An Easy-to-use Version Control Solution

The benefit of using Version Control/SCM tools is often overlooked, especially by people working on projects where they are the only developer. Regardless of the size of development team, using even the most basic Version Control tool can help to improve the quality of your software and reduce your time to market. At the very least, Version Control is an extremely useful safety net.

Add in the ability to allow multiple developers to safely work on the same project, maintain multiple versions of your source, track bugs and features, collaborate on a global basis, and monitor the development process, etc, and the benefits become more obvious.

Team Coherence is one of the simplest to use Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution available today. Rather than turning SCM into a black art that requires weeks of training, enforces unacceptable restrictions on developers, and generally interferes with the development and testing processes, we have designed Team Coherence to be as easy to use, and unobtrusive, as possible.

We have spent several years and worked with many development teams to make Team Coherence a real-world solution to what can be a complex process. Regardless of the size of your organization, Team Coherence helps you organize, manage, and protect your software development projects on every level - from storing and tracking changes to individual files, to managing and monitoring an entire development cycle.

Major Features

• Easy to Use -- Like all our products, our main aim with Team Coherence has been ease of use and functionality. Ease of use translates to quick take-up, reduced training and minimal interference with the development process. In these days of high staff turnover, the saving of not having to train each new recruit will make Team Coherence pay for itself very quickly.
• Powerful Version Control -- The core of Team Coherence is a powerful version control engine that has been tried and tested over many years. The Version Control functionality allows you to track changes to documents over time and maintains a history of who did what and when.
• Configurable Views -- You can set up local views of your projects based on a particular Version Label, or selected projects. Each view allows you to specify a different default working path for each folder visible in the view. In addition, all actions carried out while the view is selected are automatically limited to those objects within the view. Using Views makes the maintenance of previous releases of your projects much easier.
• Promotional Modelling -- Using Promotion Levels you can model your development process and force all projects to follow that model. At each development stage you can specify who is allowed to promote files to the next stage, and who is allowed access to a particular level.
• Distributed Development -- Using Team Coherence, you can easily connect to remote repositories across the Intranet, WAN, or Internet. This feature allows distributed development teams to work together on the same projects.
• Integrates with your development tools -- Team Coherence integrates seamlessly with Borland development tools and, via the SCC API, with many other tools, including Visual Basic, C++ Builder, and more:
  • Delphi (all versions)
  • C++ Builder (3 and Later)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio (using SCC API)
  • Microsoft Word 97/2000
  • ModelMaker 5 and 6
  • Others (vial the SCC API)
  If you use tools, internally, that were written by yourselves, you can also integrate Team Coherence with these. Team Coherence has an easy-to-use API that can be used by any tool that can access standard windows DLL's. If you use tools written in Delphi, we even have a header file that wraps the DLL in a set of simple Delphi functions.
• Supports any file type -- You can use Team Coherence to keep track of any kind of files, including: source code, help files, WEB pages, WP documents, DLL's, Images, etc...
• Supports File Families -- Team Coherence fully supports the concept of File Families, where one or more files with the same name, but different extensions, are treated as a single entity. Team Coherence defines file families for Delphi, C++ Builder, and Visual Basic, and you can also define your own.
• File Sharing -- Team Coherence allows files to be shared across multiple project groups and folders: visually as well as physically. Using the Archive Manager, you can see at a glance which files are used by other projects, and actions such as assigning version labels, checking out files, etc can be carried out on a project or folder basis in the knowledge that all relevant files will be included in the action.
• Snapshots -- Team Coherence supports unlimited Version Labels per revision. Using Version Labels, you can 'stamp' all the files used in a particular build of a project so that, in the future, you can quickly recreate that build if required.
• More -- There is far more to Team Coherence than described above.

Team Coherence is Electronically Delivered only.