That is to say, each component was built to work together with the other components. This gives Dimensions the ability to integrate these components at either a fine level or a lesser level, and the user can choose what sort of granularity they require. Dimensions is built and bundled with the Oracle Relational Database, which stores all meta-data for all configuration management objects. Dimensions supports many different CM objects, including configuration items, change documents, baselines, releases, and customers. This allows most, if not all, development shops to implement their own processes and procedures within Dimensions.
Dimensions works with a wide variety of platforms.
Dimensions is three-tier client server, and therefore offers a number of client interfaces. For UNIX and open VMS workstations, we offer the fully functional motif client. On Windows, we offer the fully functional PC client, and we also offer a web interface. Finally, we offer a full command line across all platforms. As such, we support IBM AIX 4.3.x.