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Enabling Effective Change Management With an Integrated Change Control Mechanism

Altering IT systems is a key capability enterprises must possess if they wish to effectively keep pace with an evolving business landscape. Managing this process with the help of a comprehensive, fully integrated change management solution allows organizations to exert a higher degree of control over when, why and by...

Tags: Change Control, Computer Associates International Inc., Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-03-01

Continental Corporation, Ltd. Speeds Engineering Cycle by Accelerating Access to Designs and Models

Continental Corporation, Ltd. wanted to accelerate design and engineering cycle time for the company's powertrain division products and remain competitive in the automotive industry, which is experiencing declining margins. The challenge was to extend and speed access to computer-aided-design documents for the engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing departments. Continental Corporation implemented...

Tags: Product Lifecycle, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Change Control, Engineering, Product Lifecycle Management, CAD, Product Marketing, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2009-02-01

Change Control Policy

Keeping track of changes to equipment, software, procedures, and anything else related to the information Technology environment within an organization can be quite a feat. The better an organization can document these changes and keep track of changes to how things are done, the smoother these transitions will be...

Tags: Change Control, Change

Download resources 2009-01-08

CS-RCS Pro 5.1.285 (Windows)

ComponentSoftware RCS (CS-RCS) is a powerful, inexpensive version control system for Windows. Based on the widely used GNU RCS, it is fully integrated with the Windows Explorer, providing the most intuitive and easy-to-use configuration management and change control solution in the market. CS-RCS supports multi-platform workgroups, making it the ideal...

Tags: Change Control, ComponentSoftware, CS-RCS, CS-RCS Pro, Microsoft Windows, Terminal Services, WANs, Operating Systems, Networking, Open Source, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-18

CS-RCS Basic 5.1.285 (Windows)

ComponentSoftware RCS (CS-RCS) is a powerful, inexpensive revision control system for Windows. Based on the widely used GNU RCS, it is fully integrated with the Windows Explorer, providing the most intuitive and easy-to-use configuration management and change control solution in the market. CS-RCS supports multi- platform workgroups, making it the...

Tags: Change Control, Configuration Management, Web Development, ComponentSoftware, CS-RCS, CS-RCS Pro, Microsoft Windows, WANs, Operating Systems, Networking, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-07

Smith & Nephew Streamlines Engineering Change Control Process to Shorten Review Cycle

In the medical devices world, Smith & Nephew is synonymous with high standards of performance, innovation and trust. The company's orthopedic reconstruction unit began searching for an enterprise visualization solution to replace a previously discontinued viewer. One major requirement for the new visualization solution was its ability to integrate with...

Tags: Smith & Nephew Plc., Oracle Corp., Change Control, Healthcare, Quality, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-03-01

Top Four Tips to Rapidly Implement and Generate ROI From a Warehouse Management System

Just like issue resolution, a strong change control process is also a necessary pre-requisite for a successful project. No matter how detailed the RFP or system specification, it is impossible to know everything about a project before starting. A solid change control process helps navigate new requirements by: controlling risk...

Tags: Warehouse Management System, HighJump Software Inc., Change Control, ROI, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2008-03-01

NEC Infrontia Embeds Change Control From Solidcore as Foundation for Point-of-Sale Systems

NEC Infrontia is engaged in three business areas: i-Communication System, i-Appliance, and i-Solution. The company wanted to reduce its support costs so the company could focus on expanding its core business based on XP Embedded and WEPOS POS terminals. The company was looking to secure and gain better control over...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Change Control, NEC Corp., Solidcore Systems, NEC Infrontia

Case studies 2007-09-26

Reduce repetitive formatting for Access objects

If you find yourself constantly making formatting adjustments to Access objects on the fly, you're bogging yourself down unnecessarily. As Access expert Susan Harkins explains, a couple of tricks can save you tons of time: Either change control defaults for a particular form or report or customize a form or...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Change Control, Susan Harkins, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Download resources 2007-05-07

Getting the Most Out of Your Change Control System Measuring Software Quality

Configuration Management CM tools are often cited as the first process automation implemented when establishing a software development environment. The only other tool more commonly found is the editor/compiler. CM tools that support the entire CM process will have two components, one for a file and configuration control part and...

Tags: Software, Change Control, Configuration Management, Tool, Distributive Software, Configuration Management Tool, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-07-26

Addressing the Insider Threat with NetIQ Operational Change Control Solutions

Organisations typically grant IT administrators more access than is required to make simple changes to their production servers and applications. In order to comply with regulations and ensure the integrity of their IT infrastructure, organisations need to more tightly control changes. This white paper looks at how NetIQ can...

Tags: Insider Threat, NetIQ Corp., Change Control

White papers 2006-07-20

Mercury automates change control management

I hear a lot about change control these days. During the Churchill Club CIO panel discussion last week, Randall Spratt, CIO of McKesson Corp., talked about the quality of the change management function as an indicator of whether an IT project will succeed or fail. Enterprises are constantly making application,...

Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp.

Blog posts 2006-05-01

AAP System 1.0.1 (Windows)

AAP System is a complete software change control tool. The tool enables audit of the software changes to the business software through the processes/work flow built into the tool. The user can accelerate the movement of the software changes from development to production through the simple processes/work flow. The tool...

Tags: Software, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Change Control, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Aap Raga, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2005-04-07

Configuration Management and Engineering Change Control

This paper will provide practical approaches to implementing and managing engineering changes and explore Product Data Management PDM or Product Information Management PIM and Enterprise Resource Planning ERP can be used as a tool to support configuration management and engineering change control. A company may evaluate and process many thousands...

Tags: Change Control, Configuration Management, DRM Associates, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security

White papers

Reducing the Cost of SOx Compliance - Learning From ISO9000 Implementation

CFOs looking to reduce the cost of sustaining SOx compliance look no further than their Quality Management organization. The techniques that helped a manufacturer reduce the cost of staying compliant with ISO9000 will also enable a CFO to sustain SOx 404 compliance at significantly lower costs. When US manufacturers started...

Tags: Change Control, Quality Management, Compliance, SOX Compliance, MetricStream Inc., Quality, Business Operations

White papers

Additional Resources

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online

Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...

Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Soxy 1.0 (Mac)

There's a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator... installed on the same computer. Double-clicking a file's icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly re-save a document into a more recent file format,...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Macintosh, Rorohiko, Soxy, Desktops, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-19

AT&T loses lawsuit over Verizon's map commercial

Ha! Take THAT Such a silly waste of the court's time. If they finally lose, I hope they are made to pay treble court costs just as a lesson in frivolous lawsuits clogging the courts. That would send a much needed messageThat if a corporation is going to...

Tags: Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., GSM, CDMA, Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., W-CDMA

Discussion threads 2009-11-18