Alaska Airlines Standardizes on AccuRev SCM for Consistent Process
Automation and Collaboration
Enhances Artifact Traceability and Reproducibility for a Myriad of
Parallel Development Projects
AccuRev Inc. today announced that Alaska Airlines, one of the largest
U.S. airlines and the dominant west coast air carrier, has standardized
on AccuRev® for
process-centric software
configuration management (SCM). Known for embracing innovative
technology to improve the customer experience, Alaska Airlines chose
AccuRev to be at the center of its best-of-breed application lifecycle
management (ALM) strategy.
Chris Barnes, Senior Project Manager, Alaska Airlines commented, “We
have estimated a cost savings of well over $100,000 for just two of our
twelve development teams that will be standardizing on AccuRev through
the end of 2006 to enhance development collaboration. Our eCommerce team
alone must manage more than 26 projects at once and the merging and
parallel development capabilities of AccuRev are ideal for this level of
complexity.”
Six of these twelve teams are already in production with AccuRev
including the eCommerce Web site (alaskaair.com), all Flight Operations
including dispatching, and the Alaska Airlines frequent flyer Mileage
Plan. In total, over 400 applications will be managed by AccuRev,
providing a secure, centralized repository to increase audit-ability,
artifact traceability and reproducibility. Ease of use has also allowed
development teams that typically don’t store
their code in a centralized repository to begin using the
AccuRev process-centric SCM solution.
Productivity improvements within QA and testing groups are already
evident by providing these teams with a consistent, automated standard
process with increased visibility into what code streams are being
tested. Teams no longer have to spend valuable time merging code changes
or testing and fixing build problems, vastly increasing productivity and
quality.
AccuRev was selected after an exhaustive evaluation of all the leading
SCM vendors for its ability to visually represent and model Alaska
Airlines’ development process and manage
multiple software releases in parallel in a more efficient manner than
its previous file-based SCM tool. AccuRev will be used by Alaska Airlines’
developers, business analysts, quality assurance (QA) engineers, and
production services staff within its Microsoft .NET environment. In
addition, Unix developers managing Siebel and PeopleSoft are using
AccuRev to store and manage change to their scripts.
About Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines and sister carrier, Horizon Air, together serve 89
cities through an expansive network throughout Alaska, the Lower 48,
Canada and Mexico. For reservations visit alaskaair.com.
For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air
Newsroom at alaskaair.com/newsroom.
About AccuRev Inc.
AccuRev is the leading provider of process-centric software
configuration management (SCM) with a best-of-breed approach to
application lifecycle management (ALM). This approach enables unlimited,
adaptable, and compliant process models offering customers maximum
flexibility and control. The AccuRev interface, with integrated
issue-based workflow, advanced visualization, process automation, and
artifact traceability improves collaboration, visibility and management
of parallel and distributed development for geographically distributed
and outsourced teams to remain agile and competitive.
AccuRev supports open standards and SOA-based development tool
interoperability across Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms. As
an active participant in the Eclipse
Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) project, AccuRev is committed
to reducing the cost and complexity associated with the integration of
multiple vendor tools throughout the software application lifecycle.
AccuRev is used by a growing number of global enterprises, including
American Airlines, Citibank, Polycom, Sony Computer Entertainment,
Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin. AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in
Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More information about
AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com,
or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada), and 1-781-861-8700
(Outside North America).
Copyright © 2007 AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev and
TimeSafe are trademarks or registered trademarks of AccuRev, Inc. All
other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their
respective owners.
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