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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