Stuttgart, July 20 - Intland is pleased to announce codeBeamer Enterprise Edition 3.4, the industry's leading Web-based development platform that boosts both productivity of geographically distributed software development teams and aligns IT initiatives with business objectives.

codeBeamer Enterprise Edition 3.4 adds new offerings for global team and task management to the existing set of integrated software development, and communications management. This new release also includes a new offering for:

• Subversion software configuration management integration,
• Project Dashboard and Task Management,
• Role and Group based access permissions for off-shore near-shore teams, and
• Change Approval Workflow.

IT divisions of financial services, telecommunications, automotive, manufacturing, government, information technology, and medical, are facing hard times as they are expected to reduce costs and develop products in a very fast cycle, while quality demands remain high. At the same time, the software environment has become more complex as the number of participants increased.

codeBeamer Enterprise Edition 3.4 provides Project Managers, IT Executives and Developers with real-time insight, and control into the overall application development process and delivers process predictability that allows teams to see business risks before they reach critical levels.

Subversion integration is designed specifically for distributed, Internet-based development teams. Subversion has many powerful features over its predecessor, CVS. The new capability includes directory versioning, atomatic commit, and support for binary differences. The integration meet users' requirements for improved functionality for tracking code changes, associating commits with bugs , browsing repository revisions, commits, branches, and tags regardless of users' geographic location.

The Project Dashboard provides Executives and Project Managers with real-time reports and graphs to manage software development complexity. Project Managers can also view historic project performance and individual performance, granting fine granulated levels of project progress visibility.

The Task Management, project management, to-do list, approval list, and status-reporting functionality, is included in codeBeamer Enterprise Edition 3.4. Task Management provides users with real-time data about the actual progress and status against key tasks and deliverables. It eliminates the need for imprecise, time-deferred and tedious status emails and off-line meetings as it gives comprehensive, online views regarding project status and deliverables. Software developers and other project team members can see the work assigned to them and report their project status including any changes to their tasks such as a potential bugs that need to be fixed, or a new test that needs to be completed.

Change Approval Workflow provides Project Managers with better control on changes of critical tasks, requirements and other artifacts where the change has impact on the project plan, on resources, or on deliverables.

With Groups and Roles Project Managers can build up organizational structure with secure personalized information access. Roles such as Architect, Developer, Stakeholder and Custom-roles can be used to organize a hierarchical or task-based team structure. Groups can represent organizational structure such as off-shore, near-shore or customer.

The codeBeamer solution was selected by leading IT companies for its comprehensive collaborative development features, project management, change management, centralized web-based administration and for it's salability with IBM DB2 database, it's integration with Eclipse IDE, and it's integrations with industry standard Software Configuration Management systems.

codeBeamer Enterprise Edition 3.4 is available immediately for UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems.