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
Manager. With PVCS Tracker, team members located across the hall or around
the world can easily access Tracker to manage the crush of feature requests,
defect reports, changes and project tasks that can consume their time. Fully
scalable across the enterprise, PVCS Tracker helps teams manage complexity by
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
software and deliver it faster to ensure your competitive advantage.
HIGHLIGHTS
Capture All Issues that Impact Your Project
PVCS Tracker automatically captures and tracks project issues and related data
across any mix of platforms and environments. It’s easy to stay on top of fea-
ture requests, defect reports, customer feedback, general project issues, tasks,
action items and responsibilities. You don’t have to remember—Tracker does it
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
right in your development environment, so you never have to interrupt devel-
opment focus to use it. And, using the Web browser interface, teams around the
world can directly capture and manage issues.
Manage Complex Project Issues from Emergence to Resolution
Complex team projects can become chaotic as issues, priorities and ownerships
change rapidly. With PVCS Tracker on your team, chaos turns into control. You
establish priorities, assign ownerships, manage hand-offs and track issues from
emergence to resolution. Because TrackerLink works within your IDE and also
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
changes. At last, developers can easily manage issues and version control as part
of their everyday work process.
PVCS® Tracker™
PVCS Tracker is theworld’s most widelyaccepted issue andchange managementtool. It is easily accessible when andwhere users want it,including native IDEsand the Web. It is easyto administer andscales to any size teamor project to assure:
• No more missedhandoffs
• Automatic tracking ofresponsibilities andstatus
• Full documentation ofchanges
• Advanced queriesand reporting forimproved projectmanagement
• Faster, higher qualityteam development
Multi-project navigationallows team members toprioritize quickly.
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
• 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
Supports consistent navigation across PVCS Professional.
Capture, manage and communicate issues directly from within supported SCC-compliant development environments.
• PVCS Notify communicates issues and their status to both
Tracker and non-Tracker users, using standard enterprise
email systems
Report Assistant and Enhanced Trend Reports
• Powerful reporting and query capabilities, including
Change History Queries, for precise filtering
• PVCS Metrics, for automatically creating project status
information and posting to Web pages
• Report Assistant simplifies integration with third-party
reporting tools
Open Architecture with Application Program Interface (API)
and ODBC
• Customizable to interface with other key applications
such as testing tools, helpdesks, requirements/project
management and Web systems
• Open database support with ODBC technology ensures
scalability with support for Oracle, SQL
Server and Sybase databases
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Tracker Windows Interface and TrackerLink
• IBM-compatible with Pentium-based processor or better,
and:
- Windows NT
- Windows 98
- Windows 2000 Professional
• Installation Disk Space:
- Local — 50MB
- Network — 50MB on file server
- Workstations — 10MB
- Notify — 20MB
• Compatible mail systems:
- Lotus Notes
- Microsoft Outlook
- SMTP Internet email
PVCS Tracker — Web Server
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Netscape Enterprise or iPlanet
• Microsoft Internet Information Server
PVCS Tracker — Web Browser Interface
• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows NT
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• Sun Solaris
• Internet Explorer
• Netscape Navigator
• Netscape Communicator
Note: Microsoft Internet Explorer not available on IBM AIX.
Compatible Databases
• Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Sybase SQL Server
MERANT is the leading provider of softwaresolutions for enterprise change management;development, transformation and integrationof legacy applications; and data connectivity.More than 5 million professionals use MERANT technology at 60,000 customersites, including the entire Fortune 100 and the majority of the Global 500. Founded in 1976, MERANT has 1,700 employees andmore than 600 technology partners.
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