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February 2004- Sesame Announces Improved Integration for ExtraView
and Perforce
Direct connection provides fast, seamless defect tracking for
developers.
Scotts Valley, CA, February 3/BusinessWire/ -- Sesame Technology,
the developer of ExtraView, the leading Web-based defect tracking
and change management platform, announced today that it would now
be offering its enterprise customers a new, automatic and bi-directional
integration with Perforce's Fast Software Configuration Management
(SCM) system.
The integration provides complete traceability between defects
and source code changes in either system. Issues and status entered
into the ExtraView defect tracking system are converted automatically
to Perforce data for easy access by Perforce users. The integration
also allows developers to work entirely within Perforce without
having to switch to the defect tracker and re-enter data. In both
environments, users can see relevant data related to source changes
and their relation to issues in the ExtraView system.
According to Glen Reynolds, project manager for WRQ Inc. in Seattle,
a strong integration between defect tracking and SCM was critical
in the tool selection process. "Our high quality standards led us
to choose both ExtraView and Perforce for WRQ," said Reynolds, "We
needed an integration that was simple, fast and extendable for our
future needs."
"Perforce users now have easy access to ExtraView's state-of-the
art defect tracking features," said Carl Koppel, Sesame President
and CEO. "This marks our second step with Perforce in providing
best practices for product improvement tracking and a seamless development
environment for software engineers."
The integration comprises a time-triggered daemon that leverages
a direct API-to-API connection to provide synchronized, two-way
data replication between ExtraView and the Perforce SCM system.
All Perforce clients are supported and all synchronizations are
automatic, transparent, and occur within seconds. In addition, the
daemon's open, Perl environment makes it easy to further extend
the integration to cater to all future needs.
"Our customers still want to choose the best project-based systems
verses corporate solutions," said Christopher Seiwald, president
and chief technology officer of Perforce Software. "This tight integration
between Perforce and ExtraView gives developers another option for
solid defect tracking."
The integration module is immediately available. For a screenshot/feature
tour, visit http://www.sesame.com/EVBugTrackingP4Tour.
About Sesame Technology
Sesame Technology is a privately held company founded in 1999,
and is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. Sesame is the
developer of ExtraView, a highly adaptable Web-based Issue tracking
and workflow management system. Unique in the field for its customizability,
ExtraView does not impose a set process, but conforms easily to
each organization's unique requirements - without requiring expensive
programming. Sesame's rapidly expanding customer-base includes:
British Petroleum, Pfizer, Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic, Qwest
Communications, Redback Networks, TRW, GE Capital, BEA Systems,
GE Medical Systems, GlaxoSmithKline, PMI Mortgage, Emerson Electronics,
Siemens, Acorn Systems, Hydro-Quebec, Matsushita and others.
About Perforce Software
Perforce Software Inc. develops, markets, and supports Perforce,
the Fast Software Configuration Management System that tracks and
manages software development for enterprises large and small. Headquartered
in Alameda, Calif., Perforce Software sells worldwide and has international
operations in Europe, Japan and Israel. In addition to application
software companies, Perforce customers represent a broad range of
industries including the games, electronics, pharmaceutical and
financial services markets.
December 2003 - Sesame Announces ExtraView 4.2 Release
Over 50 New Features in Charting, Administration, API and Look
& Feel
Scotts Valley, CA - December 12, 2003, - Sesame Technology, the
leading vendor of Web-based quality issue tracking and workflow
solutions, announced today that ExtraView 4.2 is released for general
availability.
ExtraView 4.2 adds over 50 new features in the areas of charting,
administration, look & feel, and API extensions. ExtraView maintains
its pure J2EE Web-based architecture so administration takes place
through a simple Web browser and eliminates the need for configuration
programming and client-side software.
"We have had great success in our early implementations at
major pharmaceutical and technology customer sites." said Sesame
Technology VP Operations Duane Mensinger. "New administration
features like XML import of metadata configuration have really helped
speed integrations in the field."
The new release is immediately available and ExtraView customers
with current support agreements will receive the updated version
automatically. For a new feature summary, visit http://www.sesame.com/bulletins/ExtraView_4.2_feature_summary.pdf
About Sesame Technology
Sesame is leading the way in providing Web-based quality issue
tracking systems. Linking worldwide functional teams, Sesame products
collect and route product requirements data, customer support calls,
defects, trouble tickets, enhancements and change requests into
one Web-based product improvement system. With many thousands of
users, and growing, some of the world's largest companies depend
on Sesame products for their competitive edge. Sesame's recent customers
include: Qwest Communications, TRW, GE Capital, Pfizer, GE Medical,
BEA Systems, GlaxoSmithKline, PMI Mortgage, Emerson Electronics,
Siemens Corporation, and many others.
March 2003 - Sesame Announces BEA WebLogic Support in ExtraView™
Expanded Application Server Base Brings in New Customers
Scotts Valley, CA, March 3, 2003 -- Sesame Technology, the developer
of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and workflow
management system, announced today that its enterprise-class tracking
software is now qualified for use with BEA WebLogic server 6.1 and
7.0.2.
"While most of our customers are using the Apache web server and
Tomcat application server, some customers have chosen WebLogic as
their standard for application servers." said Michael Stebbins,
vice president of marketing for Sesame. "We see great value in this
commercially-supported, enterprise combination."
ExtraView is architected to be platform-independent of operating
system, hardware, database, browser, and application server. Sesame
performed specific validation tests to validate the support the
scalable use of WebLogic. Sesame has qualified the use of WebLogic
as an application server supporting the deployment of ExtraView
as a WAR file. ExtraView runs as a servlet, using Java Servlet 2.1
interfaces. As WebLogic provides standard support for these API's,
ExtraView runs without modification in the WebLogic container.
February 2003 - Sesame Announces FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
Through ExtraView
Electronic Signatures/Records Fully Supported by ExtraView for
Medical Market
Scotts Valley, CA, February 12, 2003 -- Sesame Technology announced
today that ExtraView security, workflow and operational processes
meet or exceed all relevant requirements of the FDA Title 21 Code
of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Part 11) as it relates to electronic
records and electronic signatures.
"We are certain that, with its inherent flexibility, reliability,
and scalability, ExtraView will be the core software for any tracking
implementation that requires FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance," said
Carl Koppel, Sesame president and CEO. "Sesame Technology can assist
a company in meeting the stringent requirements of 21 CFR Part 11
by working jointly to create and document its procedures."
ExtraView has enabled a number of medical device and pharmaceutical
corporations to reach 21 CFR Part 11 compliance. For more information,
visit Sesame Technology at http://www.sesame.com or call (831) 461-7100.
January 2003 - Sesame Names New Chief Financial Officer
New CFO Timely for Recent Sales Growth
Scotts Valley, CA - January 3, 2003, - Sesame Technology, the
leading vendor of Web-based product improvement tracking systems,
announced today that Duane Mensinger has joined the company as Chief
Financial Officer. Duane will manage all aspects of Sesame's financial
and operational control, information systems support, and legal
counsel. He will report to Carl Koppel, president and CEO of Sesame
Technology.
"The appointment of Duane comes at an important growth stage for
Sesame Technology, where the market response to ExtraView is exceeding
our expectations," said Sesame Technology CEO Carl Koppel. "Duane's
strategic business judgment, experience in high growth environments,
and valuable insight will be great assets to Sesame as we continue
our growth."
Since 1997, Duane served as cofounder and CFO of Frontline Now.
Prior to Frontline, Duane was the CFO of NetFlix and served as worldwide
controller for Borland International and senior manager for Price
Waterhouse Corporate Finance. Duane is a Certified Public Accountant
and graduated from the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles.
December 2002 - Sesame Adds Adobe PDF Generation to ExtraView
Reports
ExtraView Reports Include Popular Adobe Standard
Scotts Valley, CA, December 12, 2002 -- Sesame Technology, the
developer of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and
workflow management system, announced today that its enterprise-class
tracking software now features customization of PDF file generation
using data values from the ExtraView tracking database. Customers
who require specific PDF forms to be generated, for example, to
regulating agencies, can auto-populate skeletal PDF templates using
ExtraView.
"The rise of the Adobe PDF standard for report output has driven
the development of a forms generation and management capability
in ExtraView," said Rob Campbell, manager of professional services
at Sesame. "An increasing number of our customers in the medical
industry needed to generate specific forms for FDA compliance. ExtraView
now makes this process automatic."
Through the use of standard interfaces supplied by Adobe Systems,
ExtraView users may define PDF file templates that contain boilerplate
text, graphics and placeholders for replacement strings. The replacement
strings are specified in an FDF (Forms Definition Format), which
are then used to create a PDF document.
The FDF file can be auto-generated for each issue, conditionally
dependent on the type of the issue or some other issue attribute.
The FDF file is then attached to the issue as an attachment, to
be used as often as necessary to generate the PDF forms. The FDF
file contains data specifically associated with the issue, in the
format that the user specifies; as always, field security restrictions
apply to the values generated on this form.
December 2002 - ExtraView Supports LDAP
LDAP Integration Enables Centralized User Data
Scotts Valley, CA, December 14, 2002 -- Sesame Technology, the
developer of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and
workflow management system, announced today that its enterprise-class
tracking software now supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(RFC 1777 and RFC 2251) natively within the product. ExtraView administrators
may now maintain all ExtraView user data in a central LDAP directory.
"LDAP extensions were a natural addition to ExtraView." said Allan
Rofer, vice president of engineering for Sesame Technology, "The
LDAP directory maintains many of the same fields as ExtraView, so
exchanging values for these LDAP entities was a natural extension
of ExtraView's capabilities."
Future plans include LDAP access on a timed interval, allowing
synchronization of LDAP data with ExtraView user profiles on a scheduled
basis, and providing higher performance for the user sign-on process
as well as independence from the LDAP directory software for production
operations.
December 2002 - ExtraView Supports Single Sign-On Authorization
Seamless Login for ExtraView Users
Scotts Valley, CA, December 14, 2002 -- Sesame Technology, the
developer of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and
workflow management system, announced today that ExtraView users
may now use one of several single sign-on products that provide
authorization for seamless user login to ExtraView. Single sign-on
provides the authentication to ExtraView and other applications
with a single user entry with an individual ID and password.
In addition to support for the initial authorization of a user
for ExtraView, the SSO authorization can be invoked during the processing
of a form, for further user authentication when required. This is
a key component for compliance with the FDA 21 CFR 11 electronic
records and electronic signatures requirements.
ExtraView has been extensively tested with the Support Netegrity
SiteMinder Policy Server version 4.51; other products will be qualified
for interoperation with ExtraView according to market demand.
April 2002 - ExtraView Supports Field-Level Logic & Attributes
Without Programming
New Feature Eliminates Need for Customization Programming
Scotts Valley, CA, April 12, 2002 -- Sesame Technology, the developer
of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and workflow
management system, announced today that its enterprise-class tracking
software now supports multiple attributes and logic dependencies
for each field in the database. ExtraView administrators have the
power to create and manage all screen and report layouts through
a simple click-to-configure Web-based interface. Newly added field-level
functionality includes:
- Conditional
Alternate Field Titles
- Date
Range Control
- Conditional
Display & Style Formats
- Automatic
HTML Modifiers and JavaScript Calls
- Conditional
'Field Required' Control
- Sub-Layout
Control (Based on Other Field Values)
- Conditional
Field Visibility
"This represents a new threshold in development of Web based tracking
systems," said Carl Koppel, president and CEO of Sesame Technology.
"Where legacy tools took days of programming for a simple field
attribute change, ExtraView enables deeper customization in moments.
The cost savings are huge when technology organizations can deploy
engineers on their core product rather than maintaining the tracking
system."
Extended field attributes are immediately available to all ExtraView
customers.
August 2002 - ExtraView Adds Support for Microsoft SQL Server
7, 2000
New Support Extends the ExtraView Installed Base
Scotts Valley, CA, August 3, 2002 -- Sesame Technology, the developer
of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and workflow
management system, announced today that its enterprise-class tracking
software now supports both Microsoft SQL Server 7 and SQL Server
2000.
According to Michael Stebbins, Sesame's vice president of marketing,
the support of SQL Server makes ExtraView available to a new type
of user. "In the past, the only way a non-Oracle shop would gain
access to ExtraView was through Sesame's online hosted service.
While this enabled our partners to get up and running without software
or server resources, ExtraView users now have the choice to self-host
in a Microsoft/SQL-Server environment." Stebbins said. "We are pleased
to partner with Microsoft in making ExtraView available to this
new community."
For those who choose to install and host ExtraView on their own
servers, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 are
supported. Supported databases include Oracle 8.1, Oracle 9i, Microsoft
SQL Server 2000, and Microsoft SQL Server 7. Sesame also delivers
ExtraView as an online subscription with secure, enterprise-class
performance. With no software or hardware to buy, install, or maintain,
your organization benefits from ExtraView immediately.
March 2002 - Sesame Technology Unveils Inbuilt Localization Utility
for ExtraView Tracking System
New Toolset Brings Unprecedented Flexibility For Companies Requiring
Localization or Double-Byte Character Support
Scotts Valley, CA, March 6, 2002-- Sesame Technology, the developer
of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and workflow
management system, announced today that its enterprise-class tracking
software would now be available with double-byte character support
as well as a new localization administration utility. Sesame also
announced that the first localization into Japanese (Kana and Kanji)
had been accomplished by means of the new administration utility
that is immediately available for use by ExtraView licensees.
According to Sesame's vice president of engineering, Allan Rofer,
Sesame has gone beyond mere double-byte support and interface translation.
"ExtraView is such an eminently configurable and customizable product,
it was not enough for us that the default product settings be localized,"
Rofer said. "Rather, we wanted to capture all of ExtraView's in-built
flexibility, and carry this across to the localized product. With
the release of this set of product features, I believe we've accomplished
our objective, and set a new standard for localization."
Explaining what makes the system unique, Rofer pointed out that
double-byte support is an optional ExtraView feature that the administrator
may activate at any time. Localization into another language includes
everything from standard screen layout names and labels, HTML buttons,
error and alert messages, reports, and even email notifications.
January 2002 - Sesame Technology Named "Company to Watch" in 2002
by DEMOletter
Analyst Focuses on Sesame's Unique Approach to Architecture and
Market Need
Scotts Valley, CA, January 31, 2002 -- Sesame Technology, the
developer of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking and
workflow management system, was recently featured as a "Company
to Watch" in the January, 2002 issue of DEMOletter news. Selecting
the company from hundreds of candidates, analyst Chris Shipley noted
that Sesame's product architecture and unique positioning address
real customer pain and market need.
"Once in a while, a young company comes along that does just about
everything right," said Shipley in the article, "They build a scalable
enterprise class technology that resolves real and painful customer
problems. The system is adaptive to the customer's work flow and
process, so that implementation is reduced to days, not weeks or
months."
Sesame is already receiving responses to the feature from companies
who have been searching for adaptable product improvement tracking
software.
"An endorsement from Chris is like gold in this industry," said
Michael Stebbins, vice president of marketing at Sesame, "It's refreshing
to have a top analyst catch the vision and understand the new market
for product improvement technology."
October 2001 - Sesame Technology Announces Integration Of ExtraView;
with Perforce SCM System
Simultaneous Enterprise-Class Defect Tracking and SCM Now Available
from the ExtraView Command Line
Scotts Valley, CA, October 31/BusinessWire/ -- Sesame Technology,
the developer of ExtraView, the leading Web-based issue tracking
and workflow management system, announced today that it would now
be offering its diverse enterprise customers a standard integration
with Perforce, the software configuration management system (SCM)
specially designed to combine speed with ease-of-use for large,
distributed development environments.
"Organizations developing complex software and hardware products
should be able to offer their teams best-of-breed defect tracking
to complement their high- end SCM infrastructure, " said Carl Koppel,
Sesame president and CEO. "This base integration provides Perforce
users easy access to ExtraView's state-of-the art tracking features."
Developers using Perforce can update defects in ExtraView and
check resolved files back into Perforce using a single command.
Differences captured by Perforce are entered into ExtraView comments,
while ExtraView defect numbers are registered in Perforce. In addition,
the API's open, Perl environment makes it easy to further extend
the integration to meet whatever needs might arise.
"Developers want nimble tools that stay out of their way, but
mature product quality demands solid defect tracking and a more
controlled development structure," said Christopher Seiwald, president
and chief technology officer of Perforce Software, Inc. "This integration
meets developers' needs -- Perforce SCM delivers the power they
want and ExtraView manages the workflow the organization requires."
About Sesame Technology
Sesame Technology is a privately held company that was founded
in 1999, and is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. Sesame
is the developer of ExtraView, a highly adaptable Web-based Issue
tracking and workflow management system. Unique in the field for
its customizability, ExtraView does not impose a set process, but
conforms easily to each organization's unique requirements - without
requiring expensive programming. Sesame's rapidly expanding client-base
includes: Qwest Communications, Redback Networks, TRW, GE Capital,
BEA Systems, GE Medical Systems, GlaxoSmithKline, PMI Mortgage,
Emerson Electronics, Siemens, Acorn Systems, Quantum 3D, Hydro Quebec,
Matsushita and others.
About Perforce Software, Inc.
Perforce Software, Inc. is a privately held company located in
Alameda, California, and was founded in 1995. Dedicated to providing
software developers with the fastest and most reliable SCM system,
Perforce facilitates the orderly management of the software development
process for large, complex projects - over the Internet, a local
area network, or a wide area network - across more than 50 different
development platforms.
April 2001 - Sesame Technology Announces ExtraView Remote
Wireless Problem Management System Enables Remote Service Force
Automation
Scotts Valley, CA - April 2001, - Sesame Technology (www.sesame.com)
announced today the general availability of ExtraView Remote, a
wireless service automation solution that empowers field personnel
with up-to-the-second access to ExtraView's centralized trouble
ticket database. Field service and engineering teams may remotely
view, enter, query and route problem reports from any location.
Remote personnel and management may access other ExtraView features
such as auto-assignment of problems, dynamic email notification,
and powerful query and reporting capabilities.
Sesame Technology currently offers ExtraView Remote on the Palm™
VII using the Palm.net™ services. Other systems are being certified
at press time.
About ExtraView
ExtraView is a highly scalable wireless and Web-based problem
tracking system used to track, route, and resolve trouble reports
and enhancement requests. Used by customer support, quality, field
service, and engineering groups, ExtraView integrates with legacy
CRM and tracking systems and may be easily customized to individual
workflow and quality processes. Many successful companies use ExtraView,
including Redback Networks [NASDAQ: RBAK] and Covad Communications
[NASDAQ: COVD].
July 1999 - Sesame Technology Ships ExtraView Release 2
Much Anticipated Release of a New Breed of Problem Management
and Tracking Software
Scotts Valley, CA - July 21, 1999 - Sesame Technology announced
today that it has shipped ExtraView Release 2. This much anticipated
product fills a void for a quality, flexible, web-based problem
tracking system that truly incorporates the needs of a company's
customers into the development process. Before ExtraView, the process
of gathering input from a company's customers involved a significant
amount of effort by the support staff of an organization. Now, companies
can allow their customers to directly view and submit new problems,
while accessing a database to search for known issues.
The software provides full functionality, and is fully scalable
to an unlimited number of products and issues. Carl Koppel, president
and CEO of Sesame Technology quoted "ExtraView marks a departure
from Sesame's roots. We are now applying the knowledge gained from
thousands and thousands of man-hours of development for other companies
into growing exciting, forward-looking products for our customers.
Our engineering team has done a fabulous job in producing a market-leading
product. Throughout the development of the product, we have used
ExtraView as our own platform to record and manage all the issues.
It performed flawlessly."
ExtraView Release 2 is available immediately. Aaron Gray, director
of customer focus for ABB Energy Information Systems in Santa Clara,
CA commented "As the first customer to install ExtraView Release
2, we look forward to a significant improvements in our development
process. ExtraView will allow us to more closely and simply manage
our database of problems, eliminating several other products that
have historically been used for the task".
About Sesame Technology
Sesame Technology is a privately held company that provides web-based
solutions and professional services for the product improvement
process. Sesame Technology provides experienced teams of the most
highly skilled consultants that understand business processes, software
design and development. In developing mission-critical, web-based
applications, Sesame Technology continually pushes the envelope
to provide practical, reliable, and scalable solutions. Sesame Technology's
product division builds and markets applications that support the
development process within technology companies. The leading product
in this arena is ExtraView™. ExtraView provides an easy to use,
flexible problem management and tracking system that allows faster
time to market while allowing customers to be involved in the development
process.
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