IBM Rational today announced the winners of the 2009 IBM Rational Business Partner Awards at the Rational Software Conference. These awards recognize IBM Business Partners that have helped clients drive greater value from their investments in software and improve software delivery. Winners were selected in five awards categories spanning the IBM Rational software portfolio.
Outstanding Solution by an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) - Ravenflow
The Outstanding Solution by an Independent Software Vendor Award recognizes Ravenflow for excellence in developing an effective and innovative solution that's enabled by IBM Rational Software. Ravenflow, a leader in Rapid Requirements Definition, and their solution, Raven, empowers business analysts to dramatically transform the way they elicit, specify, and validate stakeholder requirements.
Clearvision is a RavenFlow partner and European sales representative, contact us for more details. |
Subversion is improving and adding new features all the time. The merge tracking features introduced in Subversion 1.5 with further improvements in Subversion 1.6 have radically simplified the merging process. As a result the tedious administration activities have been lessened and we are given time to consider bigger issues such as advanced branching techniques that improve time to market of our products.
However the additional complexity of Subversion 1.5 and Subversion 1.6 come with a price - and it is one worth considering. With the rapid introduction of significant functionality into any software product, significant bugs and defects are to some extent unavoidable and Open Source is no exception. For example consider the number of fixes required to repair segmentation faults in Subversion:
- Subversion 1.6 : 4 in 2 months
- Subversion 1.5 : 5 in 7 months
- Subversion 1.4 : 1 in 15 months
Some fixes for later version could be attributed to delayed fixes from earlier versions however you need to go back to early Subversion 1.2 to see a similar number of faults. None of this indicates poor product - simply that the scale of changes are such that they need time to settle.
So what is our advice? If you are using Subversion 1.4 or lower, the changes in Subversion 1.5 and 1.6 are such an improvement that you should not be discouraged. However, if you are already at Subversion 1.5 we would recommend waiting another few months for Subversion 1.6 to stabilise.
Clearvision offer Subversion Training, Subversion Support, Subversion Consulting and Subversion Products including a ClearCase to Subversion Integration (CC2SVN). |
Clearvision have announced the release of their IBM Rational ClearCase to Subversion bridge (CC2SVN).
CC2SVN is a cost effective, functionally rich SCCM solution which can enable your projects to react quickly to the new and changing demands of your business. If you are either migrating from IBM Rational ClearCase to Subversion (or vice versa), or trying to operate a hybrid version control solution then CC2SVN is the ideal solution.
For many organisations, ClearCase is deeply embedded in their development environment and in many projects, ClearCase remains the preferred SCCM tool. Equally though, many development teams prefer the flexibility and lightweight nature of Subversion. Clearvision’s CC2SVN bridge gives you the best of both worlds.
In addition, if you are thinking of migrating from one tool to another then the CC2SVN bridge allows companies to perform a controlled migration within longer timescales, giving your employees valuable time to address the learning curve of a new tool and resolve any dependency issues as they arise.
The CC2SVN bridge can also effectively provide a MultiSite solution between geographically distributed IBM Rational ClearCase and Open Source Subversion environments.
Find out more about the CC2SVN product
Clearvision provide a range of services for Subversion and IBM Rational ClearCase including Training, Support, Consulting and other Products. Contact us for further details. |
In Autumn 2008 Clearvision started a joint initiative with Southampton University to share knowledge, experience and projects with final year students.
The goals were simple and all three parties would derive a benefit from joint projects:
- Southampton University strengthen their ties with industry and gain specialist SCCM knowledge for IT degree courses
- Students gain industry experience and a credible, "real" final year project which demonstrates their ability
- Clearvision get assistance with the development of products
Clearvision are pleased to announce the first year has proven to be an outstanding success. Over the last 8 months representatives from Clearvision have worked closely with undergraduates guiding them through the best practices of developing SCCM integration solutions using an agile XP approach. The result is a new product, Jira Desktop developed by Rob Parker and a job.
Delivered on time the Clearvision JIRA Desktop is now available, contact us for more information.
Clearvision will be continuing the graduate scheme and hope to expand in 2010. If you are a dedicated IT undergraduate looking for experience and an interesting final year project, or a university IT department looking to improve your links with industry then contact us using the reference "Undergraduate Partnership" at
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Clearvision are an official Atlassian partner providing Atlassian Training, Support, Products and Consulting for Jira, Confluence, Crucible, FishEye, Bamboo, Clover and Crowd. |
Most people reading this news article will already be using a version control tool of some description, if not, stop reading this, go and download Subversion, Mercurial or Git and start using it asap, then come back and finish reading this.
Clearvision has spent over 12 years working with Commercial version control vendors and their customers. In the past two years, accelerated by the recession, we have assisted companies in migration from vendor tools to open source version control solutions (or the creation of an integrated, hybrid solution) such as Subversion, Mercurial and Git.
There are three major contributors to the shift towards open source version control;
Quality and speed of development for open source tools
Features and functionality which make them viable for the majority of companies and requirements
Demands to move software development teams to a truly geographically distributed development environment
As well as advising customers around the SCCM market, Clearvision spend much of our time listening to the needs of our customers. This significant shift to open source has brought with it challenges not recognised by many CM administrators, after all this is a major change to supporting a tool which is used by thousands of developers across multiple development locations. A "big bang" migration is simply not viable, even when applied to smaller projects.
Migrating from established tools such as Rational ClearCase is not without its challenges and hidden costs, however once migrated none of our customers have asked to move back... especially the accounting departments who are no longer paying ongoing maintenance costs. Migration from an established, legacy SCCM solution to an open source solution such as Subversion, Mercurial or Git might be a long process, Clearvision have established integrated, hybrid solutions where typically new teams use an open source tool of their choice (either Subversion, Mercurial or Git) and share their code with the central Rational ClearCase repository (through an "invisible" sychronisation tool)... CC2SVN or CC2Git help make migrating or sharing code simple, fast and most importantly they help you reduce license costs.
The SCCM market talks a lot about "collaborating" development team members however, there a few true collaboration tools available on the market. Clearvision spent considerable time investigating the collaboration tools and options and quickly realised Intland CodeBeamer was the only product which fulfilled customer demands. Although your agenda might be to cut vendor costs entirely, those who have invested in CodeBeamer have seen a complete return on investment within a few months.
Useful hints;
- www.intland.com – CodeBeamer
- http://www.clearvision-cm.com/products/index.html - list of value add SVN & Git tools
Clearvision offer Subversion Support, Subversion Training, Subversion Consulting and Subversion Products.
Mercurial Support, Mercurial Training, Mercurial Consulting and Mercurial Products.
Git Support, Git Training, Git Consulting and Git Products.
Contact us for more information. |
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