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Key SnapshotCM Benefits

Graphical - Visually see and understand your releases, branches, baselines and the relationship between them all. Visually create new baselines or branches, visually create and freeze releases, visually communicate you future release plans.

The workspace status icons and filters provide you a quick and visual summary of your workspace status. Files which need your attention are automatically shown, while those that don't are automatically filtered based on filters you select. And for each file, you see the information you care about. All graphically.

Scalable - SnapshotCM's concepts and team development hierarchy means that very large teams with hundreds of users can easily coordinate their work in SnapshotCM. The hierarchical decomposition allows sub-teams and individuals to subscribe to other's changes, and to publish their own changes when it makes sense for them. The balance between isolation and integration most appropriate for each group can easily be configured. And as you would expect, the SnapshotCM Repository Server is tuned for performance.

Personal - means you deal with people who are friendly and knowledgable, people who care about solving your problems and who are able to make product changes if needed to meet your needs.

Fast - SnapshotCM's concepts allow for direct, high-level operations, resulting in best of breed performance. For example, branching, tagging and baselining are sub-second operations. In addition, SnapshotCM is designed for performance, using a streaming protocol with incremental updates, which both delivers performance and reduces the load on the server.

Distributed - The SnapshotCM Proxy Server provides distributed content caching with little administration. No need for proxy server backups or routine maintenance as all data is backed up on the Repository Server. Any number of proxy servers can be created.

When using a WAN, SnapshotCM automatically compresses client-server communications to make the best possible use of the bandwidth available. In fact, many files are pre-compressed to save storage space and reduce load on the server. The result is faster check outs both remotely and locally.

Complete - SnapshotCM versions all the attributes of your files so you can be confident your files are safe. In addition to file content (which is all many primitive systems version), SnapshotCM versions file renames, creates, deletes and undeletes, file modes, text file handling, and keyword expansion settings. All this is preserved for all files and directories in your project as a unit. This project-level perspective ensures you capture and preserve what you care about.

SnapshotCM's unique Five-Tier Snapshot Technology automates the details of software configuration management, thereby reducing your administrative agony and overhead, and freeing your software developers to focus on project results.

Tier One: True Graphical Versioning

True Graphical Versioning visually displays your past and in-progress project releases and their relationships. By displaying project releases (we call them snapshots) graphically, SnapshotCM enables your whole team to easily understand where they fit in. And with just a few clicks of the mouse, you can create new branch releases, "tag" an existing release, find out what changed between two releases, or copy changes between releases. True Graphical Versioning makes understanding and manipulating release snapshots easy for both users and administrators. Read more.

Tier Two: True Snapshot Performance

True Snapshot Performance gives you unmatched project branching, tagging and compare performance by efficiently tracking what is different from every other snapshot. Even projects containing 100,000+ files can be branched or tagged in an instant. By focusing on only changed items, SnapshotCM delivers performance that allows you to work as fast as you think. Read more.

Tier Three: True Team Development

True Team Development enables you and your team members to integrate new features and publish completed features on a schedule that works for each of you. By providing the framework for integrating and publishing new features, you and your team can focus on your individual tasks and work in a stable environment with all the version control features available to you. Yet when ready, you can quickly integrate team-wide changes and publish your changes to the whole team. Read more.

Tier Four: True Attribute Versioning

True Attribute Versioning versions all types of changes to provide a complete and robust versioning solution. Whether you need to add new files, remove or rename existing files, change a file mode or how keywords are handled, or change any other attribute, all changes are versioned. And since everything is versioned, reproducing a snapshot release is both robust and reliable. Read more.

Tier Five: True Workspace Efficiency

True Workplace Efficiency applies snapshot changes to your workspace accurately and efficiently. When you integrate others' changes, your workspace is easily and quickly synchronized. SnapshotCM's global knowledge of changes of all types—renames, deletes, creates, modes and file content—means you don't have to manually apply changes to your workspace. SnapshotCM simply handles it. Read more.

The Bottom Line

The synergistic combination of our five-tier snapshot technology makes SnapshotCM the most effective and efficient solution for your software configuration management problem. Prove it to yourself by taking advantage of our 200-user four-week license. Download your evaluation copy today.

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