Borland®
StarTeam®
Provides Leading Producer of Vehicle Retarding Systems with Centralized
Control of Digital Assets and Activities; Delivers up to 5 Times Faster
Builds and Reduces Rework
CUPERTINO, Calif.--Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL)(www.borland.com),
the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today
announced that Jacobs Vehicle Systems has implemented Borland®
StarTeam® for
integrated software change and configuration management (SCCM) and
centralized control of project activities and digital assets. Borland
StarTeam has helped the company speed the software build process and
reduce rework by greatly improving efficiency, team communication and
productivity.
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Jacobs Vehicle Systems is recognized as the industry leader in
developing and manufacturing commercial vehicle retarding systems. With
more than 40 years experience in the business, Jacobs is known for its
innovative business practices and modern manufacturing methods.
In order to offer the best service to their customers as well as
maintain efficiency and optimize resources within their team, Jacobs
looked to automate their SCCM process, which is used to maintain a base
software code line for their electronics-based products and modified
software code branches for each customer specific implementation. While
the company had an existing configuration management tool, it lacked
integrated change management capabilities. This left development teams
having to cross-reference change requests with source code manually,
which was inconsistent and prone to error.
The lack of an integrated SCCM system was also slowing down the build
and release process and causing large amounts of rework. There was no
effective way to isolate changes, reuse existing components or merge
code updates from the baseline product to the software code branches for
each customer specific implementation.
The company needed to centralize control and increase project visibility
and collaboration across stakeholder roles to enable engineers to
concurrently make changes to code without reintroducing previously fixed
defects. The company also needed to improve the effectiveness of
geographically distributed development through better support and access
from remote locations.
“The lack of a centralized way to manage
customer change requests created a lot of rework,”
said Ray Gosselin, senior software engineer at Jacobs Vehicle System. “Borland
offered us the integrated change and configuration management solution
that we were looking for, providing us with the ease-of-use and
flexibility we require in an SCCM solution.”
After evaluating solutions from multiple vendors, Jacobs Vehicle Systems
chose to implement Borland StarTeam, a unified software change and
configuration management offering and a core component of the Borland Change
Management solution. Ease-of-use and low maintenance overhead were
key selection criteria, as well as integrated change management.
Using the system, the team can now link change requests (CR) to source
code changes, which gives the team direct visibility into all changes
that go into a build. Prior to implementing Borland StarTeam, CR status
was reported to customers through manually created version description
documents. While these documents were accurate, they were static and
aged as soon as they were created. With Borland StarTeam, the team can
communicate real-time CR status to customers, which has improved
customer care and loyalty. With instant, comprehensive access to change
control status through custom reports generated from Borland StarTeam,
change control board meetings are now well organized and productive,
which helps drive better decision making.
Borland StarTeam has also helped to speed the build and release process
and allowed Jacobs to optimize the resources of its team to meet
customer requirements. With a centralized location for build components,
Jacobs can create builds up to five times faster than with the previous
system, which has greatly improved the team’s
efficiency.
“There are very few software tools in this
industry that work consistently and reliably,”
continued Gosselin. “We are such a small
group that we don’t have the time to deal
with problematic tools, which was why the Borland product was such a
huge relief to us. Availability and uptime isn’t
a problem. Borland StarTeam allows us to focus on productivity and
customer care.”
About Borland StarTeam
Borland StarTeam is a fully integrated, cost-effective software change
and configuration management tool designed for both centralized and
geographically distributed software development environments. Borland
StarTeam is a core product component of the company’s
Change Management solution, designed to allow development organizations
to control, communicate and respond more effectively to rapidly changing
business demands by delivering increased visibility and responsiveness,
greater predictability and improved software applications and systems.
About Borland
Founded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ:BORL) is the leading vendor of Open
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions –
open to customers’ processes, tools and
platforms – providing the flexibility to
manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. To learn more
about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.
Borland, StarTeam and all other Borland brand and product names are
service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software
Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
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