Rational Synergy Reviews

.Increased productivity and reduced downtime

Load balancing capability and no free trial

Increasing need for collaboration between different development teams for faster and better result

The process of checkin and check out of the code is seamless.

Code review and inline editing should be more flexible.

Mostly Bug fixing and checkin checkout process of latest code, branching and reviews.

Right from requirement till the delivery part , synergy is helping us to do collaborate and deliver more to our customers.

as it support end to end , starting with SCM till the delivery cycle. I didnt find any con here

Its mostly the collaboration part, without synergy it will huge mail thread go on and forth.

Synergy is very simple to navigate and submit assignments such as work tickets and software downloads.

I had used synergy for about about 2 years and my only complaint is that sometimes it freezes on me.

Very good system. Easy to use with large teams.

Synergy is used for sharing software zip files as tasks throughout the company. It’s beneficial because it's Simple for everyone to access.

The overall power, especially versioning and conflict resolution. Also the flexibility to manage different ways of working.

Way too complicated and non-intuitive for the over-burdened software engineer. At the company where we used Synergy I was one of a small number of "Domain experts" tasked with helping others to use Synergy successfully. This ought not to be necessary.

Looka t simpler alternatives

None. Synergy was adopted by a previous company and used for source code management in all development, including new insfrastructure new applications and support of legacy applications including modified third party applications. Overcomplicated and too difficult to learn.

It is effective in presenting a clear layout of the file system when checking in and out files.

This is the bane of my departments existence, almost as universally hated as Satan. At a review session concerning our department, the main issue preventing us from getting our job done was synergy. It is TERRIBLE at going backwards, is TERRIBLE at merging, and is extremely poor at building baselines. Additionally, I have been told it is extremely expensive. Go with a newer software like Git.

Don't use rational synergy

We are using it as a version control system and a configuration management. It does a good enough job to not destroy everything.