According to the Wikipedia details associated with IBM Rational ClearQuest the "latest" version of this product was released in October 2011.
Would I be right in assuming that this is no longer actively being actively developed by IBM and that their alternative Rational Team Concert is their preferred offering in this space?
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm Howie Bernstein the ClearCase and ClearQuest product manager. Right now we are in an open beta with two significant features for ClearCase and ClearQuest. ClearCase is in beta with Role-based Access Control Lists for ClearCase elements, and ClearQuest is in beta with Multi-record update in ClearQuest Web (as well as a few other features). If you are presently a ClearCase or ClearQuest customer, you can access the open beta here: https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/rational/cacv801/
It would be a mistake to think of RTC as a replacement for ClearCase and ClearQuest. It would depend entirely on what features of ClearCase and ClearQuest your organization depends on. For organizations that make little use in ClearCase of dynamic views, process triggers, build auditing (and others) then perhaps switching to RTC SCM would be a reasonable consideration. The same can be said for ClearQuest. If your organization takes advantage of the advanced customization features of ClearQuest and depends on those features to execute your custom workflow, then RTC might not be a good solution for you.
In our development organization, we use all three, together. We use ClearQuest for external RFE and APAR submission and workflow, we use ClearCase for our SCM (on the ClearCase and ClearQuest teams, as well as other teams throughout IBM) and we use RTC for our work item planning and execution. We have excellent bridging and synchronization capabilities between CC/CQ and RTC that makes this possible.
As to the future, we have development teams working on new features in both ClearCase and ClearQuest and we plan to introduce new versions in the future.
ClearCase like ClearQuest are still "maintained", but without any new outstanding feature.
RTC is more an aggregation of three tools:
Work Items management (replacing ClearQuest)
Source Control management (Jazz source Control, replacing ClearCase)
Build Engine (like BuildForge, but also able to communicate with Hudson/Jenkins with RTC4)
So RTC isn't just a replacement to ClearQuest, but a way to ensure a traceability durng the application development life cycle:
from the initial request (Work Item)
to the code changes (source control)
to the build from a specific revision of the code (build engine)
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I am pretty new to Hybris. I am a bit curious about the activities that are taken care of by the production support team in Hybris. please share the information about what are the activities generally a production support person take care.
Maybe this can give you some idea:
Study guide for SAP Certified Support Specialist - SAP Commerce 1811: https://cxwiki.sap.com/display/education/Study+guide+for+SAP+Certified+Support+Specialist+-+SAP+Commerce+1811
I think the scope can be quite big, and it will depend on your contract / agreement. It could cover things like:
Handling day-to-day operations (e.g. backups)
Managing releases or patches
Managing users (e.g. Creating/Updating accounts manually)
Operating Backoffice (e.g. Reloading the widgets, etc) or PCM
Monitoring the system (e.g. Using DynaTrace)
Fixing performance issues
Fixing synchronization issues
Setting up the infrastructure (e.g. clustering, caching, logging, etc)
Being familiar with integration with other services (e.g. Data Hub)
Knowing how to indetify and fix issues / problems in general
etc
I need your help for my question.
I need to build a web based application that should perform some activity of document management. I'm evaluating existing document management solution and I need a solution that expose api via rest or other protocol, so that I can interact with them from my application.
I read about alfresco, sharepoint and knowledge tree but I find difficult to understant prices for commercial use. Can someone help me with a comparison of function/prices for a commercial use?
Alfresco is available in two versions, Alfresco Community Edition and Alfresco Enterprise. Alfresco Community is under the LGPL license. Assuming you want to use it in-house (not distribute it to others), you can use + customise + extend Alfresco Community to your heart's content, without restriction or charge. (LGPL/GPL/etc are distribution licenses, not use licenses, so only kick in when you redistribute). However, Alfresco Community comes with no commercial support, only support provided by the community. For a lot of uses that's good enough, but for other cases you'll want to be able to ring someone for support / get hotfixes backported to your version / etc. In that case...
Alfresco Enterprise is paid for, coming with commercial support (including SLAs, pick up the phone and talk to an expert etc), along with a handful of features that matter in big deployments (clustering being one). Pricing depends on a few things, mostly around size of deployment and SLA, but for small deployments isn't too bad. For big deployments, it can be a huge saving over other systems! Give sales a call, they're very friendly, and only rarely buy me beer ;-)
If you don't want to run your own repo, there's also the Alfresco Cloud version, which comes with a public API. With this, Alfresco themselves run and maintain the instance for you, and you can use the public API to store / retrieve / manage / etc your content. It's much simpler to get going with! But you don't quite get as much control or customisation as with the on-premise versions.
SharePoint might already be covered by your existing Microsoft licensing deal, if you have one. If not, you'd need to decide between licensing on a per-server or per-user basis. See Microsoft pages like this to get an idea of the options, then ring your Microsoft sales rep to get an idea of the pricing. In many cases, you'd need to pay someone else for support, so you'd be back to a similar thing as with Alfresco Community vs Enterprise.
If you're not sure what system to go with, you might be safest and best off implementing your project using CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services). This provides a common way to talk to content repositories, allowing you to store/retrieve/browse/search/permissions/etc irrespective of what the underlying repo is. Alfresco provide some information on it, and Apache Chemistry provides open source client libraries for most common programming languages, which makes getting started very quick. There's also an excellent book on CMIS which I can very much recommend! And not only because the authors of that have been known to buy me beer too... ;-)
Has anyone written XACML Implementations other than the Sun XACML Implementation and XEngine?
Who uses them in their products?
Which vendors provide a PDP? I read something about a WebLogic XACML Provider. What other products support XACML?
This has been answered on the XACML TC list already: http://markmail.org/message/w7msffsbi6qzgfoj
XACML is used in a wide variety of industries today. Trying to summarize what's been said
There are 2 types of implementations today:
open-source implementations
They are either backed by commercial organizations, foundations, or universities.
These include:
(Sun-backed) SunXACML (http://sunxacml.sourceforge.net/) - very much dead on its own but used in other products such as WS02's offering (see below)
(R&D-backed) SICSACML (http://www.sics.se/node/2465) backed by SICS, the Swedish Institute for Computer Science, and now taken up by Axiomatics (www.axiomatics.com)
(University-backed) Heras AF (http://www.herasaf.org/heras-af-xacml.html): Orange is using their product. Orange is one of the leading telecommunications providers in Europe.
WS02 is a company that was born from the Apache Synapse project and expanded into different areas successfully including XACML by using the initial SunXACML implementation (http://wso2.org/library/identity-server/user-management/xacml). I am not sure they have customers using XACML today.
Enterprise XACML (http://code.google.com/p/enterprise-java-xacml/) but not updates in nearly a year
Brad Cox also a neat approach to implementing XACML as described in his blog and paper at http://bradjcox.blogspot.com/
Commercial products
Oracle OES provides a SunXACML-based XACML 2.0 implementation. It is hard to know whether OES customers are using XACML features.
IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager
Axiomatics Policy Server took SICSACML and marketed it in 2006 - their product fully implements XACML 3.0. Their customers include "one of the world's largest bank", Paypal, Bell Helicopter, Swedish National Healthcare service, SOS Alarm, and DATEV eG as listed at www.axiomatics.com/customers.html
There are other vendors such as Jericho Systems and Nextlabs that offer XACML. Also Securent (later bought by CISCO) had a XACML offering.
Lastly I recommend you visit the XACML TC (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/) where you can see its contributing members. Those include Oracle, Axiomatics, Boeing, Veterans Administration, EMC who are regular contributors.
I'm a member of the team at IBM that builds a security policy management solution, including XACML for authorization policy; and I used to be the team lead for the XACML runtime component itself. The product is called Tivoli Security Policy Manager, and is definitely under active development.
WebLogic used to be built by BEA, before they were acquired by Oracle. I'm not sure if Oracle still sells it or not.
Axiomatics also has a XACML solution, as does Jericho Systems.
WSO2 Identity Server (http://wso2.org/) is a open source entitlement engine which is based on the sunxacml. WSO2 Identity Server contains a nice XACML UI policy editor which can be easily used to create complex XACML policies. There is a PIP layer to plug any attribute finder module with it. Therefore you are able to find your attribute from any database, LDAP user store , web services and many more .... Also there are decision caching, policy caching and PIP level attribute caching to improve the performance. You can refer the implementation source code from here [1]
[1] https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/branches/carbon/3.2.0/components/identity/org.wso2.carbon.identity.entitlement/
DATEV (a german IT service provider w 5800 employees) announced in 2010 that they will use XACML. Swedish software company Axiomatics will develop a Datev version of its identity management solution.
XACML implementations (Sun, XEngine, and EnterpriseXACML) are currently interpeters, which makes it hard to debug how a decision was reached since debuggers show the interpreter's internal code, not the policy itself.
I've written a compiler for DOD/DISA that transforms XACML directly to Java code. The goal was making policies easier to understand, not speed, but it is gratifying that compiled policies run in about a tenth the space and time as Sun's interpreter.
The compiler has now been verified by using the same Oasis compliance tests that Sun's interpreter uses. Out of ~400 tests, it passes all but 8. Current problem areas are cases the standard isn't clear on; Subject Categories and PolicySet IdReferences to name two.
I'm wiring it up as a SAML-P service this weekend. Release plans aren't final yet but we'll probably release it as open source on forge.mil as soon as the SOA version stabilizes.
Note added: There's a link to an AFCEA paper about it at http://bradjcox.blogspot.com/2011/03/compiling-xacml-to-java-source.html
BiTKOO (http://bitkoo.com) has XACML 3.0 integrated into its Keystone family of authorization management products. I'm the architect of BiTKOO's XACML core technologies (PDP, PAP, PEP).
A wide variety of organizations are now using XACML based solutions for authorization management. Most are large organizations - government agencies (foreign, domestic, military, and state), universities, media companies, industrial companies, etc.
I'm aware that this questions was posted a few years ago but it can be relevant right now to people looking for open source XACML implementations.
The project AuthZForce provide an opensource XACML 3.0 implementation with a multi tenant REST API along with a java based API. It also provide an XACML SDK.
AuthZForce is available on github, on the OW2 repository and a docker container as well as a debian package are available
http://github.com/authzforce
https://tuleap.ow2.org/projects/AuthzForce/
I'm one of the core developper of the project so feel free to reach me if you have any questions.
This may not be helpful as it's not a COTS product, but it may be of interest to you or others.
There is an open-source XACML implementation at http://code.google.com/p/enterprise-java-xacml/ which I've used recently. It covers the entire specification and has pretty decent policy evaluation performance considering it's not optimised.
You can have a look at http://www.herasaf.org/ . It is a highly developed open source project (Although I don't know which license they are under) I looks really promising, but there is still a lot of work to do.
If you are looking for an alternative to Sun XACML you should really have a look at HERAS-AF (www.herasaf.org). It's a very active project and their support is very good and fast responding (e.g. forum.herasaf.org). Code is in good quality and it provides very much extension points. The API is clear and very easy to use. Have a look at the getting started guide. It is developed and published under Apache2 license.
OpenAM, an open source access management and web Single Sign On solution, previously known as OpenSSO, provides a PDP and has support for XACML 3.0 for importing and exporting policies.
More information at openam.forgerock.org.
PicketBoxXACML, formerly JBossXacml also wraps SunXacml's implementation and provides an updated PDP. There's not alot of documentation out there on it, but it's open source.
Hi you might also want to have a look at ViewDS identity Solutions (see http://www.viewds.com). ViewDS have two XACML solutions. Access Sentinel which provides for externalised authorisation services with a PDP/PIP and two PAPs (DortNet & Java) and a variety of PIPS. Their product also supports Delegation, Roles Management & obligations. ViewDS Identity Solutions also have an LDAP Directory with its own integrated searching and matching engine and have XACML enabled the Directory. That is they use XACML to provide the Policy based authorisation system for accessing Directory information over the Web.
Here's an interesting discussion at Forrester blog http://blogs.forrester.com/andras_cser/13-05-07-xacml_is_dead that actually updates the state of XACML as of 2013. Be sure to read the comments as well.
My company is in need of a task management system to handle scenarios as simple as "Purchase a computer for X" to "Relocate a person to another country". The simple scenarios are a single tasks handled by a single person, whereas bigger tasks can be broken down into multiple sub tasks delegated to multiple people during the workflow. Additionally the clients and vendors need their own views into the process.
We are evaluating different solutions from a custom application built on Workflow Foundation to SharePoint to BPM products like Metastorm and BPM.Net.
Here's my current understanding of these solutions:
Workflow Foundation - Low level workflow designer and/or library with no host environment. It seems we would have to reinvent some wheels if we went this route such as fault tolerance and document management. Some of the answers on stack also cause concerns such as the lack of versioning and a complete overhaul for VS10/.NET 4.0
SharePoint - Built for document management and collaboration but trying to create advanced workflows and tasking on top of that seems like a hack. Plus all workflows have to be tied to either documents or lists. I cant envision how a list (or list of lists) can address this issue.
BPM products - Mature workflow engine at a seemingly high price. BPM.Net is the only solution for which I could find some level of technical detail but im still not sure how different developing against this product would be from developing against Workflow Foundation.
Are there any workflow engines dedicated to solving all the workflow pains that can be easily deployed with their own hosting environment and initiated through a webservice?
Are there any other options I am missing?
Thanks in advance.
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To answer the questions below the workflow needs are pretty light. Basic routing of tasks to approvers and subcontractors.
Whats driving us too look deeper than PM software is the nature of the business not the need for advanced workflow. We are basically in the business of procuring goods and services through subcontractors for our clients which can also include full employee relocation. The interface of the package should reflect this by being customer branded as well as intuitive for this line of business.
Basically if im moving my family to the other side of the world Im not sure i'd want to interface with Jira or Sharepoint or any other PM software to facilitate this.
If you are on Microsoft stack I would definitely recommend SharePoint for this scenario. As it seems to be very simple you can go with Windows SharePoint Services edition because it is free and it has everything you need.
You are right when you say that ShartePoint workflow are bit limited. IMHO the best way to overcome that limitation is to purchase Nintex workflow to create your workflows. It is cost effective solution that can help you design workflows you need.
You can find workflow samples inside the product (as workflow templates) and on the web site.
Nothing you mentioned has much to do with workflow. You're just doing project management. If that's the case, a simple bug tracker (like FogBugz! ;) would work - but if you're going to show it externally, it may not be the most professional presentation.
The closest off the shelf solution I can think of would be Project Server - though, depending on the number of projects and project managers, the desktop Project with a sync to a webserver for client views may be enough.
If that's overkill - because your projects don't require a lot of resource scheduling, Gantt charts, or other PM artifacts - you can take something like Trac and replace "bug" with "task". ;) (Seriously though, that'd probably get you 90% of the way there.....)
Have you looked at RT? I believe it can handle all your requirements, including that it's designed to let customers interact with the system by email, rather than having to log into the website. If you've emailed IT support desks then you've probably interacted with it without knowing... You can also completely customise the web interface and allow customer access.
Can't vouch for the quality as I haven't used it, but I did watch an online-demo video of Intalio, which has BPM and workflow capabilities.
We use Basecamp to control this sort of "task management" stuff. I'm not sure if it fits your needs totally, as it's a little light on the document management side, but it has a web service (REST) API, customer / vendor facing components, and basic interaction / chat capabilities.
The best part about it is that the API is simple enough where you can offload a lot of the "management" for it to admin support personnel, like assistants and interns, by providing custom scripts. If you've got people who aren't programmers using it you'll probably have better luck with it than even something like Trac or FogBugz.
I have/am going through a similar process. We wanted a lightweight workflow for internal use by our sales team. Most of the third party apps we looked at ,K2 and Skelta BPM.Net in particular, looked way over the top for what we needed. I'm now 2 months into working with Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0 and I have to say it isn't the most pleasant coding experience I've had.
If your workflows will truely be simple then it is pretty easy to build a workflow and hook it up to some web pages for the UI. But if you need to be able to change it on the fly, or do versioning (ie the user says we want another step added, then its a whole lot of hacking to get it to work - and it only works if you limit your workflow to being really simple), then you are in for a fair bit of work. And forget about it if you use an Oracle database.
The next version of windows workflow will have it's own runtime environment, code name dublin, with will provide a WCF interface into the workflows.
If your timeframe allows you could use that.
For information on Dublin and the next version of WF see:
http://www.microsoft.com/net/dublin.aspx
My vote is for FogBugz. Unless I am missing something in your requirements, why would you want to reinvent the wheel by using a code based workflow solution where you have to code up the flows yourself when you can use a perfectly good project dependency solution like FB or even MS Project Server - which lets you create nice dependencies for resources and people.
Check FileNet
FileNet is expensive but makes a good job with content and process management, but I guess is not what you are looking for.
We use Captaris Workflow, it is pretty good but it may be expensive for your needs.
My company is a custom development shop for a number of projects, some larger and some smaller. Currently we handle all of our client communication through email. So we email a design doc, they mark it up and send it back. Then we roll out a beta version of their product and they email us with any bugs, new features, etc. And so on....
As I am working on implementing a new bug tracking system (it looks like it will be Mantis right now), I got to wondering how we could best allow our customers an interface with our development process that would provide better tracking of feature requests and client submitted bugs as well as communicate our responses back to the client.
If anyone is aware of a a bug tracking system that does this exceptionally well I'd be interested to hear of that. Otherwise I'm just looking for some general guidelines or good business practices that have allowed your companies to interface effectively and efficiently with your clients.
UPDATE: My company uses a LAMPP stack and as we are a small shop with a limited budget we tend to stick to tools that are open-source and free.
Do most people either use Team Foundation Server to handle this or emails back and forth?
I think the key is to have the dedicated tracking system there for bugs/requests, and to establish a set process for communication. With that at minimum you will start getting consistent feedback. From there you can tweak it to get your specific needs.
As an aside, rather than just using e-mail for your communication, I strongly recommend going to smething like BaseCamp for a project management tool. I find that it helps greatly with keeping messages, documentation, and timelines communicated to the client.
If you are using Team Foundation Server, I recommend you to install TeamPlain Web Access. They allow you to expose a web interface to your TFS project. The only things left to do, is give rights to your client and a username and a password.
Otherwise, there is some paying tools like FogBugz. Of course, the principal is having to bug reporting tools directly linked to your Source Control so that the developers can easily fix bugs.
Although I know of no specific tools (at least no open source ones), I suggest that you setup a system which will cover your overall requirements gathering and implementation process. Requirements could be tracked in the system, which would also contain the design documents (which could be "checked out from" and "committed to" the system). This way, you would tackle the problem of having multiple revisions of design documents around. Addionally, the design documents and the requirements could be tracked easily. If this system were linked to your source code management system, you would additionally ease your development process/requirements tracking.
Another possibility is to use two products in concert, here's our current setup with a team of 12:
osTicket for incoming requests from clients
Allows for issues to be handled by support staff and bugs to be verified
Status can be checked with just an email address and ticket ID
Typically users don't submit detailed enough bug reports so is a good first step
redmine for development tickets
Ticket created by QA or a developer if issue is a real bug
Provides solid enough project and release management
Is a solid step up from trac and mantis (and provides migration tools)