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Managing the Software Development Lifecycle

AccuRev ensures greater project visibility, team collaboration, and software asset reuse to help the enterprise deliver releases 30% faster than with traditional branch-based software change and configuration management (SCCM) tools. AccuRev allows organizations to dynamically manage changes to their mission-critical applications and adapt their software development processes to their changing business needs at a fraction of the cost, time, and complexity typically required with traditional SCCM tools. Designed to meet the challenges of today’s complex and changing software development environments, AccuRev eases the pains associated with geographically distributed and offshore development teams working on multiple releases in parallel, and it enables the coexistence of multiple development process models including Scrum, Waterfall, Lean, XP, and RUP.

The primary measure of success with AccuRev is a significant increase in the software development team’s ability to deliver more high-quality releases and functionality in any given time period without increased staffing.

AccuRev customers have seen the following benefits from retooling their software development processes:

• Improved visibility, communication, and collaboration among developers engaged in globally distributed development.
• Reduced costs and increased productivity from the elimination of time-consuming manual processes.
• Improved ability to execute multiple projects in parallel with limited engineering resources.
• Improved software quality resulting from reduced errors associated with highly automated software development practices, such as continuous integration.
• Better project management metrics that emerge naturally from automated processes.
• Ease of use, agility, high performance, and process flexibility to easily accommodate multiple processes and organizational changes.

Company History

AccuRev began shipping commercial software tools in 2002, and after experiencing initial success, took venture investment to accelerate growth in 2005. AccuRev opened its European and Indian operations in 2007, and has been self-funded and growing profitably since 2010.

AccuRev’s initial product release was designed specifically to address the limitations of branch and label software change and configuration management (SCCM) tools with an innovative, stream-based architecture and process-centric SCCM product that shares the company name.

Innovation and Awards

AccuRev gained wide recognition by technology industry analysts such as Gartner and Forrester Research as an important and reliable supplier addressing the software development process needs of large corporate and government customers. AccuRev technology has been lauded by industry analysts and the press, and it has received numerous third-party industry awards. 

Growth

AccuRev has consistently added to its impressive list of worldwide customers each year. In 2007, AccuRev was ranked by IDC as the fastest-growing company in the SCCM market, with compounded annual growth of 55%.

Select Customers

The company has a strong foothold in markets that value improved software development processes.  AccuRev excels in organizations managing Agile, hybrid, or waterfall processes.  In addition, in companies where software is a mission-critical asset, AccuRev provides dramatic improvement in managing parallel, geographically distributed, or outsourced software development.

Select Partners

AccuRev partners with industry-leading companies offering software, services, and platforms to provide a comprehensive solution to address your specific requirements.

Atlassian Software, Coverity, Deiser, Electric Cloud, Elsinore Technologies, FinalBuilder, GlobalLogic, Go2Group, JetBrains, m2eclipse, Openmake Software, Parasoft, QuickBuild, Rally Software, ReleaseTEAM, Serena, Smart Bear, Softwork, SourceIQ, Sparx Systems, TechExcel, Urbancode

Service, Support, and Training

AccuRev customer service utilizes engineers who are trained cross-functionally to deliver superior technical support and professional services. Every AccuRev engineer has completed the Teacher Training for the AccuRev Certified Engineer (ACE) program and has extensive industry experience in optimizing an organization’s software process. In addition to technical support, AccuRev engineers provide process audits, deployment services, ALM integration services, ACE training, and end-user training.

Process Assessment and Consulting

AccuRev process experts work with an organization’s teams to adapt, design, and implement repeatable processes for software development throughout the enterprise environment. These experts have years of experience managing the Agile, waterfall, and hybrid environments that are commonly found in today’s real-world environments. AccuRev also provides customized analysis of an organization’s configuration and change management processes based on industry-standard best practices.

AccuRev Training Services provides training solutions for developers of all skill levels throughout the world, leveraging a highly experienced community of partners and Web-based technologies.

Enterprise Migration

AccuRev provides comprehensive professional services to assist customers in planning and executing the migration to AccuRev. While each migration varies depending on development team size, existing processes, and planned new processes, AccuRev has developed a common framework for success. This 5-step process can generally be accomplished in under 12 weeks, depending on the size of the organization and their commitment to process change.

1. Process Evaluation documents the pros and cons of the current development processes and ensures that all stakeholders are involved in process improvement efforts.
2. Process Recommendations ensure that process evaluation results are factored into the migration plan.
3. Security Recommendations identify and document appropriate security considerations.
4. Remote Development Planning ensures that local and remote teams can work as if co-located.
5. Enterprise Migration Guidelines document the requirements and lessons learned from workgroup migrations to help guide enterprise-wide AccuRev deployment.