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June 2011 Newsletter

 

Press Releases:

What's happening at OpenMake Software

8/10/11 OpenMake Software Announces Meister 7.4 Release
5/25/11 OpenMake Software Announces Code Project Award
5/16/11 Meister wins Best Agile Code Project Award
3/22/11 Steve Taylor to present at Cloud Slam 11
2/22/11 OpenMake Software takes Builds to the Cloud
6/15/10 OpenMake Software wins the 2010 Code Project Award in ALM
2/4/10 OpenMake Software and Collabnet announce Technology Partnership
11/18/09 OpenMake Software Joins Microsoft Inner Circle
7/20/09 OpenMake Meister 7.3 Accelerates Software Builds
5/20/09 OpenMake Software Announces End of Life for Openmake 6.4x
5/15/09 OpenMake Mojo Max wins Code Project Member's Choice Award

3/18/09

 OpenMake Meister takes home the Jolt
1/23/09 OpenMake Meister Receives Jolt Award Nomination

Articles:

Read the buzz about OpenMake Software and gain insight from the OpenMake Software Team Publications

Date

Article Name

Publication
6/11 OpenMake Meister wins Best Agile Code Project Award TMCNet
2/11 OpenMake adds virtualization to CloudBuilder SD Times
2/11 OpenMake Software Launches On-demand Hosted Exchange Building Platform TMCNet.com
10/09

Not Just Compile and Package

 SD Times
5/09 OpenMake Mojo Max wins 2009 Code Project Member's Choice Award in the ALM category Code Project
3/09 OpenMake Meister 7.2 Wins Jolt Award Dr. Dobbs
12/08 OpenMake Meister 7.2 is Jolt Finalist Dr. Dobbs
11/08 ALM Takes Root at Microsoft SD Times
10/08 OpenMake Software offers Serena Builder customers the opportunity to move to Meister Web 2.0 Journal
6/08

Meister 7.2 Makes Builds More Continuous

Daniweb - It Discussion Community
3/08 OpenMake Supports Build Mashups eWeek - Darryl Taft
3/08 Build to Order

RedmondDeveloper - Peter Varhol
11/07 Microsoft to Give Partners More Access to Orcas IDE Code

eWeek - Darryl K. Taft
11/07 OpenMake plugs build automation into Eclipse, Visual Studio

ComputerWire - Tony Baer
08/07

Separating Duties to Meet IT Compliance

Download the PDF presentation

Dr. Dobbs
07/07 Software Builds - A Million Little Pieces

Software Test and Performance (July Issue)
06/07 The Buzz About Builds

Dr. Dobbs
06/07 SD Times 100 Awards for 2007

SD Times
04/07 Openmake, Builds and Change & Release Managemet

RedMonk

04/07

 Creating standardized builds outside of the Eclpse IDE

VME and Critical Systems

03/07

OpenMake Gives Eclipse its Mojo

SD Times

03/07

OpenMake Offers Free Process Automation Software

Automation.com

03/07

OpenMake Delivers Free Build to Release Process Automation for Development Teams

Embedded Computing Design

03/07

OpenMake Gets its Mojo

SD Times

02/07

OpenMake frees up Mojo for Process Automation

Infoworld

01/07

Development Trio Makes Changes at the Top by Darryl Taft

eWeek
11/06 Catalyst Systems recognized by 451 Group has innovator in Build Management Space 451 Group

11/06

Managing a Standardized Build Process Outside of the Eclipse IDE by Steve Taylor, Catalyst Systems

Java Developers Journal

11/06

Building Quality Software is no Accident by Peter Varhol

Fawcette Publications

10/06

Build Management is Critical to Developing a SOA Enterprise by Sean Blanton, Catalyst Systems, (page 14)

SOA Web Services Journal

10/06

ALF and 10 Questions Every QA Should Ask by Tracy Ragan, Catalyst Systems

Embedded Computing Design

09/06

Chip Design Magazine reports on tips from Matt Gabor on Build Management and IDEs

Chip Design Magazine

06/06

Catalyst Systems recognized by SD Times as an Industry Leader and Innovator in Build Management

BZMeida

02/06

Create and Manage Multiple J2EE Deployment Descriptors by Steve Taylor

DevX.com

What People are Saying

"Meister offers us increased productivity and quality  compared to manually controlled builds. Meister also completes the configuration management process through it's central build capabilities allowing Fortis to fully control all internal and external software assets within our fast evolving J2EE world.”  Matthias Pyck, Fortis Bank

"Meister provides us a standard rules-driven build process regardless of platform, compiler and operating system. We selected Meister because it is the only enterprise-wide build tool that can thoroughly support our mission-critical Java, C/C++, and .NET applications.”   Todd Athorp, Sr Programmer, FIS

"Next to documentation, build management is likely to be the least satisfying task a developer must address every day. A lot of software investment ends up in the time it takes to constantly tweak the make files needed to keep a system maintainable. Developers are looking for innovative solutions that will reduce software coding by a factor of five."  Jim Duggan, Gartner

"OpenMake Meister drastically reduced the cost of supporting our builds.  Meister allowed our build team to increase the number of builds supported using only 1/2 the staff, configured across 100 remote build servers."   Production Control, Major US Bank

Customer Success Stories

  • 100% Automation
  • Transparency
  • Standardization
  • Efficiency
  • Speed
  • Consistency

100% Build to Deploy automation that is Developer Driven

See how American Family Insurance implemented a secure, developer driven, build to deploy process using OpenMake Meister and CA SCM r12. This demo was presented at CA World 2010 and at the CA technologies Global Lifecycle User Group Quarterly meeting in September of 2010. This demo has an excellent example of how Meister can parallelize the build to deploy process.

 

Meister added Transparency to the process...

"The implementation of Openmake Meister for build management allowed  BNSF to directly address one of their biggest challenges in the area of IT controls. This technology automated the team’s build processes, providing a  complete audit trail of changes, progression and approvals through each lifecycle stage. Finally, the implementation team used MKS Integrity Manager’s capabilities to manage the implementation itself." BNSF Technology Services Division - Learn More

Meister Standardized the compile process across the enterprise at UCLA ...

"UCLA's challenge was to standardize how builds and releases were processed, regardless of the development language used. OpenMake Meister provided this across the enterprise." University of Southern California, Production Control Team Lead - Learn More

 

Meister allowed for developers to be more efficient saving money and time...

"As a company who specializes in process improvement we look for the most efficient ways to manage changing resources and requirements. We found this quality in Openmake Meister. Meister has allowed us to improve our development process by providing a streamlined, agile and 100% transparent build environment across the application lifecycle." Chris Lank, Ivis President and CEO, VP Worldwide Sales, Togethersoft

Meister accelerated builds across multiple remote machines...

"OpenMake Meister drastically reduced the cost of supporting our builds.  Meister allowed our build team to increase the number of builds supported using only 1/2 the staff, configured across 100 remote build agents."   Production Control, Major US Bank

Meister added consistency across multiple languages...

"Meister provides us a standard rules-driven build process regardless of platform, compiler and operating system. We selected Meister because it is the only enterprise-wide build tool that can thoroughly support our mission-critical Java, C/C++, and .NET applications.”   Todd Athorp, Sr Programmer, FIS