Bugs Dashboard

Enterprise License

Who Should License The Enterprise Edition

If your Bugzilla repository contains more than one user, the Enterprise Edition is for you. The Enterprise Edition reports on any and all users within the repository. Additionally, you may define more than one dashboard. This is useful for splitting the navigation up into individual projects, teams, versions, platforms (e.g. development, QA, release), etc. You may create an unlimited number of portlets for these portals.

Benefits

Licensing the Bugs Dashboard Enterprise Edition benefits an organization in many ways, some of which are:

• Facilitates the interaction between a development team and customers, stakeholders, and/or senior management
• Assists in the communication of expectations to the development team both from management and from customers if you allow the customers to participate
• Provides visibility into long standing issues
• Helps an organization focus its resources on the customers priorities

What to Expect

The Enterprise Edition requires a Java Servlet container (such as Tomcat). Once downloaded, you will unzip the .war file, move it to your deployment directory (e.g. webapps), restart your web server (if necessary) to expand the directory, then walk through the configuration wizard. You should backup your issue tracking database before you begin use of the Bugs Database and always test the installation first by moving only one issue then verifying the correct entries in your issue tracking system. You can move the issue back to its previous state after verifying the entries.You will receive 1-year of online (i.e. online chat or e-mail) and phone support. You may purchase additional ongoing support separately. Support contracts ensure that you receive all updates in that major version line. Upgrades are priced separately. Installation and User Guides are included with the distribution and may be downloaded separately at any time.

What You Need

At a minimum, you need a Java Servlet container, such as Tomcat. (Note: as of this time, Tomcat is the only container tested and certified.) A virtual private network (VPN) is not required unless you wish to access the Bugs Dashboard securely from outside the company's firewall (e.g. your customer's place of business). It is entirely possible to run the Bugs Dashboard on the internet (e.g. http://www.yourcompany.com/). We highly recommend that if you do so, you use a separate HTTP listener such as Apache in front of Tomcat and secure it with self-signed certificates at a minimum (i.e. use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to encrypt all traffic). The reason we suggest Apache is that you can configure it to not respond to the HTTP_TRACE command. We highly encourage you to consider, but do not require, a separate server for your database. The use of a separate server allows you to partition it off from the inter/intranet and gives you a little more protection from hackers.

Recommendations

You know your own issues better than anyone else, but managing those issues in the face of customer, stakeholder and senior management's concerns can sometimes be a little bit like herding cats. We have years of experience putting our customer's projects back on track and reinvigorating their relationships. Should you find yourself in a position where we can be of benefit, please have a look at our consulting agreement. You should always keep in mind that you're embarking on process improvement, not simply installing a software package!

Additionally, we highly recommend that organizations purchase annual support contracts - and not because they benefit us, but because they benefit you! Annual support contracts ensure that you're kept up-to-date with every update that we produce for that version. For example, if you license v2.0 and we put out 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, you receive all three updates at no additional cost. We also focus on the business requests of our annual support holders first as we know they're committed to the process of improving their organization.