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- Effective management and control of the software development process
- Efficiency through coordinated application lifecycle management
- Real-time project coordination, communication, and collaboration across distributed teams
- Secured project assets including requirements, code, tasks, and plans
- Increased business visibility into project metrics and status
Automated Configuration and Change Management
Borland StarTeam® 2005 provides a complete range of software change and configuration management solutions designed to meet the needs of all development teams according to size, geographical distribution, and work style.
A robust platform for coordinating and managing the entire software delivery process, StarTeam promotes team communication and collaboration through centralized control of all project assets. Protected yet flexible access ensures that team members can work whenever and wherever they like through an extensive choice of Web, desktop, IDE, and command-line clients. StarTeam offers a uniquely comprehensive solution that includes integrated requirements management, change management, defect tracking, file versioning, threaded discussions, and project and task management.
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StarTeam Editions & Extensions
StarTeam Standard
Borland StarTeam Standard is an easy-to-use software change and configuration management tool that helps small development teams implement secure version management processes throughout the application development lifecycle.
StarTeam Enterprise
For medium-sized software development teams looking to improve collaboration and efficiency, StarTeam 2005 Enterprise provides a professional software change and configuration management system.
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage
Borland StarTeam 2005 Enterprise Advantage is a comprehensive software change and configuration management solution that provides large, geographically distributed development teams with a robust platform for coordinating and managing the entire software delivery process.
Borland Datamart for StarTeam
Borland Datamart for StarTeam provides a powerful business intelligence solution with dashboard-style reporting capabilities that help managers monitor progress and keep projects on track.
Borland StarTeam TestDirector Synchronizer
TestDirector Synchronizer allows defects logged within Mercury TestDirector® to be synchronized into StarTeam change requests, providing access to the latest information about project issues from either environment.
StarTeam Software Developer’s Kit (SDK)
The StarTeam SDK allows any programmer to develop custom software applications based on StarTeam’s collaborative architecture.
StarTeam Standard
Centralized control of project assets unifies teams, with a common workflow for key development tasks such as file check-in, checkout, and labeling. Using StarTeam Standard, development teams can be confident that their project assets are safely stored and managed, complete with enhanced defect tracking, change request functionality, and the ability to roll back to previous file versions. StarTeam Standard promotes better team productivity, enabling rapid response to change and reducing the overall burden of development task management.
StarTeam Enterprise
With a single, integrated interface for managing files, change requests, tasks, and topics, StarTeam Enterprise provides a unified repository for key application lifecycle assets. The ability to manage shared and reusable components accelerates team productivity by promoting parallel development. StarTeam Enterprise enhances control of the development process by ensuring that all assets are versioned and changes automatically tracked, making it easier to monitor project status and keep all team members up to date.
StarTeam Enterprise also includes Web client support, a completely browser-based Web client that offers users flexible access to work wherever and whenever they like, including locations such as customer sites, airport kiosks, or home computers. Web Edition allows access to StarTeam functionality without an installed client application, increasing the client choices available to users.
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage
The ability to integrate all key application lifecycle assets within a single repository and to create customizable workflow processes enables organizations to drive team efficiency through greater project predictability and control. StarTeam Enterprise Advantage addresses the specific needs of geographically distributed teams, providing an extremely scalable multi-user environment with high availability to promote effective communication and collaboration. Project trend analysis and reporting enhances visibility for business stakeholders to optimize the delivery of software.
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage includes the following unique capabilities designed to meet the needs of large, geographically distributed teams:
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Search and Query Capabilities
Allows team members to search for assets across multiple projects and repositories for optimal reuse and sharing -
MPX Server
Provides true multicast communication to ensure that teams are always up to date by broadcasting all events and keeping data current -
Cache Agent
Supports distributed development with multisite repositories to ensure maximum scalability and high availability across global teams -
StarTeam Web Edition
A completely browser-based Web client that lets StarTeam users work whenever and wherever they like, including locations such as customer sites, airport kiosks, or a home computer
Borland Datamart for StarTeam
Increase the visibility of project progress and status with Borland Datamart for StarTeam, a business intelligence solution that provides critical reporting and analysis to assess whether projects are being delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
Powerful dashboard-style reporting capabilities let managers measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the software delivery process to monitor trends, discover opportunities, and optimize strategies. Borland Datamart for StarTeam maximizes the value of StarTeam software configuration and change management solutions, providing analytical data for insight into resource allocation, change requests, potential defects, and task management. This critical information makes it easier to monitor progress and perform accurate impact analysis for effective project management.
Borland Datamart for StarTeam is compatible with many top-of-the-line reporting clients, including Business Objects® and Crystal Reports.® By allowing you to work with the analysis tools you choose, Borland Datamart for StarTeam affords you optimal flexibility, making it even easier to review and monitor your project data.
Borland Datamart for StarTeam includes:
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Datamart Extractor
Pulls selected StarTeam project data and prepares it for analysis -
Datamart Synchronizer
Opens the Business Objects Universe and refreshes the data to reflect any field changes, thereby ensuring that the most up-to-date information is always used for analysis -
Datamart Viewer
Provides easy access to reports stored in StarTeam, with the ability launch them in the appropriate reporting tool
The StarTeam Software Developer’s Kit (SDK)
The StarTeam SDK provides the following features and capabilities for developers:
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Open access to the StarTeam repository for custom solution building or third-party product integration
Easily develop custom applications and utilities or interface StarTeam with other applications using standard programming languages and tools. For example, the SDK is an excellent tool for automating build scripts, migrating from or interfacing with legacy systems, and building other applications that leverage your existing software investments. -
Java application programming interface
Provides portability of SDK applications to virtually any platform -
COM wrapper
Supports scripting languages, such as Microsoft® Visual Basic,® Netscape® JavaScript,® and C++ through a COM interface layer -
Microsoft .NET Assembly
The StarTeam COM objects support the standard IProvideClassInfo and IProvideClassInfo2 interfaces, for improved integration with Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. -
StarTeam MPX-enabled
The StarTeam SDK now supports StarTeamMPX publish/subscribe technology. When running against an MPX-enabled server, SDK applications benefit from instant refresh. Also, using new event handling APIs, an application can subscribe to server events and implement handlers for those events.
The Borland Developer Network is an online community for Borland developers and contains StarTeam SDK developer resources including SDK sample apps and code examples on Code Central as well as StarTeam product newsgroups.
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- Borland StarTeam Interoperation with Merant PVCS Version Manager and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
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