What Customers and Industry Experts are Saying about Build Management using Meister

• "Although Openmake already offers, on a daily basis, increased productivity and quality to the Fortis WebSphere Competence Centers (150 persons), compared to manually controlled builds, Openmake also completes the configuration management process through it's central build capabilities. Owing to this, Fortis fully controls all internal and external software assets completely within the very fast evolving J2EE world.” - see the details of the Fortis Implementation.

  Matthias Pyck, System Advisor, Fortis Bank in Belgium

  
  

• "OpenMake Software's approach to build management compliments Serena's approach to Change Governance by providing the critical IT governance step of validating matching source to executables. This rock solid approach to managing builds is why we include the Openmake technology in our ChangeMan SCM solutions."

  Mark Woodward, Former President/CEO Serena Software Inc.

  
  

• "The integration of Openmake and CA’s Harvest Change Manager helps eliminate inefficiencies in the build process by streamlining the management of complex development activities across the enterprise and throughout the development life cycle. This integration also delivers critical audit function and impact analysis that are essential for meeting today's stringent IT governance standards"

  Terrence Clark, VP, Business Service Optimization Development
  Computer Associates

  
  

• "Next to documentation, build management is likely to be the least satisfying task a developer must address every day. A lot of software investment ends up in the time it takes to constantly tweak the make files needed to keep a system maintainable. Developers are looking for innovative solutions that will reduce software coding by a factor of five."

  Jim Duggan, Research Vice President for Applications Development, Gartner Research

  
  

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

  Todd Athorp, Senior Programmer Analyst, Metavante Corporation

  
  

• "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. Openmake 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 Technologies, President and CEO
  VP Worldwide Sales, Togethersoft