"Наша компания недавно скачала TrackStudio Enterprise,
и мы его тестируем вот уже в течение 2-х месяцев.
Я должен сказать, что TrackStudio - это одна из наиболее
мощных и качественных систем управления задачами среди
всех просмотренных нами. Кроме того, ваша команда на форуме
всегда была готова помочь во время нашего тестирования,
даже исправляя найденные в процессе тестирования ошибки.
В итоге, мы решили приобрести TrackStudio Enterprise."
[Восемь месяцев спустя]
"Комментарии:
- Приложение выглядит целостным и логичным. Если
вы поняли как организован интерфейс, то все становится очень
быстрым и простым в использовании.
- Нам нравится иерархическая организация продукта. Нам
так же нравится использование единых подходов во всем
приложении. Это позволяет гораздо проще масштабировать
систему по мере необходимости.
- Нам нравится та гибкость, которую обеспечивают фильтры.
Они могут быть публичными или закрытыми, и они поддерживают
иерархию как и все остальное в системе. Например, мы можем
разбить наш проект на несколько подпроектов и создать
специальные фильтры для каждого из них. Затем мы можем
использовать эти фильтры для генерации отчетов по
этим подпроектам.
- Приложение работает в самом деле быстро!. Ваша система
кэширования выглядит очень эффективной.
- Нам понравилось что вы используете Hibernate в
качестве ORM (мы тоже используем Hibernate). Сейчас
мы используем несколько экземпляров TrackStudio, причем
все они используют различные СУБД.
- Я могу продолжать, но думаю что вы поняли идею.
По поводу интерфейса пользователя:
Он понятный и относительно простой в использовании.
Он целостный, и нам это нравится. Кроме того, возможности
которые вы обеспечиваете стандартными web-формами и
JavaScript-ом просто отличные. Некоторые
формы требуют времени чтобы понять как их использовать, но
я думаю, что это следствие сложности выполняемых действий,
а не следствие плохого дизайна."
Грэг Тассон, Старший разработчик программного обеспечения
"Это удовольствие общаться с людьми в службе техподдержки,
у которых есть страсть к продукту, не говоря об отличном понимании
того, как он работает. Снимаю шляпу!"
"My company (or at least my divisional group in my company)
has TrackStudio as one of its cornerstones for development
tracking. We use it as an extended bug tracker and repository
of documents and user requests. In a way, I've set it up to
act as a Sourceforge-like site, and so basically it's the
reference base for anything anyone might need to find out
about our software development project.
The fact that I say this means one very important thing:
TrackStudio is so dynamic, it can satisfy the needs of
many different projects. Its open-endedness allows for
almost limitless customization, and yet it comes ready
right out of the box, which is very convenient for making
quick solutions. If you're looking for a tool that you
hope will address several of your communication,
organizational and streamlining needs, I say look no
further.
There are a few snags though. If your company isn't used
to reporting in a workflow-based environment, the transition
to using TrackStudio can be tough. It'll require training
for the rest of your coworkers. Also, some aspects of
customization can be a bit tricky - setting up practically
anything is possible, but unless you're willing to get
your hands dirty in the source code (which they provide!),
some things just won't be available. The reporting system
is a good example of a template in place that doesn't
fully offer customization at the top level. If you want
charts, chances are you'll be generating a distributed
report and manually making the charts in the excel
export, or a UserWorkload report if you use the budgeting
feature of task reporting (it won't work otherwise).
I still wish TrackStudio would implement some things I
could use, but development on it is active and they make
good progress - in my 7 months or so of owning a license
they've gone through 2 or 3 upgrades, major and minor,
that have added functionality making it even better. And,
hands down, the best feature of TrackStudio is its customer
service. I have to say that without a doubt the service
you get with TrackStudio is the best I have ever received,
without equal. I have never gone more than 24 hours without
an answer to a question or problem I had - and the majority
of those within 12 hours. I honestly don't understand how
they do it, but then again I'm not complaining!
So even if it's not the application to solve every one of
your needs (and I know that you'll have a hard time
finding one that will!), I highly recommend TrackStudio for
its basic out-of-the-box functionality, its raw
customizability, and its development & support base.
Erik Hammel, (organisation withheld)
"The thing that impressed me the most about TrackStudio was
the ease of deployment: We went through about three
environment changes between evaluating it and putting it
into production, and every time was no more than a fifteen-
minute job. No other product that I evaluated even compares
in that regard.
Apart from that, though, TrackStudio's interface is highly
intuitive, it looks great, and it functions as promised. I
would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a top-
quality issue tracking system."
"As head of development and programming I'm very happy to
use TrackStudio: two years ago I pointed out your product
as our tracking application.
We manage about ten projects with hundreds of tasks for
one hundred users.
[...]
Our maintanaince is very low on TrackStudio: no one problem in two years.
I give you our configuration: wintel box and SQL Server."
Alberto Santini, (organisation withheld)
"We are interested in the workflow capabilities (must) that many other
systems do not offer, as well as the need for a Java-based (must) tracking
system (rather than PHP or Perl) for intranet integration. Other interests
include Outlook/Outlook Express integration (must), Email-based submission
(nice), and the per-version/component/project rules (must). I've been
evaluating [another popular Java-based issue tracker] as an alternate
solution, but they are far from having the integration capabilities you offer."
"We choose TrackStudio simply because our search led to
you as one of the most comprehensive and feature-rich project tools."
"I have evaluated TrackStudio and absolutely love it.
It has by far the best layout, look and feel, etc. of
anything in the same application domain that I've looked
at. I plan on recommending it to all of my friends'
companies, etc. as the pricing is great, and the product
in my eyes seems unbeatable at the moment. Your product is EXCELLENT and as
I have said, I plan on recommending it constantly to
anyone who needs a good bug tracking system, and to try to
convince them to switch to your product from there existing
bug tracking software due to your superiority."
Daniel Blair
"I've searched all over the net for a easy and simple task managements
solution. TrackStudio was the only system that was reasonably priced and
the easiest to use."
"TrackStudio has a lovely professional looking interface."
"I have a big development project coming up that will span many
geographically dispersed programmers.
We looked all over the web
and decided to use your J2EE issue tracker."
Bruce Carter
"Its browser-only approach enables true
cross-platform access for Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Unix desktops."
"TrackStudio is a powerful yet flexible issue tracking system aimed at keeping management simple even in large groups."