Features and benefits
IBM® Rational® ClearCase® Change Management Solution Enterprise Edition integrates software configuration management and software change management, including repository replication and synchronization to enable collaboration across distributed development teams.
Features and benefits
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Sophisticated version and source code management | Manage files, directories, and other development assets across the lifecycle |
| Change and defect tracking | Effectively manage issues and change to resolution |
| Flexible, customizable and automated workflows | Create repeatable, enforceable and predictable processes |
| Out-of-the-box Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) template | Provides a solid foundation for ALM best practices to boost team performance and reduce implementation time |
| Real-time reporting and metrics | Improves project visibility and decision making |
| Access control, electronic signatures, repeatable processes, and audit trails | Simplifies compliance management and governance |
| • Traces origin and detail of project changes | |
| • Verifies identities and ensures changes are made only by authorized individuals | |
| Activity-based change management | Define and manage changes to software assets as activities for improved clarity and insight |
| Scales to fit any size team (from small workgroups to geographically distributed enterprises) | Support for any sized organization and evolving organizational needs |
| Local and remote access | Access anywhere, anytime |
| IBM Rational ClearQuest® | Jump start implementations with out-of-the-box Rational ClearQuest® template, and quickly meet unique organizational needs. Rational ClearCase meets the needs of any organization by offering UCM (an out-of-the-box usage model based on activity-based change management best practices) or the flexibility to implement virtually any process model solution |
| Wide range of supported environments including Windows, Linux, Unix and z/OS | Allows you to connect diverse teams and environments – even across different platforms |
| Transparent, real-time access to files and directories | Fast, immediate access to virtually any version of a file |
| Support for disconnected usage | Continue development efforts while disconnected from the network, easily synchronize changes when reconnected to the network |
| IBM Rational Application Developer® | Integration with leading IDEs including the Eclipse framework, Rational Application Developer®, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and more… |
| Parallel development support including automatic branching and advanced merging and differencing technology | Allows teams to work on the same code or release at the same time with the ability to easily resolve conflicts, reduce confusion, and get more done in a short amount of time |
| Automated workspace management | Provides control over personal workspaces and enable seamless access to the exact files and directory versions that are needed |
| IBM Rational Application Developer® | Manage and control changes across the lifecycle. Integrations include Rational RequisitePro® (for Requirements Management), Rational Asset Manager® (to track global asset reuse), Rational Build Forge® (for software assembly and builds), and more… |
| Automatic replication and synchronization of repositories | Access current information, regardless of location |
| Resending of information in the event of network failure, automatic recovery of repositories in the event of system failure | Maintain data integrity |
| Transmission of only incremental changes to repositories | Reduce network strain and improve network performance |
| Mastership of Rational ClearCase metadata | Avoid conflicts by preventing changes being made and one site from being overwritten by changes made at another site |
| IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite® | Integrations include IBM Rational RequisitePro® (for Requirements Management), IBM Rational Asset Manager® (to track global asset reuse), IBM Rational Build Forge® (for software assembly and builds), and more…. |
