Redmine Project Cockpit for Deutsche Telekom AG

Product and Innovation department of Deutsche Telekom AG and finnlabs are evaluating the open source web-based project management and collaboration tool Redmine. Teams of Deutsche Telekom’s Video-on-Demand platform Videoload.de currently use Redmine in complex product development projects. The goal of this pilot scheme is to find out whether the lightweight open source challenger is a viable alternative to established commercial software packages. Special focus is put on ease of customization, adaptability, and total cost of ownership. The pilot scheme covers a multitude of redmine modules, including issue tracking, status reporting, time tracking and -billing, and document management .

The first results are positive. During the initial set-up, Redmine offered a first glance on its key strength: flexibilty. The Telekom development process could be easily matched, including company-specific work-flows, roles, and user interfaces.

The partners are confident, that the collaboration tool Redmine will successfully meet Telekom´s needs in the future. Redmine is written in the ruby-on-rails framework, allowing for the cost efficient development of plug-ins that provide project-specific functionality and the integration into existing systems. The active Redmine development community publishes the code for the core system and plug-ins under the open source license GPL. This open approach ensures an uninhibited flow of any improvements and extensions of the software among all Redmine users.