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IKAN announces the release of SCM4ALL 4.3

Mechelen (Belgium) July 10, 2009 IKAN Software, an independent supplier of software solutions for application lifecycle management announced today a significant breakthrough in application lifecycle management with the release of SCM4ALL 4.3.

SCM4ALL is a unique, web based ALM solution, providing automated build, release, deploy and software life-cycle management. It offers a state of the art solution for both distributed and non-distributed systems. It seamlessly integrates with leading third-party Version Control Repositories (VCR), offering you the freedom to use the IDE of your choice (e.g. IBM© RAD, Oracle© JDeveloper, Microsoft© Visual Studio, ...), as all of these products have their own optimized VCR integration. SCM4ALL provides a controlled build process independent of the versioning tool and easily allows reuse of existing build/test/deploy scripts from leading scripting tools like Ant, NAnt, make, ... SCM4ALL helps in reducing build complexity, solving complex deployment issues and accelerating release cycles. SCM4ALL offers a cross-platform solution, linking Continuous Integration with Life-Cycle Management.

SCM4ALL 4.3 offers many new features and enhancements that include:

New features

Housekeeping Build Archive
History and Event Logging of Global and Project Administration Definitions
Machine (Agent) Status and Log Information
Enhanced Life-Cycle Flexibility
New Builds and Deploys Overview
New Semantics for Post-Approvals and Post-Notification
New Project Stream Dependency Type
Possibility to Hide / Unhide Projects and Project Streams
Better Status Output of Level and Environment Phases
New Licensing System
New Demo Installation Procedure

Enhanced Functionalities

New “Duration” field on the Level Request and Environment Logs
Total Level Request Time calculated for Level Requests
Multiple selects possible on several Desktop search panels
Usability reorganization of the Global Administration and Desktop menus
Several extended project audit checks
Reorganization of the Life-Cycle Overview
User Groups are also visible in velocity mail templates
The Agent process produces more informative logging on the INFO log level
Upgrade of the MySQL connector
Support for Groups in Groups when connecting to LDAP via JAAS

SCM4ALL tightly integrates with leading existing third-party versioning solutions (e.g. IBM© Rational© ClearCase© (UCM & Base), IBM© Rational© ClearCase© LT, Microsoft© Visual SourceSafe©, CVS, Subversion). SCM4ALL interacts with these source code repositories allowing versioning at object and release level and complements them with automated build, release and deployment processes.

SCM4ALL enables secure and flexible process-centric ALM for individual, local and distributed development teams. A tailored life-cycle from development, test, quality assurance and production can be implemented, offering a comprehensive framework across all major platforms including Windows, UNIX, Linux and even Z/0S mainframe systems. It also supports a stream-based project model meaning that a product manager has the ability to add a life-cycle to each version of a product. SCM4ALL has state of the art architecture to control remote build and deploy servers and offers a one click interface to bring your application to life on as many servers as you want. If something goes wrong, you can easily roll-back to a previous release.

SCM4ALL facilitates compliance with legislation like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, DO-178B and numerous similar state-specific acts and improves an organization's ability to conform to popular process standards (such as the CMM, ITIL, Six Sigma(TM). It can play an integral part in achieving compliance through automation of the business process, including all software development processes, notification and approval facilities, and providing full audit trails and reporting ability.

For more information, please visit: www.scm4all.com