Powertel Selects Starbase To Manage Software And Web Development Process; StarTeam Helps Leading Wireless Services Provider Enhance The Quality of Software Applications
May 22, 2000 08:37 AM Eastern Time
SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000--Starbase Corp. SBAS , a leading provider of collaboration solutions for integrated content and software applications, Monday announced that Powertel, PTEL , a leading wireless Personal Communications Service (PCS) provider, serving the southeastern United States, has adopted StarTeam to manage the development process for their traditional and non-traditional application development requirements.
Subsequent testing has revealed that significant improvements were achieved in the overall quality of software applications developed with StarTeam. StarTeam helped create an integrated and streamlined development environment that was critical to Powertel's successful eBusiness implementation.
Powertel's PCS subscriber base of more than 600,000 users has grown more than 85 percent during the past 12 months. Powertel's software development team required a collaborative solution like StarTeam to meet the increasing demands for more Web browser based applications. StarTeam was selected to better organize Powertel's development environment resources, with little or no negative impact on the development process.
"We selected StarTeam in large part because of its ease of use," said William Hurt, software development manager at Powertel. "StarTeam's flexibility allows new entrants to our projects to come up to speed faster. After the introduction of StarTeam to our development and QA testing teams we began seeing immediate productivity gains, in addition to meeting our objective of improving the quality of our software applications."
The StarTeam collaborative development solution required little implementation time since the existing procedures at Powertel remained in use. StarTeam facilitated increased coordination among developers, enabling an improved and uniform process to share application data. StarTeam's robust collaboration features helped bring technical and non-technical contributors together, while the remote access capability gave Powertel team members from across the Southeastern United States access to corporate digital assets stored in StarTeam's central repository.
"Corporations continue to make investments in the development of e-commerce solutions," stated Lydia Patterson, vice president, products group at Starbase. "Keeping the processes that manage that development effort up and running, even as improvements are being made, is critical. Our customers recognize the productivity and performance gains that StarTeam delivers to both the traditional and Web development environments."
Powertel automated the entire application development lifecycle with StarTeam, from early project design and development to staging and quality assurance. Further application testing by Powertel demonstrated an improved approach to the development process. The StarTeam implementation has resulted in increased productivity and improved development efficiencies in the development organization at Powertel. StarTeam provided the Powertel team with a solution that would ramp up quickly, allow continued use of Powertel's current procedures, and provide the tools to deliver improved quality to software applications.
About Powertel
Powertel, Inc. provides 100 percent digital PCS wireless services in its licensed service area in 12 states in the Southeast -- the largest contiguous PCS network in the southeastern United States. Through its affiliation with other GSM carriers, Powertel's coverage extends across the United States to most major cities and into much of Canada to a population of more than 176 million people.
Powertel's core markets are in 34 southeastern metropolitan areas and along the major highway corridors that connect them. Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Jackson, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Macon, Memphis, Nashville and Savannah are among the municipalities in Powertel's licensed service area, which has a population of more than 24 million people. Powertel offers consumers and businesses a variety of compact handsets from Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Mitsubishi. For more information on Powertel and its products and services, visit the company on its Web site at: powertel.com
About Starbase
Starbase is a leading provider of collaboration solutions for integrated content and software applications. Collaboration is the simultaneous coordination, management and communication of geographically dispersed contributors of both code and content for eBusiness applications. With more than 1,300 StarTeam customers worldwide, the company's technology supports the continuous cycle of creating, linking and managing digital assets, which comprise complex eBusiness applications. Starbase products enable users with differing technical and functional backgrounds to collaborate on the production of Web sites and eBusiness initiatives from multiple locations.
StarTeam, the company's flagship product, was labeled as "StarTeam fuels team exchange" in an early release review from InfoWorld in January 2000 and received "Two Thumbs Up" from New Media in May 1999 and Four Stars from Software Development in August 1999. Microsoft and CMP Media named Starbase the 25th fastest growing ISV for Windows in April 1999. StarTeam also received the "Best of the Test Center" award by InfoWorld in January 1998.
Companies and organizations, including leading corporations such as Lucent Technologies, Intel, BMC Software, Motorola, PepsiCo, Seagate Technology, Hollywood Entertainment, Reynolds & Reynolds Co., eTour.com, Oxygen Media, and Ann Taylor have selected StarTeam to manage their eBusiness development projects.
Starbase has headquarters at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, Calif. 92707. Tel: 714/445-4400. Fax: 714/445-4404. Visit Starbase's Web site at www.starbase.com.
Starbase and its product names are trademarks of Starbase Corp. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
When used in the preceding discussion, the words "believes, expects, or intend to" and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (i) conditions in the general economy or the software industry, (ii) the timely development and market acceptance of products and technologies, (iii) competitive factors, (iv) demand for team productivity software products, (v) sell-through of products in the sales channel, and (vi) other risks described in Starbase Corp.'s SEC reports and filings.
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CONTACT: Starbase Corp., Santa Ana Martha Ray, (Public Relations), 714/445-4531 mray@starbase.com or Ann Jones, (Investor Relations), 714/445-4440 ajones@starbase.com
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