Change Management/SCM

Source code is, without question, one of the most vital assets of your organization. As applications get more complex and IT is held more accountable, managing it well becomes a critical requirement.

TurnOver's strength is its ability to manage even the most complex development environments reliably, even those with dispersed development teams. Once you define the policies that control the change process, your changes will flow smoothly from request through to production. Because TurnOver handles so many of the tedious details automatically, changes get made faster with fewer errors. With TurnOver you can:

Secure

control access to all source
regulate authorities by application and environment
preserve existing security settings

Track

track all source and generated artifacts for iSeries and PC files
manage multiple versions of an application
make emergency changes that even auditors will accept

Streamline

quickly identify the correct versions of source
facilitate concurrent development within teams
give developers access to all tools they need via one interface
repeat automated promotion process through to production
gauge impact of applying in-house changes to new vendor releases

Manage

view all development activity across the enterprise
coordinate related changes, even across teams
maintain current releases while working on new releases
support any number of development, test, and production environments
ensure changes are approved before they go live

TurnOver supports any number of development
and test environments

reverse any change, even across networks

The piece of TurnOver you'll rely on most – the piece that saves so much time and reduces the risk of errors – is its promotion engine. Via an easy-to-use Form, TurnOver controls promotion processing and remembers every small detail of each change. The Form makes promotion into subsequent test and production environments highly repeatable, easy, and free of surprises.

Specialized Tools for Diverse Development

quote from Saville Systems Regardless of the technologies they use, most developers wish they could spend more time programming, and less time doing all that "other stuff" — like finding the right source, checking dependencies, or constantly sending status updates to managers and end users.

TurnOver frees developers by automating the less interesting parts of their jobs via interfaces designed for optimum productivity in their preferred environment. From one screen, they can review their tasks, analyze what needs to be changed, make and test changes, and prepare a change for promotion and deployment. Because all interfaces access the same database, they can switch user interfaces at will and never worry about losing work.

If your 5250 developers plan to move to WDSC, you'll appreciate how much TurnOver shortens the learning curve. With TurnOver, the process, automation, and organization you use in 5250 translate directly into the WDSC environment. You can confidently use WDSC to do real work from day one without having to learn all the intricacies of the IDE. If you run into an obstacle, you can move back to 5250 at a moment's notice and pick up right where you left off.

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