Professional Services

OpenMake Software offers consulting and education services focused on assisting you with the implementation of a solid Application Lifecycle Management process for both traditional and agile environments.  OpenMake Software is recognized as an authority on build management, continuous integration and the implementation of source code management solutions for over 14 years serving Global 2000 companies in a diverse group of vertical markets including banking, manufacturing, retail, electronics and insurance. Our multi-vendor consulting services include:

Source Code Management Implementation and Conversion Services

Our consultants have experience with implementing and converting a wide variety of Source Code Management tools. We can help you create the application lifecycle process that meets your unique goals and will fit with your choice of SCM solution.  Our expertise includes: Microsoft Visual Studio TFS and TeamBuild, IBM ClearCase and Buildforge,  CA Harvest/CA SCM, MKS Integrity, AccuRev, Subversion and Teamforge, CVS, Serena PVCS and Serena Dimensions.  Or specialty is addressing both the file conversion process as well as converting the underlying build and release scripts to give you a 100% complete migration.

Integration for Agile Methods

Our Consultants are experienced in the design and setup of Continuous Integration Servers and practices.  We can help you understand how to improve your CI process, establish pre-flight build procedures and preserve established production turnover processes that enable the developers to move forward with agile efforts without interrupting clearly defined production release methods.

Build Processes Management Implementation Services

Build Process automation can reduce cost by eliminating redundant tasks performed on a daily basis by your developers.  Our Build Management services provides a full ALM assessment identifying what redundant activities can be incorporated into an automated Build Management Processes solution.

ALM Assessment for Defining Best Practice and Standards

Companies face challenges when establishing best practices around their Application Lifecycle procedures due to the variety of tools and process already put in place by each unique development team.  This challenge leads to the need for defining best practices for implementing ALM in a diverse, mutli-vendor environment.  Our ALM Assessment and Best Practices service assist organizations in defining the ALM landscape so that best practices can be established that serves the entire development organization.

For more information contact the OpenMake Software sales department at (312)440.9545.

Professional Services

Long Term Staff Augmentation Services

Did you know that we provide staff augmentation services to meet any of your long short term ALM consulting needs?  Staff augmentation means you benefit from our teams expertise at a reduced cost. Contact request-info@openmakesoftware.com for more information.

Our ALM Expertise

Our consultants have expertise and may be certified in the following ALM disciplines:

OpenMake Meister/Mojo | CA SCM (Harvest) | CA Service Desk/CMDB | IBM ClearCase | IBM ClearQuest

Microsoft TFS | Microsoft TeamBuild | Microsoft .NET | Subversion | PVCS | Dimensions | MKS

IBM RSA | Eclipse | SCRUM | Continuous Integration | Software Deployment and Delivery

Open Source Testing and Static Code Analysis

Customer Success Stories

100% Build to Deploy automation that is Developer Driven

See how American Family Insurance implemented a secure, developer driven, build to deploy process using OpenMake Meister and CA SCM r12. This demo was presented at CA World 2010 and at the CA technologies Global Lifecycle User Group Quarterly meeting in September of 2010. This demo has an excellent example of how Meister can parallelize the build to deploy process.

 

Meister added Transparency to the process...

"The implementation of Openmake Meister for build management allowed  BNSF to directly address one of their biggest challenges in the area of IT controls. This technology automated the team’s build processes, providing a  complete audit trail of changes, progression and approvals through each lifecycle stage. Finally, the implementation team used MKS Integrity Manager’s capabilities to manage the implementation itself." BNSF Technology Services Division - Learn More

Meister Standardized the compile process across the enterprise at UCLA ...

"UCLA's challenge was to standardize how builds and releases were processed, regardless of the development language used. OpenMake Meister provided this across the enterprise." University of Southern California, Production Control Team Lead - Learn More

 

Meister allowed for developers to be more efficient saving money and time...

"As a company who specializes in process improvement we look for the most efficient ways to manage changing resources and requirements. We found this quality in Openmake Meister. Meister has allowed us to improve our development process by providing a streamlined, agile and 100% transparent build environment across the application lifecycle." Chris Lank, Ivis President and CEO, VP Worldwide Sales, Togethersoft

Meister accelerated builds across multiple remote machines...

"OpenMake Meister drastically reduced the cost of supporting our builds.  Meister allowed our build team to increase the number of builds supported using only 1/2 the staff, configured across 100 remote build agents."   Production Control, Major US Bank

Meister added consistency across multiple languages...

"Meister provides us a standard rules-driven build process regardless of platform, compiler and operating system. We selected Meister because it is the only enterprise-wide build tool that can thoroughly support our mission-critical Java, C/C++, and .NET applications.”   Todd Athorp, Sr Programmer, FIS