PTC Windchill RV&S

Formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager

As PTC places PTC Windchill RV&S is confirmed in the market. PTC is able to lead the market well. It is due to the American university mechanism for software research and science that innovation does not come the first time up in industrial software applications. Software developer save costs and effort and reuse unitary first developed software in their applications. So no wonder that Git emerged and innovation roles, views and perspectives and responsibilities management a lot and that HTML5 revolutionized all the PTC infrastructure. Another source of innovation are the resources needed for all kinds of computation and the integration of Industry 4.0 into all processes. In all that PTC only follows and has to keep the pace of others but not of their direct competitors. This leads to a complicated specialist market behavior among the market tiers. So in times of change, it is brilliant advice to wait and stick to the processes already introduced and well approved. The trend to more diverse solutions that have to be integrated is specific to the applications and can not be integrated into big systems at once. So the applications, not the competitor govern the changes and emerging concepts.

There are some tools which are available for free like GitHub. I've used StarTeam when it was a product of Borland, and while using PTC Integrity, I feel PTC Integrity has most of the features which were available in StarTeam. Although there are some other free tools like Tortoise SVN, it's always better to stick with tools which are licensed and supported in case of any issues/problems.

The single interface that it provides to access all the information about the project, right from requirements to the source code.

We liked that PTC Integrity requirements management, testing and source control are accessible through a single interface. This is not what we found with DOORS. DOORS only offers requirements management and testing and they are in separate interfaces. We are also beginning to use Jama here. Jama also seems to be a good product. It is more easily configurable and the requirements and resting are accessible from one interface but I think there may be more of a learning curve to creating requirements in the web interface. It is too early to tell to give a good opinion. PTC Integrity support is excellent!! They have always provided answers to all of my questions with one phone call. Jama support is a little less attentive.

Nothing compares with PTC Integrity.

I think the reason that PTC Integrity was initially chosen is that it was the best product available in the mix at the time. This coupled with the PTC deal on multiple products was a no brainer based on the size and scope of potential users.

MKS Integrity is a toolbox of components that you can use to create any Software Change Configuration Management system to fit your own organization. This was the main reason why we went with Integrity over the other solutions that were evaluated.

It allows for all functions (analyst, developer, tester and release manager) to be completed using one tool.

We evaluated IBM's offering and CMstat. IBM's offering is "klugy", we needed Rhapsody, ClearQuest and ClearCase to get all the components to answer our requirements. And it's very costly. CMstat offered a good change managment solution, but was lacking in version control features. The interface was antiquated.

I was previously employed by a electronic laboratory notebook (ELNN company in Columbus Ohio. I felt that MKS and the ELN that I worked at in the past were more or less similar in terms of functionality, however both the products address different needs.

It was the price and company size which was the key factor in this case, compared to other similar products.

MS Team Foundation is much better, it is flexible and customizable.

Source Tree and Stash with Git.

MKS integrity does well in some areas such as merging changes into the main trunk and managing change sets. We actually selected Git after using MKS integrity for over 7 years.

Can you give some details as to why you selected Integrity over this tool?