Rational Synergy is a software tool that provides software configuration management (SCM) capabilities for all artifacts related to software development including source code, documents and images as well as the final built software executables and libraries.
Rational Synergy is a software tool that provides software configuration management (SCM) capabilities for all artifacts related to software development including source code, documents and images as well as the final built software executables and libraries. Rational Synergy also provides the repository for the Rational change management tool known as Rational Change. Together these two tools form an integrated configuration management and change management environment that is used in software development organizations that need controlled SCM processes and an understanding of what is in a build of their software.
The name Synergy refers to its database level integration with Change Management that provides views into what is in a build in terms of defects
Synergy began life as a research project for computer-aided software engineering, at a company called CaseWare in 1988. Both the company and the product were renamed from CaseWare to Continuus Software in 1993. In 2000, the Swedish software company Telelogic, purchased Continuus software and renamed the product Synergy. In 2008 IBM Rational announced that it had purchased Telelogic. Rational Synergy is now part of the IBM Rational family of SCM tools.
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