Process Dashboard Enterprise Server
The Team Process Dashboard is an open source tool supporting the enactment of high-maturity processes. The Process Dashboard provides powerful support for teams, and is actively used by thousands of people worldwide.
In larger organizations, as software process improvement initiatives complete their pilot projects and begin rolling out high-maturity techniques to a broader audience, it is important to plan and manage many aspects of the technology transition. Tool support is one part of this plan, and large organizations can benefit from enterprise level services that help them to manage the deployment of process tools.
For that reason, the Process Dashboard development team is excited to announce a significant upcoming addition to the Process Dashboard product family: the Process Dashboard Enterprise Server.
Features / Benefits
- Complements (does not replace) the open source Process Dashboard application
- Eliminates the need for shared network directories
- Provides significant speed enhancements for opening Team Dashboard data, as compared to a VPN, WAN, or other slow network
- Eliminates the network connectivity issues that sometimes complicate the team project joining process
- Eliminates cross-platform issues for teams with a mix of Windows / Unix / Linux / Mac OS X
- Persists team and personal data to a relational database, providing a single enterprise-level source for data backup and disaster recovery
- New personal dashboards and team dashboards can be created with a few clicks
- Individuals do not need to run the Process Dashboard installer; they simply click on a website hyperlink to automatically install the software and open a personal or team dashboard
- When a new version of the Process Dashboard is available, individuals do not need to manually upgrade; the system administrator can control the rollout (or rollback) of new software
- Integrates with corporate LDAP or Active Directory for authentication and authorization
- Permissions can be granted on each team and personal dashboard, specifying the people who are allowed to view the data
- Process coaches can be granted the ability to search for and open any team or personal dashboard
- Team project metrics are exported nightly to a data warehouse, for access by third-party reporting and data mining tools
- Project earned value reports are published nightly, and can be shared with stakeholders who do not run the Process Dashboard
Licensing
The Process Dashboard Enterprise Server is a commercial product, and will not be released as open source. Instead, the licensing fees from the Server will help to fund the continuing development and enhancement of the open source Team Process Dashboard application. In this way, large organizations can receive the enterprise tools they need, and every organization (both large and small) can continue to benefit (at no cost) from the extensive and growing functionality that is provided by the open source tool.
Limited Pre-release
The Process Dashboard Enterprise Server has been in production use at several organizations since 2009. Each time we have deployed the server, however, we have gathered new deployment and configuration requirements arising from the varying needs of each new organization. As a result, we are only seeking a small number of organizations for new deployments. Once we achieve a comprehensive set of customizability that supports a mature, repeatable deployment process, we will announce the public availability of the Enterprise Server. In the meantime, if your organization is interested in the Enterprise Server, please contact pdes@tuma-solutions.com to place your name on the waiting list.
