Better Software - January 2008 - (Page 76) Product Announcements BuildLocker ATLANTA, GA—ProjectLocker has released BuildLocker, the first and only zero-install build management solution for continuous integration. BuildLocker allows development teams to generate on a scheduled basis virtual servers that are solely dedicated to performing fully automated builds for software applications during integration testing. With BuildLocker, development managers can identify application defects and other project integration hazards far earlier in the development cycle, reducing their cost for correction while minimizing their impact on the application release schedule. BuildLocker also can execute automated test suites to provide an ongoing window into the quality of a project’s code. As a multi-platform solution, BuildLocker ensures the ongoing platform compatibility of your code on all relevant platforms. It can even manage a separate isolated build environment for each of a team’s projects. Visit www.projectlocker.com for more information. Grow Your Business ARMONK, NY—IBM has announced a new initiative designed to help business partners increase their revenues while better serving the needs of their customers. A first-of-its-kind initiative, Grow Your Business with IBM Software provides specific cross-brand sales scenarios across software groups’ vast product portfolios. The tool facilitates cost-effective growth by recommending scenarios that utilize business partners’ existing areas of expertise and available skills. With this initiative, business partners can now gain access to an online analysis of software products, descriptions of their business value, and an instant estimate of their return on investment. Visit www.ibm.com/partnerworld/ growyourbusiness for more information. quality and reduce data model development and maintenance time by an average of 60 percent. They also make sophisticated data models more accessible to small- and medium-sized businesses that previously had to forego them due to budget or IT constraints. In addition to dramatically reducing development time, the Universal Data Models for ER/Studio improve the quality of data models by providing a quality assurance checkpoint to validate work and foresee possible pitfalls. Visit www.embarcadero.com for more information. Fanfare iTest Team MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Fanfare has launched its latest test automation software product—Fanfare iTest Team —which is designed to simplify and accelerate device and network testing throughout development and quality assurance teams and between companies. Fanfare iTest Team provides a communication platform that overcomes barriers such as language, location, and non-existent reporting templates that Universal Data Models SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of Universal Data Models for its ER/Studio data modeling tool. These comprehensive data models improve 76 BETTER SOFTWARE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 www.StickyMinds.com http://www.embarcadero.com http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/growyourbusiness http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/growyourbusiness http://www.projectlocker.com http://www.sqe.com/emtd http://www.sqe.com/emtd http://www.StickyMinds.com
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