Manage Environments

Setting up work environments is the first step to implementing Release Management. Work environments help you structure a projects lifecycle by providing validation steps. Combined with formalized testing phases, this ensures application reliability – even during periods of intense change. Multiplying environments means that you will want to minimize component transfers between them. It also means that you will need to organize and manage them rigorously so that they do not degenerate into anarchy and then obsolescence.

THE SOLUTION

ARCAD-Skipper will help you automate the entire software component change cycle through all your servers. Those involved in the revision effort can forget about a components physical location; ARCAD-Skipper handles those logistics automatically. Users simply manipulate a logical view based on their responsibilities in the change process.

The following environment types are managed in software configuration management:

• Development environments (by developer in a multi-platform context),
• Environments to receive new software versions,
• Integration environment,
• One or more test, validation, or qualification environments.

If you desire, you can complete ARCAD-Skipper with the complementary ARCAD-Deliver module that allows you fully automate the final phases of your change process.

 

THE ADVANTAGES

 

Environment Security

In ARCAD, environments are protected in a logical manner. For example, if any user profile tries to modify source from the reference environment, the modification will be intercepted, and the user will receive an error message and only be allowed to browse. This system makes it easy to enforce the change protocols that you have established.

ARCAD Adaptability

A configuration management tool must be adaptable to different configurations, including architectures hosted on various types of servers. This is the major strength of the ARCAD products. We can support the simplest and the most sophisticated.