Product Review – What is a CodeBeamer?

CodeBeamer is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform that helps software and hardware development teams to manage their processes from requirements to release. With centralized management of processes, users and projects, codeBeamer increases productivity, provides full traceability, improves visibility and dramatically reduces costs. It covers not only the programming aspect of software engineering, it provides solutions for information sharing, or for writing collaborative documentation.
The end-to-end collaboration offered by codeBeamer helps you to achieve up to a 50 percent increase in efficiency.

• Manage requirements, tasks, defects, tests, documents and releases
• Supports agile, waterfall, iterative, hybrid and custom processes
• Provides full traceability and visibility for the entire process
• Tightly integrated with the Subversion, Git and Mercurial version control systems
• Web based, quick to adapt, scalable, extendable, secure

CodeBeamer provides Project-, Requirement-, Defect-, Task-, Change- and Document-Management, Continuous Integration and Version Control through a single and secure environment. With the codeBeamer platform development is made more agile, transparent and productive.

codeBeamer – For what purposes is it used?

• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Requirement Management (RM)
• IT Service Management (ITIL)
• Release Management
• Testing & QA
• Project, Task, Bug Management
• Agile Development, Scrum & Kanban

Why codeBeamer?

• Processes. Most IT organizations use agile, waterfall or some other type of processes. CodeBeamer supports agile, waterfall, iterative and hybrid processes out of the box, and it can be customized to support custom ones.
  Standard and custom process templates and workflows can be easily reused for new projects.
• Secure. Your sensitive intellectual property remains under your control. CodeBeamer is a secure environment supporting a full range of enterprise grade security and authentication options.
  With unified project, user, role and group access management you can control who has access to what artifact and what service.
• Enterprise Collaboration. CodeBeamer provides system administrators and project owners with the ability to granularly control access to sensitive business data.
  CodeBeamer offers a rich set of enterprise collaboration features, with integrated wiki- and document workflows, realtime activity streams, notifications, alerts, Escalation Management and more.
  It also provides singe point tools, wiki and blogs that eliminate closed information silos, and satisfy traceability and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Extensible. Extensibility is key for customization and integration purposes. Using its API (Application Programming Interface), codeBeamer can be easily extended, customized and integrated with your own applications, third party tools and services.
• Scalable. It is important to consider ALM adoption not for your organization only, but to provide controlled access for your partners, vendors and customers, as well. Scalability and security act as a no-go or enabling factor for wider-spread adoption.
  codeBeamer is highly scalable: it hosts 3,000+ projects and 36,000+ users currently at JavaForge.com.
• Open. CodeBeamer is an open, version control system independent solution.
  It is web based. It is built on open standards. It can be deployed to standard J2EE servers. It uses RDBMS databases to store information.
  Your source code is not stored in a proprietary version control system, and you are not locked to any vendor. CodeBeamer tightly integrates with Subversion, Git, Mercurial and CVS, and through its VCS API it can be adapted to any other SCM system.
• Cost effective. codeBeamer is quick to adapt: the administrative and IT infrastructure costs are minimal.
  codeBeamer has low cost of ownership and high productivity, which results in substantially high returns on investment.