Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools installation and operation has never been easy to produce intuitive and interactive dashboards for intelligence reports. This can take months to deploy or have complex license models. However new Serena IT Dashboard appears to provide key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards that are specifically designed for application life-cycle management (ALM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) processes for the benefit of the organizations.

Most of the enterprises are adopting lean methods as never before to not just achieve maximum value but cut software development wastes along with equipping themselves to react to change quick enough. Project management tools to that effect also had to scale up to address such a change of delivery framework. Scrum and Kanban have become the go to framework as we speak and this is where CollabNet has focussed its new release of its agile software. The new ScrumworksPro 6.0 comes with complete support for managing “Kanban,” a continuous process method rooted in Lean software development, and the ability to manage both Scrum and Kanban teams from a single tool to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve visibility.

Teambox which was available till now under the Affero GPL 3 license, the code for which can be found in Github has been totally reinvented after it crossed 150.000 as Teambox4. Teambox4 which was in beta phase till now, has been officially released few days back. The commercial Teambox version 4, which is no longer open source is built to serve millions of users and supersedes its previous versions in terms of speed and ease of use.

SaaS based solutions have become the preferred choice of the customers today. Capital Expenditure (Capex) and Operational Expenditure (Opex) savings attract the customers towards SaaS based solutions. There are huge savings in terms of upfront investments and deployment time to reach out the solution that is required. No maintenance overheads, no software installations, only a browser and Internet connection are what are required to avail the required services and keep them going.