Dimensions CM is at the core of Dimensions 10, the industry’s leading software change and configuration management solution. Dimensions CM seamlessly orchestrates application change and configuration across platforms, locations, and teams.
With Dimensions CM, developers “live” inside their preferred IDE.
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Dimensions CM delivers:
- End-to-end traceability, from the inception of a project or issue through delivery of the functionality
- Streamlined regulatory compliance though development lifecycle process definition and enforcement
- Enhanced team productivity with an infrastructure that supports collaboration between co-located or geographically distributed stakeholders
- Visibility and control over project status, progress, and prioritization
When used with Dimensions RM, organizations can track and manage requirements from initial request to deployment—all in a single repository. This translates into enhanced quality, mitigated risk and reduced cost.
Robust Configuration, Build, and Release management
Dimensions CM integrates the disciplines of change, configuration and lifecycle management. Its platform-neutral architecture extends across UNIX, Windows, Linux and IBM Mainframe, providing native, persona-based clients and secure web-based administration. It supports bi-directional integrations with leading lifecycle tools, and delivers an unparalleled ability to consolidate and standardize, thereby optimizing return on investment and reducing total cost of ownership.
Enhanced developer productivity
Although easy to use, Dimensions provides unprecedented power and flexibility to development teams. Tight integrations into popular IDE’s such as Microsoft .NET and Eclipse IDE’s make Dimensions CM easy for developers to use, while enhancing their ability to collaborate on complex projects that require parallel development and geographically distributed teams.
Further enhancing its ease of use, Dimensions CM also provides a tight integration with Microsoft Windows Explorer, and a full-featured web browser interface that addresses the needs of the developer and the administrators prefer. These features make the development teams more productive, faster, speeding return on investment.
Scalable performance
As development organizations grow, it is imperative that the infrastructures that support them must grow as well. Geographically distributed development teams, offshore-ing and outsourcing are the norm in today’s enterprise application development shops.
Although it is often deployed on a team-level scale, Dimensions CM is a proven platform for supporting the largest, most complex application development organizations. Dimensions CM is architected to address the needs of highly distributed development teams with the most demanding performance requirements.
High performance is assured though:
- An industry-standard, high-performance RDBMS;
- Library caching;
- Advanced compression;
- Site replications as required.
Streamlined regulatory compliance
Enterprises spend inordinate amounts ofexcessive time and money addressing their regulatory compliance requirements. Dimensions CM facilitates compliance, mitigating the risk associated with non-compliance while reducing the cost that compliance efforts entail.
Dimensions10 allows organizations to:
- Maintain team-wide adherence to defined processes and best practices throughout the lifecycle;
- Mitigate risk through repeatability and traceability;
- Provide full audit trails with flexible reporting.
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