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StarBase Announces StarTeam 4.0 and StarTeam Enterprise Suite
New Components Provide Predictable Outcome for Critical Business Applications
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- StarBase Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS - news), a leading provider of Internet and intranet based technical collaboration products for web site application production and software configuration management (SCM), today announced the general availability of StarTeam 4.0 and the StarTeam Enterprise Suite. The company believes that the StarTeam Enterprise Suite is the first SCM solution to provide the base for predictability and control of the application delivery lifecycle and the foundation for continuous process improvement. Enterprise Suite provides a unique, integrated set of customizable components, task driven process management, Microsoft Project integration, and StarDisk, an intuitive Windows Explorer client interface. StarTeam 4.0 and StarTeam Enterprise Suite deliver enhanced enterprise team productivity that reduces development time and lowers the cost of expensive application projects, while improving quality and overall control of business-critical applications.
''With increasingly demanding corporate requirements, IT organizations need to have more control and predictability over the development process,'' said Judith Hurwitz, president and CEO of Hurwitz Group, Inc.
''The completion of this product suite marks a milestone for StarBase'', stated William R. Stow III, chairman and chief executive officer of StarBase. ''Fortune 1000 companies demand tight control over their application development projects as project failures and cost overruns have been legendary. An automated solution has long been needed that integrates many critical team productivity components with project modeling, project management controls and advanced SCM. StarTeam Enterprise Suite is the first to deliver this solution. Moreover, StarTeam 4.0 and Enterprise Suite provide the only available software architecture that enables best-of-breed products from other companies to be seamlessly integrated into a complete application lifecycle delivery system. Programmer development tools from Microsoft, Oracle, and Inprise can be fully integrated with StarTeam 4.0 as well as Web authoring tools from companies such as Allaire and Macromedia and test tools from companies such as Mercury Interactive, Segue and Cyrano. An alliance with Cyrano to achieve deep integration of StarTeam 4.0 with Cyrano's test tools was previously announced. We expect to announce many similar development alliances during the coming year.''
Joe Mangan, manager of business components development at GeoAccess, stated, ''Historically, the composition of our development teams has been organized strictly by product. The workgroup features found in the StarTeam Enterprise Suite have empowered us to restructure our development teams to leverage the power of the 'dynamic virtual workgroup teaming model' resulting in a dramatic increase in productivity! The functionality that we see in StarTeam Enterprise Suite will provide our developers with the tools necessary to self manage their tasks more efficiently, providing the control, collaboration and increased productivity that we now require. The integration with Microsoft Project will provide us with seamless repository synchronization that will dramatically improve the overall productivity of our developers, as well as the quality of our applications. For these reasons, our usage of StarTeam 4.0 and Enterprise Suite will encompass the entire enterprise, from our internal systems to engineering and beyond.''
Carlos Caballero, vice president of marketing at StarBase, stated, ''StarTeam Enterprise Suite represents an industry first integration. The seamless integration with MS Project, the market leader in its class, provides project managers with the ability to maintain control over project costs and delivery schedules, and simultaneously insures predictability in an otherwise unpredictable field. StarTeam Enterprise Suite is designed to increase the efficiency of the development team through collaboration, while expanding its resources, thereby lowering the cost of these projects.''
''This release of StarTeam delivers clear advantages to our customers that are not available from any other products,'' stated Bill McManes, vice president of sales at StarBase. ''We're looking forward to updating our current customers with StarTeam 4.0 and adding many new customers that cannot be reached by the competition's difficult to use technical products. The new StarDisk user interface blends into Windows Explorer, an interface familiar to all PC users. This opens important StarTeam functionality to the entire enterprise, not just technical users. With this release, we have put the competition far behind us.''
About StarTeam 4.0
StarTeam, an integrated technical collaboration and software configuration management product, is designed to significantly improve the productivity of software development teams. StarTeam provides remote developers with the ability to effectively manage and collaborate on enterprise-wide applications, and enables access to projects via a Web browser. StarTeam reflects a true client-server framework with its ability to inter-operate with most development environments. StarTeam 4.0 includes new additional functionality to help software professionals and project managers obtain more out of their development efforts.
-- Promotional Model: Through the use of Views and View Labels StarTeam 4.0 permits users to define promotional states and migrate complete application configurations from one stage to the other of the lifecycle. The promotional model implementation extends StarTeam's exclusive use of Views by providing a logical handle that allows the migration of all components associated with a given View Label across predefined promotional states.
-- Virtual Meeting: StarTeam 4.0 extends the collaboration functionality of StarTeam to include a transparent interface to Microsoft's NetMeeting. Any team member can now have on-line discussions, demonstrate functionality and share information with any other team member directly from within the StarTeam user interface.
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