Application life cycle management

CollabNet has released Enterprise Edition 4.0. The company says the most significant addition to the new version is the addition of Application Lifecycle Manager, which is described as a codified yet flexible set of process templates containing content, artifacts and tools. Application Lifecycle Manager is designed to guide project members through the application life cycle to help organizations overcome their distributed software development challenges.

CollabNet explains that Application Lifecycle Manager in Enterprise Edition 4.0 enables project managers to select and customize a choice of pre-configured process templates, ranging from the CollabNet-supplied Baseline Process Template to client-generated templates and CollabNet partner-supplied templates. The CollabNet Baseline Process Template is a selectable no-cost option that can be utilized on a project-by-project basis or can be enforced companywide to drive adherence to specific processes. The company claims the templates can be easily followed by everyone working on a project, including CIOs, executives, product managers, architects, developers, operational and support personnel, as well as outside partners.