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Are your budgets shrinking; and your
problems growing?
In today's IT environment,
many sites are faced with reduced budgets and an increasing workload.
Oftentimes, this leads to fewer staff doing more work, which can result in
even more problems.
ISPW was originally developed as a programmer productivity tool, so its
job is to help companies accomplish more with increasingly stretched
resources. Typical increases in productivity when using ISPW range
from 15-40%, depending on the person and activity. (These are real
productivity numbers, measured and documented by our customers.)
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Are you tired of paying for CPU
upgrades and MIPS-based pricing?
If you are, you may be
surprised to hear that ISPW has an innovative and unique user based
pricing model. With ISPW's site license, you will never have to pay
for CPU upgrades or MIPs increases ever again! Pricing is more
fairly based on actual product use, and not on the size of the processor.
The company also prides itself on its risk-free buying model, with on-line
presentations and live product demos. Prospective customers are even
invited to log on to ISPW, over the Internet, and try it for themselves,
free of charge! To the best of our knowledge, no other
Enterprise SCM vendor offers both user-based pricing and free hands-on
evaluations, so prospective customers know beforehand what they are
buying, and pay a fair price for it.
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Have you outgrown your Library
Management product(s)?
Many of the Library
Management products in use today were designed for the mainframe, and have
limited ability to store distributed system files, such as DLLs, Windows
files, etc.
ISPW's flexible warehouse can store any type of Enterprise source and
executable file, including JARs, WARs and EAR files. ISPW also knows
which components are in ASCII format and which are EBCDIC, so it converts
files seamlessly as it transports them between operating system platforms
and the ISPW code warehouse. This ability to handle new and
different file types makes ISPW very flexible in accommodating the needs
of most companies in today's multi-platform, Enterprise computing
environments.
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Can you effectively build and deploy
your J2EE applications to WebSphere?
IBM's WebSphere is
interesting technology. WebSphere applications have disparate
component parts that may be developed on different operating system
platforms (such as TSO and Windows), which are then deployed to different
operating platforms to execute. Host based components may still be
run from MVS load libraries, but EJB and JSP components, for example, may
need to be deployed to AIX or Linux servers. To manage these new
application component parts, IS staff may be using two, or even three
different SCM solutions, which presents another set of problems in itself.
ISPW can manage any J2EE compliant application, where applications being
deployed to IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) are just one example.
ISPW encompasses all of the various J2EE component parts so they are
managed in one seamless change package, from development through
deployment.
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Will your Software Change Management
process pass an audit review?
ISPW provides extensive
audit reporting showing who did what and when, through on-line or printed
reports.
More importantly, ISPW has the ability to recreate an application as of
any date and time, even if that application has cross-platform component
parts, being deployed to both host and distributed run time environments.
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Do you have parallel development
issues?
Pressure to deliver more
function, more often, is causing more parallel development problems than
ever before. Staff need to know who else is making changes to the
modules they are working on, and they need to know that sooner than later.
More importantly, some changes can't wait, so staff need to be assured
that their SCM system can handle any number of concurrently checked-out
versions, while preventing changes from being regressed by other team
members.
ISPW's collaborative team environment makes all work in progress visible
to everyone. Through ISPW's dynamic real time work lists, each
person working on a module can see any flags or warnings against their
modules, so they are proactively aware that other versions are in motion,
who has them, the versions that they're based upon, and what the
differences are between those versions. The ISPW GUI even has a
sophisticated three way merge capability.
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Are your development tools, such as
debuggers, being used effectively?
Most IT shops have a
significant investment in programmer productivity tools such as syntax
checkers, documentation generators, test and debugging tools. Sadly,
these tools are often lost on system menus, so staff can't remember where
they are or how to use them, and the company never gets the return it
expects on its investment.
One of ISPW's unique strengths is its ability to invoke and truly manage
application productivity tools. In ISPW, there are "slots"
to plug in tools like JCL checkers, Expediter, File-Aid, Comparex,
SmartEdit, SmartTest, Version Merger, code restructurers, etc., so they're
invoked and used automatically at the appropriate point in the change
cycle. New employees and contract staff are prompted and guided in
using these tools so the company's IT standards and procedures are
enforced by ISPW. In calculating ISPW's Return on Investment,
the value of properly using ancillary tools gives an unexpected additional
return on investment.
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Is there one Software Change
Management product that can manage your z/OS, NT, AIX and Linux
applications from development through deployment?
Until a few years ago, this
was thought to be impractical, if not impossible. Mainframe SCM
vendors offered mainframe-specific SCM tools. Distributed vendors
offered distributed SCM tools. Some vendors offered two separate SCM
products - one to manage host-based applications and a second for
distributed applications, often with a separate browser interface to show
the consolidated view of activity cross-platform. No vendor was able
to offer one cross platform solution to manage any application component
anywhere.
ISPW can do this. ISPW can manage your z/OS, NT, AIX and Linux
applications across your Enterprise, from development through deployment.
ISPW's code Warehouse can store every Enterprise source and executable
component. This single logical Warehouse enables true seamless
integration across heterogeneous environments, for performing
cross-platform impact analysis, managing cross-platform change packages,
and addressing other cross-platform issues. You will hear the term
'single point of control' from various SCM vendors. With ISPW, we
mean 'single point of control' through one single cross-platform product.
Technically, ISPW has four integrated components - a mainframe-based
server (OS/390 or z/OS), and three thin client interfaces - a 3270
interface, a browser interface, and a Java GUI (which is an Eclipse
plug-in). IBM's mainframe DB2 is a prerequisite.
ISPW truly provides one seamless SCM process across your Enterprise,
regardless of where your applications are being developed or deployed.
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