# Rational Synergy Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Configuration Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/configuration-management) **Average Rating:** 2.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About Rational Synergy IBM Rational Synergy is a task-based, software configuration management (SCM) solution that brings together global, distributed development teams on a unified platform. ## Rational Synergy Reviews ### 1. Collaborative platform to bring synergy between different teams for improved productivity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaustav D. | Regional Manager - SCM & QC, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Rational Synergy?** Increased productivity and reduced downtime **What do you dislike about Rational Synergy?** Load balancing capability and no free trial **What problems is Rational Synergy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increasing need for collaboration between different development teams for faster and better result ### 2. With Synergy, Collaboration is achieved 100 percent **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkatachalam M. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Rational Synergy?** Right from requirement till the delivery part , synergy is helping us to do collaborate and deliver more to our customers. **What do you dislike about Rational Synergy?** as it support end to end , starting with SCM till the delivery cycle. I didnt find any con here **What problems is Rational Synergy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its mostly the collaboration part, without synergy it will huge mail thread go on and forth. ### 3. Tool that every developer needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Rational Synergy?** The process of checkin and check out of the code is seamless. **What do you dislike about Rational Synergy?** Code review and inline editing should be more flexible. **What problems is Rational Synergy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly Bug fixing and checkin checkout process of latest code, branching and reviews. ### 4. Overcomplicated and too difficult to learn. Seems as if the developers thought software engineers ha **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom R. | Integration Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Rational Synergy?** The overall power, especially versioning and conflict resolution. Also the flexibility to manage different ways of working. **What do you dislike about Rational Synergy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Rational Synergy:** Looka t simpler alternatives **What problems is Rational Synergy solving and how is that benefiting you?** 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. ### 5. Poor CM software **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Rational Synergy?** It is effective in presenting a clear layout of the file system when checking in and out files. **What do you dislike about Rational Synergy?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Rational Synergy:** Don't use rational synergy **What problems is Rational Synergy solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as a version control system and a configuration management. It does a good enough job to not destroy everything. ### 6. No complaints so far **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sereen E. | PDT Timing & Metric Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Rational Synergy?** Synergy is very simple to navigate and submit assignments such as work tickets and software downloads. **What do you dislike about Rational Synergy?** I had used synergy for about about 2 years and my only complaint is that sometimes it freezes on me. **Recommendations to others considering Rational Synergy:** Very good system. Easy to use with large teams. **What problems is Rational Synergy solving and how is that benefiting you?** Synergy is used for sharing software zip files as tasks throughout the company. 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