Atlassian JIRA 4.4: Exciting Stuff to Come!

The Atlassian techies have been busy fine-tuning JIRA for the latest upcoming release, JIRA 4.4. With a focus on usability and time saving features, here’s just a taste of what’s to come...

Search Change History Enhancements

JIRA 4.3 introduced the ability to search issue change history. In JIRA 4.4, using JIRA Query Language you can now search:

• Assignee field
• Issue status history
• Reporter field
• Number of watchers (=, <, >)
• and dynamic dates!

The new search parameters make JIRA’s search more powerful than ever before. It now:

• Supports decision making for developers
• Provides specific, key information about issues
• Helps to prioritise tasks

Upgrade to JIRA 4.4

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Clearvision are offering an upgrade to JIRA 4.4 at the tremendous price of £450.00 (plus travel expenses). The offer is valid for 3 months after the product release date so we strongly recommend you contact us soon to book early.

Looking for a hassle free hosted solution?

Cutting costs is becoming an important objective for all organisations and IT companies looking to transform their infrastructure. As a result, open source software is rapidly beginning to monopolise the market as a cost effective solution to proprietary software. Many organisations, large and small, have realised Software as a Service (SaaS) is not only cost effective, but a quick and resourceful alternative to manual implementation.

Clearvision ElasticSCCM is an Amazon cloud based environment containing Subversion, Git, Mercurial and choice of tools from Atlassian, Clearvision and the open source community all bundled into one monthly support contract. The obvious benefits include:

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Open Source as a Catalyst for Innovation and Cultural Change Featuring Yahoo!

Clearvision partners Black Duck are hosting a webinar on:

Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Registration link - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/696237048

Fact: Open source is a fundamental part of many of the world's leading development organizations, and is often credited with enabling and enhancing innovation. But how do open source and the community model of development impact organizational structure and culture?

Join Black Duck on this webinar to hear a senior executive from Yahoo! share his experience and perspective on leveraging the positive business and network effects of open source while simultaneously managing some of the challenges it presents. Learn more about how the right support and boundaries can:

• Lead to breakthrough products by creating the right environment for innovation
• Increase developer productivity and satisfaction
• Help bridge the cultural, organizational and geographic boundaries of world-class organizations; and leverage your competitive position by working with unlikely partners

Registration link - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/696237048

Speakers

Gil Yehuda is director of open source at Yahoo! Inc. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Gil was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research focusing on information management, knowledge management, and collaboration strategy. He was also an Enterprise Architect at Fidelity Investments where he was responsible for IT governance and development technology standards. Gil is an influential blogger in the Enterprise 2.0, Open Source, and Innovation marketplace, and has been keynote speaker and featured presenter at numerous conferences.

Andrew Aitken is Founder and Managing Partner of Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy. He is an expert on strategies for the commercialization of open source and a leader in the open source community. In 2001, Andrew founded Olliance Group with other industry veterans to provide management and business strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source where he has personally advised firms such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and dozens of VCs and start-ups.

Registration link - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/696237048

Clearvision Whitepaper: Big Bang or Gradual Migration

The intention of this document is to highlight two basic approaches taken by Clearvision customers when migrating from ClearCase to one of the Open Source alternatives (SVN/Git/Mercurial). Download Whitepaper.

Clearvision's experience of migrating customers means they are in a perfect position to assist with all phases. For more information and a customised proposal please contact us.

CM-Bridge – Connecting the CM world together.

A feature-rich unique alternative to ClearCase MultiSite?

The New Dimension

Aside from providing full integration with version control tools such as Subversion, Mercurial and Git; Clearvision’s CM-Bridge has recently evolved, offering like for like multisite replication.

This is ideal for organisations that require a straightforward and effective data replication solution between multiple sites/instances.

"As an SMB organisation with three development sites using ClearCase and Subversion, budgeting for ClearCase Multisite license and the overhead of administration was not an option. We are very pleased that CM-Bridge can support ClearCase to ClearCase replication (via Subversion), it has proved to be the most viable and cost effective solution for us."

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Are you ready for Subversion 1.7?

Apache Subversion 1.7 has sparked a vast amount of hype amongst the software development industry and is currently being described as the “best” release of its time.

What new features to expect from Subversion 1.7

• Working copy meta data storage improvements
• A complete re-write of the working copy metadata management system of Subversion
• New remote dumpfile tool: svnrdump
• A new tool to the client's toolbox: works on remote repositories, instead of needing administrator (local filesystem) access to the source or target repository
• Improved HTTP protocol usage
• A simplified HTTP protocol variant that can be used when connecting to supported servers
• New feature: svn patch
• Apply unidiff changes to existing files just like third party patch tools
• A significant number of enhancements and bug fixes
• Too many to list (http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#enhancements)
• Dependency, license and distribution changes (http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#distribution-changes) Upgrading to Subversion 1.7

Upgrade to Subversion 1.7 to benefit from the latest new features and ensure that your company gets the most from Subversion.

Take advantage of our promotional offer

With years of experience, Clearvision have helped many companies manage their Subversion upgrades in the past.

For only £450.00 (+ travel expenses) our expert consultants will be committed to ensure that the upgrade to Subversion 1.7 runs smoothly and is a complete success.

Offer available for up to 3 months after the “go live” date of Subversion 1.7. This is a limited offer, we suggest you book early.

Clearvision ElasticSCCM

In an economy where cutting costs is becoming an important objective for all organisations, IT companies are looking to transform their infrastructure and as a result, open source software is rapidly beginning to monopolise the market as a cost effective solution to proprietary software.

The industry is also starting to realise the potential of Software as a Service (SaaS), another cost-cutting must for companies in the current economic environment. Some of the reasons for this are as follows:

• A high ROI
• Faster product launches
• Eliminate manual processes
• Focus purely on core product development and sales
• Painless upgrades
• Lower initial costs
• Seamless integration

Clearvision ElasticSCCM is an Amazon cloud based environment containing Subversion, Git, Mercurial and choice of tools from Atlassian, Clearvision and the open source community all bundled into one monthly support contract, completely hassle free.