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Written by Jonathan Vanian   
Tuesday, 13 June 2006 04:29
In an easy-to-evaluate, low cost package, Neuma’s CM+ demonstrates the meaning of seamless integration across its broad range of development management applications. The complexities of Configuration Management are hidden from the user, resulting in an easy-to-use process-centric tool that increases developer productivity. Process maturity efforts will benefit from easy configuration of data, state- and task-based processes, and role-based user interfaces. From project management through build and release management, CM+ will enhance product quality and team communication. Drill down summaries and flexible, responsive reporting facilitate interactive decision-making. Neuma has done an admirable job in leading the SCM industry into the next generation.

PRODUCT FEATURES

End-to-end Life Cycle Management Seamlessly Integrated in a Single User Interface CM+ seamlessly integrates Requirements Management, Project Management, Problem Tracking, Document Management, Configuration Management, Change Management, and Version Control in one tool, simplifying everyone’s environment. The application set can be extended with custom Neuma applications such as Customer Tracking and Test Case Management, You can create your own CM+ applications. Seamless integration permits point-and-click navigation from requirements to test cases and back.

Mature Stream-based Configuration and Change Management
A quick view of CM+ shows it can address both the simplest and the most complex customer requirements. Stream-based development, with first order Branch, Change, Baseline and Build objects, eliminates labeling and dramatically reduces branching and merging. Change packages were clearly built into the CM+ core, not as an add-on. Change promotion, as opposed to promotion branch merging, and automatic baseline creation eliminate tedious error-prone operations. Static or Dynamic Context Views simplify everyone’s work and learning curve.

Easily Customized Process, Data and User Interface
From terminology to data requirements, using an integrated state and task-driven process model, CM+ supports the customer’s own processes and will allow your organization to climb the process maturity ladder quickly. A Continuous Process Improvement model is recommended by Neuma so a customer may use CM+ to help its processes mature. The interface is tailored to the user’s role(s), using both Neuma-defined and customer-defined roles and supports data and process customizations that are automatically reflected in forms and displays.

Exceptional Scalability, Reliability, Redundancy and Availability
CM+ scales to 1,000’s of users, on a single server, without downtime or infrastructure changes. Reliability and redundancy features include fully executable transaction journals, hot-standby disaster recovery, automatic repository checkpoints and outage recovery, hot backup support, source file redundancy, and other features that help ensure close to 100% availability. Users can typically work right through upgrades. The CM+ Smart Client technology allows rapid query response which is unaffected by the number of users.

Easy Deploy and Low-risk Evaluation with Near Zero On-going Administration
CM+ is installed in minutes. An initial demo tutorial, covering project manager, developer and CM manager roles, can be done in an hour, with no prior infrastructure setup or training. A new project repository is easily created and requires almost no on-going administration, with a only slight increase for a synchronous CM+ MultiSite solution. Your team can be trained and up and running in a few days, with all of your project data loaded. Switching servers between Unix, Linux and Windows is trivial. Clients can run anywhere.



BENEFITS TO THE USER

Developer Satisfaction and Productivity.
With little effort, CM+ can be customized to a project’s precise requirements, a first step in keeping developers happy. Many CM tools add an extra workload to each developer. CM+ reduces the workload by eliminating, in most cases, the need to branch and merge, and by performing change-based check-in, delta reporting, promotion, bulk loading and workspace operations. As well as providing clear “to do” lists, CM+ gives the developer, and the whole team, a clear view of work performed. Rapid queries enhance productivity.

Low Cost, Superb Cost of Ownership
CM+ Enterprise is priced well below its competitors, and it gives significant returns on the investment. The low administration requirements lead Neuma’s customers to refer to CM+ as “set-and-forget” technology. Easy setup and customization capabilities result in less training time and less consulting time. The single integrated suite eliminates the costs of gluing together applications, training on multiple products, coordinating upgrades between tools, and doing multiple tool evaluations. All upgrades are included with maintenance.

Configuration and Change Control: Increased Customer Satisfaction
CM+ has all of the capabilities required to move you rapidly through the process maturity levels. The result is that you have a true change-based CM system that allows you to manage changes. CM+ allows you to effectively manage your product development, allowing you to prioritize requirements, activities/tasks and problems/issues. Your CCB meetings deal with the issues, not the tools. It enables you to report to your customers, in advance, exactly how their environment will change with each new product upgrade.

Protection for Your Business Assets
Software, documentation, processes, product status – these are key assets of your company. CM+ has numerous redundancy and reliability paths to safeguard your assets, even if your own backup mechanisms fail. Ultimately, protection becomes a key attribute of your products when potential customers look at vendor quality and stability. It also shows accountability to shareholders and regulators, and simplifies the execution of major transactions such as escrow requirements, technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions.

Quality and Control
CM+ tracks all management data in a single repository. The result is responsive point-and-click traceability. Customizing CM+ to link testcases to requirements or problems to customer requests is simple. Creating rules and triggers is straightforward. CM+ supports live Continuous Process Improvement. You can create a process flow for an object, or a class-based process flow that is customized for each specific type of the object. CM+ will move your team quickly up the process maturity ladder, into quality certification.



Product Details:
Product Overview
CM+ Enterprise 5.2
CM+ Professional 5.2
CM+ MultiSite
Neuma’s Unified Process (NUP)
More Information:
Solutions Overview
Upgrading From Current Tools
Eliminate Multiple Tool Costs
Mission-Critical Long Term Solution
Attain Your CM/Quality Goals
Demo - Eval:
CM+ Professional Windows Eval
CM+ Professional Unix/Linux Eval
CM+ Enterprise Evaluation
Request a Web Demo
Neuma Technology Home Page

COMPANY INFORMATION

Neuma Technology develops advanced enterprise development management solutions. For over 15 years, Neuma has provided leadership in Configuration Management technology with its flagship CM+ product. Built on next-generation database technology, Neuma’s CM+ benefits from over a quarter century of experience in the CM and Process Maturity arena. Combined with Neuma’s Unified Process, CM+ allows you to move ahead of the pack. CM+ provides a flexible, low-overhead Enterprise SCM solution, for a single site or for teams distributed around the globe. Neuma’s products are designed to meet mission-critical reliability and rapid customization requirements. Neuma prides itself on customer loyalty. Its products are ready to meet the emerging demand for ESCM.

Neuma Technology
51 – 5450 Canotek Road
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1J 9G3
Tel. 613-749-9450

www.neuma.com
info@neuma.com

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