About Bill Portelli

Bill Portelli is CEO and cofounder of CollabNet, the leading provider of solutions for Enterprise Cloud Development that orchestrate hybrid development and deployment across public, private, and on-premise environments. His background includes 30 years of experience in engineering, business, and overall executive management. Just prior to CollabNet, Bill was Senior VP and GM of Cadence Design Systems' global consulting business as well as its Custom Integrated Circuits tools business unit. Since starting CollabNet, Bill and his team have led the Company to the industry leadership position in providing enterprise solutions for collaborative and distributed agile software development in the cloud, including the building of the first front end platform for the industry shift to hybrid cloud development and deployment.

TeamForge for Free…That’s Right, Free. With CloudForge.

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Posted by Bill Portelli
May 21, 2013

Today is a big day for CollabNet. We just announced some exciting, disruptive changes to CloudForge™ pricing and packaging. We’ve also made TeamForge® available to all CloudForge users, giving them access to the same rich template capabilities that our TeamForge users have had for years. I’m pleased to report that initial feedback on this development is quite positive. The new version of CloudForge offers unlimited free TeamForge projects within CloudForge, through a defined and streamlined set of TeamForge capabilities. These features will allow users to get started in minutes with an SaaS-based TeamForge model in the cloud. Then, when they’re … LEARN MORE »

CollabNet TeamForge Datamart

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Posted by Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
May 13, 2013

Definition and Purpose A datamart, generally spoken, is a repository containing a subset of data collected in a data warehouse. It’s usually deployed to simplify and accelerate information access, often for a variety of stakeholders, which may include internal and external stakeholders. A datamart may support tasks such as data analysis, content presentation, reporting, trending analysis etc. Often datamarts don’t exist in isolation, however alongside other datamarts, each one focusing on specific business needs. About TeamForge Datamart Historical data can be reported for analytic purposes, and trending reports can be generated. Users can write ad-hoc queries or use many of … LEARN MORE »

Matching identities across ALM boundaries: Dynamic user lookup in CollabNet Connect

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Posted by selvakumar
May 3, 2013

ALM integration challenge #1: Same users but different accounts in different systems CollabNet Connector Framework (CCF) aka CollabNet Connect/sync is an Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) middle-ware that integrates and synchronizes data between CollabNet TeamForge and various ALM platforms like HP Quality Center/ALM 11, ScrumWorks Pro, MS Team Foundation Server and Rational ClearQuest. One of the most common use cases we encounter when doing artifact synchronization with CCF is that user accounts are not identical on source and target systems. A user called John Doe may have an account jdoe in TeamForge and john_doe in Quality Center. To complicate things, certain users may not even … LEARN MORE »

Introducing CollabNet GitEye

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Posted by Mark Phippard
April 23, 2013

Today I have the pleasure of announcing a new graphical client for Git that we have been working on — CollabNet GitEye. GitEye is a Java GUI client for Git written on top of the Eclipse RCP framework. We are providing downloads for Windows, OSX and Linux though we can theoretically produce builds for a few other operating systems as well if the demand is there. Leveraging the Eclipse RCP framework allows us to provide a native GUI experience on all of these different operating systems, while still benefiting from the cross platform nature of Java. This approach also allows … LEARN MORE »

Spring Awakening – New Look and Feel for Our TeamForge Git Integration

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Posted by johannes nicolai
April 18, 2013

As Spring finally arrived in town, we thought it’s time to give our Git repo browser a fresh new look and released a new point upgrade of our TeamForge Git Integration. Apart from the fresh look, we also took this opportunity to fix some bugs reported in the last quarter. For further details, please refer to our release notes. If you dig deeper, you will figure out that we also added some more features to our repo browser, namely blaming support for changed files, gravatar support and linkification for TeamForge artifacts. If your commit message or file content contains a reference … LEARN MORE »

Application Life-Cycle Management Is Much More Than Just Writing Code

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Posted by Vishwajyoti Bhattacharjee
April 8, 2013

Emerging IT applications are transforming the way business is done today. Application life-cycle Management (ALM) tools are the need of the hour. The integration of ALM is essential to remove major inefficiencies and bottlenecks in the software development process. If integrated properly, ALM can help an IT company develop best practice for virtually every major phase of the software application process, including: • Research • Requirements planning • Prototyping, engineering, and design • Cost and time to market (resource consumption, etc.) • Programming • Testing • Risk management • Issue and defect tracking • Metrics definition and measurement The use … LEARN MORE »

Unbreakable Software – ISO 26262

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Posted by Lothar Schubert
April 3, 2013

Fascinating article in the latest edition of Fortune Magazine on the future of the automobile. Labeled ‘Making Your Car Think’ it explores the rapidly growing market for built-in infotainment units. By 2020 (not that far out anymore, if you think about it) IHS analysts estimate some 80% of new vehicles to be equipped with hi-tech dashboards providing a gamut of functionality from navigation to emergency response features to video conferencing. Not an easy task for software. Think consumer-like appeal with military-grade reliability. A leader in that market, Canada based QNX (who shipped 9+ million units in 2011 alone) has built … LEARN MORE »

Need a quick fix? Simple solutions to SVN, TeamForge and Git

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Posted by Jesse Yowell
April 3, 2013

Support sees quite a few issues, and while impossible to solve everything immediately (or through a blog I may be writing), I’ve found some common issues that you may encounter while wrangling code on CloudForge: – TeamForge login: Do you have a long domain name? While we mention that you must use the ‘domain_username’ structure for logging in, what you might not know is that we’ll truncate login names longer than 32 characters. For example: if I have the organization ‘excellentbusinessorganization’ and my username is ‘jesseyowell’, you will see under the TeamForge login page that your login name may be … LEARN MORE »

How GitHub is Impeding Enterprise Git Adoption

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Posted by Lothar Schubert
March 21, 2013

Over 3,000 corporate email addresses compromised. Private SSH keys and passwords publicly disclosed. Major systems outages every few weeks (here and here and here). No, those are not the news from some dubious shopping site. But from a site supposed to manage intellectual property (IP), in form of software code. As Gartner points out, enterprises already ‘speak of being uncomfortable with what is perceived as a larger possibility for loss of source code’ when it comes to Git. Certainly headlines like the ones above are not helpful, when it comes to building trust for Git with decision makers. And while … LEARN MORE »

HIMSS 2013

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Posted by Chris Nimmer
February 26, 2013

The big event is fast approaching! HIMSS 2013, one of the largest annual healthcare IT conferences in the world, has its yearly conference on March 3-7. With nearly 50,000 individual members, over 570 corporate members, 225 non-profit partner organizations, and the event taking place at the historic 3 million square foot Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, HIMSS 2013 is a spectacle that you won’t want to miss. CollabNet is actively helping to create standardization solutions that promote optimization for both healthcare enterprises and global developer communities. Three such communities, the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO), … LEARN MORE »