Spectrum announces availability of its latest SpectrumSCM 3.1 Release
Sam
www.spectrumscm.com Ph: 770-448-8662
in...@spectrumscm.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Spectrum announces availability of its latest SpectrumSCM 3.1 Release
Atlanta – September 14th, 2009: Atlanta based Spectrum Software, Inc.,
a systems designer and developer of software productivity tools,
announced today the immediate availability of the latest SpectrumSCM
3.1 release of its flagship process-centric, full-featured, enterprise
class, Unified Source Configuration Management/Change Management
product. This release adds several new features to the already rich
set of SCM functionalities available for all levels of users of
SpectrumSCM. This release includes maintenance fixes, and new
features/enhancements, including a number of enhancements requested by
our current customers as part of our wish list initiative.
SpectrumSCM is the first truly integrated, process centric, platform
independent, full-featured (Version Control, Issue/Defect Tracking,
Change Management, Process Management, Workflow, Release Management,
Parallel Development) Source Configuration Management system in the
market place. SpectrumSCM brings in the best practices for automation
of Project lifecycle processes through unified configuration
management and change management by providing full CM functionality
with one truly integrated SCM system and not as a suite of bundled
applications. SpectrumSCM makes it efficient to undertake
comprehensive source configuration and change management for any ‘e-
Asset’ (software code, text, binaries, engineering drawings, images,
web pages, documents, excel, powerpoints, contracts, proposals,
training docs, curriculum material, SAS program files etc.), from
origination through delivery, maintenance, and support.
SpectrumSCM Version 3.1 enhancements include:
* Extract by time period: Since SpectrumSCM is a task-based
system, in general the extractions of files and their appropriate
versions are performed through the task/change-request. However, under
a couple of (customer requested) scenarios it is most useful to be
able to extract by time –
i. What has changed since last week/month
ii. What was the state of the repository/files last week/month.
A time based extraction gives the user the capability to specify the
time period of interest and only the specific file versions existing
(or changed) within that time-frame will be extracted.
* 2-way and 3-way Diff/Merge Editor Enhancements added the “Quick-
Bar” which gives easier access to difference related information and
actions. Adds real-time difference counts and quick resolution buttons
to be able to resolve differences directly without further mouse-
clicks or cut&paste type operations.
* Attachment options: Added and expanded drag-N-drop and save
capabilities for Change Request attachments. This further enhances the
ease with which users can attach and manage supporting documentation
to their issues/tasks, which in turn improves trackability and
traceability.
* Checksum command line function: Checksums were already directly
available through the UI under the workspace difference tool. This
enhancement adds the matching functionality to the commandline to
facilitate quick and easy verification of the accuracy of files. For
example a list of checksums could be obtained/stored when a release is
extracted such that comparisons at a later point in time can verify
whether anything has changed. This is very useful, particularly when
dealing with support situations on production or customer systems.
* Administrator unlock of concurrent edits: Extend the existing
unlock capabilities to support concurrent/parallel edits i.e. where
multiple users have the same file out for edit at the same time. This
feature allows the administrator to specifically select which edit
session he/she desired to unlock. The affected user will be
automatically notified if automaic notifications are enabled.
* Additional action buttons on Release management and Package
management screens. To facilitate release management type actions a
number of extra capabilities (that were available elsewhere) have been
brought together directly under the release/package-management
screens. Specifically this adds direct access to extraction and
reporting capabilities.
* Report enhancements: (CR by state and/or severity report, CRs not
assigned to release report). A number of enhancements continue to be
made to a number of reports.
* Ability to hard delete the soft deleted items from the Delete log
screen. A customer requested item – to facilitate repository clean-up
activities.
* Improve LDAP/Active Directory diagnostic capabilities. When
configuring SpectrumSCM to work with corporate LDAP/Active-Directory
installations a number of different configurations and security issues
can arise. This enhancement helps the SpectrumSCM systems
administrator diagnose and resolve such items.
* Add Create CR to Assign/Modify Screen – Add a (customer requested)
shortcut from the Change Request Assignment dashboard over to the
Change Request creation screen, so that when managing CRs, the user
can easily create new tasks or sub-tasks.
* Updates to workspace diff tools – Enhance the Workspace difference/
merge tools to add the “Quick-Bar” functionality. Also added
difference counts to the directory differencer.
Availability
SpectrumSCM, is available directly from Spectrum Software, Inc. For
pricing, demos and sales information, please contact Spectrum sales
representative (email: sa...@spectrumscm.com) at 770-448-8662 (North
America, Eastern timezone).
About Spectrum Software:
Spectrum Software, Inc. is a 16 year old, proven software systems
design and services firm providing cost-effective, efficient and
quality software products and services to large, medium and small
businesses. Spectrum Software has three divisions: Software Products
division, which engineers software tools and products;,Software
Services, which focuses on outsourcing and leading software
development projects for clients and Spectrum Multimedia, which
creates multimedia-based software products for children. The
SpectrumSCM product is seen as a very attractive alternative to many
of the existing market leading competitors. Because of its tightly
integrated Process management and change management architecture,
SpectrumSCM has been repeatedly acknowledged to be one of the most
economical, full-featured enterprise SCM tool that offers the best
combination of value and functionality by its customers. SpectrumSCM
provides High-end CM capability at the price of a competitor’s single
function tool. Fully integrated solution implies that users do not
have to use different applications with different interfaces to relate
change requests with the files that are being affected. Administrators
are no longer responsible for maintaining "bridging" software or
scripts to relate different applications such as version control and
issue management, to enforce process compliances steps, validate
release artifacts etc. SpectrumSCM is a true task/change based source
configuration management system with change management being an
integral part of its architecture. In May 2006 SpectrumSCM was Voted
Top Java Product – 2006 JavaPro Reader’s Choice Award, as the Best
Pure Java Packaged Client/Server or Distributed Application. For more
information on Spectrum Software and SpectrumSCM, check out the
company’s Web site at www.spectrumscm.com or email
in...@spectrumscm.com or call 770.448.8662.