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Monday February 22, 1:53 pm Eastern Time
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SOURCE: StarBase Corporation
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.
About StarTeam Enterprise Suite
StarTeam Enterprise Suite adds to the StarTeam 4.0 product a number of productivity components to take it well into the
enterprise and to integrate with the established work processes of mature development organizations. The first delivery of
StarTeam Enterprise Suite includes the following functionality.
-- Task Management Component: Provides the ability to implement process management without compromising productivity. StarTeam's Task Component enables both local and remote users to organize project plans, define tasks, subtasks and milestones, monitor task duration and schedules, control resource allocation and availability, create and view work records to determine actual work completed or remaining, keep project management and development workflow synchronized.
-- Microsoft Project Integration: Seamless integration with Microsoft Project allows project managers to automatically obtain project status and updates via repository synchronization. This added functionality interacts with the Task Component to allow the sharing of information between StarTeam 4.0 and Microsoft Project 98. Project Managers can export their MS Project tasks into StarTeam to create StarTeam tasks. During the export process, MS Project resources will be mapped to StarTeam team members. This allows the automatic creation of task and work definitions for each team member. In addition, Project Managers can import StarTeam work records into MS Project to allow the
automatic status update for tracking their projects.
-- Repository Customization: Allows technical organizations to tailor StarTeam to fit their internal software configuration management system and existing processes- giving development organizations the means to achieve their goals of reducing time-to-market and improving software quality. Users can now modify values of the existing enumerated StarTeam fields and also create custom fields to better represent information specific to their environment. This functionality is available to all StarTeam components including File, Change Request, Topic and Task. Project administrators determine which users have the rights to perform repository customizations.
-- StarDisk: An advanced Windows Explorer client interface, StarDisk delivers transparent access to many of the benefits of StarTeam, providing unobtrusive version control to software engineers together with ease of use for less technical team members.
Pricing and Availability
StarTeam 4.0 is available immediately. Pricing begins at $699 per seat and $2,499 for the StarTeam Virtual Team Server.
StarTeam Enterprise Suite is available immediately and includes StarTeam 4.0 and the four productivity components, priced at
$1,299 per seat and $4,499 for the server.
System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 or higher
UNIX (Universal Edition)
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) version 1.1 or later
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, (vi) and other risks described in StarBase Corporation's SEC
reports and filings.
About GeoAccess
GeoAccess of Overland Park, Kansas, is a software and consulting firm that enables managed care companies to effectively
analyze and communicate network provider information. It's solutions - from Internet technologies to software applications to
outsourcing services - help companies cut costs, improve efficiency and provide value-added services to network members
and employees.
About StarBase
StarBase Corporation, with headquarters in Santa Ana, California, offers a complete family of advanced Internet and
Intranet-based technical collaboration products for web site production, e-commerce application development and software
configuration management for mission critical applications. StarBase products were designed to improve development team
productivity throughout the enterprise, centralized, decentralized and remote development, including Year 2000 and
Enterprise Program Management Office applications. StarTeam has won several awards including InfoWorld's 1997 ''Best of
the Test Center, ''PCWeek's 1996 Analyst's Choice and PC Week's 1996 IT Excellence Award. Leading organizations such
as Hollywood Entertainment, Bank of America, Boeing, Dell Corporation, Intel Corporation, Sprint, and Xerox have chosen
StarTeam to aid in their development projects. StarBase is located at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, CA
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 Corporation. All other products are trademarks of their
respective owners.
SOURCE: StarBase Corporation
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