dbMaestro TeamWork™, our next-generation database version control solution, comes complete with multiple powerful, yet intuitive facilities. Each of these is designed to satisfy the specific needs of certain groups or individuals within database development and administration teams, helping them to perform their jobs more efficiently and effectively. 

The dbMaestro TeamWork™ Management Studio acts as a sort of administration console, allowing DBAs, project managers, and change managers to determine what will be managed and how. It also allows them to perform various change management tasks, such as assigning changes to change sets or analyzing alterations to schema structures or table content. Additionally, the Management Studio provides them with the ability to generate reports to audit and track any changes or modifications made to database schemas and objects. 

The TeamWork Sidebar and Plugins are typically used by application database administrators (ADBAs) and developers to conduct day-to-day change management tasks, such as making specific modifications to a database, analyzing changes, or rolling back to prior versions of the database. 

The TeamWork Deployment Manager is leveraged by project managers, change managers, and DBAs (although it can be run by any authorized user) to define what will be deployed, based on the objects outlined in the software change management (SCM) environment or an internal activity list. The Deployment Manager can also be utilized to create an autonomous package for deployment. 

The Deployment Manager also includes an innovative three-way compare and merge tool that allows users to verify their work prior to deployment, to ensure that there are no conflicts or problems that will hinder the performance of production environments. When issues are detected, it will dynamically suggest a potential resolution. 

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We all know that compliance is a major issue for today’s IT teams. Regulations like Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and HIPAA are putting increased pressure on them to better control and audit the way systems are enhanced and managed. It’s also no secret that compliance is one of the key driving forces behind the adoption of software change management (SCM) solutions. 

But, while auditors and regulators have been diligent in keeping track of alterations made in the common code used in software applications, they have not been doing the same on the database development side. Basic change details are tracked, but the origin of the change, and the reason for it, are not captured. This can create significant compliance gaps, and put companies at risk of potential fines and penalties if an audit is conducted by an external or third-party. 

While SCM can help facilitate compliance in a variety of ways on the software side, advanced database change management solutions can do the same for databases. For example, they can proactively prevent unauthorized adjustments to the databases that store the accounting information used to generate financial reports (a key SOX requirement). And, they can help organizations implement formal policies when it comes to database modification and management.  Additionally – and perhaps, most importantly – they can enable the creation of a complete audit trail of all changes made to databases, such as those that house sensitive patient data (a core HIPAA mandate). 

In other words, full compliance with all regulatory guidelines can only be achieved through the use of an innovative, next-generation database change management solution, dbMaestro TeamWork™, which applies key SCM concepts and processes to the database world.