Companies around the world have already selected Plastic SCM for use by their development teams, as the product can be used on multiple platforms—including Windows, Linux and MacOS operating systems. It is far faster than other software configuration solutions, and it offers a user interface that is attractive and transparent to developers.

“Plastic SCM became an easy choice for the replacement of our current source control system once we saw the many features it offered, including excellent branching support, Visual Studio integration, and an optional Microsoft SQL Server back-end,” said Keith Richardson, senior web developer at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. “The decisive factor was the exceptional technical support Codice Software provided. Their support is extremely fast, thorough and customer-focused.”
 
“The two biggest challenges for SCM systems are enabling highly parallel distributed development, and making the state of projects visible to both developers and management,” said Joe Niski, senior analyst at Burton Group. “Many products support distributed teams, but only a few provide useful visualizations of a project's code base. By taking a task-centric approach to version control, products like Plastic SCM facilitate fast-paced development lifecycles; by including graphical views of changes, they provide value to managers as well as developers.”

Plastic SCM provides advanced software configuration and version control functionality. The aim of Codice Software is to provide this advanced functionality—a far more effective solution than other open source tools—in a flexible and cost effective way that can be used by companies of all sizes. Accordingly, Plastic SCM includes many features developers have come to rely on, including merge tracking, true renaming and several visualization tools.

“We built Plastic SCM from the ground up to be the mission-critical replacement for other software configuration options, many of which are open source projects,” said Pablo Santos, chief executive officer at Codice Software. “We have made Plastic SCM with an easy-to-use interface, in a way that is massively scalable and can integrate with a wide variety of development environments.”

Building the Best Software Configuration Management Tool

Plastic SCM addresses many concerns of existing software configuration management tools:

• Plastic SCM provides the easiest way to implement two key software development productivity concepts: task oriented and parallel software development. The Plastic branching system allows new parallel development lines to be created with just a simple click, and both the 3D version tree and new branch explorer ease visualization and comprehension of the development process.
  
• Plastic SCM is the first product to manage thousands of branches through a streamlined user interface. Plastic SCM developers face no restriction in terms of the number of branches they can manage. Plastic SCM’s user interface makes this management painless.
  
• Plastic SCM provides unmatched reliability and scalability, as it can work with one of three standard back-end databases. The product is installed using the open source Firebird database. For larger development teams (more than a dozen developers), Plastic SCM can be easily integrated with the SQL Server or MySQL databases. Other solutions rely on handmade, and error-prone, file-based storage systems.
  

Becoming a Part of the Application Development Lifecycle

Plastic SCM is among the most flexible software configuration management solutions on the market. That flexibility enables development teams to incorporate the solution into their development processes. It can be used by Java, Microsoft and any other language- based developers, and it works with various integrated development environments including Visual Studio and Eclipse. The product also works seamlessly with many popular application development tools, such as Visual Studio, Eclipse and Oracle JDeveloper. Developers using many other tools in any environment can quickly install Plastic SCM and witness rapid return on their investment.

Recognizing that many of its customers will select Plastic SCM as a replacement for CVS, Visual SourceSafe or Subversion, Plastic SCM includes functionality to easily import branches and related data from these tools.

Plastic SCM wraps an effective revision management engine around its versioning functionality. It allows a manager to assign a task and attach it to a branch of a given project. Then at the end of the project the manager can review what revisions were made. Plastic SCM can create visual reports related to the revision information as well.

Pricing and Availability

Plastic SCM Platform offers two different licensing modes, Professional Edition and Standard Edition. License model is per-developer, meaning that a company buys as many licenses as developers will be using the tool, independent of the number of servers.

Plastic SCM is offered for no charge to open source project leaders and to academia.

About Codice
Codice provides software solutions that streamline software development. The company’s Plastic SCM software configuration management product allows software development teams to divide up a given project and more quickly develop an application. Companies around the world have incorporated Plastic SCM into their application development lifecycles, and the Codice development universe includes Java and .NET developers, as well as users of a variety of different application development environments and toolsets. Codice is based in Valladolid, Spain and can be found online at www.codicesoftware.com.

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