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From: ash@public.BTR.COM (Ashvin P. Patel  ash@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: List of CASE/CM Tools
Message-ID: <2046@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 91 02:28:17 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.203849.29765@cadence.com> rene@cadence.com (Rene Churchill) writes:
>I keep seeing requests for list of CASE programs on this newgroup.
>Here is a list of programs that I either used or looked over some
>information about.................................
>These are mostly Configuration Management tools......
>

To update the list of CM products that people have posted, I would like to
post a description of TeamOne's offering, TeamNet. TeamNet is available from

TeamOne Systems Inc,
2700 Augustine Drive
Santa Clara
CA 95054

1-800-442-6650

or

sun!teamone!neal , teamone!neal@sun.com


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TeamNet transparently manages software source and object code,
increases quality, and accelerates your product delivery schedule.
TeamNet software provides fully distributed configuration and version
management across heterogeneous development platforms using NFS. Much
of the complexity of this task is hidden to the users and the product
has been designed to meet the changing needs of today's concurrent
engineering marketplace.

TeamNet has a number of major competitive advantages over systems of this
kind.  Firstly TeamNet leverages and supports NFS clients on the network,
this means that TeamNet can be hosted on either a Sun or Solborne
workstations and can track changes to file transparently over the network.
Unlike other systems TeamNet can truly support heterogenous project
development. Other areas in which TeamNet has an advantage include, ease of
use, ease of installation and implementation into an organization,
performance and a degree of fault tolerance. TeamNet operates as a
transparent extension to the Unix file system. Users can now implement a
distributed configuration management solution on existing projects with no
change to existing tools, methodologies or data.

TeamNet's architecture provides the only enabling environment for concurrent
engineering where it is not necessary to encapsulate the software tools. 
Traditional tool encapsulation, which is acknowledged to be a formidable
task for a user and a stumbling block to tool integration, requires many
hours of time to set up user supplied code to link tools to existing 
frameworks and other types of design environments. Encapsulation also
requires extensive copying of data to and from work areas on the network. The
sophisticated interaction between TeamNet and the UNIX file system allows
the product to work efficiently with all tools and data with no encapsulation
or special modification needed of any tools.

TeamNet accelerates product development by the allowing engineers to work on
shared data concurrently while controlling and managing the change process. The
product automatically alerts engineers to potentailly conflicting changes so
that they cannot corrupt the work of other concurrent users. With TeamNet,
users can successfully track changes. They can also perform more complex
operations such as controlling and managing different configurations of data
to support both a variety of design alternatives and various stages in the
development process.

Engineers and managers can now use TeamNet to retrieve information on the
project in real-time. TeamNet tracks when a change is made, who made it
and the tool used to make the change. The underlying TeamNet distributed 
object-oriented project repository is used to provide configuration management
for any data types, such as source code or schematic layouts, to maintain
configuration and version control, track projects, manage disk space, and
monitor other activities essential to the successful development and 
maintenance of projects. A real-time audit trail is maintained to support
change management and to monitor compliance with defined engineering processes.

For more information on TeamNet's unique approach to the distributed
configuration management and parallel development, please contact TeamOne at
the above address.

TeamNet - TOTAL RECALL OF SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES - TRANSPARENTLY

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