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“The social enhancements Jama continues to make in Contour are right in line with our vision of simple, smarter Web apps designed for getting things done.”
Brian Biggs,
Director of Product Management, Fluid
What's new in Contour 2.9.7, released June 14, 2010.
The World's Best Import :: Author in Word or Excel, manage in Contour.
Prefer to author requirements in Word or Excel? Need to work offline on a requirements spec during a flight? No problem. We've made it easier than ever to import your documents in their true, native formats from Word or Excel into Contour. The import wizard now supports multiple formats including DOC, DOCX, XML, XLS, XLSX and CSV. Also for Word, Contour automically imports your hierarchy, tables, images, bulleted lists, numbered lists and other styles.Integrations :: Connect your tools, connect your crowd.
In addition to enhancing the JIRA and Enterprise Architect Connectors, we've added a new integration with Atlassian Crowd for user management and single sign-on. Your Contour Admin will love all the time the Crowd integration will save. See Contour Integrations >Enhanced Coverage Report :: Ensure 100% coverage for your requirements.
One of the primary reasons of doing traceability is to sync test cases to requirements for quality assurance. The newly enhanced Coverage Report in Contour will help you identify any gaps in test coverage for your requirements. Sleep easy QA managers, we've got you covered.Excel Reports :: Design your own templates to automate data roundtripping.
Have an Excel report you want to automatically sync with Contour? Now you can. Create your own Excel templates and map the data fields with Contour to get complete data roundtripping. This will allow you to manage requirements in Contour, and then use Excel's graphing or calculation capabilities. Contact Jama Support for Excel template best practices >Read the latest Contour documentation:
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What's new in Contour 2.9.6, released March 26, 2010.
Custom Reporting :: Add as many parameters as you want.
Report designers now have the ability to include as many parameters as they want in their reports, along with customizing the names of the fields so they're intuitive to their fellow Contour users.Administration :: We've made the upgrade process easier.
With this release, the browser cache will automatically be cleared, so your Contour end-users don't have to worry about doing it themselves. This will make the upgrading process easier for Administrators and ensure a seamless user experience for end-users.Contour 2.9.6 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.9.5, released March 4, 2010.
Inline Editing :: Quickly edit items from a single view to save time.
Whenever you have the need to make a quick edit to the name, status or other fields, you can simply doubleclick within the list of items and make several edits inline. This is a helpful feature when doing a group review session and editing a list of items at the same time. Watch the video.
Enterprise Architect Integration :: Connect requirements with UML models.
The new Jama Connector for Enterprise Architect provides a seamless integration between Contour and Enterprise Architect, the popular UML modeling tool from Sparx Systems. The Connector allows EA users to import requirements managed in Contour and connect those requirements to design UML models for software design inside Enterprise Architect. Watch the video.
Baselines :: The most flexible baselining feature available on the market.
Baselines can now be taken for releases, sets, filters and individual items, providing you incredible flexibility to use baselines for how your team works. Use baselines to flag significant events and run comparison reports to understand the deltas between baselines. Watch the video.
Electronic Signatures :: Capture approvals to help with compliance standards.
To help organizations meet compliance standards such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 in the medical industry, users can add electronic signatures to a baseline, captured with a time and date stamp for audit trail tying the signature to the individual user along with the document.Change Request Enhancements :: Track versions of items within change requests.
Contour provides the ability to manage requirements and other items that are involved in change requests. Each item denotes the version when the change request was introduced and the version of the item that fulfills the change request.Administration :: Enhanced management of users, groups & permissions.
We streamlined the process for creating new users and assigning users to groups. In addition, we added the ability to grant users with project-level admin permissions the right to create their own groups. This enables better project-level administration in large organizations. Watch the video.
Web Services API :: Version 2 is now available.
We've updated our Web Services to expand the API to support our new integrations and Contour features. Interesting in building your own integration? See Jama Contour Web Services v2 >Contour 2.9.5 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.9, released January 17, 2010.
Jive Integration :: Welcome to the future of social product development.
Every day employees, customers and partners are actively shaping your product roadmap - sharing ideas, discussing new features, telling you exactly what they like and dislike. But, how are you capitalizing on these valuable insights?
With the new Jive integration with Contour, now you can seamlessly push ideas discussed in Jive SBS communities directly into Contour when you're ready to define them as new features and plan future releases. Learn more about the Jama Connector for Jive SBS >
Enhanced Import :: Include embedded images and charts with ease.
Our newest release of Contour includes additional rich features for the import from Microsoft Word and Excel. For example, with Contour 2.9, now you can import a Word document and Contour will automatically harvest and attach the image files associated with any embedded OLE objects while importing requirements, saving you valuable time.Improved Search :: Lightening fast and sorted for better relevance.
Given that search is an incredibly important feature to our customers, we've enhanced the speed and display of search results. Now, you get a single list sorted by relevance that is returned up to 50% faster. In addition, at the top of each grid users now have the ability to quickly view items of a specific type. So, if all you want to see is Test Cases, it's easier now to see just those items.Custom Reporting :: Better documentation to help you help yourself.
As our customers continue to push the envelope on custom reporting, we've worked with several sophisticated users to help us to enhance the user documentation for best practices and advanced features related to using BIRT and Velocity, the open reporting engines we use within Contour.Contour 2.9 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.8, released Sept. 22, 2009.
Activity Stream :: Everyone connected and in sync at all times.
Keep a real-time pulse on all activities in your projects within a single view. No more noise. No more hunting. No more surprises. Everyone in sync working on what matters most. Watch the video.
Active Search :: Find everything you need.
Search beyond the requirements, and also see your relationships, tags and comments related to specific keywords and other filtering criteria using Contour's advanced search, right from within your Activities Stream.Enhanced Import :: Straight from Word.
Import data directly from Microsoft Word documents in the native file format (.docx) and preserve the formatting, headings, and yes even images. It's import made easy.Reading View :: Easy on the eyes.
More of a visual person? Now, you can work within a set, filter or list of results in a dynamic document-like view with the headings, formatting and images all in context. It looks like Word, but works like Contour.Web Services API :: Come on in, we're open.
Want to build your own integrations in and out of Contour? Now you can. We've updated our Web Services API v2. Contour is open for business.Download Contour Web Services API >
Contour 2.8 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.7, released July 15, 2009.
In this release, we've introduced the Jama Connector for JIRA, an integration between Jama Contour and Atlassian JIRA to keep both product planning and product development in sync at all times. Learn more >
Also in Contour 2.7, we've enhanced system performance to help with caching and load times. So, when logging into the application, editing items and completing other tasks within Contour, you should experience faster performance. We've also tuned the database indexes to improve database performance for Oracle and SQL Server.
Contour 2.7 documentation:
What would you like to see added to Contour?
We believe the smartest person is everyone, and always appreciate customer feedback. Join us in planning our future releases, by submitting your feature requests in our Jama Support forum.
Practicing what we preach, we log feature requests in our own use of Jama Contour, analyze them and assign them to a release. Our development team then breaks the releases into sprints that are managed at a task level within JIRA. Through our Jama and JIRA integration, we close the loop on status of a release being complete and produce our Release Notes as a report from Contour to communicate new features and bug fixes.
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