McCabe Software Application Lifecycle Solutions at Citigroup

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McCabe SoftwareApplication Lifecycle Solutions
at Citigroup
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• Introduction and Opening Comments
• Frank Ryan,VP Change Control Group, Citigroup

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• Introduction and Opening Comments
• David Belhumeur,CEO McCabe Software

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McCabe Overview

• Since 1977, McCabe Software has been a leader in
  providing Application Lifecycle Management
  Solutions to top organizations worldwide.
• McCabe Software is a privately held company
  headquartered in RI.
• Offices in MA, MD and the UK.
• Development and distribution worldwide.

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Agenda

• Opening Comments
• Company Overview
• McCabe Products
• Citigroup and McCabe
• Existing relationship
• Moving forward
• TRUEchange ITIL Practices and Process
• Current and Future Offerings
• TRUEchange within Citigroup
• Questions
• Demonstration

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McCabe Software Products
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McCabe IQ

• McCabes software quality management suite
• Cyclomatic Complexity, an industry standard was
  developed by Tom McCabe Sr.
• Graphical display of code complexity.
• Dynamic analysis of testing coverage.
• Detailed metrics and reporting.
• Focus resources on more complex areas.
• Assure quality.
• Provide confidence.

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McCabe CM
McCabe CM - TRUEchange Agent

• McCabe CM - TRUEchange and Agent make up our
  software change and configuration management
  solutions set
• TRUEchange is the flagship solution under this
  banner and its Integrated Difference technology
  is unique in the industry, avoiding the
  limitations of traditional dependent delta
  technology.
• Low administrative overhead - ROI
• Integrates with defect tracking and IDE
  solutions.
• The Agent is a Remote Deployment solution
  delivering universal release management
  capabilities allowing you to release/deploy
  change across a worldwide enterprise

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McCabe CM - TRUEchange Better On Purpose

• The core technology behind TRUEchange was
  developed in 1984.
• Our change management approach is not new, but
  is still unique to the industry.
• TRUEchange has a pure lineage, not having been
  mashed together with other, acquired,
  technologies.
• While our open architecture allows us to
  integrate with different SDLC technologies, our
  McCabe CM products (TRUEchange, Agent) work
  seamlessly together because they were built to do
  so.

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McCabe Relationship with Citigroup

• Citigroup has been a valued customer and partner
  in the evolution of TRUEchange for over a decade,
  and our technological roadmap has dovetailed
  nicely with your requirements over that span.
• History of meeting Citigroups needs while
  working in close conjunction with Frank Ryans
  Change Control group. i.e. Bill Hymen has
  contributed to both the ZLinux port and Agent
  testing.
• McCabe is consistently responsive in addressing
  needs and concerns of Citigroup.

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Moving Forward with Citi

• McCabe will continue to emphasize the positive
  impact and outcomes that we can provide to the
  organization. Some of our short-term initiatives
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• To provide informational material and, in the
  near future, tutorials and software updates via
  the www.mccabe.com/citi portal
• To provide other business units within Citigroup
  with information about our solutions via On Site
  events, etc.

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Benefits

• Our history - We have worked closely with
  Citigroup over the last 10 years and will
  continue to adapt and meet your needs in the
  future.
• Extensive platform support
• Platform independent client
• Low administrator to user ratio
• Portability
• Reliability
• Security - Role and Phase-based
• Audit Compliance
• In 2007, TRUEchange was among a select few listed
  in the Gartner Groups annual SCCM review.

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TRUEchange ITIL

• Barbara Dumas, Application Lifecycle Technology

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ITIL FrameworkWhere does TRUEchange fit in?

• ITIL framework is not tool specific but tools
  can undoubtedly contribute to or diminish the
  ability to manage and measure IT assets and
  resources.
• TRUEchange provides a software configuration
  management environment that inherently manages
  the elements of change as an entity.

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TRUEchange and ITIL Change Management

• TRUEchange source code control provides a
  superior, and flexible process for managing
  software changes across the entire lifecycle of
  the application.
• Request for Change
• Assignment
• Apply the change
• Test
• Accept
• Changes cannot be lost, or modified. Complete
  history regarding the specific change is
  maintained always.

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TRUEchange and ITIL Release Management

• TRUEchange Configurations are used for deploying
  source code updates and/or updated packages to a
  local file system in a repeatable, secure
  manner.
• TRUEchange Agent for deploying source code
  updates and/or updated packages to remote
  machines in a repeatable, secure manner.
• Schedule multiple deployments.
• Execute remote scripts
• Agent maintains deployment history

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ITIL and Configuration Management

• Within the scope of an organization, CM relates
  to the identification, management of assets, and
  the relationships between those assets.
• Using the McCabe tools, for software
  configuration management, this process is already
  in place. As a result of the detail we maintain
  at the software, change, and package level we
  can contribute to relevant configuration items
  (CIs) maintained within the organizational CMDB
  structure.

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The Fundamental Process Chain
MissionEvery change must be controlled along
the process chain. Not just a reference to the
change but the change itself!
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Our Partners at Work
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Current and Future Product Offerings

• Don Mulrenan,
• Product SpecialistMcCabe Software, Inc.

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Scope of McCabe at Citi

• McCabe CM TRUEchange is currently in use
  throughout the Citigroup organization.
• Groups use TRUEchange primarily for the
  development and management of internal source
  code.
• The source code is packaged and provided to the
  Change Control group for deployment.

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Direct Benefits to Citi

• Current benefits of TRUEchange that are available
  to groups within Citi
• Integration with .Net
• Integration with Eclipse
• The Stream CM managed workspace
• McCabe/Citi portal available for training
  purposes or possibly software upgrades.

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Why TRUEchange

• TRUEchange is the only Software Change and
  Configuration Management solution to utilize
  'Integrated Difference' technology
• Unparalleled Support for Parallel Releases
• Drag-and-Drop Technology to Migrate Change in
  Seconds, Not Days
• Agile Workspace and Intuitive Stream View to Get
  You Up and Running in No Time
• Lock down code releases
• Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership
• Secure Support for Globally Distributed
  Development
• Pass Federal, State, and Internal Audits
  (Sarbanes-Oxley, etc)

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More Reasons Why Integrated Difference Technology
is Better

• Nothing is lost ever
• Complete traceability for audit purposes
• Reproducibility
• Selective Migration

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Configurations

• Configurations enable the logical grouping of
  applications, libraries or modules from disparate
  projects and tie them together into a manageable
  unit for build or deployment purposes.

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Remote Deployment with the Agent

• The Agent easily deploys packages to multiple
  platforms saves time.
• The Agent extends the capabilities of TRUEchange.
  TRUEchange excels at providing traceability
  between the deployed application and the original
  source code
• Deploy the way you need to full or incremental,
  scheduled or immediate.
• Meet regulatory compliance and process
  enforcement guidelines with separation of duties
  via role based security (ITIL, SOX, etc)

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Future Directions
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WAN performance

• As more and more sites adopt global, distributed
  development, McCabe is working to further
  optimize TRUEchange performance over the WAN
• Compression currently applied to status files
  reading, inside StreamCM
• Will extend to cover transaction files, agent
  communication, CLI, and integrations

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LDAP licensing

• LDAP integration will enable TRUEchange to
  participate in corporate-wide user
  authentication
• The LDAP feature will be designed to work with
  Microsoft Active Directory
• Will satisfy corporate requirements for expiring
  passwords, password strength etc.

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StreamCM Administration Functionality

• StreamCM client is already the most powerful
  TRUEchange client. Administration functionality
  will include
• Adding/Updating users
• Updating file type definitions
• Resetting passwords

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UTF-16 Encoding Support

• Latest versions of MS Visual Studio are using
  UTF-16 encoding by default
• UTF-16 files currently need to be stored in
  binary format in TRUEchange
• Native support for UTF-16 will enable file
  differencing, conflict resolution etc

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Unicode Entity Support

• Improve I18N by allowing UTF-8 characters for
• Project names
• Branch names
• Checkout and checkin descriptions
• Configuration names
• File and directory names
• File content

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Agent Enhancements

• Ability to delete files on a remote file system
• Ability to compare remote files with files in the
  repository
• Ability to browse remote files
• Logging non-frozen deployments
• Logging file copyouts with no script executed

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Training

• Enhanced training/evaluation materials making use
  of virtual environments

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New Server

• Next generation server that will continue to
  distinguish, and strengthen the advantages of
  using TRUEchange
• Expanded reporting and metrics
• All new features, e.g. Point in time file content
  retrieval
• Server performance improvements

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Questions?
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Demonstration
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Thank you!