Graduating from microsoft visual sourcesafe to ... - PVCS - Synergex

G R A D U ATING FROM MICROSOFT ® VISUAL SOURCESAFE TO MERANT ® S C M
grates with PVCS Dimensions for enterprise SCM and Merant Collage for web
content management.
Projects Involving Multiple Development Tool Environments. Just as enterprise
development may involve multiple platforms, it can also involve multiple development
t o o l s . Visual SourceSafe cannot support non-Visual Studio development tools. In contrast,
PVCS Version Manager can support Visual Studio and Po w e r b u i l d e r, ColdFusion,
Rational Rose, Web Sphere, WSAD and others.
Projects That Must Adhere to Standards and Certifications. Companies that
have business mandates to meet quality standards and certifications need more than
source code protection. Visual SourceSafe was never intended to provide the level of
process control and repeatability needed for such standards — yet these standards are
becoming more and more essential for staying competitive.
To meet these standards, version control, issue management, build/release management
and process enforcement all need to be managed together. Visual SourceSafe
does not provide these capabilities, and never was intended to do so. But Merant
SCM solutions do, along with the ability for a company to grow their capabilities
as their needs change.
“With PVCS Version Manager, we now have visibility and reportability into the projects. Software is a really valuable
resource — it’s part of the company’s assets. We need to know where the projects are at any time and be able to
obtain statistics about our productivity and then be able to communicate this. Using PVCS Version Manager is the
p e rfect tool for this.”
— Brian Lai, Software R&D Manager, ASM Pacific Technology
M E R A N T
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