PVCS Version Manager

PVCS® Version Manager™ organizes, manages, and protects software assets across distributed development teams. It combines ease of use with heavyweight capabilities such as enhanced security, web-based remote access, support for multiple platforms and IDEs, and centrally managed database archives.

PVCS Version Manager is deeply integrated with Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET® and Eclipse IDEs, and supports pragmatic locking for parallel development. As part of the PVCS Professional Suite for software change and configuration management (SCCM), PVCS Version Manager integrates with Serena® TeamTrack® for sophisticated issue and workflow management and with Serena® Builder™ for automated build management.

Key Benefits:

• Cut costs
  Reduce costs by standardizing on a common SCM infrastructure. Fast, easy implementation and broad applicability translate into a rapid return on investment.
• Improve quality
  PVCS Version Manager makes it easier for teams to coordinate, resulting in crisp, well-defined handoffs and, in the end, a better product.
• Reduce risk
  Capture a complete audit trail of who made changes, when those changes were made, and what those changes were. Managers can rest assured that valuable software assets are protected from inadvertent or malicious changes.

Key Features:

• Enhanced IDE support
  Deep integration with VS .NET 2003 and Eclipse 3 Windows-based IDEs such as IBM WSAD/RAD enhances developer’s productivity by letting them work within their preferred IDEs.
• Support for geographically distributed teams
  PVCS Version Manager provides a full-featured web interface that a range of stakeholders will find easy to use. The web client offers access to merge, differencing, and sorting functions, as well as native desktop productivity tools. Enhanced automatic notification and escalation features help to manage geographically distributed teams.
• Enhanced security and performance
  The Version Manager File Server protects project data that would otherwise be exposed with standard file system access schemes. Enhanced internal data architecture reduces data flow to reduce network traffic, improving VM command performance. PVCS Version Manager also supports multiple LDAP services for user authentication.
• Support for parallel development
  New pragmatic locking, synchronization, and differencing/merge engine support contemporary development practices, automatically reconciling and merging multiple changes made concurrently via distributed, parallel programming.
• Filtering
  Enhanced filtering capabilities make it easy to determine what assets have changed between two consistent views of a project as specified by a label or promotion group.
• Traceability
  A log file records an audit trail of all administration actions that affect a project.