IBM® Tivoli® Release Process Manager Version 7.1.1 provides a comprehensive range of features that help you manage, audit and coordinate simple and complex releases. You can fully customize the activities in a release job plan to ensure that tasks are completed in the right order by the right people. This product gives you one place to go to manage all of your release activities. A flexible user interface enables you to create, assign, monitor, notify, and report the status of release tasks, leveraging a best-practice ITIL® process. You can: Plan and oversee the successful rollout of software and related hardware, centrally tracking the releases. Configure the flow of release activities to support your current processes. Agree to the exact content and rollout plan for a release, through liaison with Change Management. Assign activities and tasks based on roles, ensuring that the right people own the release steps. Organize and manage releases using job plans that are based on ITIL best practices. Dynamically customize release activities and tasks, responding to changing needs as they arise. View release status and pending tasks in real time. Adapt existing software repositories as definitive software libraries (DSLs) that can be tapped for software distribution during a release. Schedule multiple rollouts targeting multiple configuration items (CIs) in a single release. Receive reports that show, for all of your releases, release progress, release status, and the CIs that are affected by the releases. Best of all, this product enables you to achieve incremental value by adopting a process, growing and adapting the process at your own pace, and adding task automation to further reduce labor costs around defined release management pains.