December 3rd, 2007

Atlanta : Spectrum Software, Inc., a systems designer and developer of software productivity tools, announced today the immediate availability of the latest SpectrumSCM 2.6 release of its flagship enterprise Source Configuration Management/ Change Management product. This marks yet another successful year of adding several new features to the already rich set of SCM functionalities available for all levels of users of SpectrumSCM.  This latest release is the second major release of the year and contains over 35 new enhancements.  The new product version includes a number of enhancements requested by our current customers as part of our wish list initiative. 

SpectrumSCM is the first truly integrated, platform independent, full-featured (Version Control, Issue/Defect Tracking, Change Management, Process Management, Workflow, Release Management, Parallel Development) Source Configuration Management system in the market place. SpectrumSCM brings in the best practices for automation of Project lifecycle processes through unified configuration management and change management by providing full CM functionality with one truly integrated SCM system and not as a suite of bundled applications. SpectrumSCM makes it efficient to undertake comprehensive source configuration and change management for any ‘e-Asset’ (software code, text, binaries, engineering drawings, images, web pages, documents, excel, powerpoints, contracts, proposals, training docs, curriculum material, SAS program files etc.), from origination through delivery, maintenance, and support.

Package/Component Manager: A major feature item added by popular customer request - the capability to form packages of items collected from various configuration items within the CMDB. Packages are defined as a set of components, where a component can be any directory, formal release or phase-based release from any of the existing project branches using the package/component manager GUI. Packages can therefore be defined to combine (for example) a particular version of a database component with a particular version of a middleware and UI/Web component. Users can also build packages from components across different projects assets and from different branches within those projects.  Once defined, such a package can be extracted in a fully reproducible manner either through the user interface or through the command-line (for easy build scripting/automation). Complete bill-of-materials (BOM) reports are also available instantaneously  for tracking and auditing purposes.

Eclipse Enhancements: Another major set of enhancements has been to the SpectrumSCM-Eclipse plugin. The updated Eclipse plugin further enhances the use of  SpectrumSCM, and the newer versions of the Eclipse Platform including Europa (version 3.3).  Eclipse is an award-winning universal platform for tools integration, software modeling and testing that has been broadly adopted by commercial vendors, academic institutions and open technology developers.  The current customers, have already been using and benefiting from the powerful version control, issue tracking, change management, process management and other advanced software configuration management features of SpectrumSCM for the Eclipse platform. The new features include –

• Enhanced Refactoring - Full Eclipse refactoring operations are now supported and correlated to their appropriate repository updates. This ensures consistent repository states and full trackability of changes.
• Workspace synchronization enhancement – The workspace synchronization feature which supports offline modes of working, has been enhanced to better handle refactoring types of situations (file renames, moves etc).
• Quick check-out based on the edit of a read-only file.
• Direct Eclipse access to Change Request reports and information (files edited etc).
• Unique to SpectrumSCM - Adding “re-common” capability to the Eclipse IDE, to complete the branching patterns work-set as already available through the main SpectrumSCM user interface..
• Make the change request icons and colorization consistent with the main SpectrumSCM UI. 

About Spectrum

Spectrum Software, Inc. is a 15 year old, proven software systems design and services firm providing cost-effective, efficient and quality software products and services to large, medium and small businesses. Spectrum Software has three divisions: Software Services, which focuses on outsourcing and leading software development projects for clients; Software Products division, which engineers software tools and products and Spectrum Multimedia, which creates multimedia-based software products for children. The SpectrumSCM product is seen as a very attractive alternative to many of the existing market leading competitors. Because of its tightly integrated Process management and change management architecture, SpectrumSCM has been repeatedly acknowledged to be one of the most economical, full-featured enterprise SCM tool that offers the best combination of value and functionality by its customers. SpectrumSCM provides High-end CM capability at the price of a competitor’s single function tool. Fully integrated solution implies that users do not have to use different applications with different interfaces to relate change requests with the files that are being affected. Administrators are no longer responsible for maintaining "bridging" software or scripts to relate different applications such as version control and issue management, to enforce process compliances steps, validate release artifacts etc. SpectrumSCM is a true task/change based source configuration management system with change management being an integral part of its architecture.  In May 2006 SpectrumSCM was Voted Top Java Product – 2006 JavaPro Reader’s Choice Award, as the Best Pure Java Packaged Client/Server or Distributed Application. For more information on Spectrum Software and SpectrumSCM, check out the company’s Web site at http://www.spectrumscm.com/ or email info@spectrumscm.com or call 770.448.8662.

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