamForge ALM platform. TeamForge offers capabilities for connecting various development teams across the enterprise with improved visibility and traceability during each lifecycle stage.

DLM -- DevOps Lifecycle Manager is a platform for DevOps organizations to gain visibility and traceability for every person, process, and task in the software development lifecycle. Introduced in 2016, this product represents innovation in the DevOps category with significant advances in process improvements and key performance indicator tracking.

Clarive by CollabNet – Clarive by CollabNet offers enterprises an end-to-end release management solution that automates release and deploy. Offered on-premise and as a hosted service, the solution is designed for both Agile and traditional development methods to support DevOps at any organization.

Subversion -- The company is known for pioneering version-control management with its Subversion product. In 2000, CollabNet developed Subversion as an open-source version-control system. The product is now known as Apache Subversion, the result of a partnership with the Apache Software Foundation. Also to support diverse technology the company extends its support of version-control tools to other popular products through TeamForge. CollabNet products have been recognized with the Great Indian Developer Award (2009 and 2010) as “trailblazing technologies,” with a Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Award (2012) for “best third-party tools for professional Microsoft developers,” and for “best software development solution” and “best use of open-source technology” as SIIA CODiE Awards finalists (2012).

Consulting Services

CollabNet Professional Services helps organizations consolidate and integrate software assets into a single platform for high-performance collaborative software development and deployment. Consultants provide knowledge and direction on enterprise agility assessment, enterprise software configuration management (SCM), and Agile development and delivery practices.

Training Services

CollabNet is a Scrum Alliance Registered Education Provider. It is the world leader in Certified Scrum Training, conducting more than 200 courses a year and training more than 20,000 ScrumMasters and product owners.

Community Support

In May 2016, CollabNet announced its partnership with #YesWeCode, a Dream Corps initiative designed to bring technology training and industry connections to 100,000 young people in communities of color. CollabNet and #YesWeCode offer Agile software development training through a variety of educational outlets, including developer boot-camps, community and vocation colleges, online degree and training programs, and military career advancement centers.

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