OpenMake Meister enables teams to control software builds and deploys providing standardization, acceleration, and auditing at all levels of the software development life cycle.   Meister provides the same level of Continuous Integration and workflow processing that is the primary function of tools such as Hudson, Cruise Control or IBM Rational Build Forge. Meister is different from it's competitors as it automates the lowest level of activity, down into the compile and link process and release steps, providing standardization, acceleration, and auditing without the overhead of costly custom scripts. Eliminating error prone scripts in the build to release process is critical for organizations striving to reduce the cost and risk associated to moving software changes from development to release. No other Build Management provider provides this comprehensive of a solution for automating the process of building and deploying binaries.

Build and Deploy Acceleration

By controlling dependencies at multiple levels from source through library ordering, Meister accelerates builds, enabling teams to implement agile and other fast-moving development processes. Meister further accelerates the Build and Deploy process by determining which steps can be performed in parallel – taking full advantage of separate processors on multi-core machine hardware.  Meister's parallelization can reduce build and deploy times up to 50%. Meister's acceleration supports the building of all languages including Java and .NET deploying out to a wide range of server environments.

Incremental Build and Deploys

With Meister's incremental change technology the build and deploy process can manage a change as small as one file avoiding the expense and risk of doing full builds and full releases.  Incremental processing minimizes the risk of a change by minimizing the the overall impact of the change.  Instead of rebuilding and re-deploying hundreds of files, Meister can reduce it down to only the files that have been impacted by the change.  Meister's incremental change technology supports all languages including Java, .Net, C, C# and C++.

Build and Deploy Standardization

Meister allows you to standardize your build and deploy process by centralizing control into one location and eliminating non-standard manual scripts. Meister replaces expensive to maintain homegrown and open source build and deploy systems with standardized and reusable services for integrating, compilers, linkers, server environments, configurations and other common development and deployment platforms.  Teams benefit by implementing transparent build and deploy best practices in a standardized way across all languages and platforms.

Eliminate Redundant Manual Tasks

Meister automates manual tasks and eliminates the redundant, error-prone activities commonly performed by build and deploy engineers. Meister provides a project dependency database that enables teams to publish and then reuse the output of builds, streamlining the development process and enabling builds to intelligently flow through the software lifecycle. This streamlined processes is then repeated at the deployment step, eliminating the cost and risk associated to manual processes.

Advanced Metrics and Reporting

Going beyond basic logs, Meister provides team leads and managers with actionable analytic data including impact analysis reports, build audit reports, build difference reports to enable better software development decision making. Meister Insight reports the dependencies, environment and other critical information about a build. Managers can ask and answer important questions around the impact of specific code changes to drive accurate test and release practices. The Binary Repository tracks the status of a Build showing if it was moved to Testing or Production release. Meister can even embed footprint data in binaries, enabling teams to simplify the software support and maintenance process by unambiguously identifying the contents and origin of any software release.

Enterprise Scalability and Cross-Platform Support

Because  Meister includes a Continuous Integration platform, it delivers the benefits of acceleration, standardization and auditing throughout the enterprise.  Meister enables teams to automate complex build, test and deploy processes that are tailored to specific needs, rather than forcing teams to adjust their process to fit their build tool. By taking advantage of virtual and cloud computing environments, Meister's build management solution let teams respond quickly to today’s fast moving enterprise development and life cycle challenges.

IDE and Compiler Integration

OpenMake Meister  provides full integration with IDEs, development tools and ALM products. With built-in support for over 100 commercial and open source development tools and 40 ALM tool plug-ins across all popular languages (including C, C++, C# and Java), Meister provides multilingual and multi-platform support for complex build management requirements.s.