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OpenText AccuRev

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What is OpenText AccuRev?

AccuRev, a software configuration management offering, is now owned and supported by Micro Focus since the December 2013 acquisition, and now by OpenText.

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Accurev Review

Incentivized
Nishant Bilaiya
Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Capgemini (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • One place for most recent code with history, avoid any conflict/confusion among other team/members.
  • Stream/Workflow approach to control approval process betwen all the teams, which I couldn't find in other version control tools I worked.
  • Bundle our code in a small group (called, Issues in Accurev) to differentiate between different projects.

Cons

  • The tool allows duplicate file name, if both are present in different directories. This creates confusion if multiple people are working on the same file. It should at least produce a warning.

Return on Investment

  • Better team coordination.
  • Avoid confusion by having one place for all documentation and code.
  • Better project management by having different work streams.

Accurev makes code merging a breeze!

Incentivized
Jason Vroustouris
Lead Java Developer in Information Technology at Rewards Network (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Visual code stream view.
  • Eclipse plugin.
  • Integrated merge tool.

Cons

  • Free online training.
  • Check for new versions and auto update.

Return on Investment

  • Quick merging.
  • Easy to roll back changes.
  • Good tree view.

Great solution, poor implementation

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Creation of streams & workspaces are easy.
  • Easy integration with other bug tracking or tasking tools like JIRA.
  • File comparison and history is possible.
  • Project creation and setup is easy.

Cons

  • Very hard or confusing process when compared to other version control tools like TFS /GIT etc.
  • More features would be definitely helpful. The UI seems a little outdated when compared to many modern tools
  • Very slow tool.

Return on Investment

  • We will be moving away from Accurev as it's not meeting our needs.
  • We have been using it for many years and it has supported our needs well for these years . But since our org is growing and the projects getting more complex and team size is increasing, this tool is not working out for us.
  • It's a little simpler to understand than GIT but still the slowness of the tool overall is an issue.

Alternatives Considered

TFS, GIT and SVN

Other Software Used

Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse Luna, JIRA Software, CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

Accurev Falling Just Short of Competition

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Overall strong user interface.
  • Overall layout and icons seem easy to follow and pickup
  • Merging interface - Easy to follow

Cons

  • Ability to zoom in/out for stream-view. We currently have many streams/substreams and unable to view the entire workflow. Zooming in/out would benefit.
  • Being a designer, I use Adobe Flash and SWF files. When updating the SWF files, Accurev does not see these files as being changed and you will be unable to promote. In order to push changes, you must totally rename the SWF file.

Return on Investment

  • Stable and safe promotions which leads to increased employee efficiency