Whatever operation you run with Clearcase, Plastic will outperform it. LAN, WAN or VPN based network operations are much faster.

Easy to use and administer

Plastic installs in seconds not days.
However who has ever installed Clearcase knows it is not an easy process.
Plastic is a whole different story: single click installation, just a few options to tune and is up and running in seconds.

ACL based security system

Clearcase doesn’t have a built-in security system.
Admins rely on hand made triggers to emulate security rules.
There’s a better way to do it, and Plastic is built around ACLs from the ground up.
Just a few clicks let administrators and project managers finely tune the security rights.

Changesets

Atomic commits and changesets are essential on any modern SCM.
Clearcase lacks changeset support while Plastic changesets are fully available.

Visualization

Clearcase implements some arcane drawings like release and version trees.
Plastic pushes the traditional version tree one step further and implements the 3D version tree.
Visualization is a centre piece in Plastic, and the branch explorer is one of the most important interfaces to run all the actions graphically.

Plastic is affordable

Whatever is the best Clearcase quotation, Plastic is at least 10 times lower.
Version control is a key piece in software development, and Plastic has been adjusted to fit the budgets of a wide range of companies.

Truly distributed development

Clearcase implements multi-site. It was good a decade ago, but now it is clearly outperformed by Plastic.
Replicating a branch or a repository is no longer a painful task.
Fast, easy and efficient, Plastic replication is designed to outperform any previous product, including Clearcase.
Plastic is not tied to a mastership and ownership based working model: teams have full write access to repositories, and changes can be synchronized and reconciled back and forth.
Plastic is so light that individual developers can install it on a laptop to have fully disconnected support.

You won’t miss Clearcase power

If you’re used to a properly configured Clearcase system you will feel uncomfortable with lower end SCMs.
Configurable views and config specs, the way Clearcase handles branching and merging, and many other are features you don’t want to miss.
Plastic is the only tool featuring all the Clearcase core functionality and outperforms it a number of new capabilities.

Evolution

It is no secret Clearcase is at the end of its lifecycle.
It has been acquired twice and it is not anymore under heavy development and fast evolution.
Plastic is a mature but still young product. It already outperforms Clearcase and it evolves so fast that new breaking features are added on a frequent basis.