Dear Customers and Partners,

We are thrilled to share with you significant changes in our development process, designed to improve the clarity, predictability, and efficiency of our products. These changes reflect our commitment to meeting the evolving needs of our clients and partners.

 

New Naming Strategy: CalVer

To align the naming of our products, we are adopting the CalVer (Calendar Versioning) strategy.

This approach allows us to name our versions more intuitively and in sync with time. For example, a version labeled “2024.1” might include Manager (6.0), Author (6.0), Publisher (3.0), Viewer (2.0), etc.

Besides simpler correspondence with our contracts and commitments, this will help you, our clients, and partners, to better understand and anticipate updates to our products.

 

Schedule with Fixed Dates

We are introducing a deployment schedule with fixed dates to make our release cycles more predictable. This will allow IT Departments to prepare more effectively for deployments and avoid delays due to last-minute adjustments.

 

Versioning Policy: Major, Minor, Maintenance

  • Major: A major update will be released once a year. This approach aims to minimize the efforts required by IT Departments by limiting infrastructure changes, while ensuring the security and updating of our applications.

  • Minor: Also once a year, these updates will be spaced six months apart from the major versions. They will offer an opportunity for specific client projects, based on a stable version, without incorporating major changes.

  • Maintenance (OCM): We will offer a monthly version during the first three months following a release, then a quarterly version. A 4D CONCEPT committee, combining technical and functional aspects, will determine the eligibility of features and bug fixes for each version.

We also offer our clients the opportunity to test the Release Candidates (RC) before the official launch, thus contributing to the early stabilization of versions.

 

Provisional Schedule

We are confident that these developments mark a turning point in how we develop and deploy our solutions, with an emphasis on transparency, reliability, and your satisfaction.

We look forward to your feedback and are ready to answer any questions you may have.

 

The ADAM Support Team