Flyer Dimensions CM Micro Focus Dimensions CM Develop your enterprise applications collaboratively, securely, and efficiently. Move Fast Without Breaking Things Custom software products and applications are Developers want to go fast. Business wants to complex and critically important, and manage­ “With Dimensions CM 14, I am go fast. For more than 35 years, Micro Focus’s ment of risk across the software development able to integrate continuously Software Change and Configuration Manage­ and delivery lifecycle is particularly sensitive, while visually displaying the health ment (SCCM) solutions have made it possible especially in highly regulated industries. and quality of release readiness, to turn business ideas into advanced software increasing development velocity solutions, quickly, safely, and collaboratively. The challenge is made more complex where the enterprise is experiencing source code reposi­ and downstream visibility.” Every day, thousands of customers depend on Micro Focus® Dimensions® CM to speed tory sprawl, a common phenomenon with popu­ development processes, ensure developer col­ lar Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS). MAXIMILLIAN JANKER laboration, and increase code quality to deliver This can pose many challenges to the product Teamstreet software securely. delivery lifecycle and to downstream QA and release teams, who require a consolidated view The world’s most highly regulated large enter­ of the development process, a single version of prises (HRLEs) demand exceptional tools to the truth to effectively coordinate the automa­ meet their extraordinarily complex architecture tion of testing and deployment while avoiding and technology needs, the plethora of meth­ security, compliance, and performance risk. In odologies they use, and the strict compliance such an environment, development is increas­ mandates they must follow. That’s why those ingly accountable and must provide evidence organizations rely on Dimensions CM for their of the health and quality of their deliverables. most important application development teams that must “move fast without breaking things.”1. Implementation of DevOps initiatives is driv­ ing a focus on centralized versioning, collabo­ Software Development Is Your ration, and automation across Development, QA, and Operations. The DevOps practice of Competitive Advantage “Shift­Left”2 seeks to provide rapid feedback Your business depends on custom applications to development through earlier testing. And to drive efficiency and competitive advantage, increasingly, this includes security because and the demands on application development __________ teams has never been higher nor their work never more critical. Whether development 1 Go to www.microfocus.com/campaign/ teams are local, geographically distributed, or move-fast-without-breaking-things-5- coordinated through off­shore or outsourc­ ways-to-manage-sdlc-risk/ to download the Move Fast without Breaking Things whitepaper. ing partners, the speed of application delivery 2 Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_ and quality are critical to release readiness and left_testing for a discussion on Shift­Left practices. successful deployment. Flyer Micro Focus Dimensions CM no enterprise wants to be the next headline, exposing their application security, compliance, or performance risks. Micro Focus Dimensions CM Micro Focus Dimensions CM is a proven process­based software change and con­ figuration management (SCCM) solution that streamlines and automates Agile development practices, supporting a choice of industry stan­ dard databases, advanced network compres­ sion, and advanced library­cache technology. Supporting modern development practices Figure 1. Change and Branch Visualization and an optimized developer experience, Dimensions CM minimizes rework, visualizes change requests, Agile work items, or change security, Dimensions CM offers fine­grained and reduces conflicts, and improves team ve­ packages mitigates the risk of change, raises and integrated access controls, detailed audit­ locity and throughput. visibility, and prevents significant inefficiencies ing and logging, integrated collaborative peer and poor quality perceptions. With Dimensions review, and immutable versioning and history. Dimensions CM streamlines the complexity of CM, it becomes easy to track the project arti­ global collaborative development, increases facts for a particular defect, the changes that Maintain the security, confidentiality, and integ­ team velocity, and continuously inspects the were planned and approved for a particular rity of your development process, ready for the health of development. Providing a centralized, build and release, and, more importantly, why most protected and defended organizations as secure, and highly scalable SCM repository, the changes were required. well as those who want speed and agility. Dimensions CM supports high­velocity collab­ orative distributed teams on complex products Powerful and flexible baseline management while maintaining compliance, reducing risk, and Enterprise Scalability simplifies the capture and management of speeding enterprise release readiness. Dimensions CM is scalable to thousands of project milestones and associated deliverables concurrent users, hundreds of terabytes of and serves as immutable records. Preserving Integrated Software Change storage and millions of file revisions and history. the integrity of known baseline configurations It’s also scalable to hundreds of applications and Configuration Management simplifies rollback and recovery, streamlines across multiple platforms, from mainframe to Integrating the disciplines, practices, and pro­ approval, and maintains the integrity of auto­ mobile, collaborative teams globally distributed cesses of software change, configuration, build, mating builds and deployments. and coordinated with offshore and outsourc­ and release management is crucial to the SDLC ing partners. infrastructure. Ensuring the repeatability, trace­ ability, and integrity of the application develop­ Hardened Enterprise ment and delivery lifecycle has become ever SCCM Repository Dimensions CM supports load balancing for more critical with the complexity of modern ap­ Too many enterprises let the number of source high availability and failover for disaster re­ plication development. code repositories get out of hand as their covery and scales to meet rigorous security development teams stand up their own ver­ and compliance needs of the largest, most Basic file versioning is inadequate for identify­ sion control systems. Software change and complex, and most distributed of application ing change, and significant time and correc­ configuration management (SCCM) should artifacts and teams. tive action are often wasted manually tracking be centralized and “hardened,” reining in any changes that impact broken builds, result in repository sprawl, to protect your IP from un­ Improved Software Quality production defects, or, worse yet, incur down­ authorized or malicious changes. Because the Increasing adoption of continuous integration time. Tracking of changes through simple adoption of DevOps now increasingly includes (CI) among development teams facilitates 2 just as fast as it is for developers on the LAN, and this is made possible through our unique library cache technology and intelligent delta file transfers that are optimized for global de­ velopment productivity. With predictable and consistent development velocity, development can demonstrate higher levels of application quality and a higher de­ gree of responsiveness to the business. Broad Lifecycle Integration The software development and delivery life­ cycle is often unique, encompassing preferred practitioner tools for agile planning, require­ ments management, software quality assur­ ance, and deployment. Figure 2. Analysis Metrics Dimensions CM supports integration and interoperability with upstream Micro Focus greater accountability in the health and qual­ Optimized Developer Experience Dimensions RM and downstream Micro Focus ity of application development deliveries. Because of increased complexity of applica­ Deployment Automation. Integration with HP Automating CI directly as part of the check­ tion development platforms, technologies, and QC/ALM is also supported. in or delivery process realizes a broader in­ geographies, a major challenge now is coordi­ tegrated toolchain that can demonstrate the nating the complexity of parallel development. Through a configurable integrated CI tool chain, associated health and quality of each delivered Greater volume of software development now Dimensions CM provides continuous inspec­ change and the health of the development requires several active release branches at the tion into the health of code changes. Providing stream itself. same time, and the task of coordinating the developers with rapid feedback, together with merger of new features or patches from one visual indicators of any findings or vulnerabili­ Dimensions CM automates a configurable ex­ stream to the trunk typically lacks full visibility ties, improves productivity and reduces costly pert toolchain that sequences build tools, cod­ and has poor insight into the status of ongoing rework and downstream impact. Supported “ex­ ing style tools, code analysis tools, and security changes. Add little or no collaborative review, pert” tools currently include CI, static analysis, or risk analysis tools. By aggregating the ex­ and you have a situation that generates unnec­ vulnerability