Continuus Provides First-Ever Change Management Solution For PowerBuilder Development Teams; Automates Tedious Development Tasks, Coordinates Team Activities to Provide Better Applications with Shortened Development Cycles.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1997--Continuus Software Corp., a leading provider of change management solutions for software development, Wednesday announced that the Continuus Change Management Suite is available in an integrated version for Sybase Inc.'s PowerBuilder development environment, providing PowerBuilder development teams, for the first time, with an integrated change management solution for version control, configuration management, and integrated change request tracking. "PowerBuilder is continuing its momentum to help developers create large, complex business-critical applications," said John Wardley, Manager of Business Alliances at Sybase Inc. "Many PowerBuilder development teams need a total solution for managing change and coordinating development, and luckily they now have Continuus available to help." "PowerBuilder has become an increasingly important part of enterprise-class application development projects in key industries such as telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. ," said John R. Wark, president and chief executive officer of Continuus Software. "With Continuus' change management solution, distributed PowerBuilder teams developing client/server or Web applications for large enterprises can shorten (audio, compression) Shorten - A form of lossless audio compression. development cycles and improve software quality." PowerBuilder developers can now take advantage of Continuus' unique "task-based" approach to software development. The task-based Continuus products provide a naturally more efficient way for software developers to work through an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. , intuitive process for tracking changes. This allows developers to free themselves of the manual tracking of changes to individual software files, which can be tedious and provides potential for error. The integration with PowerBuilder is a natural step for Continuus, which specializes in enterprise-critical software development solutions for improving developer productivity and software quality. In addition to supporting both PowerBuilder 4.0 and 5.0 on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. platforms, Continuus announced that it will support PowerBuilder 5.0.3 through Sybase's newly announced Microsoft compatible SCCI SCCI SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Chambers of Commerce and Industry SCCI Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry SCCI Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Pakistan) . Continuus also supports a variety of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. Support for the PowerBuilder environment expands Continuus Software's breadth of support for customers' preferred integrated development environments See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. ). Continuus also supports the Microsoft development environments -- Visual Studio '97, Developer Studio for Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Visual J++ -- as well as other PC and UNIX 4GLs, in addition to design and analysis, testing, and documentation tools. The Continuus Change Management Solution The Continuus change management solution provides a team-based workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. approach that integrates version control, configuration management, build management, and change request tracking to provide the only complete solution available for software change management in the PowerBuilder environment. Continuus provides coordination for distributed teams working in parallel in different development languages and environments, enabling collaborative development with minimal developer overhead. The Continuus solution is ideally suited to teams developing complex enterprise-critical applications using PowerBuilder who are naturally concerned with managing complexity while improving developer productivity and ensuring software quality. About Continuus Software Based in Irvine, Continuus Software Corp. provides integrated change management solutions for software development. The company develops and markets Continuus/CM, /OM and /PT, a suite of change management technologies for managing the entire process of software development and on-going maintenance. Products are available for both UNIX and Microsoft Windows platforms. As the only leading vendor that is 100% focused on change management issues for software development teams, the company has had the privilege of working with hundreds of customers in dozens of industries to establish the best practices for integrated change management solutions. Continuus Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. brings this expertise, and transfers this knowledge, to every customer through extensive consulting, training and integration services. For more information, visit the corporate Web site at http://www.continuus.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Continuus Software is a privately-owned, venture-backed corporation. Products are sold direct in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , France, Germany and the UK as well as through distributors worldwide. Continuus Software Corp., the Continuus logo, Continuus/CM, Continuus/OM, and Continuus/PT are registered trademarks of Continuus Software Corp. All other trademarks, brand and product names are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Continuus Software Corp., Irvine Mark D. Tullio mtullio@continuus.com 714/453-2200, ext. 277 http://www.continuus.com |
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