Gears Product Line Engineering Lifecycle Framework Integrations
BigLever's Gears Product Line Engineering (PLE) Lifecycle Framework™ provides a common set of industry-standard PLE concepts and constructs to enable the integration of existing or new tools, assets and processes across the full system and software development lifecycle – from business case and analysis, to requirements, design, implementation, testing, delivery, maintenance and evolution (click image to enlarge). 
The Gears Framework extends rather than replaces your existing systems and software engineering toolset, is agnostic, and integrates easily with your existing:
- Programming languages and compilers, such as Java, C, C++, C#, Ada, Perl, XML, HTML
- Integrated developmentenvironments
- Requirements management systems
- Configuration management systems
- Build tools, such as make, gmake, nmake, ANT, Maven, Build Forge
- Quality management tools
- Model-driven development tools
- Word processors and documentation tools
Integration Solutions for Third Party Tools
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| BigLever Software Gears |
| Gears Universal CM Bridge |
| Integrations for IBM Rational |
| Integrations for Serena |
| Integrations for Microsoft |
| Integrations for Perforce |
| Integrations for Open Source |
BigLever provides enhanced off-the-shelf integration solutions that support seamless product line engineering across the systems and software development lifecycle. BigLever's product offering includes a broad range of solutions for IBM Rational, Serena, Microsoft, Perforce and Open Source development tools.
BigLever's integration solutions utilize Gears concepts and constructs to extend third party tools and ensure consistent PLE capabilities directly from the framework.
BigLever's Bridge solutions make third party tools "product line aware" by incorporating standardized variation point mechanisms and enabling the execution of PLE operations – such as product configuration, variation point editing and variation impact analysis – directly from within third party tools.