AccuRev said the latest integrations provide its customers with best-of-breed SCM technology with out-of-the-box support for these tools to streamline development, increase agility, and improve team collaboration enterprise-wide.
The company, which has thus far stuck to its SCM knitting rather than trying to build out a broad application lifecycle management (ALM) suite, claims that the SCM tools in many broader ALM suites are undifferentiated legacy SCM tools.
To back up its claim, it said one of its customers, carrier Ethernet provider World Wide Packets, swapped out the SCM element of its ALM suite in order to use AccuRev and MKS Integrity Manager.
AccuRev provided us with a best-of-breed SCM tool that has enhanced our ability to do parallel, distributed development, said World Wide Packets chief architect Loren Larsen, while integrating nicely with our existing infrastructure.
Larsen said the company chose AccuRev for its stream-based architecture that gives it its ability to support dynamic and sophisticated parallel development models, while also integrating with its existing issue tracking solution.
We believe that a high percentage of software development teams that have implemented ALM suite solutions from the larger vendors are now realizing that they need an SCM tool designed for today’s global, parallel development models, said Cliff Utstein, vice president of marketing at AccuRev. We have developed these two [latest] integrations in response to customer demand, and we are committed to providing integrations for AccuRev into leading ALM suite offerings.
The company said the integrations with IBM Rational ClearQuest and MKS Integrity Manager provide bi-directional links with is SCM tool, and claimed that integrating AccuRev with these products improves productivity and traceability, aiding compliance initiatives and IT auditability within an organization.
