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G R A D U ATING FROM MICROSOFT ® VISUAL SOURCESAFE TO MERANT ® S C M Scalability Without it, enterprises have no investment protection. As needs of an organization change and grow — which they all do — they will not be able to meet demand. Again, the consequences are dissatisfied customers and revenue opportunities lost to competitors. Visual SourceSafe does not scale well. Thus, if you have not standardized on a robust enterprise SCM platform, you could end up having to throw out Visual SourceSafe, and all developers will need to be retrained — again you are looking at lost productivity, plus training costs that impact the bottom line. Data Integrity Visual SourceSafe has documented problems with data integrity as projects grow. The data integrity/scalability issue is related to how Visual SourceSafe and PVCS Ve r s i o n Manager approach storing data archives (revisions and associated information). PVCS Version Manager uses the network file system on either Windows or UNIX and takes advantage of the infinite scalability of those environments. On the other hand, Vi s u a l SourceSafe relies on a database concept (Microsoft Access) and has difficulty handling large amounts of data. Many users report that they continually have to split up their databases to make smaller ones and also must consistently run database utilities to keep their data from corruption. Growth Path Microsoft does not offer anything more robust than Visual SourceSafe for managing development. In contrast, one of Merant’s core expertise and technical focus is SCM. As a result, Merant offers a complete line of SCM tools as your needs grow. Why Merant? Visual SourceSafe is not a development focus for Microsoft. If an enterprise, or even a single team, wants a best-of-breed solution for software configuration management, they need a vendor with core expertise and a history of success in this area. Particularly as SCM has become crucial to the success of development and the business bottom line, many growing development organizations have opted to switch from Visual SourceSafe and work with an established veteran in the SCM business: Merant. Our customers tell us they are investing in Merant solutions for several reasons: Core competency. All of our R&D, support and service resources are centered on managing software and digital asset development. We have more than 25 years of experience implementing SCM at customer sites worldwide. S u p p o r t . Many users who have moved to Merant from Visual SourceSafe have done so because of the support. Merant SupportNet provides a comprehensive support program including 24/7 access to technicians and information via Answerline, Knowledgebase and User Communities on a dedicated support website. Merant SupportNet is an award-winning service, and took the 2002 award for Exemplary Customer Service and Satisfaction in the Omega NorthFace ScoreBoard Award. Pr o d u c t s . Customers who need end-to-end change management do not want to be burdened with implementing products from multiple vendors. They need a comprehensive and integrated product line that covers the full range of SCM disciplines. M E R A N T 1 3
G R A D U ATING FROM MICROSOFT ® VISUAL SOURCESAFE TO MERANT ® S C M And the solution must be able to manage all kinds of assets, on multiple platforms. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe offers none of these capabilities, nor does it include a migration path to products that do. Growth Pa t h . Customers whose development tasks have grown in scope and complexity simply require more functionality, scalability and flexibility than Visual SourceSafe can hope to offer. You can confidently plan growth strategy for maturing SCM capability without changing your systems to accommodate a new vendor for each added capability. We have developed a utility which enables us to help customers migrate Visual SourceSafe files to PVCS Version Manager archives. Once archives are converted to Version Manager, the growth path to other PVCS products and capabilities is wide open. Single-vendor benefits. The advantages of using a single vendor include reduced support and administration burden, because you don’t have to manage multiple support contracts or train users and IT on multiple systems. Innovative delivery options, such as purchasing hosted application services (including behind your firewall), can get SCM up and running quickly when your capital budgets are constrained. Plus you save internal IT costs when you receive administrative support via hosted services. Summary SCM is essential to organizations that rely on software excellence. Without it, organizations often experience unintentional code overwrites, unnecessary rework, confusion about team roles and task status, poor time-to-market, canceled software projects and lost features. Companies who deploy a sound enterprise SCM system based on Merant solutions have a competitive advantage over companies who choose to remain with Vi s u a l SourceSafe or other “entry level” tools for version control. Merant SCM, beginning with the foundation of PVCS Version Manager, is the superior choice because, unlike Visual SourceSafe, it provides: • Flexibility within a single product family, one that offers ease-of-use and powerful features for more advanced teams as well as small teams • Scalability through a robust architecture and a migration path from version management to full-featured SCM, process-centric configuration management and management of web content. • The expertise of a dedicated SCM vendor offering world-class support and services When you combine the PVCS Professional product line with Merant’s professional services organization and our industry partnerships (Mercury Interactive, Oracle, Telelogic and many more), you have the best SCM solution available today. 1 4 M E R A N T
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