at-a-glance
Aldon for IBM i Software Change Management

One Way > Legacy Apps, No Automation, Painful Compliance.

The IBM i platform is probably running some of your most crucial apps from finance to operations to manufacturing to the CRM system. Application changes are frequent, enhancement lists long, and releases complex. Maybe you are adding web fronts to the applications, or updating/writing apps for use with today's latest mobile devices? Maybe your team is spread across various geographic locations, with some teams working on the IBM i while others are on Linux or Windows and it gets hard to tell who's working on what, what the project status is, and where it all lives. The bottom line is that release management can quickly get messy, the wrong code is moved into production, and there is no easy way to roll back. And what about compliance? Are you handling compliance deliverables on a manual level, basically dreading audit-time? Maybe you have outgrown your current software change management solution. Who wants to work this way?

The Aldon Way > Simplify Development, No Matter How Complex.

We see i to i. Just like the IBM i, the Aldon ALM solution is known for its performance and powerful automation. From point-and-click package promotion to integrity assurance to package deployment and redeployment to history and traceability, you'll find that once you use the Aldon ALM solution you won't know how you survived without it. By replacing tedious, manual processes, you can not only address compliance, you can reduce costs, ensure application integrity, gain efficiencies and speed up software delivery times.

Whether you work from a green screen, WDSc, or RAD, or on another platform altogether, the Aldon ALM solution puts everyone onto the same process-based system—regardless of platform, language, or location—so you can have total visibility across IT. From a single screen, you can track project status, view service request completion, monitor hardware and software requirements, and see who's working on what code. You are able to view each and every IT asset you have—applications, objects, projects—their interdependencies and what happens if you change them. Users are able to work on a multitude of file types, and compare and merge files— all from multiple platforms. And with a single repository for the IBM i, everything is in one place.

As a manager, you'll know and control what's going on at any time, while letting your developers develop and collaborate.

Seeing Everything in One Place.

Aldon automatically builds, organizes, and maintains a central inventory of all application components. You can easily view and access all the application components by business function at various stages, across multiple environments, and in conjunction with multiple project teams. And to top this off, it is done all from one screen!

Automatically Managing Releases and Distribution.

Applications can be broken down into versions or releases. This helps maintain custom versions or modified packaged applications. Our solutions even let your developers maintain a production version concurrently with a new version under development.

Improving Software Quality and Reducing Cost.

With the complete ability to capture, see, track, and report on all changes and releases, you now have the capability to maintain package integrity and automate workflow. With that kind of insight and control, you can manage quality and reduce cost.

Making Developers Happy.

Besides staying out of their sandbox, you can let your developers collaborate with other team members, concurrently, no matter where they are. Plus, they can use whatever version control tool, testing application, or IDE they choose. Our solutions let developers do what they do best—develop software.

Calming Business Management’s Concerns.

Wouldn’t it be great to tell business management that you have it all under control and that, short of a disaster, you will release an application on time and on budget? Well now you can. You can always view, control, and report to auditors every change, all along the development road. We make achieving IT compliance an easy process. Who knew it could be so painless? And, if that isn’t enough, you’ll be able to improve productivity and deliver high quality software.

Reuse, Don’t Recreate Code.

If you are building code for things like web services, our solutions help you reuse what you’ve already built. We provide you with a logical metadata registry that stores all your services along with comprehensive descriptive and usage metadata for each one. That makes them easier to find, so you can quickly assemble them into applications rather than build new services from scratch. Your developers can spend time on new coding, not lost in hunting repositories.

Open/Close all above