Quartet™ is an easy to use, fully integrated, cross-platform
SCM solution that allows your entire development organization
to work more efficiencly and improve software quality, while
at the same time, providing secure management of your companies
critical digital assets.
Quartet™ is a unique end-to-end software configuration
management tool that provides a comprehensive
end-to-end SCM solution right out of the box. As a
result, your team can quickly and easily understand not
only the tool and its functionality, but how to use it
to the greatest advantage.
SCM is more that just Version Management!
A truly comprehensive SCM solution is not just the
simple versioning of your source code files - it also
encompasses defect and change management, facilitates
accurate and predictable build management as well as
provide the ability to manage the complex run-time
dependencies of many applications today.
Key Usability Features
Java-based, platform independent and scalable
100% Java, Quartet™ is a true cross-platform tool that
can be easily configured to fit most any computing
environment. Its transaction and persistance layers are
based on a factory pattern to allow for easy
customization as well as scalability - from small local
workgroup environments, to distributed enterprise-wide
environments.
Release-based SCM
Quartet's methodology is based on the premise that all
software files are best treated as complete releases.
Files in any given release travel together as complete
units. Releases don't depend on development team
members knowing which files belong in which release, or
what files are different from one release to another.
Plus, reproducing or rolling back to any prior release
is as simple as requesting it by release name from the
repository!
Interchangeable "units" — releases —
are easier to organize, distribute, and share!!!
Choose your interface
Quartet™ has both a GUI and Command Line Interface
(CLI), offering identical, complete functionality. You
may also use your own IDE with Quartet™
Integrate your development tools with Quartet™
You can integrate Quartet™ with most popular interactive
development environments (IDEs), including Visual
Studio, Visual Basic, HomeSite, Cold Fusion,
Powerbuilder, Visual C++ and others.
Quick and easy environment managment Are you confident that what is running in production
is really what you think it is? Quartet™ allows you to
routinely (and automatically) monitor your environments
by comparing a release running in production to the release
in your repository - if anything has changed you are notified
instantly - allowing you to head off potential problems.
Associate Change Requests and file versions
You get the option of automatically associating file
check-out and check-in to the Change Request that
required the modifications.
Subscriptions: Automatic notification of system Events
Every action in Quartet™ creates an Event that can
trigger a notification. The Subscriptions feature
automatically sends email notification when specified
Events occur. Users identify which Events they want to
be notified of, and Quartet™ does the rest.
GUI based check-in Targets
A key element for implementing release based SCM is the
ability to keep all the important components for any
release together - including build targets. Quartet™ now
makes this process easier than ever with the ability to
identify intermediate and final targets, and by
providing an intuitive, user-friendly screen,
facilitating check in of final targets to the release
for which they were built. Keeping final build targets
with their associated release is a distinguishing
feature in our proven SCM methodology. Benefits of
checking targets into a release include application
re-creatability without having to re-create targets,
knowing with absolute certainty which objects were
created with which source, and a point in time
reference.
Build projects with one-button GUI functionality
Use the automated Build feature in both the GUI
and command-line interfaces.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security Protect your software assets as they travel around
the office or around the world. Quartet™ gives you
industry-standard SSL technology, providing authentication
and encryption security.
