Pulse's Road Map
This road map provides users with a high-level view of the past (and if available, future) plans for Pulse. Pulse is an always-improving product that is enhanced based off of customer suggestion and industry demand. Check back often for updates on the history and scope of Pulse!
First Quarter 2010
- Collaboration Improvements
Private Label upgrades
Fourth Quarter 2009
- Collaboration dashboard
- Invitation model for new users and teams
- Easier management of updates
- Catalog Refresh
Continue to expand commercial software presence to include popular tooling suggested by users
Third Quarter 2009
- Enhanced security features
- Speed and usability enhancements
- Catalog Refresh
Continued to expand commercial software presence to include popular tooling suggested by users
Second Quarter 2009
- Example Private Label Implementation
Example portal and tool download to demonstrate Private Label capabilities. - Improved Team Collaboration Features
- Catalog Refresh
Continued to expand commercial software presence to include popular tooling suggested by users
First Quarter 2009
- Further Enhance Anonymous
Expand the product access so the full product is free for individuals with complete management control. - Simplified Configuration
Eliminated 'managed' or 'local' update sites in favor of a simplified, universal flow. - Commercial Partners
Continued to expand commercial software presence to include popular tooling suggested by users
Fourth Quarter 2008
- Enhanced Anonymous
Expanded the product access for individuals. - Added Drop-in support
Modified the infrastructure to allow the popular Eclipse 3.4 "dropin" system. - Commercial Partners
Continued to expand commercial software presence to include popular tooling suggested by users
Third Quarter 2008
- Vertical Catalogs
Offer vertical specific and turn-key implementation of Pulse for large enterprises, industry consortiums and government agencies - Store Front
Consolidate the Pulse store front for one-stop shopping for all applications - Software Governance
Expands management services to include governance of end-user systems with the ability to dictate per-team, per-user or per-profile restrictions on how profiles and add-on software can be leveraged.
Second Quarter 2008
- Custom Catalogs and Profiles
Enabling shareable custom catalogs and profiles that includes FOS plugins, commercial products and enterprise components inside the firewall. Enterprises can then mashup their internally developed components and have total control over the distribution of these profiles inside the security of their firewalls - Workspace Lifecycle Management
Enable definition of teams with common workspace characteristics including full lifecycle management of the workspace and associated configuration. Teams can then leverage this service for definition of common services such as document stores, version repositories and bug tracking sources - Non-Eclipse Software
Expand provisioned technology to include non-Eclipse solutions (i.e. Libraries, frameworks, run-time components and other supporting technologies)
First Quarter 2008
- Added "Pulse Freelance Team" value-add service
- ability to share profiles
- share workspace configurations
- additional catalog options
- $6/month or $60/year
- Expanded Catalog
Added hundreds of plugins to the catalog from EPIC - Commercial Partners
Continued to expand commercial software presence to include popular tooling suggested by users - Virtual Development Environments
Expanded custom catalog capabilities to allow small and medium sized groups to setup virtual development environments as a standard for each team - Workspace Setup
Enabled users to define initial workspace contents to be delivered as part of Pulse's provisioning of a profile with the ability to share between users (with Pulse Freelance Team). - Automated Dependency resolution
New technology allows automatic dependecy resolution for all your tools on the client side, ensuring your Eclipse components will all play nicely together on your machine
