The Emerson PACSystems PAC Change Management 10 software provides capabilities to manage changes to software projects over their lifecycle. Version control, secure access, and audit trail capabilities make collaborating on a project easy and eliminates users inadvertently overwriting changes made by other users. In addition, there are optional capabilities for automated scheduling of repetitive tasks and E-signatures for change approval management. The software also allows authorized users to review a project from the Change Management server, make changes to that project, and then check the project back in. Change Management allows the user to document the changes made to the project when checking it in.
The PAC Change Management 10 software provides centralized storage and version control, which ensures that only one user can make changes to an item or project at a time; keeps track of who is currently working on an item or project; and stores previous versions of projects allowing a user to roll back to an earlier version when issues arise unexpectedly with newer versions. The PAC Change Management software also uses role-based access control to provide a means to configure access control to projects and devices within an automation system. Specifically, the user creates a group that corresponds to a role fulfilled by a set of users within their organization. Each group has a set of permissions that members of that group are authorized to do.
PAC Change Management can integrate with enterprise email services to send email notifications when certain events occur. Users can also schedule summary emails to be sent on a regular basis. PAC Change Management can also record actions performed by its users. If a user performs an action and the system has flagged that action to be audited, a record is logged in the audit trail database. The audit trail records who performed the action, what action was performed, when the action occurred, where the action happened, and why the action was necessary.
