"Lighthouse Goes Hybrid"
Lighthouse helps thousands of companies all over the world automate the process of building software. From capturing and collaborating around requirements, to tracking test results, defects and tasks, Lighthouse users are building software more efficiently then ever before. Lighthouse users quickly benefit from lower costs, more predictable schedules, and much improved quality.
“One of the more elusive goals in the software development process is traceability,” said Paul Martin, Artifact’s CTO. “Everyone who builds software knows that traceability improves the development process immeasurably, yet very few software teams have the time or resources to dedicate the manual effort required to achieve it. With our new “One Click Traceability,” we’ve now changed the game.”
With “One-Click Traceability,” Lighthouse users now can instantly convert requirements into test cases, change requests into requirements or defects, support requests into proposed enhancements or bugs, and much, much more. With a single click, run a report that shows all requirements, organized by release, and linked to test cases, test results and defects produced. Instantly identify which requirements don’t have test cases written, what customer feature requests are going to be in the next release, or which requirements produced the most bugs. In Lighthouse, the list of traceability options is now endless.
“And we’re not stopping there,” adds Joe Ponczak, Artifact’s Director of Product Management. Ponczak remarked, “we want our customers to be up and running and getting the benefits of Lighthouse as quickly and affordably as possible, and our on-demand version makes that easy. No software to install or databases to configure and maintain.”
But some organizations need to run applications inside their firewall, eliminating on-demand solutions like Lighthouse as a viable option. According to Ponczak “as we looked at the technology landscape, we wanted to be able to achieve the goal of delivering Lighthouse without the time consuming and costly process of installing and maintaining an application, while at the same time offering Lighthouse as an on-premise option. Virtualization is the answer.”
Lighthouse is now being released as a Virtual Appliance. Users can simply download a file, drop it into a virtual machine, and instantly be running their own on-premise version of Lighthouse. No application to install, operating systems to manage, database to configure, or systems to maintain. It’s all the benefits of an on-demand solution, inside the firewall.
The latest Lighthouse release includes a long list of additional enhancements, including new personalization capabilities and new dashboards such as Recent Team Activities and My Assignments.
“With all of these new enhancements, we wanted to give our customers more options,” added Ananta Hejeebu, Artifact’s VP of Sales & Marketing. “So, in addition to our free version of Lighthouse, we’re now offering Standard, Team, and Enterprise editions. Customers can get the benefit of many of our new features for as low as $99 per user/per year, or about twenty-five cents per day. Now, for less then the cost of a cup of coffee a day, software teams using Lighthouse can save thousands and thousands of dollars in development costs, get new solutions to market faster, and bring much needed order to what’s been for far too long, a chaotic and unpredictable process.”
Read more about Lighthouse or start using for free now at the company’s web site www.artifactsoftware.com.
About Artifact Software
Artifact provides software products and services that transform the chaos of software development into a manageable and predictable business process. Artifact’s Lighthouse is a SaaS solution that brings together software project data into a single solution that helps teams identify and correct risk factors before that have a severe impact on project budgets, schedules, and quality. With accurate real-time project data, organizations can predictably achieve deadlines and budgets, reliably tap into less expensive outsourced and offshore resources and timely measure performance objectives and team productivity. Artifact is based in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in Bangalore, India.