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OpenMake Meister

OpenMake Meister releases the power of software builds delivering speed, consistency, transparency and repeatability across the application lifecycle.   Meister saves project teams time and money by shortening development cycles and consolidating what would normally be time consuming redundant tasks.

Meister's difference is in the way it delivers the full potential of the build automation process.  Meister integrates with build engines to create synchronized pre-commit, continuous and team builds for today's quickly changing development environment.   Through build automation, developers can maximize on feedback loops and accelerate builds for multiple languages including C and Java.

By addressing the complexities found in the build process,  Meister offers development organizations a simplified and standardized process for managing the application build across diverse languages and platforms.  Meister integrates with more IDEs, development tools, and ALM products than any of its competitors including other workflow automation solutions.

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Meister's Key Benefits: 

100% Automation

Meister is the only solution that provides both build and workflow processing giving you 100% automation.   Most solutions only address a small part of process automation, the calling of standard scripts and Application Lifecycle tools for workflow processing.  This represents about 10% of the total process automation challenge.  Meister also resolves the most difficult aspect of software development, the build itself giving you 100% automation for both build and workflow. 

"Out of the box" Development Tool, IDE, and Compiler Integration

Meister integrates with over 200 development tools and can be customized to support any command line process.  Out of the box solutions include: Maven and Ant, Eclipse Workspace and the Eclipse JDT/CDT,  Java Jar, Java War, Javadoc, Ear, War Deployment Descriptors, Microsoft Visual Studio .Net (2003, 2005, 2008) project and solution files integrated with DevEnv and MSBuild,  Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 integrated with Nmake, Microsoft Visual Basic Integrated with VB6.exe and VB5.exe, IBM Rational Application Developer (Jar, War, Ear) integrated into Eclipse Framework, IBM Websphere 5.1 and 6.0 (Ear, War, Jar, EJBDeploy, WSEJDeploy), Weblogic (JSPC, EJB, Jar, War, Servicegen, XMLBeans), Borland Delphi integrated with DCC32.exe, Gnu Compiler for DLLs and EXEs, Oracle Forms, Menus, PSQL and Reports, Sybase ASE (ISQL), Microfocus Cobol, PeopleSoft, PowerGen/PowerBuilder, Tuxedo Server and Client, z/OS Cobol,  CICS,  PL1, Assembler,  DB2.

Build Acceleration for C and Java

The speed of the build determines the time it takes for developers to get the feed back needed that allows them to progress forward in their coding activities.  Fast builds are needed for pre-commit, continuous integration and emergency builds.  Meister accelerates build times for many languages including both C and Java.  With shorter builds, there is no time wasted "waiting for the build".  Builds that take longer than a few minutes impede development activities and waste valuable developer time and money.  

High ROI thru Reduced Development Costs

Meister automates manual tasks and eliminates redundant activities commonly performed by developers.  From automatically updating build scripts to providing a framework of reusable tasks, Meister reduces development cost by supporting 100% automation in both build and workflow processing.  Minimizing the repetitive manual tasks is the most effective method of meeting your project deadlines and beating your project budget.  Meister's automation and acceleration gets you there. 

Eliminates "Bad Builds"

"Bad builds" are a symptom of a process that is not standardized or repeatable.  Bad builds are common in a manually scripted process because the scripts themselves are static, while the development going on around them is fast changing and dynamic. Meister eliminates the "bad build" by synchronizing the activities occurring on each development machine, with the activities performed at the team build level including pre-commit, continuous and pre-production build levels.  

Handles Your Toughest Builds

Meister has met the toughest of build challenges for over 100,000 users.  Meister was designed to support cross platform and cross language systems with complex and circular dependency mappings.  The larger the application the more complex the build becomes and the more difficult it is to understand how and where the pieces fit together.  Meister's extreme dependency management builds the blueprints to manage the most complex systems.  No build is too much for Meister. 

Supports Agile and Traditional Styles of Development

Hybrid development environments are not uncommon as different teams within an organization begins implementing new and improved processes.  Meister supports both agile and the more traditional styles of application development.  Meister can easily support agile methods with it's continuous integration and pre-commit build processing.  Developers working in a waterfall methodology can define builds to support multiple parallel streams from development to production across the lifecycle.  And best yet, Meister allows you to do both for a single project, giving developers their agile practices and SCM administrators their standard approval process from test to release.

Workflow Processing