IBM Rational ClearCase Reviews

ClearCase and engineering tools administrator at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 26 2017

What do you think of IBM Rational ClearCase?

Valuable Features I really appreciate the MultiSite feature. It is important to us due to the global nature of our company. My team supports developers using ClearCase in at least ten locations world-wide. • Improvements to My Organization For years, it was the only solution for a global organization. • Room for Improvement Platform support could be improved. • Use of Solution I have used it for 16 years as a tools administrator and as an SCM in-house consultant. • Stability Issues From time to time, we have some stability pains. In general, it works fine for what it does. • Scalability Issues Given enough horsepower and the infrastructure, due to how it works, we have not encountered any scalability issues as such. However, performance seems to have...

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Alex Karnovsky

CEO at DrAlex Software

Sep 04 2017

What is most valuable?

Rational ClearCase is a tool for software configuration management (SCM). Once it hit the market in early 1990s, it was a revolutionary tool. One of the most remarkable features were dynamic views, which enabled viewing different versions of a product without downloading the files to the developer's computer. Since then, ClearCase powers software development in... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Before ClearCase, there was essentially no configuration management, and a developer often did not know which version of the product was most recent, what was delivered to what client and on what version were his colleagues working. Imagine a group of programmers that write some software, delivers it to a customer and then continues to develop new features. All... more»

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Roxtogo

Senior Manager of Infrastructure at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 22 2017

What do you think of IBM Rational ClearCase?

Valuable Features Our organization has loose guidelines, which are interpreted and enforced in varying levels across business units and technology initiatives. The features allowed us to: Meet requirements for SOX Set a centralized guideline for our development teams • Improvements to My Organization It enabled traceability where we needed to meet regulatory compliance. • Room for Improvement UI Performance Global availability • Stability Issues I have not had any stability issues. • Scalability Issues I have not had any scalability issues. • Customer Service and Technical Support Technical support is OK. • Previous Solutions We used SVN and SourceSafe. We switched for compliance reasons. • Initial Setup The setup was straightforward. • Pricing,...

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What is IBM Rational ClearCase?

IBM Rational ClearCase is an enterprise-grade configuration management system that provides controlled access to software assets, including requirements, design documents, models, test plans and test results. It be can be integrated with other IBM solutions, including IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Asset Manager and IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software.

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