This news come from McCabe Software.
McCabe Software has taken another step toward end-to-end software configuration management with the release of TRUEchange 3.4.
McCabe’s chief differentiator from its competitors has always been its treatment of each development task as an individual, free-standing object or change-set rather than as a delta or change from another piece of software. The benefit of McCabe’s straightforward approach is that it simplifies the task of managing, tracking and implementing changes across an enterprise or across a software product family, according to Barbara Dumas, McCabe’s director of Software Configuration Management (SCM) solutions.
Now McCabe has made a major improvement to TRUEchange 3.4 with the addition of its TRUEchange Agent. The Agent automates the scheduling of deployment, installation and tracking of software changes or fixes, which can be initiated remotely, scheduled in advance and split up among multiple boxes, Dumas explains. The Agent directs everything from within the configuration itself and facilitates repeatable and automated release management. It also provides tracking required by federal audits.
Dumas adds that while automated deployments of software upgrades and patches are commonplace across large desktop installations, this process has been manual in the smaller universe of software development until now with the advent of the Agent. No other software configuration management package has a tool comparable to the Agent, which, incidentally, can be used with other SCM products, she notes.
The Agent is not just a scheduling tool but a self-contained manager with the ability to direct and track changes across platforms and operating systems and apply changes selectively, backward and forward, to different versions, says Dumas. “We’re talking end-to-end, from a change request to developing and building a change, managing output and, finally, deployment and execution. This is really new and different.”
Additionally, the Agent has a small enough footprint to push changes out to devices with embedded systems via TCP/IP.
McCabe’s competitive differentiator is its Agent and its system of tracking individual software changes themselves rather than as dependent deltas, sharing changes rather than copying and revising them, Dumas says.
Chief competitors to TRUEchange 3.4 are IBM’s Rational ClearCase, AccuRev, Serena ChangeMan, CVS, and Subversion.
Customers include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Network Solutions, and ADP.
Pricing for TRUEchange 3.4, which includes the Agent, starts at $20,000. Purchased separately, the Agent is priced at $20,000 in blocks of 10 deployment destination points.
For more information, go to: www.mccabe.com
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