The following features ensure that your development team can develop software projects with a minimum of attention to the Rational Synergy tool:
- The data repository is a dependable, commercial, off-the-shelf relational database management system (RDBMS).
- Rational Synergy uses existing directory structures and tools.
- Rational Synergy provides developers with private, insulated work areas that give them full access to their own checked-out versions of files to prototype, edit, build, and debug, before making their changes available to other developers.
- Rational Synergy provides project reproducibility by accurately creating baseline configurations.
- Rational Synergy allows you to trace files and projects through task association and check-in and check-out capabilities.
- Developers can use tested and checked-in files on demand by updating their projects with Rational Synergy’s update process.
- Rational Synergy manages concurrent development changes through automated parallel development support and built-in security.
- Developers never need to stop development while integration or release areas are being tested, because those areas are insulated from ongoing changes.
- The default lifecycle ensures that only authorized changes are released.
- Rational Synergy controls data and file access operations with security that you can set for each user of the database.