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Anthill for Development Managers

Real-time Insight into Progress

With AnthillPro you get real-time insight into the current state of the code base. You can see what requirements have been completed and tested, what tests are passing or failing, and more. You can even access low level details, such as who is changing what files, by viewing the changelogs that record all source code changes.

Integration with Your Existing Tools and Environments

Because it integrates with your existing tool set, AnthillPro seamlessly fits into your ecosystem. Out of the box, AnthillPro integrates with existing SCM systems and all of your existing ALA (Application Lifecycle Automation) server tools: requirements management, issue tracking, testing, etc.

AnthillPro to deploy your applications. AnthillPro can deploy the database portion of an application to Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, MySql, Postgres, or any other database. You can also use AnthillPro to deploy your J2EE application to BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server, or any other J2EE-compliant server.

Because AnthillPro is cross platform, you can build and deploy any application, regardless of what language or technology it uses, on any operating system. AnthillPro can be used to manage projects written in C/C++, .Net, Java, VisualBasic, and other less common or proprietary platforms.

Enterprise features, such as integration with your LDAP server, mean AnthillPro can be quickly deployed in your environment and smoothly integrate into your existing infrastructure.

Compliance Through Auditability, Traceability, Role-based Security and a Defined Process

AnthillPro allows you to implement out-of-the-box compliance. The integration between AnthillPro and your SCM guarantees that the source code used for each build is uniquely identified, and that there is traceability from the build artifact back to the originating source code.

AnthillPro's security system provides traceability and auditability of the person that initiated a build or moved a build to a different environment (i.e. production). With AnthillPro's role-based security, it's easy to implement a separation of roles, ensuring, for example, that developers can't promote a build into production unless you want them to. AnthillPro captures all the data your compliance department requires, and then makes it available in the format and reports they expect. With AnthillPro, your compliance issues will go away and your next audit will be a non-event.

You can also define workflows that model your approval and promotion processes with AnthillPro. And because you can define manual hand-off gates with AnthillPro, you can retain human approvals.

Increased Productivity

With AnthillPro your teams will spend less time putting out fires and more time on productive work. If you use AnthillPro to implement Continuous Integration and automate tests, development teams will discover potential bugs early in the development cycle, making bug fixes easier and less costly.