# Rational ClearCase Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Configuration Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/configuration-management) **Average Rating:** 2.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 40 ## About Rational ClearCase IBM Rational ClearCase is a software configuration management solution that provides version control, workspace management, parallel development support, and build auditing. ## Rational ClearCase Reviews ### 1. A powerful and robust version control software, but with a complicated and old-looking GUI. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mathieu L. | Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** ClearCase is very robust and adapted to large and complex company projects. This tool provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be helpful for non-command-line interface users. ClearCase has been released for a long time and is reliable, the software is stable and documented. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Although ClearCase is powerful and reliable, the learning curve is slow and users shall take a lot of time to master this software. The GUI is old-looking and outdated. A lot of pop-ups and complicated views can be confusing. Integration and automation are not easy without the help of ClearCase experts in the comOnce pany. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Ask senior people that have been using ClearCase for years in the company. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** ClearCase solves the version control of multiple projects in my company and provides a reliable history of source code. Once installed, the software is stable and adapted to large companies with a long software development history. ### 2. ClearCase an easy way for compilation and version tracking of changes. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Version tree in the ClearCase is more useful to understand the changes between previous and current version of code. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** UI and page look like too old like using in 1960s. Need to update UI more colorful. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compilation can be easily done for whole project source files. Beside we have time benefits to work more efficiently with this tool ### 3. Even champion race horse are put to pasture eventually. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Clearcase does have some good features. File level branching is very useful. The security in Clearcase is extensive. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** It's slow. It takes a lot of work to configure and maintain. It's not really designed for super large repositories. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Look at other solutions, be prepared to write big checks. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to manage the software versioning on many of our smaller projects with Clearcase. ### 4. The best version control software back in the day **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amandeep S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** IBM Rational ClearCase was one of the best version control tools when it came out. It ability to provide Dynamic and Snapshot views was cutting edge at the time. Branching and merging code was very simple using the built-in tools. It also provided the ability to geo-replicate the repository to different sites using an addon product called Multisite. Policy management is performed by using "triggers", which can be run using simple scripting languages to allow for extra policy checks. Latter versions also introduced UCM (Unified Change Management) which provided an out of box branching strategy to further simplify the development process **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** At the time I would say nothing. However as time has progressed IBM Rational ClearCase is not longer a viable solution for a development team, especially as there is so many open source alternatives (Git, Subversion). It has now become quite a niche product with very few developers knowing how to use it. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software Configuration Management is the main issue that Rational ClearCase resolves - however as stated above there are competitor products , most of which are open source that can surpass its abilities now. ### 5. One of the best in market user friendly proprietary version control system from IBM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aswin Kumar N. | Technical Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Cleasecase is customizable according to the buniess area and easy to implement in a software integration environment. The GUI is quite user friendly and is easily understandable. It could easily be implemented with the other IBM software tools for requirement handling, change management and defect tracking to make a unique tool chain. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** It is a bit expensive with the license and could have more features for the price charged **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** If you need a stable, reliable, user friendly and an easily understandable version management tool, then definitely Clearcase is one good option and if you have the IBM tool chain for all other stuffs like change management, defect management and so it adds to the value **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clearcase solves many problems with the database maintenance of the software, easy to create a new build environment from scratch. I have realized that Clearcase has always been user friendly in terms of understanding the version trees, branching and so on. It gives a good view of the files version controlled and their status of usage in a multi-user environment. Clearcase is a quite stable tool to rely on for future build implementation. ### 6. Legend version control in early times **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** One big benefit is that intellectual property is always in the corporate Network. So it is more secured. another is the instant access of source files without downloading Dynamic Views. Must admire a fully functional translucent file system. One big benefit is that the Intellectual Property is always in the corporate network. A laptop can be lost/stolen and no source code in jeopardy. Another is the instant access to source code and changed files, no time is ever spent downloading anything. It serves well for the purpose it has. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** The support is terrible. We've had tickets open for years. Our eclipse guru actually fixed a bug in their eclipse plugin locally in about 30 minutes by disassembling the java file. But the ticket still hasn't got past level one support. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Outdated technology Non-intuitive GUI Expensive Resource monster Sellout to Microsoft ### 7. Most Effective Configuration Management Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal S. | Deputy General Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Powerful configuration Management of all files, source code. Graphic representation. Merge facilities for branches. Lock feature to avoid overwriting. Dynamic view allows easy management of files Static view to work at remote locations where no server connections available. Easy creation of workspace. Easy and effective to manage incremental changes. Very user friendly HMI **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Cost (understand that for so many features need to pay) **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Very effective and powerful tool. Will recommend everyone to use. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creation of branches and workspace easily using Graphical interfaces. ### 8. Detailed process with little interest for the end user **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Process, process, process: every step of the development phase is perfectly described and easy to check. The UI is also, although a bit too old fashioned, quite clean and simple. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Excessive amount of data makes this software definitely not user friendly. It's also prone to slow down or just getting stuck for minutes. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Consider asking for a serious training period: CC is not exactly the most user friendly software out there **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Didn’t really impact my work in a particularly positive way although the version control was usually fairly well designed ### 9. Manage large codebase with ease **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suneesh M. | Technical Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Dynamic views, winking for faster compilation **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** High licensing cost, not decentralized like git **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management of large source code ### 10. Good for Version Control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** I used CC for version control of codes in my company. I found it very useful because many a times a project would be divided into multiple sub projects and would be given to us for implementation. We can load the latest version and make our changes and merge to the mother branch once done. This gives good visibility and tracking of each individual's work. I also liked the functions like we could compare two version side by side. This was useful in reviews. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** I sometimes feel it s a bit slow. Also the GUI is a little harder than other competitors. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** It is very powerful and can mange huge repositories. It is suitable for big enterprises and multinationals where development happens across countries. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mainly used CC for version control and to manage document repositories. Also CC facilitated to provide a particular employee access to only document he needed. ### 11. Clear Case (CC) Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Every code file, document, check-in documents etc. that made the CRM application of my project, was stored and managed through Clear Case (CC). Every time we changed any component in the application, we had to check-in this new component in CC. It kept a proper hierarchical track of the different versions of files checked in. It makes it very simple to keep a track different versions of the files. Also, we could access any file version to view what changes were made in it. The best features it offers is that, before we check in anything we can compare the old file and the new one we are adding. It shows us the old and new version side by side so that we can compare the changes we made. Also, once checked in, it allows us to undo the check-in. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** If a particular folder has a lot of components in it, it takes a very long time to load everything. Until everything is loaded, you cannot do any task on the components. A lot of steps are to be followed for checking in a document, making it very time consuming. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Good application for version control system, but too many steps are to be followed systematically in-order to check-in a new file or to undo a previous check-in. A better application with a better ease of use i will be preferred. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We basically use this for maintaining the versions of various documents. Also used to track old changes and various project documents. ### 12. Rational Review for Continuous Engineering **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig E. | Enterprise Data Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** The integration acros the system development lifecycle from requirements to architecture and testing **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** The configuration of the applications are not intuitive and the documentation is even worse **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Explore the Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management platform instead of just ClearCase/ClearQuest **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to integrate my engineering and development environment from requirements to delivery ### 13. Complete software management software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkateswarlu U. | Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Dashboards are easy to create and monitor **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Creation of reports is not user friendly **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build and integration is easy to use ### 14. Good for Mult'ple Teams **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Serkan B. | Software Group MAnaer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** You can use it online and offline with or without downlading the code **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** I don't have anything to say about what i d'sk'led **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code Configuration and Build ### 15. Code repository **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Code remains centralized and controlled on a repository **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** In certain configurations, can be unusable across a MAN or WAN, meaning it can be very hard to use in a Cloud environment. Integrations with newer CI/CD products are very lacking, and require larger amounts of scripting to get working **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Complex software development in isolated environments. ### 16. ClearCase is robust **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Rational ClearCase is very stable and helpful for full development cycle. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** The learning curve is steep and not as intuitive as other competing products **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Software Development and versioning is excellent but takes some time to learn **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use Case definitions for software development and engineering ### 17. Robust source control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Robustness and reliability of the tool enable developers to keep focus on coding activity without woriing about configuration manag;ement **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Ad;inistrative tasks require high level of knowledge of the internals of the tools to be efficient **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Long life product development with safe source control manag;ent ### 18. ClearCase - Long in the tooth, but still a solid platform for enterprises **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** A consistent interface for software engineers to manage access to code, branches, triggers, and other automation that helps deliver a fluid experience. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Repilication nuances can be a chanllenge with multi-site deployments **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large codebase integrations were challening before the pivot to ClearCase ### 19. Solid centralized repository **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindsey B. | Senior Systems Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Rational ClearCase is user-friendly, the security aspects meet compliance regulations, holds a large amount of files. Pricing is set to fit your specific needs. the snapshot views are very convenient. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** ClearCase can be buggy sometimes and a bit slow. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Great configuration management tool, but still a bit buggy for the price. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software development lifecycle needs, defect tracking, security regulation compliance and tracking project status. ### 20. Outdated source control software **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Our team uses ClearTeam Explorer for source control. I like the way we can compare different versions of a code file side by side within this application. But otherwise, I feel this is outdated and there are many other better version control systems out there like GIT SourceTree which is more user-friendly **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Clumsy UI Very slow. Especially if used intermittently with some idle time in between, it takes a lot of time to respond. Needs the user to check out the file before editing it, rather than automatically detecting the modified files. If a user modifies a file without checking it out, the file gets hijacked. A lot of time is wasted to wait for the connection, check out the files and check-in them again. I like the way how it works in SourceTree. Users change the code, SourceTree would detect all the modified files and then commit the changes. Poor documentation. The application keeps throwing errors without much information about what is causing the error. View management is not very straightforward **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** There are many other better version control systems like GIT SourceTree. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source control for .NET application development. ### 21. Real enterprise CM tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dmitry L. | IBM Jazz administrator, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** you can automate a lot with this tool and you have to think to use it in right way. Support most popular platforms, great customization features, can be used for high availability model. No limits for version data storage. This is old product and most errors already fixed. New bugs are rarely observed, because there are not too much new development efforts provided for ClearCase. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** developers have no time to learn it and use by themselves - they need administrator who will help them. GUI looks rather old style and obsolete, IBM don't drive ClearCase development now and it looks like we have very small new features in future releases (in case we will see new releases). There are no real support for different development models - it's hard to use CC for traditional (waterflow) teams together with SCRUM or Kanban teams. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Very powerful tool required a lot of administering and maintenance, so it's good to use for big projects with many developers and big code base, but not useful for small short projects when you will not support and develop code for several years. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** All problems with version control, configuration and release management. For business - you can control your development with many branches for different releases, versions, fixes etc. This is especially important for big enterprise projects, because there we have core mainline development with many additional branches we should manage in parallel. ### 22. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** I used clearcase for requirements management and automated promotion of documents. It is one of the easiest req management and version control too I have ever used **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** There is not much to not like in clearcase suite **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Very easy and self explanatory tool which solves multiple needs **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated promotion and delivery and management of business artifacts is really helpful ### 23. Ancient Warhorse Still Working **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Powerful command line capabilities, for writing batch scripts to automate recurring tasks. ClearTeam Explorer works well over HTTP connections, VPN. Config Spec allows you to precisely control what files are included in a view **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** No atomic commits. Clunky UI. Many capabilities require using command line. ClearCase Explorer is slooooow over VPN, View management can be cumbersome Config Spec management can be cumbersome **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Clearcase is ancient, and it works, but there are better and newer concepts out there for source control. I would look at GitHub, Jazz, Accurev before Clearcase. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source management for embedded system software development ### 24. ClearCase use on a day to day basis **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** A nice Document control system, which ties into our internal Work Request and Change Request processes (via Clear Quest). A somewhat easy search feature for finding older documents, we have been using this in my current department for our Build documents which contain our specifications of our steps when building out a server. It has other uses, beyond the few that my immediate department uses, such as allowing a tracking all changes made to a script or document and tracking the changes from cradle to grave. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** There are a few improvements needed, such as an easier way to upload documents than the way we have it configured, by linking it to a Work Request. We also have it configured to store individual “views” locally on workstations, instead of a central repository, which is bad when a workstation’s hard drive “dies”. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Always do plenty of research before locking yourself (or your company) into a specific product. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to keep track of our changes to our documentation and search for previously made changes very, very easily. Our internal turnaround has been reduced to under a week, and allows us to easily find any abnormalities that have been made to a similar built system by checking the documentation changes. ### 25. Development Artifact Repository **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** My team uses Clearcase primarily as a document repository. Clearcase provides version control and enables users to quickly switch between views though a GUI interface. Access to views can be tightly controlled so that users only have access to objects required for their work and documents can be organized into directories which can also be put under version control. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Installation of the Clearcase client is a complex process requiring several reboots. As a result, deployment of this tool was diffcult to automate using SCCM. Infrequent users of this tool frequently struggle with the processes that must be followed to add new documents and/or make changes to existing documents. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** It might be helpful to create a short document that describes how to perform the most common ClearCase operations to assist infrequent users with the operations they are most likely to perform. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is used to handle version control of code and the accompanying artifacts. Use of this tool allows numerous employees to work on a single document or piece of code without loss of changes. ### 26. Robust But Can Be Slow **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Rational ClearCase has provided us a powerful configuration management tool. It provides a thorough change history if used correctly. Build triggers and Linux environment support provide a great build environment. ClearCase allows for easy version comparisons which facilitate peer reviews. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Because of the size of the software it can be difficult to migrate when changing environments. ClearCase's integration with source code on user machines is lacking and frustrates some developers. It can be very tricky because some triggers can seem hacked together. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Very powerful but can be difficult to use and setup. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Rational ClearCase as a configuration management and version control tool for both software source code and documents. We have increased the clarity of our version control trees which has decreased our merge times. ### 27. Hasnt been that great **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** The UI is very good to use and easy to understand. Setting it up for a stream is simple. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Doesnt connect well with RSA which is an ibm rational product. Sometimes gives issues with connecting with repository server and hence checkin checkout doesnt work. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Svn is much better **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for version control and config management. ### 28. We use ClearCase for some of our projects **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** They dynamic views are useful. But even those get over-used and cause extra complications. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Everything else. It is outdated, the config specs get too complicated very quickly. The learning curve is monstrous, most people really just learn how to use custom scripts that have been around a long time and don't learn the tool itself. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** There are more modern solutions that are much easier to use and administer and they are free, they work with other tools easily, and kids straight out of school know how to use them. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have several embedded software products using it. We have a decent change control system in place. ### 29. Used for years **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Works as a File Manger and tracks changes made to files from insertion to deletion. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Too intergrated with ClearQuest that you it requires a WR and an attribute # associated with that WR to upload/edit any document in ClearCase. It's very difficult to update anything in ClearCase without first completing at least 4-5 steps in ClearQuest. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Consider MS SharePoint. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Required for version control. ### 30. ClearCase Remote Client **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** The merging feature in clear case is pretty good. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** The remote client is pretty slow in syncing with a remote server. Also, the application tends to crash a lot. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for software development, so it is used for version control of source code. ### 31. I am not satisfied with this product **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jiahao L. | Software Engineer, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Source control works sometimes. Learned it once, so I don't need to learn it again. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** A lot of times I get errors and there is not much support for the product. Many times the error messages don't accurately describe what the error actually is. Slow, buggy, and outdated.. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Use another source control. ClearCase is getting extremely outdated and does not work as well as other modern source controls. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source control ### 32. Powerful Solution of Software Configuration Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yonney j. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** ClearCase help all scale development organizations to develop more effective and maintain and strengthen competitiveness, increase revenue and reduce cost.It can enable the development team to accelerate the development process, and to ensure that the correct Release and reliable build version, and to establish an effective development process, not to change the original development environment and work mode. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Clearcase supports most of the existing operating system, but its installation, configuration and use are relatively complex.Company need spending some time training the whole team.What's more,it's very difficult to install and is pretty heavy for me. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Software development is not an easy thing, the first is facing the management of a variety of products, version and other issues, the more complex is composed of two or more groups of people to jointly develop the same program, coupled with the diverse development process, making the entire development process is very difficult to carry out effective management.Rational ClearCase is a software development tool to solve previously unable to track the entire development process problems **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to track changes of each file and directory.In the software development environment, ClearCase can be implemented for each object type (including source code, binary files, directory content, executable files, documents, test kits, compiler, library files, etc.) to achieve the version control. As a result, ClearCase provides the ability to build a secure and reliable version history for each type of information that they deal with, as well as the ability to help the team in developing the software. ### 33. Rational ClearCase Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** I only use the version control system of ClearCase and I like the way it works. I like to work with a centralized VCS. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** This is one product which I feel is still old fashioned. I have few dislikes as below : 1.) Licensing costs are too high 2.) Gui is pretty dated 3.) Integration with newer tools is a little difficult **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** While I would recommend this solution for big companies and teams, I would probably stay away if I were a startup **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is mainly used to see how our software integrates with the Clear Case VCS. ### 34. Very versatile software management **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** -Best tool for to work through a software lifecycle,project management, project integration ,version control making it easier for teams that are spread across and connect in real time. -The MultiVersion File System,which can mount versioned object base on virtual file system ,making note of different versions of the software developed. -Its easy to take snapshots of the repository data -Easier to view change request and approving designs **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Lot of tabs,many fields to enter, many little details before finishing a task,need to know the exact flow,check-in check out could take a lot of time,the tree structure is a little confusing **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project integration,software lifecycle management ### 35. Clearcase a good tool but is heavy and has not evolved **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nagashankar P. | Senior Manager - Test Environments Managed Services, Insurance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Rational Clearcase used to be one of the best configuration management tools about 7-8 years ago, Multisite features, file centric and id level config managmenet, branching, ability to write wrappers around clearcase, 3 way merging, meta data oriented and easy to build using metadata made it one of the best tools in late 90's and early 2000's **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Clearcase although was good in early 2000's, it has not evolved as compared to SVN, GIT and other config management tools The GUI is not great, the atomic commits are not available, it is still file centric requires administrators to manage, unlike a lot of other tools are following the DevOps model of minimal administration and maximum controls to the developers, expensive in price and heavy on memory and hardware **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** If you already have Clearcase, it can still provide greater benefits as long as there is an administration skills and personnel and regular trainings to users, however if you are planning to implement this as a new, there are other tools out there which are easy and quicker to implement, the likes of Subversion / GIT **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing source code for legacy file based applications and also version control for all source code repositories ### 36. Highly dependent on administrator prowess **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter B. | Hands-on Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Clearcase has some great features - dynamic views, clearmake, winking in objects, etc. Even when I was using it 10+ years ago, it was screamingly fast across our 10MB LAN. The GUI for windows was great and Rational's 3-way merge tool was very helpful. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** UCS. Administrators who don't know how to tune clearcase. I've used it at other companies and it was universally disliked. Dynamic views were impossible over a 100MB LAN because "clearcase" was so slow - this wasn't a clearcase issue per se, but it speaks to the sensitivity of the tool to having a great network, great servers, and great administrators as table stakes to using it. Most companies don't have one of those, let alone all three, which makes clearcase painful for the users and admins. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** I updated our build system at the time to use clearmake and wink in DOs to speed up the build. This was very useful in getting binaries shared across developers' individual builds. ### 37. Great Configuration Management Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** Rational Clear Case is the best tool that I would personally recommend for the Configuration Management purpose. This tool is well integrated with Rational ClearQuest defect tracking tool. This Clearcase tool helps to maintain software and as well as documentations with the record tracking of new Change Requests and defects. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** I really do not have any dislikes about this Rational Clearcase Tool except that the new user may get confused because of the version trees displayed on the graphical view. Once after you get trained there is no chance that you are going to recommend this tool for any one. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** I personally like this tool very much and it makes your professional life easy with no tensions about objective record maintenance. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used this tool for Configuration Management & Version Control Systems purpose to maintain our documentation and software database. This tool was used by everyone in the company globally and it helped us to maintain our own views and there are no issues found. This tool did its best to track our records during our IDE submission. ### 38. Great tool for large mulitsite projects. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** IBM Rational ClearCase is a great tool for software configuration, management and building code with a version control. In multisite environment it works great when teams are collocated and responsible to their core. It works very when for integration, baselining. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** In large companies with many users (more then 200) it requires investment in ClearCase (VOB/View) servers infrastructure. Due to it's nature it cannot be decentralized. It requires a lot of steps when starting development. **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** If you need Software Configuration Management tools with version control - ClearCase is for you. If you need version control with some features of SCM then choose other software like GIT. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fully transparent and repeatable builds of code. ### 39. Gets the work done efficiently **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** I really like that it allows dynamic and snapshot models for work. and the check ins could be reserved or unreserved, so I am not blocking anyone. Graphical merge is more advanced and helpful compared to other version control software. **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** It is a little complicated to use. Sometimes when I have a lot of file changes, it freezes on me and I have to wait a few minutes for it to come back. It especially takes a long time to refresh the results while checking in in intelliJ. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has so much potential and so many benefits compared to other Version Control Systems, like just in time branching and check-ins, ### 40. Rational Clearcase **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Rational ClearCase?** The ability to do inline development as well as branching of streams Creating baseline development streams for customers. this allows us to have one main stream with branches for various customer needs **What do you dislike about Rational ClearCase?** Can be difficult to setup and configure from start up. Admins need to be well versed in storage type, OS administration and networking. To me Cleracase is designed for larger organizations **Recommendations to others considering Rational ClearCase:** Clearcase is a very robust product with many many features. Typically used by large organizations. you need a large infrastructure and dedicated administration team to really get the benefits of the product. **What problems is Rational ClearCase solving and how is that benefiting you?** Versioning of all of our software products. Archiving of older products. 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