Why change SCM Systems?

AccuRev improves developer productivity, traceability, reusability and quality. Additionally, it allows development teams to be more self-managing, and naturally makes more ways of working possible. When it’s time to change SCM tools, the question is whether to do a simple “tool upgrade,” or should the process, administrative overhead, build and continuous integration issues be addressed as well?

Web 2.0, SasS, mergers and acquisitions, time-to-market pressures, shorter development cycles, frequent and continuous builds, managing newly acquired offshore teams and supporting more customized versions of products in the field are just some of the challenges facing development teams today.

AccuRev addresses the underlying architectural limitations of legacy branch and label-based SCM tools, enabling the optimization of your software development processes for more efficient parallel, geographically distributed, offshore, and agile development environments.

“Organizations today struggle with emerging technologies and environments, such as services – oriented development, pervasive and parallel development – with increased use of offshore and outsourced provides – and the demand for increased rigor and improved quality resulting from regulatory compliance pressures. Effective Software Configuration Management tools and emerging capabilities such as stream-based architectures, combined with appropriate process and organizational strategies, help address these issues.”

Melinda-Carol Ballou, Program Director, Application Life-cycle Management Software, IDC

Addressing today’s complex software development requirements

Agile development
AccuRev enables development teams to implement and manage Agile development processes through several important features:
Continuous Integration
AccuRev enables continuous integration through several innovative features
Geographically Distributed and Offshore Development
Several key AccuRev features combine to address the performance, security and other issues that arise when software development spans multiple locations.
Parallel Development
Streams provide an ideal architecture for managing multiple, geographically distributed parallel development projects

"Our company provides mortgage services to regional and national investors and servicers. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is critical to our clients and so our processes as a key vendor receive significant scrutiny through SAS 70 audits. AccuRev plays an important role by instilling confidence with the auditors in our management of source code and the software development life cycle. Source code is securely and safely maintained with separation of duties. AccuRev makes it easy to rollback to previous revisions if necessary. The various phases of the SDLC, including dev, test, stage and release, are clearly and easily maintained in separate streams as changes are approved and promoted through the life cycle. Developers can associate code changes to issue numbers in our trouble ticket system. Last, but certainly not least, developers maintain coding efficiency with AccuRev’s streamlined processes and continue to complete projects in a timely manner without the annoying struggles of other code management systems. AccuRev has demonstrated its value to our company with many aspects. Thank you for designing a product that performs so well and helps us reach successful audits."

Dave Lewis, IT/Audit Manager, Security Connections, Inc