A task based configuration
management tool was released by IBM called the Rational Synergy Tool.
What does Rational Synergy Tool do?
- It enhances the development of the software systems and applications.
- The
development process was enhanced in terms of speed and ease by making actual
improvements in the collaboration as well as communication among the team
members.
- Rational synergy tool prepares a release management platform which is unified change and configurable.
- It then brings the distributed and global
team on this platform.
- Thus, it helps in accelerating the build management and
release processes which in turn amplifies the efficiency of the limited
resources that are used in the development process.
- It also plays great role in
the unification of the distributed development teams.
- All these factors contribute to the improvement of the performance of WAN or wide area network which
is important for distant sites and global workers.
- This has enabled the team
members staying in different parts of the world to come together on work on a
central data base that is provided by the rational synergy tool over the WAN.
- This
aids in the reduction of the need of simplification of the complex challenges
in the development and replication.
- The Rational Synergy Tool provides a
complete solution to assist the organizations in improving the quality of their
distributed development processes.
- The environment provided by the rational
synergy tool includes support for both the distributed as well as the
centralized modes.
- This tool comes with a powerful engine which drives the
collaboration development, component based development and software reuse.
- It
assists you in achieving the desired resilience targets and scalability factors
by integrating with the IBM rational and other partners.
- The IBM rational
synergy tool helps you with the following tasks:
- Configuration
management of the end to end tasks.
- Baselines management
support
- Advanced release
management support
- Works as a single
repository solution by integrating with the IBM rational change for
software configuration and change management.
- Provides advanced
support for parallel variants and development.
- Reduces the
productivity and overhead for the software developers.
- Supports component
based development
- Provides advanced
SCM needs
- Supports global and
distributed development.
- IBM rational synergy tool helps you to gain full control over the maintenance activities, document development and
software.
- No matter what size is your team, the rational synergy tool supports all
from small to large development teams.
- Also, in which environment your team is
working i.e., whether in a distributed environment or a heterogeneous
environment, it really does not matter for rational synergy, it supports all.
- The
process of maintenance of the multiple versions of the files in an archive is
all managed by the rational synergy.
- There are other tools available such as
RCS or PVCS or SCCS which do control file versions but they are void of many
benefits such as the following:
- Rule based configuration
update
- Product
- Work flow management
and so on.
- There is a lot of difference between
the version control tools and rational synergy.
- But the users who have
experience with these version control tools should not find it much difficult
to make transition to rational synergy.
- The rational synergy comes with 2 types
of interfaces namely:
- Synergy classic: This interface comes with CM capabilities which are important for admins.
- Rational synergy: This interface has been developed exclusively for the users who are build
managers and developers.
- The rational synergy’s command line
interface is applicable for both the UNIX and windows platforms.
- Rational synergy
as a configuration management tool provides a unique and easy way for the creation
of a baseline.
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