Metaport
Website maintenance agencies can actually schedule
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Website maintenance agencies can actually schedule
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Metaport is portfolio management software for web and software development agencies. Agencies get notified about managed websites and apps which have upcoming end-of-life (EOL) components and security vulnerabilities. Non-technical team members share EOL roadmaps with customers and stakeholders so they can plan and budget effectively. Metaport integrates with Dependabot and DependencyTrack, as well as task management and CRM tools, so issues and revenue leads are tracked properly.
Working with Project Managers as a developer, I would frequently observe their struggle to find the data they really needed to support planning and budgeting conversations with clients, stakeholders and customers.
It turns out to be a pretty bad look when a customer calls to inform you, their dev team, that the O/S or framework for their flagship product is EOL next month!
Because hundreds of open source software projects, many of which likely underpin most teams' apps, don't consistently publish release cadences, support, or end-of-life schedules, this data which is already very difficult and inefficient to locate, is also hard to usefully translate given its inconsistent presentation and update schedules.
And so it would be that myself and my team would be frequently asked by our PM over Slack, email and in-person about which of the team's portfolio of apps and sites was approaching end-of-life (EOL) or might be vulnerable to a security advisory or comprised a dependency at a particular version.
The only way to find the data for ourselves, and I know for many other companies, was by manually grepping multiple codebases if we were really unlucky! (If your team is lucky, it uses a CMDB or even a wiki, but even those need to be manually updated). This effort obviously took billable time away from developers given the effort required to find it, as well as the time needed to get back into the zone and the feature we were working on prior.
Metaport CE is open source software which regularly receives encrypted data directly from your team's portfolio of apps over HTTPS or SMTP. Using Metaport's UI, Project and Product Managers can now visualise and query their app portfolio for key component EOL and EOS dates, dependencies and vulnerabilities, autonomously. They can subsequently use that data to proactively plan and budget with stakeholders, create backlog items, and compose maintenance estimates for RFPs and SLAs.
We'd love to build a Metaport SaaS for use by those that cannot self-host or self-manage a Metaport on-prem instance, but we believe that going the open source / open core route for now, is the best way to validate and obtain feedback first.
Metaport CE is currently in beta, and is now ready to be installed and reviewed today.