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Census: web-based defect and bug tracking

Web-based Bug Tracking and Defect Tracking Products

MetaQuest offers two editions of our defect and bug tracking system: Census Enterprise and Census Small Business.
Census Enterprise

Census Enterprise is a professional, enterprise-level issue tracking system that can be leveraged throughout your whole organization. Census Enterprise is fully customizable, robust, scalable, and provides enterprise-level security. With the Enterprise edition, you can take full advantage of the complete range of Census features and functionality.

Census Small Business
The Small Business edition is a bug tracking tool intended for smaller development teams. Easy to install and set up, Census Small Business provides all the bug tracking functionality a small team needs, at an affordable price.

Comparing Census Editions

Feature Census
Enterprise
Census
Small Business
SQL Server support
Microsoft Access support
MSDE 2000 support
Concurrent licenses
Named licenses
Visual SourceSafe (VSS) integration
Link one or more Census projects to a VSS database.
Extended Visual SourceSafe (VSS) integration
Link each Census project to a different VSS database, instead of linking all projects to the same VSS database.
Workflow
Customizable workflow that can be applied to any project.
Multiple workflows
Define multiple workflows. For example, different workflows for different projects.
Parent-child links
Allow users to link one or more child issues to a parent issue.
Customizable fields
Add fields, make fields required, remove fields, change captions and value lists.
Attach custom scripts and HTML to fields
Use an HTML editor to format text for memo fields
Save user-defined queries
Submit issues by sending e-mail messages
E-mail notifications
Automated e-mail notifications for common events (such as new bugs, reassigned bugs, and severity changes).
Custom when conditions for e-mail notifications
Define custom "when rules" to trigger e-mail notifications: for example, when any field (predefined or custom) changes or when a specific user makes a change.
Project template for bug tracking
The template includes over 60 fields, along with a complete set of reports, queries, sorts, layouts, and notifications based on those fields.
Project templates for tracking support calls, weekly timesheets, test suites, enhancement requests, and project requirements
Built-in reporting
Census includes an HTML reporting engine for Web-based reports.
Crystal Reports
Build custom reports that include features such as charts, formulas, field highlighting, running totals, and imported graphics.
Active Directory Integration
Authenticate users using Active Directory or Windows Domains
Authenticate using Census security
Role-based security for Web views, projects, and features
Field-level security
Create normal Web views
Normal Web views allow users to submit new bugs and update existing bugs.
Create read-only, submit-only, and knowledge base Web views
Submit-only views are bug-submission forms that allow any number of end-users to submit bugs. Read-only views provide read-only access to bug databases. Knowledge Base views allow users to search, browse, and read knowledge base articles.
Power customizations
Use Microsoft Access/SQL Server development environment, Visual Basic, Javascript, and other advanced techniques to customize Census.
Customize Web views by editing the templates used to generate the Web views. Brand Web views with your corporate colors and logos.
Premium Support and Upgrade Plan
Small Business Support and Upgrade Plan
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