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.NET Remote Client Library Released for CodeBeamer

CodeBeamer 5.3, the latest series of the award winning Collaborative ALM Solution, ships with a new .NET remote client library.
This library is the complete language binding of the codeBeamer web services API for the .NET platform, and it enables extending and customizing the collaboration server by implementing remote applications. Typical examples include Enterprise Application Integration, data importers and exporters, custom reporting, and IDE plugins.

The library enables .NET applications to:

  • Manage user accounts, projects and access control
  • Manage documents, wiki, issues, forums, associations, tags and other collaboratively developed information
  • Execute builds synchronously and asynchronously
  • Execute reports
  • Access Version Control System information (Subversion, Git, Mercurial and others)
  • And a lot more

The .NET remote client library is part of the regular codeBeamer distribution package, so just download the latest CB and you can start developing your .NET clients right now. The library is fully supported by Intland, this is not a third part extension.

First implementations include the integration between codeBeamer and Enterprise Architect, a popular collaborative modeling platform developed by Sparx Systems. The integration makes it possible to collaboratively develop and share UML models in a distributed environment.

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Posted at 01:18PM Jul 01, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Announcements  |  1 Comments

Intland starts tweeting

We are happy to annouce that we start to write our company tweets on @intland on Twitter today. We are going to use this type of micro communication to distribute short breaking news, hints, status reports, interesting links and all that jazz.
This company blog has been started in March 2007 and we will keep this alive, of course. Why do we need another medium then? The problem is that we are really really busy these days, there is a lot of interesting developments and discussions going on, and there is no hope that we could blog about everything. To overcome this, we will post the micro messages to Twitter instead, since there should always be enough time for those 140 characters.
Interested? Please follow us here: https://twitter.com/intland
Did I mention that as always, this is primarily for you? So please feel free to talk to us also on Twitter any time.

Posted at 01:39PM Jun 22, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in News  |  0 Comments

Business Process Automation with codeBeamer and Groovy

As you probably know, codeBeamer is an open system that provides various integration options to build business solutions custom tailored to your specific needs. If you have ever used the extension possibilities of codeBeamer or you plan to do so, you should take the time to see this excellent presentation by Olaf David of USDA.

Olaf and his team implemented a higher level programming interface on the top of codeBeamer's native Remote API to ease and accelerate the development of remote applications for codeBeamer. They are using extremely concise scripts written in Groovy, a dynamic language running on the JVM, to automate business processes for the United States Department of Agriculture.

From the presentation, you will learn what are the benefits of scripting generally, and how USDA supports their SCRUM processes and build management using automation scripts on top of codeBeamer.

If you would like to share your own experiences with codeBeamer, don't hesitate to contact us.

UPDATE (12 Jun): Olaf updated his slides to be "more comprehensive and organized". We include this newer version of his presentation here.

Business Process Automation with codeBeamer & Groovy (updated)

Posted at 11:44AM Jun 11, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Customer Stories  |  0 Comments

Join us at Intland Bootcamp 2009: DVCS, cloud and the latest in cost effective collaboration

Intland Bootcamp is a gathering centered around Intland Software's collaboration solutions, Intland's product portfolio and emerging trends in the collaboration space.
Who should come? Project managers, developers, sys admins, partners and anyone interested in collaboration.

Date: June 22-23, 2009 — Location: Stuttgart, Germany.

We start at 10:00AM and we offer the following talks. (Don't forget: we're open to discuss anything related, just ask us.)

Moving from Subversion to Distributed Revision Control
We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the revision control space. More and more innovative users in the Communications and Automotive industries are recognizing why Distributed Version Control (DVCS) is useful today and why this will be important in the medium to long term for most software development teams.
Learn how can DVCS make your business operations more efficient and more cost effective, how to choose between Mercurial and Git, and the current state of the DVCS tool support in codeBeamer.

Collaboration in the Cloud: codeBeamer Now on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
This year, Intland has successfully migrated its free project hosting service Javaforge.com from a traditional hosting environment to Amazon EC2.
Learn more about our first hand experiences, the cost advantages of cloud computing, and how your business can benefit from this.

Customer Experience: IT Service Management Solution at Lufthansa
In this talk, we'll explore the launch and adoption of EMMA, a highly successful IT Service Management solution at a large transportation company in Germany.
Improving service delivery and profitability is key in 2009 economy. Learn from others who have gone through this.
Speaker: Monika Müller of Lufthansa Systems

New product: Business Collaboration using Participate
From the last year, Intland offers Participate, a product to solve the increasing problem of business communication and collaboration.
This talk will focus on optimizing business processes throughout a complete organization, briding between developers and business people, and getting out the most value at the lowest cost.
Speaker: easycash

Composing Requirements with codeBeamer and Enterprise Architect
Thanks to the integration of Enterprise Architect and codeBeamer, we can offer an elegant solution for collaborative requirement composition problems.
We'll also hear from developers using codeBeamer's remote API interface on their experiences, challenges and successes.
Speaker: Sparx Systems

codeBeamer 5.3 and 5.4: What's next?
Learn about the new key features, like hierarchical issues, calculated tracker fields, editing wiki pages in MS Word, improved PDF export for wiki, distributed version control with Git and Mercurial, CMDB and a lot more.
This talk will explain also our latest plans for new functionality.

Developer Chat
Engage with our core engineers in an intimate and informal setting.
Having questions or problems with extending codeBeamer? Bring your computer, your code and our developers will help you getting things done.

(Note: at the end of the first day, talks might continue in a local pub.)

Registration is now open, but seats are limited, so register today. We're excited to meet you at Intland Bootcamp 2009.

Posted at 04:22PM May 25, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Events  |  0 Comments

Intland makes Distributed Version Control a core strategy

Stuttgart, May 15, 2009 – Intland Software, the leading provider of web based collaboration and application life cycle management solutions, today announced that Distributed Version Control will be a core part in the company's future product design strategy.

"Our customers closely follow the paradigm change in the version control market, and there is enormous interest on their sides to apply innovative techniques that generate real business value. DVCS is one of those. We want to react rapidly and to help them to succeed. It's that simple.”, said Janos Koppany, CEO at Intland.

About Intland Software

Intland Software was founded in 1998 with the mission to innovate a new generation of collaborative development solutions that address the escalation in team distribution and ever-increasing project communication complexity. Intland’s collaborative software development solution “codeBeamer,” is being used across diverse industries from small businesses to multi-national corporations. These companies use codeBeamer to solve many different business problems such as application life-cycle management, managing development outsourcing and improving development process management. Intland provides codeBeamer customers tightly integrated project control with versioning, issue management, knowledge management and build management in a single system. Intland customers' successes include major organizations such as: Allianz, ASUS, Bayer, Continetal AG, Diamler, Dassault Falcon, EDS, EADS, Luftansa, US Army, USDA, Siemens, Sun Microsystems and many others.

www.intland.com

Posted at 11:45AM May 15, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Press Releases  |  0 Comments

Meet us at W-JAX 09 in Munich

After the successes of the previous years, we will be there in Munich this year again. Visit us if you would like to chat about your problems or needs, our solutions or just about anything in the collaboration space.

Learn more about the event here.

Posted at 10:26AM May 15, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Events  |  0 Comments

codeBeamer 5.4 with support for both Git and Mercurial

Last year we announced support for Mercurial, and today we are proud to announce that the next version of codeBeamer comes with support for both of the most popular distributed version control systems, Git and Mercurial!
Consider this as an addition to the centralized version control systems which codeBeamer already supports, most notably Subversion and CVS. While these two traditional VCS's already gained industry acceptance, more and more of our users keep asking for DVCS options. This is possible now. In case you want to learn more about why you should give DVCS a try, the Wikipedia article distributed revision control might be a good starting point for reading.

codeBeamer 5.4 with git and Mercurial additionally to Subversion is online from 13th of May 2009 on codeBeamer.com, a downloadable version is also available for qualified beta testers. If there is significant interest, we will provide options for Git and Mercurial also on our free Javaforge project hosting service.
Let us know (comment here or send an email to support at intland.com) if you have any questions or would like to see Git or Mercurial available on Javaforge.

Posted at 03:40PM May 08, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Press Releases  |  0 Comments

New codeBeamer instructional videos available!

Great for a quick overview of CodeBeamer's features:

Posted at 03:16PM May 04, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Tutorials  |  0 Comments

codeBeamer 5.3.1 is released

This release is a maintenance release with 80 bugfixes and small enhancements. The server performance is significantly improved for bigger installations. We tested the performance on Javaforge.com with 10,000 accounts, 2,000 projects and 200 GB data.

Registration is required to see the release notes.

Posted at 03:36PM Apr 28, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Announcements  |  0 Comments

Workflows: centralized versus distributed version control systems

An interesting read: at Why Git is Better Than X (where X is one of hg, bzr, svn and perforce) Scott Chacon maintains a list of reasons why you should switch from your good old version control system to Git, the fast version control system.
While lots of people are talking about "which is the best distributed version control system?", we at Intland find it more interesting to answer the question "how can you improve your business using a distributed version control system?" and "what kind of workflows can you implement on the top of a good DVCS?". That's why we copied the section "Any workflow" here. Please read through Scott's entire site here if interested.

There are multiple key players in the field of DVCS implementations, and we believe that this competition is good for the industry. Having said that, codeBeamer gives you a freedom of the choice: it supports both Git and Mercurial. Give it a try.

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Posted at 02:26PM Apr 20, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Business  |  0 Comments

User Seminar in the Taiwan Silicon Valley region

We held a customer information exchange seminar at a meeting room near Hsinchu Science Park, the Silicon Valley of Taiwan.

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Posted at 01:39PM Mar 30, 2009 by Yu-Shiu Lin in Customer Stories  |  0 Comments

codeBeamer 5.3 is released. We couldn't agree more with the Google no. 3 principle: "Fast is better than slow."

With codeBeamer version 5.3, our purpose was to provide improved response times when handling massive amount of tracker items, wiki pages and documents. To achieve that goal, we also used emerging technologies like distributed version control systems and cloud computing, besides the regular tool set of architectural changes and code optimization.

See what's new here.

Posted at 09:45PM Feb 02, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Announcements  |  0 Comments

Javaforge now running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Javaforge, our free codeBeamer service for open source projects, is now running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure.

As of writing, it hosts 2,000 projects for 10,000 registered users.

Posted at 12:00AM Jan 20, 2009 by Intland Blog Admin in Business  |  0 Comments

Intland launches distributed revision control support with Mercurial

Mercurial is an emerging cross-platform, distributed revision control system for software developers. Distributed Revision Control (or Distributed Version Control DVCS, or Decentralized Version Control) is a fairly recent innovation in software revision control. Mercurial provides some significant advantages over the more traditional centralized approach to revision control, and it has some defining characteristics that separate it from centralized systems such as CVS, Subversion and others. Centralized development is a subset of what a distributed development can do. Intland is committed to support both distributed and centralized revision control systems to support the best choice for specific circumstances.

Mercurial versus Subversion?
Why do we need yet another version control system?
It's exciting that Sun Microsystems' openJDK (better known as Java), OpenSolaris, NetBeans projects and Mozilla.org are using Mercurial. Mercurial is a distributed version control system. That means that rather than have one repository and many child repositories it can host a complete hierarchy or repositories that can also be geographically dispersed. There is thus no 'central' repository and each repository has its own version of the history of the contents. See Distributed Version Control (Illustrated). More differences can be found in the Mercurial documentation.

Availability

Mercurial plugin is in Beta and available now for CodeBeamer 5.3 M2.

Posted at 04:26PM Dec 08, 2008 by Intland Blog Admin in Business  |  1 Comments

Devoxx exhibition: December 08-12, 2008

We will be at Devoxx exhibition, Metropolis Business Center in Antwerp.
See us at our booth.

Posted at 12:00AM Dec 08, 2008 by Intland Blog Admin in Events  |  0 Comments

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