A number of today's leading computing initiatives like SOA, compliance, code reuse, and global outsourcing share the need to assemble distributed software development teams. In this distributed environment, it has become essential for companies to set, measure, and improve their development processes and for project teams to understand and complete their tasks in view of the overall lifecycle. CollabNet TeamForge provides an integrated set of software configuration management, collaboration, and project management tools with a secure, centralized on-demand delivery model integrated to enable true collaborative development in a global business environment.