PVCS® Tracker™

OVERVIEW

PVCS Tracker captures, manages and communicates the business and technical
issues critical to your success. Tracker’s unique TrackerLink™ IDE integration
delivers issue and change management that works the way your teams work—
within their native development environments or within PVCS Version PVCS Tracker is the
Manager. With PVCS Tracker, team members located across the hall or around world’s most widely
the world can easily access Tracker to manage the crush of feature requests, accepted issue and
defect reports, changes and project tasks that can consume their time. Fully
change management
scalable across the enterprise, PVCS Tracker helps teams manage complexity by
tool. It is easily
keeping them coordinated and communicating at every step of the workflow—
and by making it easy and intuitive. Your teams are free to create higher quality accessible when and
software and deliver it faster to ensure your competitive advantage. where users want it,
including native IDEs
HIGHLIGHTS and the Web. It is easy
Capture All Issues that Impact Your Project to administer and
PVCS Tracker automatically captures and tracks project issues and related data scales to any size team
across any mix of platforms and environments. It’s easy to stay on top of fea- or project to assure:
ture requests, defect reports, customer feedback, general project issues, tasks, • No more missed
action items and responsibilities. You don’t have to remember—Tracker does it
handoffs
for you. Flexible submit and update screens let you tailor Tracker for any kind
of team, task or responsibility. TrackerLink puts issue and change management • Automatic tracking of
right in your development environment, so you never have to interrupt devel- responsibilities and
opment focus to use it. And, using the Web browser interface, teams around the status
world can directly capture and manage issues.
• Full documentation of
Manage Complex Project Issues from Emergence to Resolution changes
Complex team projects can become chaotic as issues, priorities and ownerships • Advanced queries
change rapidly. With PVCS Tracker on your team, chaos turns into control. You and reporting for
establish priorities, assign ownerships, manage hand-offs and track issues from improved project
emergence to resolution. Because TrackerLink works within your IDE and also
management
links to the most popular version control tools, you can associate development
objects with issues, and see the who, what, when and why for all module • Faster, higher quality
changes. At last, developers can easily manage issues and version control as part team development
of their everyday work process.
Communicate Better, Accelerate Your Project
PVCS Tracker makes certain that everyone is in the loop.
Automatic email conditional notification, comprehen-
sive reports and advanced queries assure that team
members are aware of changes and know what is
expected of them. Development surprises and missed
hand-offs become a thing of the past. Managers can
chart team progress, identify trends, spot bottlenecks
and keep projects on schedule. PVCS Metrics, included
with Tracker, further automates reporting with report
generation and posting to Web pages.
PVCS TRACKER
PVCS Tracker goes beyond defect reports—it’s a com-
plete, yet easy-to-use and maintain tool that keeps you
on top of all issues critical to success. It’s also the only
issue and change management tool that is truly integrat-
ed with SCC development environments. Tracking and
managing issues becomes a streamlined part of a more
productive work day.
Integrates with Your Environment
• TrackerLink integrates issue and change management
into SCC-compliant IDEs, including Microsoft
Visual Studio, Sybase Powerbuilder, MERANT
Net Express™ and more
Multi-project navigation
allows team members to
prioritize quickly.
• Microsoft Windows, TrackerLink, and enhanced Web
browser interfaces are available—your team members
are free to choose their preferred path to Tracker
features
• Customizable “submit and update” interface stream-
lines data entry, lets you link issues with other issues
and jump directly to fields that need work
Links to Version Management
• Adds the power of issue management to version
management tools, including tight integration with
PVCS Version Manager™ and export capability to
PVCS Dimensions™
• Associates versions and development objects with
issue and change requests
• Enables the developer to generate an audit trail, see
the impact of changes, and easily track the “who,
what, when and why” for all module changes
• Brings integrated issue management/version manage-
ment into the native development environment—
helps developers regain control over releases
Automatic Conditional Notification
• “In Tray” shows new or changed problem reports and
change requests
• Automatically notifies users of new issues and
updates as they occur
• PVCS Notify communicates issues and their status to both SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Tracker and non-Tracker users, using standard enterprise
Tracker Windows Interface and TrackerLink
email systems
• IBM-compatible with Pentium-based processor or better,
Report Assistant and Enhanced Trend Reports and:

• Powerful reporting and query capabilities, including - Windows NT

Change History Queries, for precise filtering - Windows 98
• PVCS Metrics, for automatically creating project status - Windows 2000 Professional
information and posting to Web pages • Installation Disk Space:
• Report Assistant simplifies integration with third-party - Local — 50MB
reporting tools - Network — 50MB on file server
- Workstations — 10MB
Open Architecture with Application Program Interface (API)
- Notify — 20MB
and ODBC
• Compatible mail systems:
• Customizable to interface with other key applications
- Lotus Notes
such as testing tools, helpdesks, requirements/project
management and Web systems - Microsoft Outlook

• Open database support with ODBC technology ensures - SMTP Internet email
scalability with support for Oracle, SQL
Server and Sybase databases

Capture, manage and communicate issues directly from within supported

SCC-compliant development environments.

Supports consistent navigation across PVCS Professional.

PVCS Tracker — Web Server MERANT is the leading provider of software
solutions for enterprise change management;
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 development, transformation and integration
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server of legacy applications; and data connectivity.
More than 5 million professionals use
• Netscape Enterprise or iPlanet MERANT technology at 60,000 customer
• Microsoft Internet Information Server sites, including the entire Fortune 100 and
the majority of the Global 500. Founded
in 1976, MERANT has 1,700 employees and
PVCS Tracker — Web Browser Interface
more than 600 technology partners.
• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows NT
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server
• HP-UX 800 547 7827
merant.com
• IBM AIX pvcsinfo@merant.com
• Sun Solaris
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© 2001 MERANT. All rights reserved. PVCS and Net Express are
registered trademarks, and MERANT, the MERANT logo, PVCS
Tracker, PVCS Version Manager, PVCS Dimensions and TrackerLink
are trademarks of MERANT. Other trademarks are the property of
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