OpenMake Meister enables development teams to control software builds, down into the compile and link process, providing standardization, acceleration, and auditing. OpenMake Meister delivers speed, transparency, consistency and repeatability across the life cycle. Reusable Build Services enable large enterprise development teams to standardize on build best practices and eliminate manual build scripting.

Meister builds are aware of complex dependency relationships, which accelerate the development process through build avoidance and parallelization. Meister saves time and money by shortening development cycles and consolidating time consuming redundant tasks. With Meister, organizations have a simplified process for managing the application build across diverse languages and platforms.

Build Acceleration

By directing calculating and managing software dependencies, Meister accelerates builds, enabling teams to implement agile and other fast-moving development processes. Builds are further accelerated by Meister, which can determine which steps in the compile and link process can be performed in parallel – taking full advantage of separate processors on multi-core machine hardware.  Building your application in parallel mode can reduce your build times up to 50%. In addition, with Meister's Build Avoidance technology,  development teams can achieve 10 minute incremental builds, ensuring that continuous integration and unit testing runs smoothly and efficiently for maximum benefit.  Meister's build acceleration features supports all languages including Java and .NET.

Standardized Build Best Practices

Meister is the only solution that gives you complete control over the software build. It manages dependencies, automatically generates build scripts, executes accelerated, incremental builds, and provides detailed audit reports. Meister replaces expensive to maintain homegrown and open source build systems with standardized build services for integrating, compilers, linkers, archive tools and other common development tools into a seamless distributed life cycle management system. Teams benefit by implementing build best practices in a standardized way across all languages and platforms. Meister is also a programmable environment, so build engineers can use the Meister API to develop custom Build Services that tightly integrate their particular combination of commercial, open source, and in-house developed tools into the Meister build management platform.

Eliminate Redundant Manual Tasks

Meister automates manual tasks and eliminates the redundant, error-prone activities commonly performed by build engineers and developers, especially build scripting.  OpenMake Meister ships with over 100 reusable Build Services enabling teams to quickly build applications that use common development tools and environments, such as MSBuild, GCC, Flex, WebSphere, WebLogic, and Java. Meister provides a project dependency database that enables teams to publish and then reuse the output of builds, streamlining the development process and enabling builds to intelligently flow through the software lifecycle. Build scripts are automatically generated by Meister as part of the build process, eliminating costly script errors.

Advanced Build Analytics

Going beyond basic build logs, Meister provides team leads and managers with actionable build analytics, including impact analysis audit reports, to enable better software development decision making. Meister Insight reports document the dependencies, environment and other critical information about a build. Managers can ask and answer important questions around the impact of specific code changes to drive accurate test and release practices. Meister can even embed footprint data in binaries, enabling teams to simplify the software support and maintenance process by unambiguously identifying the contents and origin of any software release.

Enterprise Scalability and Cross-Platform Support

Because OpenMake Meister includes the Mojo distributed Continuous Integration platform, it delivers the benefits of acceleration, standardization and auditing throughout the enterprise. Combined with Continuous Integration, Meister enables teams to automate complex build, test and deploy processes that are tailored to specific needs, rather than forcing teams to adjust their process to fit their build tool. By taking advantage of virtual and cloud computing environments, Meister build management solutions let teams respond quickly to today’s fast moving enterprise development and lifecycle challenges.

IDE and Compiler Integration

OpenMake Meister  provides full integration with IDEs, development tools and ALM p roducts. With built-in support for over 100 commercial and open source development tools and 40 ALM tool plug-ins across all popular languages (including C, C++, C# and Java), Meister provides multilingual and multi-platform support for complex build management requirements.