Family Description:

Rational ClearCase Change Management Products offer software configuration management options for any size team. The options provide software asset management (which includes, version control, support for parallel development, build management and process support) integrated defect and change tracking and support for geographically distributed teams.

Offerings:

• ClearCase Change Management Solution - offers integrated software configuration management for medium-large development projects
  Includes: Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest
• ClearCase Change Management Solution - Enterprise Edition- offers integrated software configuration management for medium - large development projects and/or geographically distributed teams
  Includes: Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ClearCase MultiSite Extension, Rational ClearQuest MultiSite Extension
• Rational ClearClearCase - offers software asset management for medium - large projects
• Rational ClearCase LT - offers entry-level versions for small, local projects.
• Rational ClearCase MultiSite - offers an addon option to Rational ClearCase to support geographically distributed software asset management for medium - large projects.
• Rational ClearCase & Rational ClearCase MultiSite - offers full support for geographically distributed software asset management
  Includes: Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearCase MultiSite
• Rational ClearQuest - offers defect and change tracking across the project lifecycle.
• Rational ClearQuest MultiSite - offers an addon option to Rational ClearQuest to support geographically distributed defect and change tracking for medium - large projects.
• Rational ClearQuest and Rational ClearQuest MultiSite - offers full support for geographically distributed defect and change tracking for medium - large projects
  Includes: Rational ClearQuest and Rational ClearQuest MultiSite

Top reasons businesses buy Rational ClearCase Change Management Solutions:

1. Reduces software development costs and increase developer productivity by providing proven best practices for change management coupled with integrated tool support.
2. Protects software assets across the enterprise and to increase software quality through reuse and asset-based development.
3. Enables you to quickly capture, assign, track and control change throughout the development lifecyle.
4. An organization has outgrown version control solutions and are experiencing business downtime due to an inability to quickly build and release software.
5. An organization has no consistent change management process, resulting in delays, confusion, lack of accountability and application failure.
6. An organization has to coordinate globally distributed development projects - for example coordinating outsourced development and enabling “follow the sun” development.

Key messages

• Manage change and complexity
• Simplify the process of change
• Accelerate productivity with parallel development
• Adapt quickly to business demands
• Use the market leading SCM solution