Forrester Research named Subversion The Best Option for Standalone Software Configuration Management, in May 2007, as part of their Forrester Wave Vendor Summary

“Put CollabNet on your shortlist of products to consider, especially if you are considering a hosted solution, have distributed teams, utilize a variety of in-house and external resources, and want a fairly “pluggable” backbone that will provide workflow coordination.” (Gartner)

“To get ALM from IBM today, you need to buy all the tools and then the services to tie them all together. That’s much more costly than turning on CollabNet tomorrow.” (Forrester)

CIOL: What was the web seminar all about?
TDDL: The ROI of Distributed Development: Software development is undergoing a dramatic shift - multi-site development, partner co-development, outsourcing, open source, and compliance mandates are placing new demands on development organisations. At the same time, IT executives and development managers are under increased pressure to deliver better products faster while reducing development costs.
 
This web seminar showcased how Applied Biosystems, Capgemini, and a Fortune 100 financial services company were each able to achieve hard ROI of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the first year of adopting CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Edition.

It demonstrated how real world customers are modeling their cost savings through reduced infrastructure costs, increased productivity, reduced downtime, and more efficient collaboration.

CIOL: Why did you choose India as a destination for this event?
TDDL: I was traveling to India to meet with our local office where CollabNet has a development, marketing, and sales team. We wanted to do a local event because we have heard from our customers around the globe that the ROI and cost cutting issue is a very relevant and timely topic. So we took the opportunity for our Indian customers to participate in a live Webinar event.

CIOL: Please explain your expansions/roadmap in India?
TDDL: CollabNet already has an office in Chennai, India that has approximately half of our full time employees. Our staff does development, technical support, marketing, and sales.  We see the Indian market as a significant growth opportunity for CollabNet hence the reason for our increased investment in the Indian market. 

CIOL: Why did the US defense forces choose CollabNet for 10,000 users?
TDDL: After a thorough review of competitive products, the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) chose to implement CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet CUBiT because of the flexibility and the open platform that ensures forward compatibility as software development methodologies advance.

Both products easily integrate with existing CollabNet installations throughout the Defense Department and are available as on-site and SaaS deployments, which are key to providing scalability while reducing costs.

CIOL: Going forward where do you see CollabNet by 2012? New forays if any?
TDDL: CollabNet continues to focus on making software development easier, faster, and more cost effective – that’s our mission. We will continue to invest in our products and work with the community to build product add ons to our commercial products – such as the CollabNet Desktop.

We see software development in the cloud as the next, natural step for collaborative software development teams. While cloud computing is interesting on its own (who doesn’t want all of Amazon’s computing resources available to them?), having tools for managing the cloud resources specifically for development tooling and workflow is key. Cloud management for development brings teams this level of control and visibility, necessary in the new landscape. CollabNet has added new features to our core CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise platform for cloud management for build and test services and is working with partners to bring this vision to the market.