AccuRev 4.6
AccuRev is a best-of-breed, process-centric software configuration management (SCM) solution for geographically distributed and offshore application development. AccuRev’s SCM architecture has been designed to simplify complex parallel development projects, ensure optimal team collaboration on Agile projects, improve software asset reuse, and accelerate time to market at a low total cost of ownership.
AccuRev enables and integrates any development process model (Agile, Waterfall, RUP, etc.) together with your software assets. Through this unique design, organizations are able to dynamically manage and adapt their application development processes to their changing business needs in a fraction of the time, freeing up developers to focus on more valuable business related activities, saving thousands in opportunity costs.
AccuRev forms the core of an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) framework. This best-of-breed approach provides maximum control by offering the flexibility to choose the best lifecycle tool for your unique requirements, versus being locked in to a tool offered by a single-vendor suite. The result is an ideal mix of productivity with traceability and auditing for distributed, parallel projects and Agile teams of all sizes.
Solving the Process Problem
Adapting to the significant changes in the application development landscape in recent years (Agile, SOA, Java, .NET, XP, SOX, etc.), has required development organizations to implement more advanced, agile, and rigorous process models in order to keep pace with changing market demands (time to market, cost containment, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, team productivity, changing priorities, etc.) and the associated ever-evolving business requirements. The problem is that since legacy SCM architectures were designed to solve a fundamentally different problem, productivity and output suffer.
AccuRev 4.6 uniquely enables you to control parallel development across multiple products, projects, releases, and time zones by providing fully-auditable dynamic process management. AccuRev builds on the workbench your development organization has established to support your development process and avoids the lock-in typical of monolithic single-vendor ALM suites.
Stream-based Architecture
The proven stream-based architecture of AccuRev is built specifically for today's agile, parallel, and geographically distributed software development environments. Legacy branch and label SCM tools impose constraints on your development processes due to limitations in their design. AccuRev's architecture is designed with a stream-based data model to optimize the flexibility, power, and ease of use for your optimal development processes. AccuRev is the only tool that fuses development processes with software assets, ensuring that your processes are realized and enforced in their entirety.
StreamBrowser
The AccuRev StreamBrowser™ provides a unique visual representation as well as graphical control of all work in progress for your entire global development organization. This eliminates the hand-scripted and error-prone process of maintaining your hierarchy outside of the SCM system, as is commonly done with separate tools such as Visio® or on a whiteboard. Additionally, all StreamBrowser functionality is available from the command line interface for maximum power and flexibility 
Integrated SCM Best Practices
AccuRev integrates proven SCM best practices, allowing you to easily map to your optimal process model. Gone are the days of writing and maintaining burdensome custom scripts. These best practices include built-in advanced parallel development capabilities that scale with your team's changing business requirements, enabling you to realize the most appropriate development process for these requirements. In addition to custom development processes, AccuRev customers have successfully implemented Agile methodologies, optimal SCM patterns, and other processes without constraints or unnecessary costs. AccuRev software greatly simplifies common tasks such as code reviews, nightly builds, refactoring, merging changes from release to release, and fast comparison and differencing.Security and Compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley)
With AccuRev's architecture, all processes and operations are TimeSafe®, guaranteeing reproducibility of your source base and enabling a strong and traceable audit trail. In addition, all changes to elements in a project are atomic transactions, applied in their entirety or not at all, avoiding the possibility of broken builds or indeterminate states due to the SCM tool. In support of Sarbanes-Oxley, the ability to rebuild any release at any time is critical; and because everything is TimeSafe, changes may be appended, but history cannot be modified, ensuring absolute reproducibility of any build at any time.
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| Why Change SCM Systems? |
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| New in 4.6 |
| Data Sheet |
| AccuBridge |
| AccuWork |
| AccuReplica |
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“AccuRev's greatest strength is its elegant and effective stream-based approach to development. Support for geographical distribution is also a strong suit for AccuRev.”
Carey Schwaber, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 May 2007) |
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