Listing of Forrester Reports for SCM Tools

This page contains a listing of Forrester Reportsfor SCM tools. Forrester is a leading company indiscovering vendor tool directions and consumer trends.

Subversion Is The Best Option For Standalone SCM

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Carey Schwaber with Mike Gilpin, Jacqueline Stone This is a document excerptEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Subversion is a viable standalone software configuration management (SCM) solution and is appropriate for enterprise usage. Like AccuRev, Perforce, and Serena PVCS Version Manager, Subversion is more powerful when combined with a separate change management tool like Atlassian JIRA or Trac or a separate application life-cycle management (ALM) solution from a vendor like CollabNet or Polarion Software. Subversion's strengths are scalability, administration, and support for geographic distribution; its weaknesses are reporting and analytics, life-cycle integration, and, of course, change management. In addition, Subversion is also the most cost- effective and developer-friendly offering available today. Readers should note that in our evaluation of Subversion, we included the capabilities of other open source utilities built explicitly for Subversion, such as RapidSVN and StatSVN.

Forrester Reports - Subversion Is The Best Option For Standalone SCM

IBM Is The Unified SCCM Front-Runner, Subversion Leads On Standalone SCM

The Forrester Wave™, Q2 2007

by Carey Schwaber with Mike Gilpin, Jacqueline Stone

This is a document excerptEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Software change and configuration management (SCCM) solutions permit IT organizations to manage the changes that they make to software during development and maintenance. Forrester's product-based evaluation of 11 leading SCCM solutions across 123 criteria revealed that IBM is the front-runner in SCCM but that Subversion is the sole Leader in standalone software configuration management (SCM). Serena Dimensions comes close to IBM on current SCCM capabilities but has a less compelling product road map. Borland Software and MKS have well-rounded offerings, but neither stands out in the crowd; in contrast, Telelogic and CA both have strong appeal to narrower audiences. Microsoft's solution has matured considerably since our last evaluation and is well positioned to capture additional market share. Perforce and AccuRev are both Contenders in SCCM but Strong Performers in terms of standalone SCM; both are better in conjunction with separate change management solutions.

The Forrester Wave™: SCM

Serena Has The Most Capable SCM

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007

by Carey Schwaber with Mike Gilpin, Jacqueline Stone

This is a document excerptEXECUTIVE SUMMARY Serena Dimensions CM has changed more than any other software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution since our 2005 evaluation, now boasting a single repository; a better install process; completely new Eclipse, Visual Studio, and Windows Explorer clients; and new dashboards. However, some holes remain. Everyone loves dashboards, but basic reporting capabilities are still weak. And the administrative burden and initial implementation times for Dimensions are still significantly higher than average. Dimensions' capabilities rate high in all other aspects of our evaluation, with notable support for cross-platform development, security, configuration management, and life-cycle integration. A relatively weak product road map and a high price point are all that keeps Serena Dimensions out of the Leaders circle.

Forrester Reports - Serena Has The Most Capable SCM