Aldon Lifecycle Manager 6.0 Introduces Enhanced Build and Release Management Functionality for Version Control Users

Emeryville, CA—April 07, 2009—Aldon, the ALM company for IT compliance, today announced Aldon Lifecycle Manager (Enterprise Edition) 6.0, the latest version of its software change management solution now with unparalleled connectivity to today's most widely used version control products. This new version allows software teams to benefit from a comprehensive application lifecycle management (ALM) solution without disrupting or changing a developer's preferred version control application. The product is an integral component to Aldon's Build Release Management (BRM) solution (also announced today) and demonstrates the company's continued commitment to delivering solutions that address both the IT manager and developer needs.

Aldon Lifecycle Manager plays a key role in the application lifecycle, automating the development process, facilitating team development, and deploying applications across multiple platforms while extending the reach into full enterprise development environments. This latest release goes beyond its core software change and configuration management functionality, allowing software teams to use the product more as a "Release Manager," providing a single, auditable path from build to production. Aldon Lifecycle Manager handles the builds, promotions and release management, while the version control systems (Subversion, CVS, Perforce or Microsoft Visual SourceSafe or Team Foundation) manage check-ins, check-outs, and other developer functions. Since all of the process is defined to the Aldon system, current process documentation is always visible and available.

Import Command: The new Aldon Import command checks in the results of the customer's build process into the first testing environment of the release. Each import results in a new "build package." The build package can then be promoted through the move-to-production lifecycle.
History/Traceability: The Import command collects and stores identifying information to tie the build package back to files and other inputs used in the build. The information is generally a revision number, tag or label that is meaningful to the versioning tool. The product keeps that information for so changes in each build package can be traced back to the original source code and developer.
Package Promotion: Build packages can be promoted through the application lifecycle as a unit. Simply select the package and click promote. Aldon Lifecycle Manager checks authorizations to ensure the package has been approved for promotion and automatically moves the package to the next stage of the lifecycle.
Package Deployment: As packages are imported and moved from stage to stage, Aldon LM will deploy them to the appropriate target machines/locations for testing or production. Deployment can be manual or automatic. Rules can be created to identify which packages go to which servers at each stage of the lifecycle. On import, automatic deployment may be used to automatically deploy to servers used to run build verification tests.
Integrity Assurance: The target environment is cleared before a promote or import to ensure that the target environment is clean before promoting the package. Since promotion includes the entire package, the Aldon solution knows exactly what is in the target environment once the promote process is complete. Users can be confident that they are testing exactly what they mean to test.
Failure Protection: A partial failure of an import or promote marks the target environment, preventing promotion or deployment of the package until the problem is resolved.
Recovery/Deployment: Should it be necessary, a previously deployed package can be selected and redeployed to replace a defective package.
Permissions Enforcement: Users can be individually authorized to request and/or approve a promotion. These permissions can be different for each stage of the lifecycle and for each application or version of an application.
Task Management: A build package can be associated with one or more tasks. The association applies to all files in the package. This allows for viewing and historical tracking by task.

Aldon Lifecycle Manager comes with a host of other benefits that helps IT shops streamline development. It allows users to quickly access up-to-the-minute information on productivity, staff utilization, application development progress, deployments, and statistics on incident resolution and other historical data. Users can improve, accelerate, and oversee the entire development processes. It can provide teams with customizable reports and dashboards that offer instant overviews of project status, metrics, and key performance indicators providing the visibility and information needed to make decisions about deploying resources and assessing the return on IT projects. It provides superior collaboration across an IT department, allowing developers and managers to see the change request information that was gathered during the initial reporting and review process and actually get involved and give technical input before mistakes can be made.

Aldon's ALM solutions have impacted thousands of end-user customers ensuring that change management, collaboration, and compliance are applied consistently across all areas of IT.

Aldon Lifecycle Manager 6.0 is available immediately. If you would like more information on the solution please go to http://www.aldon.com/products/lm/.

About Aldon

Aldon is the ALM company for IT compliance. For over 25 years, we have been the experts in providing application lifecycle management solutions to ensure that change management, collaboration, and compliance are applied consistently across all areas of IT. Through our user-centric approach to process management, our service, change, and release management products help you focus on what you do best—providing superior services, rapidly developing applications, and efficiently managing your IT operations. Behind the scenes, we help you increase productivity, accelerate time-to-market, fully understand your IT assets, and easily achieve compliance with regulatory standards. A true testament to our products is our customer base with over 1,300 companies worldwide in over 70 of the Fortune 100. These companies rely upon our solutions to manage their global IT business and operations processes including application development, network operations, and services management. We are headquartered in Emeryville, California and have offices around the world serving more than 60 countries.

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