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G R A D U ATING FROM MICROSOFT ® VISUAL SOURCESAFE TO MERANT ® S C M Flexibility Any SCM solution should preserve the technology investment already made. If developers have to learn a new IDE or toggle in and out of multiple interfaces, tools and archives, productivity is lost. Integration with Non-Microsoft Tools PVCS Version Manager integrates with best-of-breed tools for requirements management, software modeling and testing, and web development environments, as well as with many IDEs. Web browser access to core PVCS Version Manager functions extends SCM to remote developers and distributed teams without requiring third-party TCP/IP or NFS software. Remote Development Made Easy If your development resources are spread out over many different locations, Vi s u a l SourceSafe does not offer a fast, integrated TCP/IP based connection to your central r e p o s i t o r y. You end up losing part of your personnel investment in offshore developers, remote sites, telecommuting team members and other distributed contributors. In contrast, PVCS Version Manager provides secure, rapid web-based access to your source files from anywhere in the world. Collaboration Across a Heterogeneous Organization Not being able to use a single SCM solution across the enterprise may make it impossible for all teams to collaborate or share project tasks. Or they may end up having an inconsistent baseline and release process. Meanwhile, management is unlikely to get accurate status reports when development is managed by disparate systems. These limitations will hinder the success of large, complex projects. And if large projects cannot be supported, the entire business may fail to grow because of it. M E R A N T 1 1
G R A D U ATING FROM MICROSOFT ® VISUAL SOURCESAFE TO MERANT ® S C M Microsoft does not provide native UNIX support for Visual SourceSafe; it must be obtained from a 3rd party company that has their own development staff. Releases are not necessarily in sync and functionality will differ from release to release. In contrast, PVCS Version Manager directly supports Linux, HP-UX, AIX and Sun Solaris. Through our partnership with Synergex, Merant is also able to support additional UNIX operating systems such as SCO and Irix. As a result, with PVCS Version Manager you are: • Dealing with one vendor, not a complexity of 3rd party relationships. • Assuring common look and feel to SCM products for all platforms. • Equally supporting all of your heterogeneous teams. And if you choose to migrate to PVCS Dimensions, the Merant enterprise SCM t o o l s e t , you can also support your OS/390 platform teams. For web developers, Merant Collage offers an open, Java based solution for managing web content and deploying code from PVCS Version Manager and PVCS Dimensions jointly with Merant Collage-managed content. Thus, with a Merant solution, you can support all your team developers, from the mainframe to the web. PVCS Version Manager enables advanced security based on options for assigning rights and privileges and for associating security with promotion levels. Security Security in PVCS Version Manager is more extensive and configurable than in Visual SourceSafe. You can set up different user groups and restrict those groups from performing specific functionality in the product, down to the file level. Visual SourceSafe is limited to four levels of security with very few options. Having a strong security model allows you to be flexible in assigning rights/privileges, without risking protection. And, being able to combine security with promotion levels creates a powerful access model. 1 2 M E R A N T
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