Enhancement Requests

Well it is almost that time of year again.  You know.  Christmas!!!!   We all sit back and relax, eat turkey (far too much) and discover that port is okay to drink by the bottle after all.

But putting that aside it is also nearly the new year and that will mean the annual CA enhancements voting survey.  So many of you know this annual event and the results are collated and influence the R&D effort. 

Certainly a .NET client for Plex came top last year and this is what we saw at the conference albeit in technology preview mode.

Whilst not everything on the list can get done.  CA tend to try and get the balance right between the list items that rank highly and the market direction of the product as they see it too.  Which is fair I guess.

My call to you all today is not that the enhancements are starting soon and you should al be reaching for your new 2010 Pirelli calendar.  That's for Bill and the team to decide.   However, I am saying that the list is made up of requests that we make to the CA support desk.  i.e. no requests equates to a smaller list of items or last years ones (some of which may still be very valid).

My challenge to the community is to think through some of your preferred enhancements and ensure that you register these via the support desk online so that they make the list for you to vote on.  I am also aware that CA is planning to extend its arm further into the user community with a product advisory type approach involving some of the clients.  I am certainly looking forward to contributing to this.

However, in the meantime, start raising those tickets and remember when you are voting you are voting for your top ten in the order you want them.  Some people have been confused by this in the past..... 

Thanks for reading.
Lee.