versiondog wants to speed up your disaster recovery and improve your cybersecurity
versiondog gives you all the tools you need to track changes, troubleshoot, and revert with confidence to previous versions. Drastically reduce downtime, or avoid it altogether. Enjoy this lighthearted look at a serious matter.
Ongoing digitalization of production facilities is making them more and more tempting as targets for hackers. The versiondog change management system detects unauthorized changes to control programs. You can also use this core functionality of versiondog for proactive prevention.
Change management and automatic backup with versiondog
The standard versiondog workflow for editing programming projects is demonstrated here for Siemens SIMATIC S7, but it is the same workflow for all devices, regardless of manufacturer.
Regularly backing up the control software running on your automation equipment can be very time-consuming, and a real organizational challenge. versiondog does it automatically for the devices of multiple manufacturers. Here we show you how it works using Siemens SIMATIC S7 as an example.
Highlights from the AUVESY Conference 2020
It's easy to set up automatic imaging jobs for all the PCs and IPCs that you want to back up. Then you can just leave the AUVESY Image Service to do the rest!
Three great ways to smooth your workflow and save time & effort.
A good cybersecurity strategy strikes the right balance between level of protection and costs.
More videos on what versiondog does and how to get the best out of it
versiondog Job Trigger via OPC UA (new add-on available for versiondog 8.0 onwards) makes it possible to set a variety of different events as trigger points for upload & compare jobs. Find out what Job Trigger is, and how to use it.
There is a strong business case for implementing a change management system that has been specifically developed for use in automated environments.
An overview of the versiondog UserClient interface and how it is used to centralize, organize, manage and track changes in the control software of devices and systems from multiple manufacturers in automated environments.
Integrate existing programming projects into the versiondog system by first creating a versiondog component then copying in the programming project. For new projects, create a component then create the new programming project in the new component.
Here we use TIA Portal as a real-world example, and show you the whole workflow from Check-Out to Check-In, including how individual changes are documented when creating new versions of a project.
Automatic backup jobs (a.k.a. upload jobs / upload & compare jobs) are central to the versiondog set-and-forget change management strategy.
Make sure you take full advantage of versiondog SmartCompare. It is one of the key features that sets this change management system apart. It displays differences in a familiar visual form, and that makes documenting, checking and tracking changes much quicker and easier.
Get the same organizational and change management benefits of versiondog for external software engineers who are not versiondog users.
It's a lot quicker and easier to implement versiondog than you may think. Here we answer the five most frequently asked questions about what is involved. We want you to start saving time and money without delay.
