Starbase Announces StarTeam Web Edition; StarTeam Web Edition Delivers Significant Productivity Gains To e-Commerce Development Organizations
June 5, 2000 08:43 AM Eastern Time
SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000--Starbase Corp. SBAS , the leading provider of collaboration products for the creation and management of integrated code and content eBusiness applications, Monday announced the availability of StarTeam Web Edition.
StarTeam Web Edition enables direct access to software and Web development projects from anywhere in the world through the convenience of a secure Web browser. Web Edition expands StarTeam's best-of-breed solutions to new areas of the business enterprise, delivering significant productivity gains, and improving and accelerating project release schedules. Web Edition is an integrated member of the newly expanded StarTeam family of products.
"StarTeam Web Edition streamlines access to project information by providing a centralized portal to multiple projects. All our team members can participate in the change management process," stated Tim Reaves, senior programmer at BASCOM Global Internet Services, Inc. "Our projects require a high level of communication from customers, partners and suppliers. Web Edition will give us the tools to securely involve the participants in our development cycle. StarTeam delivers the most complete functionality to successfully manage the delivery of software applications, and Web Edition significantly improves upon that delivery."
"StarTeam's advanced Internet-ready architecture has always enabled remote developers to collaborate on software and Web design projects," stated Lydia Patterson, vice president products group at Starbase. "With the introduction of StarTeam Web Edition, StarTeam's Change Management functionality extends across teams and platforms, enabling geographically disbursed teams to more easily capture, manage and communicate project issues."
StarTeam Web Edition enables team members throughout the enterprise to collaborate during the entire development process, while allowing more users greater access to project data without increasing administration overhead. Technical and non-technical contributors as well as partners, suppliers and customers can deliver feedback and suggestions into the same system used by the development team.
Web Edition's Internet-based architecture provides secure and efficient access to project information across local area networks, wide area networks and the Internet. Web Edition utilizes industry standard encryption technology from RSA Security, Inc. StarTeam Web Edition provides five levels of encryption, permitting users to select varying degrees of balance between security and performance. StarTeam Web Edition leverages Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology, allowing development teams to customize the interface and workflow to match specific project and environment requirements.
The initial release of Web Edition supports change management using StarTeam's change request component. Currently under development, and scheduled as updates are product enhancements designed to deliver topics, files, tasks and other more advanced components to Web Edition.
About StarTeam -- Web Edition
StarTeam Web Edition is a Web-based interface that allows the user to connect to a StarTeam VirtualTeam Server and access StarTeam project information from the Internet with a standard Web Browser. StarTeam Web Edition supports a subset of the features found in StarTeam including, reading, modifying and adding change requests. StarTeam is an integrated collaboration and eBusiness development management solution, designed to significantly improve the productivity of code and content development teams.
StarTeam delivers best-of-breed integrations and server support to better manage the requirements of large development environments. StarTeam provides developers across the enterprise, and in geographically distributed locations, with the ability to collaborate effectively while building business critical applications. StarTeam is the only solution with an open API (Java and COM) that allows developers to build custom interfaces to access StarTeam projects.
StarTeam Web Edition is available today by calling Starbase at 888/770-STAR or by visiting the Starbase Web site at www.starbase.com.
About Starbase
Starbase is the leading provider of collaboration products for the creation and management of integrated code and content eBusiness 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, our 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 Ann Jones, (Investor Relations), 714/445-4440 ajones@starbase.com or Martha Ray, (Public Relations), 714/445-4531 mray@starbase.com
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