Starbase Announces The Collaboration Suite

Business Wire, May 23, 2001

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SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2001

The Collaboration Suite Solution Solves Enterprise and E-Business

Challenges By Extending Information Technology (IT) Resources and

Easing the Technology Implementation Process

Starbase Corp. (Nasdaq:SBAS), the leading provider of end-to-end collaborative products for both the development and management of content and code for e-business applications, today announced the Starbase Collaboration Suite, a framework of integrated Starbase products and best-of-breed partner technologies for a complete end-to-end enterprise and e-business collaborative development process.

The suite is available as a single vendor best-of-breed solution or a best-fit solution that leverages customers' existing technology.

The Collaboration Suite, although sold separately, includes StarTeam, focusing primarily on supporting collaboration, configuration and change management; eXpressroom, for XML-powered content management; CaliberRM, for Web-based requirements management; CaliberRBT for requirements-based test case generation; CodeWright, a universal developer toolkit; and Galaxy, a collaborative communication layer for all Starbase products.

Key modeling and testing solutions from Embarcadero Technologies and Mercury Interactive are available in the best-of-breed solution. Starbase also supports a best-fit suite solution through multiple third-party integrations, thereby leveraging existing corporate investments.

Kathy Quirk, senior analyst at Hurwitz Group stated, "We believe that following good application development practices and applying them to Web site development requires that all stakeholders -- developers, content writers, designers and approvers -- have a unified, collaborative platform that allows them to work together throughout the Web development life cycle, from the gathering of requirements on through to deployment.

Starbase's Collaboration Suite provides a compelling, best-of-breed approach to streamline the process of managing all the critical code and content assets that must be in synch to drive effective Web sites."

"The parameters for e-business development today have changed substantially," stated Lydia Patterson, vice president of corporate marketing for Starbase.

"Web development teams are facing critical management challenges consisting of several hundred contributors, varying levels of technical skill and geographically distributed locations. Managing the creation of this mix of digital content creates a huge and complex challenge. We believe that Starbase, with the Collaboration Suite, is the first company to comprehensively address these challenges by automating and integrating the entire development process."

About The Starbase Collaboration Suite

The Starbase mission is to improve the time to market and application quality for customers. By providing next-generation technologies, partnering with technology leaders and supporting tight integrations across these technologies, the Starbase Collaboration Suite is able to provide support for a complete end-to-end collaborative process as a single vendor suite, a best-of-breed suite or a best-fit suite solution.

For more information on Starbase's suite solution, visit the company's Web site at www.starbase.com. Or contact the sales department at sales@starbase.com or by calling 888/782-7700.

The Starbase Collaboration Suite includes:

StarTeam -- An Internet-enabled client/server configuration and management system. Includes defect tracking, change management, version control, threaded conversations, task management with MS Project integration, and workflow and process management. Cross platform client and server support.

CaliberRM -- A collaborative requirements management system facilitating communication among project teams, providing centralized requirement data to distributed team members and allowing documented discussions about requirements and projects.

CaliberRBT -- A best-of-breed requirements-based testing system drives clarification of application requirements throughout the development cycle and then uses the requirements to design the minimum number of test cases for maximum functional coverage.

CodeWright -- A programmer's editing system that allows users to standardize their development environment and alleviate the need to continually learn the idiosyncrasies of a variety of development GUIs and IDEs.

eXpressroom(R) -- A premier third-generation content management solution, eXpressroom satisfies the strong customer need for a new class of content management solution that brings unprecedented flexibility and power to both end-users and integrators. eXpressroom enables complete Authoring/Design -- Collaboration/Workflow -- Delivery/Re-purposing of Content -- Indexing/Search -- Security -- Site Management/Runtime Support -- and Third-Party Integration/Programming Support.

Galaxy -- A peer-to-peer communications framework for building advanced collaboration processes for people and applications. Galaxy can be implemented in a distributed computing environment to deliver synchronized and highly productive collaboration for teams that are local or geographically dispersed.