A Better Solution, Inc. - IBM Rational Product add-ons

ABS Products

A Better Solution has new and innovative DevOps Deployment products like iApproveIt and iDeployIt as well as the most complete set of ClearCase add-on tools aimed at producing enterprise solutions. Products that enhance your DevOps abilities and also extend ClearCase, products that keep you on-target.

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ClearTrigger	ClearTrigger provides Enterprise Trigger Control. ClearTrigger allows both the extension of your triggers from the VOB-level to the enterprise level as well as providing the most sought after ClearCase triggers without having to write any trigger scripts. With ClearTrigger you can define triggers that are automatically and instantly defined for all VOBs (or just a few if you prefer). Associated triggers with additional metadata types like *times, views, groups, VOBs, elements, replicas, regions* or even use pattern matching for any of the types. Use functionality bits to get the most popular trigger functionality without having to write any trigger code. ClearTrigger even makes an additional 33 ClearTrigger environmental variables ready for your use in triggers so you won't have to write code or make additional cleartool calls to calculate these commonly requested values (i.e VOB_owner, Is_replicated, Is_Project_VOB, Is_Web_User, VOB_primary_group). ClearTrigger's built-in integration with *iApproveIt* functionality allows all triggers to provide and receive real-time email and mobile-phone-enabled input to create real-time user interactive policy. You no longer have to wait hours/days for approval when managers and approvers can be notified and directly interact with trigger policy in real-time.
iDeployIt	iDeployIt is a flexible DevOps Software Deployment tool for today's software deployment scenarios. It allows for many software delivery types from local distributions to complex remote multi-server environments. iDeployIt provides business logic gates to control and configure software before, during and after deployment. iDeployIt integrates with any CM tool or build processes to easily include version control extraction, software building and post-delivery customization as part of a deployment if desired.
iApproveIt	iApproveIt is an application that allows for the real-time interactive approval and notification of watched or controlled events. The insertion of such control was previously cumbersome because it was performed via email which required the email receiver to respond before the process could continue which resulted in delays if the receiver was not currently at their desk to read and respond to the email. Furthermore, the receiver (or approver) could not guarantee that their approval or disapproval of the action was adhered to as emails can be lost, misinterpreted or even ignored. With iApproveIt, the "approval process" is imbedded in your process so the proper controls are provided since the responses provide the control. iApproveIt process approval and/or notification is in real-time directly to your choice of email, mobile phone or various vendor channels like MS Teams, Slack, RingCentral, WebEx or others thus lowering end-to-end process time from minutes or hours to just seconds.
ClearReplica	ClearReplica provides a low-cost feature-rich alternative to ClearCase Multisite. Inexpensively replicate ClearCase VOB data to both local and remote sites, replication portions of a VOB or the whole VOB; relaxed mastership allows for development on the same branch at different locations.
ClearTrigger Lite	ClearTrigger Lite provides a lighter version of fully-functional ClearTrigger. When you need quick ClearCase access control. Quickly who can do what in ClearCase, upgrade to fully-functional ClearTrigger at any time.

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