The company builds and supports more than 40 mainframe MVS applications, and has begun development on critical eBusiness applications that run across the Web, Windows NT, UNIX, and the mainframe. Serena Software puts us in position to manage and synchronize changes across the entire organization with complete confidence that changes are made correctly. Ecolab has had formal, automated SCM in its mainframe environments for several years. With eBusiness adding more speed and quality demands, and moving more development to less-structured distributed environments, the directive to improve development processes came from senior management. As our distributed development grew, it became apparent that we needed similar control on distributed platforms that we had on the mainframe.
Developers moving from one project to another come up to speed very quickly.
There s no learning curve, no time spent trying to understand the development process or where the source code is. There is tremendous value in consistency. We know every task compiles, promotions and everything else is being completed to our standards. Plus, we have a central repository of where everything is kept. Everyone knows the tools and process.