Product Reviews

Java Developer's Journal review of MKS Source Integrity...

Java Developer's Journal - very favorable review of MKS Source Integrity Enterprise Edition 8.1 with MKS Integrity Manager 4.2

Network Computing Magazine Version Control product revi...

MKS Wins Editor's Choice Award for Source Integrity Enterprise Edition 8.1 from Network Computing Magazine

Tool Spotlight Review - BuildForge 3.5

BuildForge 3.5 is an enterprise build and release management solution that helps developers manage and automate complex, multi-platform, build and release environments to improve build speed, reliability, and team productivity by up to 60%. It is the first product to provide a framework that turns disconnected tools and scripts into a cohesive, integrat ...

Tool Spotlight Review - Surround SCM

Surround SCM, the flexible, cross-platform, change management solution, efficiently manages source files, images, specifications, and more. Surround SCM’s unique branching functionality provides private branches for each team member and enables development teams to work independently on a common code base. Advanced features such as changelists and atomi ...

Create SCM Solutions - MKS Integrity Solution

If you're moving to SCM and have a distributed development organization or a mix of operating systems, then SIE and IM not only make a solid SCM solution, but might be your only choice. - Hank Marquis

IBM and MKS solutions are neatly outfitted to manage en...

Companies exploring SCM solutions should add IBM’s Rational ClearCase Change Management Solution 6.0 and MKS’s Integrity Solution 4.6 to their short list of candidates. During my tests, both products proved well-matched and well-prepared to tackle the rigors of process-centric SCM.

Surround SCM Meets the Challenges

by Mike Gunderloy ========================================================= Looking for a change management tool that can handle a sizeable cross-platform development effort? Surround SCM should be on your short list to consider. This product contains just about every CM feature you can think of, and scales to handle large numbers of files and user ...

LCSIS, Artifact Management for Rocket Scientists and Ev...

by Bob Aiello What could be more fun than having the job of CM Architect for a team building the Trident Submarine? No doubt that the Software Configuration and Release Management processes for such a huge effort would be well defined and highly disciplined. Throw in managing the detailed engineering requirements for all of the hardware design and c ...

Tool Spotlight: Neuma CM+

Neuma’s CM+ seamlessly integrates end-to-end life cycle management in a reliable, low cost, process-centric tool with point-and-click traceability. CM+ reduces infrastructure and administration costs to near zero. User productivity benefits from easy-to-use context views, mature change packaging, active workspaces, reduced branching and merging, and aut ...

Firefly Offers a Total SCM Experience

by Mike Gunderloy During the height of the dot-com boom it was fashionable to talk about a piece of software’s “OOBE”: out-of-the-box experience. The term isn’t so fashionable these days, but it came to mind as I executed the easy installation and worked through the well-written quickstart instructions for Hansky’s Firefly software configuration man ...

FishEye lends a new perspective to version control

by Bob Aiello Making sense of a large-scale CVS repository can be challenging to say the least. Hundreds or even thousands of files going back years can hold important information about your development project and trying to get to that information can be a difficult and time-consuming task. For example, trying to find a specific version of a Java cl ...

MKS Integrity Suite 2005 with focus on MKS Requirements...

Summary: Advantages of an Integrated Requirements Management Solution The manner in which MKS integrated requirements management capabilities into MKS Integrity Manager demonstrates the flexibility and extensibility of this process modeling and workflow management tool. Requirements, features, and tasks are managed like any other issue (i.e., process ...

Content Management Shortlist - Top 40 Products

More than 225 software products purport to manage Web content. To make your life easier, we list only 40 of them, divided into 7 categories. These are not the "best" CMS tools, simply -- in our judgement -- the most significant. The list changes from time to time, but never exceeds 40 vendors/products.

Comprehensive CM with Razor

by Mike Gunderloy Visible Systems’ Razor provides a well-integrated trio of cross-platform (Unix and Windows) configuration-management tools: (1)Issues is the problem tracking system, (2)Versions is the version control system, (3)Threads is the release management system Two things distinguish Razor from some of its competition. First, all three o ...

MKS Integrity Suite Sets a New Pace for CM Tools

by Bob Aiello Software application development has grown and matured at a breathtaking speed with challenges that often surpass even the seasoned technology professional’s experience and expectations. Many large scale development efforts fail because they lack proper IT controls, right sized development processes and appropriate development tools to su ...

AppSight, the Black Box for your applications

By Patrick Egan At JavaOne last week, I came across a product that, if it is not already, should be on your “must have” list. Well, that is unless you do not really care about wasting countless development hours determining the root causes of application failures and performance problems, or have an unlimited development budget.

AccuRev Moves SCM Technology and Process into the Futur...

by Mario Moreira Utilizing a Software Configuration Management (SCM) product that will allow software development teams to set up a SCM system (technology and process) quickly and effectively is more important then ever. For many, it is also important to have a SCM product that supports compliance in an effective way. And with the amount of distrib ...

Rational ClearCase Commands Reference with AJAX-based s...